Pop 1253 Items

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Youz Prod)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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After 2 albums, September Boy is back with a brand new 5 track Ep titled "Forever Golden".This Ep remains oriented towards modern pop. Add to that 80's tones that will immerse you in an atmosphere with nuances of "Stranger Things" ("Down to the river", "80's space")It's on the tracks "Yellow sand" and "If only / If Only" that we can find in featuring, the amazing voice of Coralie Royer.It is worth noting that September Boy took his best pen to compose in French on the acoustic pop track "If only / If Only".The track "By Myself" is the dynamic, unifying track with catchy choruses that will put you in a good mood for the whole day!"Forever Golden" is a mini album for those who love pop and good mood tinged with folk.

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Celestin

Deuxième Acte

26,34 €* 30,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Association Attends-Moi)

Luciole

Un Cri

27,19 €* 31,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Adam)

Gabriel Gosse

Flow

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Art'verne Productions)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Gabriel Gosse - Flow

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Kicca

Call Me Sugar

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All I Want For Christmas Is You / This Christmas

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Without following Fashion trends, Kicca only embraces styles that inspire her. Devilishly funky, definitely groovy, straightforward Disco, when all these subtly mix together that is when the magic happens! What’s her secret weapon? Her voice! Kicca conceals in her voice a real gem that she masters perfectly and with which she plays with sensually and with great power. It is the reflection of her soul. Soul music is in fact the basis from which she started all those years ago - music from the soul! And to express it she has surrounded herself with vintage sounds tinted with 70s colours and an irresistible groove. Bass line and guitar never skipping a beat, old school keyboards and organ sounds, all punctuated by vigorous and chiseled brass, and at this point everything becomes possible! Kicca writes all her songs with pianist Oscar Marchioni, singing in English, French, Italian … regardless of the fine wine, it will get you drunk on it! Energy and joy to get you through today’s world and pick-out your best memories. Kicca succeeds in the ever popular return to the future. The main road to the happiness of sharing and to togetherness, all with great sensuality. See you on the dance floor!

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Ai Ninomiya

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (Jet Set)

35,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Good Morning Gorgeous Colored Vinyl Edition

Mary J. Blige

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (300 Entertainment)

40,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Monika Enterprises)

Monika Werkstatt

M_sessions - Reworks

18,99 €*

Naomi Sample & The Go Go Ghosts

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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A contemporary version of Mania D., Malaria and Matador’s music for the 40th anniversary. Monika Werkstatt seemed the perfect choice for new interpretations. Founded in 2015, comprising female electronic musicians and producers from the entourage of Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. The M_Sessions involved Pilocka Krach, Beate Bartel, Midori Hirano, Mommo G, Lucrecia Dalt, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Natalie Beridze, Annika Henderson and Gudrun Gut.

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Robert Redford

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Strong Emotions)

17,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Midnights Jade Green Vinyl Edition

Taylor Swift

LP | 2022 | FR | Original (Republic)

Release: 2022 / FR – Original

Genre: Pop

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The Best Of The Box Tops Black Vinyl Edition

The Box Tops

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Demon)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Fahr Mit Mir 4x4

12,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Wittenberg Ist Nicht Paris

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

12,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Kargo

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Kargo

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Kargo

20,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Real Gone)

Lea Michele

Christmas In The City

48,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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

Jan Smit

Boven Jan

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Level 42

Guaranteed

31,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Kartel)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Limited edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on silver and black marbled 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Expanded edition available on vinyl for the first time! The English jazz-funk outfit Level 42 released their ninth studio album Guaranteed in 1991. It was the first album with the new formation after the departure of Phil and Boon Gould and the passing of Alan Murphy. This expanded edition of Guaranteed includes ten bonus tracks, including special mixes of "Guaranteed" and "Overtime", and live versions of "Her Big Day", "The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)" and "Guaranteed". Also, 5 additional bonus tracks that were previously unreleased on vinyl.

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Alison Sudol

Still Come The Night

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

Mills Brothers

Very Best Of

18,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cloudkid)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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During the 1920's the group hit on a format that provided a winner, each of them imitating a musical instrument: John Jr. vocally provided the sound of a Bass Trumpet; Herbert delivered the sound of Sax, Trombone and Trumpet; Harry mimicked Trumpet and sang Baritone; while Donald sang lead vocals when required, leaving Guitarist John Jr. to donate the only actual instrument sounds heard on their recordings. The brothers were signed to the U.S. Brunswick label following a recommendation from none other than Duke Ellington.

