The Minus 5 - Oar On, Penelope! - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

RECORD STORE DAY 2019 RELEASELIMITED TO 1,350 COPIES IN NORTH AMERICALess than three days after a doctor predicted he would never play music again, Scott McCaughey began writing his next album while still in the ICU, unable to speak coherently, his right side just waking from paralyzation. In November 2017, the Northwest underground stalwart suffered a stroke that nearly killed him and wiped his entire musical catalog (including The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M., and many more) from his memory. But instead of wallowing in misery, McCaughey channeled his omni-positive spirit and began to write down whatever incoherent thoughts crossed his mind. He turned those stream-of-consciousness notebook pages into his 13th full-length Minus 5 , Stroke Manor. The album is a capsule of weeks in a hospital bed and recovery back at his Portland home, where he recorded the album with significant contributions from Peter Buck, Joe Adragna, Jeff Tweedy, and more. The results are often head-scratching, tongue-tying spats of confusion, as the lyrics nudged him to experiment with voice-altering effects, to match the singular new outer-space characters he felt he was singing as.1. Plascent Folk 2. My Collection 3. Beacon From RKO 4. Bleach Boys & Beach Girls 5. My Master Bull 6. Beatles Forever (Little Red) 7. Message Of Mother 8. Well In Fact She Said 9. MRI 10. Pink Bag For Rip Torn 11. Scar Crow 12. Goodbye Braverman 13. Top Venom

Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) was a remarkable woman. At a time when female composers were a rarity, she was both prominent and prolific. Although she was cloistered (literally she was a nun) in Novara in northern Italy, the dedications of her published compositions show her to have been extremely well connected. And her music demonstrates that she was well aware of the music of contemporaries like Carissimi or Corelli. These facts would be of merely historical importance, were her music not so engaging. Although most of the works recorded here are devotional, they are full of buoyant rhythms, colorful textures and a surprisingly dramatic approach to the texts she was setting - many probably written by Leonarda herself.

2009 . XRabit + DMG$ aren't stepping into your world so much as inviting you to step into theirs. Hello World is an album the likes of which has never been heard a unique mix of influences from across the world that come together on one of the funniest, most irreverent, freshest Hip Hop records in a long while. Unafraid of being catchy, less interested in anyone's definition of cool beside their own, XRabit + DMG$ make deep-fried, fullfat party music for people who like their parties interesting. 13 tracks.