2020s 1037 Items

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Clearaudio)

Friends Of Carlotta

Live In Studio

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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(Guitar, Vocal) A Collection Of Unreleased

Richard Thompson

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Island)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Soundwalk Collective With Charlotte Gainsbourg

Lovotic

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Analogue Foundation)

Give You The Ghost White Opaque Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Written and conceived by Stephan Crasneanscki, ‘lovotic’ is a concept album by Soundwalk Collective, composed in collaboration with lauded actress and singer/songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg. Featuring veteran techno stalwart AtomTM, rising singer/composer/performance artist Lyra Pramuk, celebrated actor Willem Dafoe, and writer/philosopher Paul B. Preciado, the album is released by the new Berlin-based Analogue Foundation.

Inspired by a relatively new field of research that seeks to explore and develop the possibilities of sexual and emotional relationships – and even love – between humans and robots, ‘lovotic’ interrogates the impulses, ideas, and needs underlying this phenomenon. The project ventures into a future where sex, intimacy and desire are reformulated through the connection of humans, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

In an age of such hybrid entanglement with the machine, human identity requires the construction of new forms of intimacy, gender, and sexuality. At present, however, such technologies are primarily used to produce programs of limited sexual iterations that do not question the preformatted categories of gender and sexual orientation. In contrast, on ‘lovotic’, Soundwalk Collective ask whether the future of sex and sexuality could instead be an exponentially expanding kaleidoscope. Where does the impulse of preference come from? What sets of words from our vocabulary can be communicated to the AI mind to generate a new identity for desire? Could the machine be another technology that brings us closer together?

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Polica

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Memphis Industries)

Looks Like You've Already Won Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Ashby

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Marina)

Americana Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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A.R.Kane

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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The Wanderer - A Tribute To Jackie Leven Blue Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Cooking Vinyl)

29,99 €*

Long Player Late Bloomer Green Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Ron Sexsmith

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Cooking Vinyl)

OST The Nowhere Inn Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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St Vincent

LP | 2022 | Original (Caroline)

10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Dimple Discs)

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited to 4000 copies.

The soundtrack accompaniment to the film of the same title, The Nowhere Inn. Features three original St. Vincent songs: “Nowhere Inn”, “Palm Desert” and “Wave”.

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Keeley

Brave Warrior

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Fronted by singer-songwriter-guitarist Keeley Moss, Dublin dreampop act Keeley seemingly shot out of nowhere last June with the anthemic song "The Glitter and the Glue", a song dedicated to the memory of murdered German tourist Inga-Maria Hauser in Northern Ireland in 1988. However, Keeley herself had been steadfastly self-promoting in Ireland since late 2020 when she self-released the debut single 'Last Words', topping Newstalk FM's airplay chart, getting playlisted by RTE Radio 1 and 8Radio, and attracting support from radio in multiple countries. Picked by legendary broadcaster Tom Dunne as one of his 'Top Tracks of 2020', it was listed at #12 in Radio Nova's 'Top 15 Irish Songs of 2020' and, upon its release, she became the subject of full-page articles in the Belfast Telegraph and Derry Post newspapers, a frankly unheard-of feat for an indie artist on their debut single. Now one of the most played new artists on Irish radio, Dimple Discs re-issued her tracks in June 2021 and the response from global press, radio and fans of dreampop/neo-psych/nu-gaze music has grown rapidly ever since. She has gained supporters at BBC 6Music and other BBC specialty shows as well as Internet radio in the UK and around the world. Having recently played sold-out shows in Dublin and London, Keeley will be touring Ireland, UK and Europe throughout 2022 in the lead-up to her long-awaited debut album.

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Computer Magic

Running / Grand Junction

12" | 2022 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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The artist now known as Danz CM has a strong following in Japan, and P-vine has for a long time heralded her synth-lab experiments in pop having released her debut Scientific Experience back in 2012. On this limited 7” release is a chance to take a trip down memory lane with two pulsating cuts from the electro-wired cybernetic record. On the a-side is “Running,” a hypnotic track that would later power the engine of a Lexus global ad campaign, and on the b-side is “Grand Junction,” a throwback to 80s new wave records through the lens of sci-fi machinery.

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Jane Inc.

Faster Than I Can Take

Off My Mind / Surface Tension

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Pop

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"Feels like I'm made of glass," Carlyn Bezic sings over a tumbling, harmonic guitar riff on "Pummelled Into Sand," the closing song of Faster Than I Can Take. "Like I could cut you, or you could break me in half." It's a double-edged statement about the power that comes from inhabiting your vulnerability, a complicated truth expressed so beautifully it seems almost simple.