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Paper Idol

The Playground

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Antones)

Angela Strehli

Ace Of Blues

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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

Forenzics

Shades And Echoes

36,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Rester Vivant Tour Ltd.Deluxe Edition

Johnny Hallyday

3LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music International)

46,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Greatest Hits Volume One-The Singles

The Goo Goo Dolls

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Stories To Tell:Greatest Hits

Richard Marx

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Phil Collins

The Essential Going Back

30,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Reprise)

Michael Bublé

Higher

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Nonesuch)

Punch Brothers

Hell On Church Street

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Modern)

Dario Lessing

Frequency

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Elektra)

Jason Mraz

Mr.A-Z Deluxe Edition

38,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Gilbert O'Sullivan

Driven

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Rufus Does Judy At Capitol Studios

Rufus Wainwright

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Madness

The Madness

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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The Dreaming Yellow Vinyl Edition

Monsta X

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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The Dreaming Red Vinyl Edition

Monsta X

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Driven Colored Vinyl Edition

Gilbert O'Sullivan

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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The Dreaming Black Vinyl Edition

Monsta X

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Soft Cell

*Happiness Not Included

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Anthem Green Galaxy Vinyl Edition

Flogging Molly

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Flogging Molly ist weniger eine Band als vielmehr eine transatlantische, keltische Punk-Institution. Über den Verlauf von 25 Jahren und nach tausenden von Konzerten auf der ganzen Welt hat Flogging Molly die Grenzen zwischen den Genres überschritten. Sie ist zu einer der wenigen Bands geworden, die buchstäblich an einem Tag mit The Chieftains und am nächsten Tag mit Motörhead die Bühne teilen. Für Flogging Mollys siebtes Album "Anthem" beschloss die Band um das Ehepaar Dave King (Gesang, Gitarre, Bodhrán) und Bridget Regan (Geige, Blechflöte, Backing Vocals), zu ihren Wurzeln zurückzukehren. Die Band nahm 14 Songs in 14 Tagen mit Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies) im Electrical Audio Studio in Chicago auf. Letztlich gibt es keine andere Band wie Flogging Molly, die so mühelos zwischen Punk und Folk wechseln kann. Die Tatsache, dass mittlerweile mehrere Generationen von Fans zu den Konzerten der Band kommen, ist ein Beweis für ihre anhaltende Relevanz. Damit schließt sich der Kreis zurück zu "Anthem". "Mit dieser Platte sind wir auf eine Art und Weise zu den Grundlagen zurückgekehrt, wie wir es nicht hätten tun können, wenn wir nicht schon seit 20 Jahren zusammen gespielt hätten", fasst King zusammen. "Ich glaube, dass es uns sehr viel Spaß gemacht hat, nach Chicago zurückzukehren und diese Platte mit Steve aufzunehmen, und ich glaube, das hört man der Platte auch an. Für Flogging Molly ist es immer das Ziel, zusammenzukommen und neue Songs zu spielen - und jetzt freuen wir uns einfach darauf, diese Songs live zu spielen und unseren Fans eine ganz neue Ära von Flogging Molly zu präsentieren." Die Band und die Welt haben in den letzten Jahren viel durchgemacht. "Anthem" handelt von dem kollektiven Geist, den wir alle besitzen und der es uns erlaubt, in die Zukunft zu blicken.

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Blue

Heart & Soul

14,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Blue - also Antony Costa, Duncan James, Lee Ryan und Simon Webbe -, das ist so ein Name, der einen automatisch in die Boygroup-Ära transportiert: Sie waren nicht nur einer der größten und erfolgreichsten Acts jener Hochphase, sondern vor allem auch einer der besten. Auf den drei Alben, die ihnen in den Nullerjahren Spitzenplätze in den Charts (u.a. 3x #1 UK, 1x Top-10 DE) und reichlich Platin bescheren sollten, verschränkten sie lässigen R&B mit hochauflösender Pop-Perfektion und emotionalen Balladen, was der im Jahr 2000 gegründeten Boygroup nicht nur 16 Millionen verkaufte Albumeinheiten bescherte. Auch zwei BRITs räumten sie ab im Königreich, wo sie gleich 11 Mal die Topregion der UK-Singlecharts aufmischen konnten und davon gleich noch drei Mal die #1 belegten.

Parallel zur Stadiontournee werden Blue im Herbst ihr sechstes Album Heart & Soul veröffentlichen - ihr erstes fürs neue Label Tag8 Music/BMG. Der neue Longplayer unterstreicht und zelebriert all das, was die Band während ihrer ersten Blütezeit ausmachte, denn er spielt immer wieder auf die Vergangenheit an, bringt aber auch kontinuierlich Neues ins Spiel. Ihr Trademark-Sound schwingt im sorglos-ausgelassenen Titelsong, der von MNEK (Beyoncé, Little Mix) mitkomponiert wurde, genauso mit wie in der gefühlvollen Ballade "Magnetic", bei der die Jungs mal wieder ihr ganzes umwerfendes Stimmvolumen auspacken dürfen. Mit der Leadsingle "Haven't Found You Yet" legen Blue einen Instant-Classic vor, der klanglich eher in Richtung Justin Bieber oder auch jüngere Coldplay-Hits geht. Man hört, dass sie unbedingt alles geben wollten für Heart & Soul.