Making the impossible look easy has always been Bezic's musical M.O. Faster Than I Can Take is her sophomore album as Jane Inc., a solo project forged after years of building her bona fides in the Toronto music scene with groups like U.S. Girls, Darlene Shrugg and acclaimed dance-pop duo Ice Cream. Pitchfork called Jane Inc's first album, 2020's Number One, "dazzling... [Bezic] proves herself a musical Swiss Army knife, capable of anything and revelling in her multiplicity." On Faster Than I Can Take, she uses all the tools at her disposal - a Prince-like ability to shred harmonic guitar riffs over deep, danceable grooves, an eagerness to experiment with form, and lyricism that seamlessly links the personal and the political - to focus the multifaceted energy of Number One into something completely singular. A disco-inflected, danceable meditation on the permeable boundaries between our interior and exterior worlds, Faster Than I Can Take is an album that you can listen to at a party or alone in your apartment - but no matter where you listen, it will make you dance.

On lead single "Contortionists," Bezic's voice floats over a landscape of spare, warping synths and ethereal backing vocals from Dorothea Paas (U.S. Girls, Badge Epoque Ensemble), seeming at first to sketch out a familiar pandemic scene: "The laws of time have changed / months pass in minutes, hours feel like days." But as the melody begins to swirl and bend back over itself, a deeper theme creeps in. “At first I thought I was making a record about time," Bezic explains, "but I was actually making a record about how, in moments of intense anxiety, you're living in the past, present and future at the same time. A million moments existing at once, real and imagined." By the time the song drops into a ticking groove, you know exactly what she means.

Many of the songs on Faster Than I Can Take work this way - taking concepts that feel intimately interior and expanding them into something universal. Songs like the moody, bass-heavy title track, or the bright, searing "Pummelled Into Sand," where a Hendrix-like guitar solo runs under Bezic's voice like a third rail, deal with what Bezic calls "the pain of change and growth." "Human Being" and "Dancing With You" (whose bridge features the catchiest meditation break you've ever heard in a dance-pop song), explore the psychedelic melding of individual and collective worlds that can come from fantasizing about performance while alone in your house, or connecting to a group of strangers through your computer screen.

In "An Ordinary Thing," Bezic contemplates the complexities of wanting to create anything - art, or even a family - against the backdrop of the Anthropocene. "Someone please take this from me / this feeling, this need," she sings, the tension audible in her voice. But in the next track, the irresistibly danceable "2120," that anxiety turns into powerful resolve: "I'll pour my grief into this plastic crucible / Forge a new infinite fuel made of anger, and hope, and refusal," she sings against a driving, determined beat.

That determination is what makes Faster Than I Can Take unlike anything else you've heard this year - a work of art that refuses to either wallow in the difficulties of contemporary life or ignore them in favour of escapist fantasy. As Jane Inc., Bezic takes on the complexities of living in the world - alone, and with others - with playfulness, honesty, openness and love, and turns all that complication into something that will move you.

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Aiden Ayers

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Public Possession)

This Is What It Feels Like

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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First physical solo release of singer/songwriter & multi instrumentalist Aiden Ayers comes in the form of a 7” showing two sides to his work. “Off My Mind” highly spiritual, almost psychedelic guitar pop & “Surface Tension” slightly more heavy downbeat instrumental vibes, both equally mesmerizing these tracks give small hints to what is still to come in 2022.

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Gracie Abrams

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Interscope)

28,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Parlophone Label Group)

Sad Night Dynamite

Volume 2

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Ritchie Valens

La Bamba

18,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys

Mille Grazie

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Electrola)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Human Sounds)

Tahiti 80

Here With You

20,99 €*

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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In March 2020, Tahiti 80 had a plan to start recording their new album in the studio. That plan, of course, along with everything else in the world, got derailed. But the five-piece group was resilient and resourceful. They quickly shifted to a socially distanced plan B that included file swapping and virtual sessions, all refereed by producer Julien Vignon. The result, due for release in March 2022, is the buoyant Here With You, a collection of eleven upbeat songs that unfold like a prescription for a post-pandemic panacea.

“When lockdown in France happened, we said, 'We're not going to stay at home not doing anything,'” says singer-guitarist Xavier Boyer. “And our new plan became a hopeful thing, waking up every morning and seeing what the other guys had worked on. It wasn't always easy, but this new method allowed a freer approach where we could really go all the way with an idea without being influenced by each other’s suggestions. It must've been overwhelming for Julien, who ended up selecting all our arrangements. But he stayed positive all the way through.”

To help stay inspired and focused during their time in isolation, the band created a mood board, with the centerpiece a photo of an early '90s rave in the UK.

Boyer says, “Whenever you see pictures from this era, people seem very innocent. There are no cell phones and everybody is in to what they are experiencing. We kept that picture in mind as a kind of mantra that would help everyone feel connected to this idea of people celebrating, gathering and just having fun. We were missing the connection with people, and thought it would be great if we could create music that would inspire that kind of emotion.”

Indeed, the songs on Here With You are brimming the feeling of communion that we've all been missing over the past two years. It's there in the catchy opener Lost in the Sound, which walks the walk with Chic guitar flicks, urban nightfall sparkles and an inviting chorus (“Your heart grooves like a thousand 808s on the right time”). It's there in the Jackson 5-style syncopated bounce of “Vintage Creem,” the lush, dreamy “Breakfast in L.A.” and the panoramic sweep of “UFO.” And it's there in the first single “Hot,” which matches an irresistible groove with a neon-lit, percolating arrangement that evokes the disco clubs of 1979.

What's remarkable is that though Tahiti 80 displays a clear affection for sounds of the past, from bubble gum to '70s soul, they never trade in mere pastiche. Their take is more a slightly warped and playful carnival mirror mash-up of classic pop styles, given depth through Boyer's hang-gliding, coolly emotive vocals and lyrics that often rub against the euphoric grain of the music.

“I like to think of songs as a three-minute drama,” says Boyer. “This concept of drama definitely adds different levels to our music. There's the melody, the lyrics, then the production that can maybe emphasize or counterbalance the interaction between the yin and yang in a song.

“There's a difference between the very upbeat, sunshine-y soft rock and the lyrics, even on our past albums,” he continues. “Not dark, but a little more melancholy, and also looking for some kind of motivation, talking to yourself. Like with a lot of Motown songs, you get that feeling where you body’s dancing while your mind’s reflecting, reminiscing.”

That alluring blend of happy-sad has been a signature part of the Tahiti 80 sound from the time Boyer and bassist Pedro Resende formed the group in 1993, as students at the University of Rouen. Taking their name from a souvenir t-shirt given to Boyer's father in 1980, the duo recruited guitarist Mederic Gontier in 1994, and with the addition of drummer Sylvain Marchand a year later, the lineup was complete. The foursome released a self-produced and self-financed EP, 20 Minutes, in 1996, which resulted a record deal with French label Atmospheriques in 1998. Their full-length debut Puzzle, produced with Ivy's Andy Chase and mixed by Tore Johansson, went gold and featured the international hit “Heartbeat” that established the band throughout Europe and Asia.

In the years since, Tahiti 80 – with the additions of Raphaël Léger on drums and Hadrien Grange on keys - has released eight acclaimed albums. The band has fused what Mojo called a “glorious entente of old and new technology” (including singles like “Yellow Butterfly,” “1000 Times,” “Sound Museum,” “Crush!” and “Big Day,” which was featured on a Fifa video game soundtrack), while collaborating with such producers and arrangers as Richard Swift, Tony Lash and Richard Anthony Hewson, who famously arranged The Beatles' “Long and Winding Road.” Boyer has also put out two solo albums, the first under the anagram Axe Riverboy and the second under his name. In 2019, the band released Fear of an Acoustic Planet, a stripped-down reimagining of some of their best-loved tracks from the previous twenty years. It served not only as a look back but a reminder of their formidable songwriting skills.

Boyer is definitely a student of the timeless three-minute pop song format pioneered by '60s artists like The Beatles and The Beach Boys. He says, “I see it as kind of a frame for a painting. Most of the songs on this album, I wrote a verse, pre-chorus and chorus. There aren't many middle eights. I wanted it to be very concise. I feel like people have less attention. There's so much music. It's too easy to switch off or skip to another track, so I want to hook the listener. The three-minute song is kind of an easy code to crack, but at the same time you have to figure out a new way to tell the stories that we've heard before.”

And the stories on Here With You are very much about the longing for connection. Of the album title, Boyer says, “In the world right now, that can mean a lot of different things. Like missing our fans, missing going to concerts. In a way, it can be a statement of what happened last year, and a wish of 'I want to be here with you again.' It's our ninth album. We've had some had some very open, conceptual titles like Puzzle, Activity Center. Sometimes they were more specific like Fosbury orWallpaper for the Soul. Here with You, seems more personal, more engaging in terms of relationships. When I suggested that title, everyone in the band said, 'Yeah, that's it.'”

Until Tahiti 80 can resume a full tour schedule, Boyer says he hopes the new record will make that personal connection. “If I see from the point of view as a music fan, sometimes I see albums I like as companions throughout my life. So if we can be a part of people's existence, even if it's a song that reminds them of the time they were driving with the windows open and it was sunny. Or a sad song that resonates with them after a breakup. That's what we're all looking for when we're making music. You do this very personal thing and you want it to touch as many people as possible.”

A1. Tahiti 80 - Lost In The Sound A2. Tahiti 80 - Vintage Creem A3. Tahiti 80 - Telling Myself A4. Tahiti 80 - Hot A5. Tahiti 80 - Breakfast In LA

B1. Tahiti 80 - Cameo B2. Tahiti 80 - UFO B3. Tahiti 80 - Riddles & Rhymes B4. Tahiti 80 - Zoo B5. Tahiti 80 - Wicked Wicked B6. Tahiti 80 - Let's Get Started

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Tarja

World In My Eyes

16,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Wolfgang Ambros

Für Immer Jung

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Unday)

Pauwel

Dear

Queens Of The Summer Hotel

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP on Colored Vinyl in silkscreen printed sleeve.On 'Dear', Pauwel expands his musical universe considerably, without losing his characteristic melancholy and distinctive voice.