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Oliver Tree

Cowboy Tears

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

Jaymes Young

Feel Something

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Against The Odds: 1974-1982 Deluxe Edition

Blondie

4LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Virgin)

74,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Und Ganz Doll Vinyl Radio Lollipop/Lieder

Rolf Zuckowski

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Musik Für Dich)

35,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop, Childrens

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (EMI)

KT Tunstall

Nut

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mercury)

Elton John

Regimental Sgt. Zippo

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Universal)

ABBA

Abba Gold

17,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Siouxsie & The Banshees

All Souls Deluxe Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Treppenhaus)

Luna

Verlierer

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (F.A.M.E.)

Davidson

Utopie

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Hubert Von Goisern & Die Alpinkatzen

Aufgeigen Statt Niederschiassen

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

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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The Chainsmokers

So Far So Good

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Funk Wav Bounces Volume 2

Calvin Harris

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Kuschelrock The Best Of 26-30

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nitron Media)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Johannes Oerding

Plan A

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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First Aid Kit

Palomino

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Hallelujah & Songs From His Albums

Leonard Cohen

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

39,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection

Dolly Parton

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

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Forget Me Limited Signed Edition

Lewis Capaldi

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

10,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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

Andre Hazes

Alleen Met Jou

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Many Faces Of The Rolling Stones

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

18,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Voices Of Wonder)

The Loch Ness Mouse

III

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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The Loch Ness Mouse celebrate 30 years as a band and release a new album to coincide with the anniversary. Album III completes the trilogy that began with the self-titled record from 2016 and was followed up by II in 2019 (both also released on the well-respected Japanese label P-Vine). Where the first was the tight and elaborate pop record, the next one more moody and atmospheric, the new record is possibly a bit more extreme, free-spirited and cheerful. Together, the trilogy nevertheless gives a coherent picture of what has been the band's project for the past ten years: melodic and sophisticated pop from a working-class perspective, with strong elements of soul and jazz, based on the songwriting of the brothers Jørn and Ole Johannes Åleskjær. The new album features, among others, ex-member Hilma Nikolaisen and jazz/contemporary names such as Morten Barrikmo (Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Oslo Sinfonietta) and Lars Tormod Jenset (Espen Eriksen Trio).

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Kernkrach)

Swedish Radar Control

What's A Woman? Parce Que - La Collection

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Minimal Synth, Darkwave, EBM, Synthwave and New Wave from Sweden.

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Vaya Con Dios

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Pias)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Random Numbers)

Markeno

Dock Lown

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mesh-Key)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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We all remember with mixed feelings the past two years of domestic isolation: a temporary anomaly in which the world had to adjust to a new routine, a new rhythm. In these daunting yet precious circumstances, Italian producer Markeno has found his rhythm back, dusting off old records and re-approaching his past musical love affairs that he believed to be long forgotten. Here, in the fertile limbo that connects past and future, “Dock lown (exploring)” is born: a 3-tracker release with a chameleonic nature and an undeniable groove, in which Markeno is able to tactfully combine different genres such as indie, post-rock, African mu- sic, electro and funk.

In the contemporary music scene, overly saturated with catchy melodies and seductive lyrics, it is refreshing to encounter a composition like “Fase 01”, which starts from a purely percussive structure. Just when the ear is settled and well inserted into the tangle of drums, here comes the melodic twist, no less than at the fourth minute, injecting an unexpected groove and chalking out the contours of a track with multiple personalities: a little esoteric, a little synth-wave, quirky and badass. The temperature rises with “Zona Ros- sa”, in which the electro hint sketched in “Fase 01” becomes more pronounced, opening the doors to a dense psychedelic scenario. A shamanic loop accompanies the electric bass and escorts us through the smoke of the bonfire, veils swayed by the wind and colored lights that sparkle in the night. The ritualistic humming of ‘’Zona Rossa”’ is still hearable, floating in the rarefied atmosphere, while the last track “Limbo” makes its entrance and confirms once again the poliedric but congruous essence of this release, whose percussive attitude lures you in and whose hypnotic and groovy body makes you stay. At least for one more dance.

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Aunt Sally

34,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tropa Macaca)

Tropa Macaca

Animais Sintéticos EP

LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Very limited private press.

The new record by Tropa Macaca brings together two pieces, Animais Sintéticos and Aerossol, which were previously presented in an exhibition context, at gnration in Braga and at Pada in Barreiro, in the years 2022 and 2020, respectively. Both exhibitions, which took the title of the pieces, presented themselves as immersive installations that allied music to Joana da Conceição's paintings and videos. These two exhibitions are different pacts between the audible and the visible, and of both with the world.