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Aimee Mann

LP | 2022 | EU (Super Ego)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Kscope)

Envy Of None

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ferryhouse)

Emma6

Alles Teil Des Plans

22,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Music/Lotterlabel)

Ansa Sauermann

Weiße Liebe

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Virgin Music Las)

Get Well Soon

Amen

14,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU (BMG Rights Management)

Anais Mitchell

Anaïs Mitchell

14,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Pop

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This Is My Life / Das Ist Mein Leben / C'est Ma Vie

Sparkling

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Moshi Moshi)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Spuck Vom Balkon (Bln-Vie 2021)

Toobrokeforfiji

LP | 2022 | EU (BMG Rights Management)

16,89 €* 25,99 € -35%

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Pop

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The Night Has Rushed In Transparent Violet Vinyl Edition

Michael Cashmore

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Prophecy)

36,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Song Education 3

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

Blue Album

LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (Demon)

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nocut)

Keops

Road To Perdition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (PME)

Babel

Yoga Horror

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Pas De Disx)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Babel’s latest full-length is a true-to-life treasure – a reflection of the hazy subduedness of Slowdive and the sublime semblance of Cocteau Twins. Fresh off the heels of their last two EPs, Honeyspell and Breathe, the otherworldly dyad is poised to release their debut album Yoga Horror, an introspection of the cult-like propensities of the meditative exercise.

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Pas De Deux

The Vinyl Collection

29,99 €*

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP in gatefold sleeve and printed innersleeves + etched D side.Best known for their participation in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest, Belgian synth pop band Pas De Deux present their complete collection.

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Stromae

L'enfer

16,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jippie! Industrie)

Buhai

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Knef 2022 Remastered Edition

Hildegard Knef

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music International)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Kompakt)

Kollmorgen

1243

12,99 €*

Living It Up Black & Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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When we first heard from recent Kompakt signing Emma Kollmorgen, with 2021’s “You Are The”, she was hymning the complexity of romance: “Love is scary as fuck!”, she said. On her debut EP, “1243”, she’s built on that intensity and offered up a five-track suite of night-vision electronic pop, bristling with a stealthy sensuality. It’s a cinematic collection, building from the brooding “Escape”, through the drifting, tactile pulses of “Taciturn”, the gritty, bustling noises that run underneath the smoke-signal torch-song of “All The Wild Animals”, and the closing, tear-stained melancholy of “Home”. “You Are The” reappears here as well, settling in perfectly amongst new friends.

It’s a completely assured first EP from an artist who’s been slowly and steadily building her own sonic world. From her early days, when she busied herself by learning guitar and joining bands, Kollmorgen always had a vision of doing something “more independent”, to allow her to find her own sound and write her own songs. A brief creative alliance with the Berlin DJ duo Dole & Kom led to some recordings and live performances. All the while, Kollmorgen was carefully shaping her production and sound designing skills with Ableton Live, and exploring distinctive musical terrain in collaboration with co-producer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Seidel (The Ocean Collective, Fern, Nightmarer). She joined the Kompakt family after a recommendation by Patrice Baumel, who also remixed her debut single with typical flair.

On “1243”, though, Kollmorgen fully inhabits her songs, gifting each of them with a sweet, subtle sway, her vocal and lyrical openheartedness balancing the bluer hues of her production. Each song is confident and poised, Kollmorgen relying on cross-thatched patterns of texture as a web to support her melodies: “I like patterns,” she says, “they give me something to hold onto, something stable in an unstable world.” The songs feel as though they’re grappling with moments of revelation and experience in Kollmorgen’s world, which makes sense, given her approach to music: “I never had a diary,” she reflects, “so writing songs is my way of expressing and dealing with life.” On 1243, you’ll catch some glimpses of life lived, made sonorous through songs beautifully sung.

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Baba Ali

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Zen F.C.)

11,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Danger Mouse protégé Baba Ali releases his double A-side 7" "Living It Up / Black & Blue" via Zen F.C., the label run by Yard Act members James Smith and Ryan Needham. It's the first new music since Baba Ali's much heralded Memphis Industries debut LP, 2021's Memory Device.

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (WEA)

Sanremo 2022

23,39 €* 38,99 € -40%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (Demon)

Valentine Brothers

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Imara)

Heiko Voss

3:30 Minutes To Live

Still Dark Sky Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Heiko Voss has earned near mythical status as a torchbearer for the emotional, deeply felt and quietly radical style of electronic music. The blissed-out radiance of his Kompakt Pop single, “I Think About You” remains one of the label catalog highlights and a stellar run of collaborative singles as Schaeben & Voss; others might know him for his stewardship of the excellent, much-underrated Firm imprint. But with his new album, 3:30 Minutes To Live, released by Michael Mayer’s label Imara, Voss returns after a long silence with a beautiful collection of songs that hymn heartbreak with a lusciously melodic touch.

There is something definitive and newly confident in 3:30 Minutes To Live that has it feeling like a real statement of intent if compared to his earlier releases. “Although it’s not, 3:30 Minutes To Live feels like my debut album,” Voss reflects. “All releases before were more song sketches or electronic dance tracks.” Bunkering down in Teary Eyes Studio, Voss worked up somewhere between thirty and forty sketches of songs, which he whittled down to the twelve collected here, all of them situated in a unique space, but very much in accord with Voss’s defining aesthetic, which he describes as “indie pop music with a lot of guitar, electronic elements and a great love for melancholic ‘80s synth-lines.”

Voss is sensitive to both variety and consistency – 3:30 Minutes To Live sits together as an assured, vibrant collection of pop songs, but it’s marked by all kinds of surprising incident, like the guitar solo that erupts out of “This Is My Life”, or the acoustic guitar-led melancholy of the closing “This Summer”. It’s all borne of the alchemy of the studio process and the intimate romance of music-making. “If you constantly feel a little bit like you’re in love while writing and producing your music – simply because of the sound of the synth flowing warmly and gently through the room, or because the sequence of notes awakens something in you, or even a randomly arising groove in the loop of a guitar lick makes you shout, ‘Ha!!’ – then it usually becomes a beautiful song,” Voss nods. “Those moments make me happy.”

There’s also a delicious tension between the push of the music, its melodic lushness and gliding, ballerina-like movement, and the darker currents that pull through Voss’s lyrics, inspired by a “short, dramatic and toxic love affair.” This may read like familiar terrain for a pop album, but the way Voss weaves language through both the extra-linguistic joys of music and the inarticulate speech of the heart somehow allows for direct communication that is simultaneously plain-spoken and deeply profound. “Say It” is a simple, devastatingly effective plaint of alienation; “She Wasn’t Lonely” a simple portrait of everyday living set to chiming, clacking guitars, the music in the bridge taking astral flight as the titular character ‘lets herself go.’

A smart and sharp collection of songs that captures you with its gorgeous melodicism just as it blindsides you with its aching heart, 3:30 Minutes To Live is Heiko Voss at his most assured and open-hearted best.

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New Haunts

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cold Transmission Music)

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Columbia Local)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Limited to 200. Still Dark Sky is New Haunts‘ third full-length album. Still Dark Sky's title track was written just before the UK went into lockdown for the first time - news of the approaching pandemic felt surreal and disturbing, but at the time everyday life remained unchanged. Each song that followed relates to a feeling or issue that has always existed, but which was inevitably amplified by the strange times in which it was born. They wanted the songs to be cathartic - Still Dark Sky is their most upbeat and uncompromising album yet – an album for anyone who needs to process things via loud, heartfelt music.

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Michael Patrick Kelly

B.O.A.T.S

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Columbia Local)

Revolverheld

Neu Erzählen

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Violent Disco Red Vinyl Edition

Jan Verstraeten

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Unday)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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LP on lollipop red vinyl in printed innersleeve. For his take on a party album, Verstraeten picked up influences left and right. 'I watched every mafia movie on Netflix.. I had a bit of a triphop moment, and I took the beats and Portishead-like strings from there.

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Cascadeur

Revenant

15,39 €* 27,99 € -45%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Becoming Undone Black Vinyl Edition

ADULT.

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Dais)

Dawn Of Chromatica Cristal Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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After a quarter century of nearly nonstop activity, dystopian Detroit synth-punk institution Adult. have perfected a strain of stylistic cohesion in the album format, "but for this we wanted something that's falling apart." Becoming Undone, the 9th official full-length by cofounders Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, explicitly succeeds in this aim, simultaneously rejecting and reflecting the planetary discord that inspired it. Begun in the latter half of 2020 against a backdrop of unprecedented flux and seismic isolation, the duo kickstarted their muse by sourcing fresh additions to the rig: a vocal loop pedal for Kuperus and Roland percussion pads for Miller. Reconnecting with legacy influences like the politicized industrial percussion of Test Department and the queasy miscreant synthetics of TG's 20 Jazz Funk Greats sparked a series of fruitfully frenetic sessions, centered on themes of impermanence and dissonance. Miller's rationale is blunt: "We weren't interested in melody or harmony since we didn't see the world having that." From the tense technoid blitz of "Undoing / Undone" to the twitchy EBM of "Fools (We Are_)" and "I Am Nothing," the sides bristle with strident acidic revolt and black leather sequential circuits, unhinged and unforgiving. Elsewhere, slower tempos of purgatorial unraveling ("Normative Sludge," "She's Nice Looking") showcase a breadth of vocal FX, Kuperus sounding alternately indignant and possessed, decrying the crimes, fears, and failings of a deluded world. Throughout, the band's chemistry crackles with revulsion and strobe-lit dissent, equal parts exorcism and denunciation. "Humans have always been pretty terrible," Kuperus explains. "But every year the compromises of culture just accelerate." Becoming Undone is also freighted with a more personal pain, as Kuperus' father passed away during the height of the pandemic, just before the album took root. As his hospice caretakers, she and Miller faced the banality of finality, surrounded by objects drained of meaning, "the joy of having a body, but also the drudgery of having one." The record's bewitching closing track, "Teeth Out Pt. II" - which happens to be the first Adult. song in the group's history without drums - speaks to this sense of doomed corporeal mass and the looming, lightless unknown that binds us all. A seasick haze swells and subsides in slow, low waves, flickering with ring modulation, above which Kuperus sings in a dazed, brooding, transcendent state, as if having finally glimpsed beyond the pale: "Some day / some day I will be silent and free / of this relentless gravity."

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Lady Gaga

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Interscope)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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The Lockdown Sessions Blue Vinyl Edition

Elton John

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (EMI)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Virgin Music Las)

Die Andere Seite

Das Lied Vom Ich

10,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Apollon)

Breidablik

Alduorka

32,99 €*

Bitchcraft Lime Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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With “Alduorka”, their fifth full-length studio album, Norwegian Breidablik dives even deeper into the world of progressive electronic and ambient music. Now signed on Apollon Records Prog, the band’s latest release is even richer and wide-ranging than its predecessors, with judicious use of synthesizers, guitar, flute, and drums. “Alduorka” is a concept album about waves, here understood as “a sudden occurrence of or increase in a phenomenon, feeling, or emotion”. The title “Alduorka” is from Faroese and can be translated to “wave energy”. Through six varied tracks, “Alduorka” explores different facets of waves through both sounds and emotions.

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Bitch

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Kill Rock Stars)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Epic International)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Bitchcraft was born in a move from New York City, where Bitch had lived for 15 years, to a log cabin in the woods. There was all the time in the world to make art, and it was there, in the cabin, that Bitch began to write some of the songs that would appear on Bitchcraft. 'It gave me space to think about the biggest version of myself that I could be,' she says of those early days in the cabin. The songs she wrote were a departure from anything she'd ever written before, and she began to craft huge pop tracks with the help of her trusty violin. Then, she moved to LA and Bitchcraft began to shapeshift again.

In the time that followed, Bitch assembled a coven to complete it. She called on Anne Preven (Beyonce, Madonna, Demi Lovato) and God-des who helped her crystalize her vision in terms of writing and production. She called on Roma Baran (Laurie Anderson) to produce the violins on 'Polar Bear.' She called on Melissa York (Team Dresch, The Butchies) and Faith Soloway (Transparent) to co-write a couple of the songs.

The resulting record is one that is full of glorious pop tracks that go in unexpected directions. Bitchcraft is like Joni Mitchell set to a click track, it's queer Cyndi Lauper. It's neon pink, in your face, ready to hex you with its brilliance. It's an unbelievably fun record that is extremely capable of breaking your heart a little bit. It also makes you think: about the state of the world, about evil politicians, about what it means to exist as a woman, and how to find joy along the way.

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Bakar

Nobody's Home

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Unday)

Intergalactic Lovers

Liquid Love

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Four Music Local)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Standard version on black vinyl in gatefold sleeve.13 years and two more successful albums 'Little Heavy Burdens' (2014) and 'Exhale' (2017), the unbreakable foursome is ready to start the next chapter in the career of Intergalactic Lovers.

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Yaenniver

Nackt

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Recherche & Developpement)

Jacques

Limportanceduvide

If Life Could Be This Way

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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First studio album from the eccentric and acclaimed french electronic/pop producer! After three years spent in Morocco, Jacques starts a new phase of extroversion with the release of his first studio album "limportanceduvide" of which we have already heard two first extracts with "La vie de tous les jours" and "?a se voit". A collection of 13 surprisingly pop tracks with a curiously efficient production on which Jacques sings without any manner of mannerisms of texts full of witty games and strong images.

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Crazy P

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Walk Don't Walk)

Jan Off / Robert Stadlober

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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"During lockdown we delved deep into the Crazy P vaults to see what might be lurking in there. Plenty of buried treasure to be found, but these 2 little beauties grabbed our attention and seemed to fit well together. The lead track, If Life Could Be This Way, was a jam we had between the 3 of us, the vocal's a bit of a one take wonder from Dani, and we didn't touch it! It featured in our set and was the title of our last tour Nov 2021".

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Vorkriegsjugend. Im Schatten Der Chaostage

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ventil)

15,00 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Concord)

Tears For Fears

The Tipping Point

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Fat Possum)

Empath

Visitor

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Blix Street)

Eva Cassidy

Songbird

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Valentine Colored Vinyl Edition

Jessie Ware & Sampha

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Young Turks)

8,79 €* 15,99 € -45%

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Transculent Vinyl edition, limited to 1000 copies.

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Yaenniver

Nackt

46,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) Feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Spiller

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Defected)

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Earth Libraries)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Every once in a while, a record comes along which resonates in a special way, stands the test of time, and brings the same reaction to the dancefloor now as it did all those years ago. 'Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)' is one of those records, a classic in every sense of the word. Originally released in 2000, Defected are, re-releasing this club essential for new and original fans alike in a special, limited edition deluxe remix reissue.

This unique two vinyl pack comes in full colour gatefold sleeve with augmented reality cover that will come to life once you scan the mask image on your phone accompanied by a four page 12” insert written by Spiller detailing the full story of ‘Groovejet’; from original production, early reactions, chart success and new 2021/22 remixes.

The releases features the original versions plus new mixes Purple Disco Machine & Lorenz Rhode, Riva Star, Breakbot & Irfane and Harvey Sutherland. Exclusive to the vinyl are Riva Starr’s Skylight Mix and the Harvey Sutherland Instrumental version.

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Star Moles

Camelot

14,84 €* 26,99 € -45%

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Though Emily Moales first envisioned "Camelot" as a way to escape her reality, the record equally provided a way to address it head on. As a prime example, album highlight “Not My Heart” takes a tale of unrequited love on a Casiotone waltz before bursting into a classic AM pop jangle, the imagery of Camelot swirling through the mix like a fluttering banner. Moales’ bronzed vocals sit front and center on the track and album at large, surrounded by a robust instrumental tapestry--though much like the album cover’s blend of Medieval font and shag carpeting, every bit of regal clarity is matched with warmly retro tones. While she’s spent the last few years recording and releasing handfuls of Star Moles albums digitally, "Camelot" felt like a big step for Moales, a realization of the project’s potential, making it especially fitting to be her first physical release.

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OST Blade Runner Black Lotus (TV Series)

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Def Jam)

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Yrrre

Feinstaub

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2022 | US | Original (Dark Entries)

Bezier

Valencia

17,99 €*

The Cruellest Goodbye Feat. Tarja, Torsten Stenzel And Al Di Meola

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Bézier returns to Dark Entries with Valencia, a six track rumination on memory, geography, and transmutation. Multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang’s Bézier project has appeared on Dark Entries many times over the last decade, most recently with the 2018 LP Parler Musique. Says Yang, “What started as a project to investigate the love of the sound and scenery while living in San Francisco quickly developed into a passionate search for interlocking melodies and driving rhythms.” On Valencia, Bézier invokes twinned places. The Valencia Street of San Francisco is channeled, which was the center of the city’s vibrant new wave scene in the 1980s. But also echoed is Valencia, Spain, and La Ruta del Bakalao aka La Ruta Destroy, the Spanish clubbing scene throughout the 80s and 90s famed for its aggressive and synthetic sounds. Valencia is a darker record for Yang, exploring themes of submission and catharsis with nods to SF’s gay leather bars of the 70s and 80s. The high BPM salvos of “Valencia” and “Scrupulous” capture the frantic energy of Bakalao and Valencian wave acts like Última Emoción. Elsewhere Yang mines the dreamy space disco and Hi-NRG sounds they’re known for, like on the brooding “Past the Marshes” or the anthemic “Reservoir”, which features their partner Len.Leo on vocals. Bézier deftly navigates past and present, light and dark, pain and pleasure, the stasis of memory and the flux of time. Valencia was mastered by Alex Michalski, with EQ for vinyl done by George Horn. Gwenaël Rattke designed the sleeve, which features an 80’s punk zine-esque geometric grid pattern mirroring San Francisco street maps. Also included is a 5x7 postcard with notes.

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Outlanders

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Edel)

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Joytime Collective)

Marshmello

Shockwave

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (EMI)

Amber Mark

Three Dimensions Deep

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Today New York based singer, songwriter and producer Amber Mark announces details of her long-awaited debut album ‘Three Dimensions Deep’, out January 28th via Emi/pmr Records. The announcement of the album is accompanied by a sultry R&B instant-grat track ‘What It Is’ as well as a huge UK, EU and US spring tour announcement including London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in March

Amber’s debut album arrives almost 4 years after the release of her second EP ‘Conexão’, an extended process that has proved central to its thematic development. The 17 track album can be divided into three main acts that follow the arc of Amber’s personal and musical development; Without, Withheld and Within. Beginning by acknowledging her insecurities and anxieties before reflecting on her time in denial and spent processing them in all the wrong ways, Amber eventually widens her focus by seeking answers to the world’s negativity and trauma on a cosmic scale. Finding peace and a form of inherent spirituality in the world of astrophysics while writing the album led to a fresh perspective on

life and a renewed sense of self. Amber’s debut album is simultaneously a profound concept album and a love letter to herself, richly intertwining messages of self-worth and reflections on the universe beneath a veneer of shimmering pop. In true Amber Mark style, ‘Three Dimensions Deep’ is a kaleidoscopic melting pot of influences and genres, drawing from funk and R&B, soul and hip-hop with international accents influenced by a nomadic childhood spent travelling the world with her late mother.

“Three Dimensions Deep is a musical journey of what questions you begin to ask yourself when you start looking to the universe for answers.” says Amber; “I can only go as deep as the third dimension as that’s how we see the world, but what about when you start looking to the universe within for answers.”

“‘What It Is’ low key is the title track of the album without it actually being the title track” explains Amber; “It comes from going through negative experiences which end up being the gateway to a question I think I’ll be asking for the rest of my life. What is the meaning of life,the universe and everything?”

The three official singles already released from the album ‘Worth It’, ‘Competition’ and ‘Foreign Things’ marked Amber’s first official singles since 2020’s ‘Generous’, though 2020 was still a hugely productive year for Amber. With her hometown of NYC hit hard in the first wave of the pandemic and placed under strict lockdown, Amber turned to her simple home studio to create an acclaimed series of home-produced covers and originals titled ‘Covered-19’, each accompanied by a homemade video and artworks. The series was followed by a collaboration with longtime friend Empress Of on the protest song ‘You’ve Got To Feel’, earning Annie Mac’s Hottest Record, ‘Tune Of The Week’ and a spot on the Radio 1 playlist. Earlier this year Amber was featured on legendary DJ Paul Woolford’s new piano-house track ‘heat’, again snagging Annie Mac’s Hottest Record and a long run across the Radio 1 and 2 playlists. Having already amassed over 300 million streams since the release of her breakout debut EP 3:33AM in 2017, Amber has built a global fanbase eager to hear her debut full length -

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Kernkrach)

Miniroboter Volume 2

CD | 2022 | UK | Original (Republic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Six Minimal Wave smasher to let your robot dance for 24 hours

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The Weeknd

Dawn FM

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Music Brokers)

Many Faces Of The Police

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Unfamilar Minds Transculent Blue Vinyl Edition

Elena Setien

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Thrill Jockey)

19,19 €* 31,99 € -40%

LP | 2022 | EU (Billbrook)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Basque artist Elena Setién shapes the ethereal into immediate on the stunningly pristine songs of Unfamiliar Minds. Her command of melody and resolute voice are complemented by lush arrangements that surround the listener in a world of intimate beauty. Setién is an accomplished multiinstrumentalist, collaborator and improviser, having worked with artists like Mary Lattimore and Steve Gunn as well as composing for film and television. On Unfamiliar Minds, Setién reflects on isolation, confusion and harnesses uncertainty with optimism on ten ghostly wonders that capture ineffable feelings in radiant detail. After completing her Basque language album Mirande in collaboration with composer Xabier Erikizia (released on Forbidden Colors in October of 2020), Setién began composing Unfamiliar Minds during the height of lockdown, starting with songs she had begun in pre-pandemic times. As days turned to months Setién grew disconnected from the incomplete pieces made in a different reality. The paralyzing tension of those disorienting early months eventually gave way to new inspiration. Romantic poetry by Emily Dickinson served as a refuge and a springboard for Setién to ground herself in writing new songs in English. She drew inspiration from conversations with composers Gyan and Terry Riley as well as her collaboration with Xabier Erkizia for the Basque television series Altsasu. Erkizia and Setién extended their remote collaborations beyond the series as the two began focusing on their own reconfigured sense of mood and perspective after a year of so much pain and drastic change. Elena Setién's chameleonic songcraft effortlessly bends songs into immersive realms. Her music illuminates the fragilities and ephemeral nature of life with exceptional poise. Unfamiliar Minds is a palatial guide through trial and exaltation, a meditation on disquiet and hope for uncovering what lies ahead.

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Jesper Munk

Taped Heart Sounds

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Running Back Incantations)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Since Jesper Munk’s debut album in 2013 the German singer-songwriter has made a name for himself as multi- instrumentalist , “in the paths of Jack White and Dan Auerbach,” as the Rolling Stone Magazine puts it, playing music that ranges from Blues and Soul to heartfelt Pop and indulging Jazz, all this with a very unique, post-Punk edge. His new album Taped Heart Sounds offers an evolution of Munk’s sound: warm, gentle and soft vibes that go deep. “If there is a way to give you a hug in form of an album, this is how I’d attempt to do so,” says Munk. Recorded in an offbeat band room in Berlin with The Cassette Heads, the album brings together classics reaching from Blues to Rock’n Roll. Twelve songs of legendary artists who have influenced and inspired Munk since his early days, including Tom Waits, JJ Cale, Etta James, Hank Williams, Willie Dixon, Jacques Brel, and Mocky. The entire album was recorded with a Tascam Portastudio 8-Track Cassette Recorder which brought an original and authentic sound to each song: “The technical limitations immediately liberated all other aspects of the recording,” Munk says. “It shows how much of making music is just listening and without a screen to catch your eye, you really have no choice but to do so.” All Songs face realness and live from these volatile moments that reveal vulnerability.

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Panoram

Acrobatic Thoughts