Here are the texts that accompanied the exhibitions, as well as links to visual report. Animais Sintéticos, gnration, Braga, 2022 The exhibition Animais Sintéticos exists like a landscape, the kind we remember when we are not there, alive, but suspended inside us. Enigmatic for us who created them, they accompany us, and if we imagine that one day they had a beginning, an original referent outside of us, the time they have already spent with us forces us to doubt that this is so. Time has uprooted them, torn them from that place. We look closer, we reflect, we examine, we meditate, and when, as in a quantum leap, we originate what becomes there, we believe that it has always been there, that we have crossed the glass, that we have come close to the mystery. It is a landscape like this that is offered in this exhibition. One of those that say more about us than about the world, at a time when we already know what we already felt, that we are not the world. An exercise in quantum paleontology, where the painting, the music, and the moving image are echoes of this place we inhabit, between promise and ruin. A confrontation, in the form of an elegy, in search of reconciliation.

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Asagaya Romantics

Otona Gensou

73,99 €*

LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Warner Music Japan)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Asagaya Romantics is a five-member group consisting of Tomoe Arisaka (vocals), Tomoya Kishi (guitar), Satoshi Hori (keyboards), Rie Furuya (drums), and Rei Honma (bass). Elements of Caribbean music such as rocksteady and reggae have been incorporated into Japanese pop music to make this incredible record. The long-awaited analog release of Asagaya Romantics’ 3rd album “Otona Genso” for the first time in three and a half years has finally arrived!

Includes 10 songs full of lyrical pop songs, including the popular track “Solitary”. With drum tech Affee Takahashi of TAMTAM and Ryotaro Miyasaka, who is also active in Yuta Orisaka (ensemble), on percussion, this album expands the range of sounds. Ikegami Yoriyuki, an illustrator who participated in the character design of director Mamoru Hosoda’s “Princess of Dragons and Freckles”, creating the beautiful artwork for this album.

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Yukako Hayase

Mizu To Tsuchi

54,99 €*

Kaleidoscope Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Yukako Hayase’s 1988 debut album, “mizu to tsuchi”, is now being reissued for the first time ever! Hayase made a name for herself with her ennui, whisper voice along with her famous cover by Yuko Ando. Several artists have cited Hayase as an influence on their work, including Kahimi Karie. The record is made up of 7 songs, amounting to approximately 30 minutes of excellent pop music.

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Rachael Dadd

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Memphis Industries)

18,89 €* 20,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Fictions (Made To Measure 47)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Crammed)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (PC Music)

Hyd

Clearing

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Comet)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Clearing is the elemental debut album from multifaceted PC Music originator Hyd. The record, a tactile masterpiece, cycles through a reckoning following a fiery period of fear, loss and destruction where Hyd chooses softness and a gentle touch to come to terms with the chaos. Clearing embodies a restoration that mirrors the emergence of a Garden - through seed-like vulnerability, the album combines glitching pop-heights with glistening intimacy, exploring the cyclical nature of growth, both personal, in community and in all nature. Featuring contributions from close friends and longtime collaborators Sophie, A. G. Cook and Caroline Polachek, Hyd’s highly anticipated debut is a chrisalyssed amalgamation of healing, nourishment, and a haven for all. Featuring single “Afar”, produced by Caroline Polachek and launched to critical acclaim in July, with support from Mary Anne Hobbs and Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 6Music, Pitchfork, Notion, Paper Magazine and more.

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Melanie

Cri D'amour

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Lex)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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True concept albums are actually few and far between. While it can be said that The Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia, or Pink Floyd’s The Wall were designed from the ground up, that’s not necessarily the case for equally mythical, yet composite, albums such as Bowie’s The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust…, or Lou Reed’s Berlin. In France, the genre established its pedigree in the 1970s with Serge Gainsbourg, then in the early 1980s with Léo Ferré. "Cri d'amour" by Mélanie Chédeville adds to this list of albums that tell a story through characters.

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Zzzahara

Liminal Spaces

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Allen Toussaint

7" | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Charly)

17,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | CZ | Original (Walt Disney)

Joss Stone

Merry Christmas, Love

Release: 2022 / CZ – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ramp Local)

Sea Moss

Seamoss2

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Music/F.A.M.E.)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Hitting play on SEAMOSS2, the latest missive from Portland noise-tinkerers Sea Moss, is like punching the big red button on a cartoon bomb before it explodes into a multicolored mushroom cloud. From the second “Nap Time” revs up, vocalist Noa Ver and drummer Zach D'Agostino absolutely clobber the listener with a distorted hodgepodge of sounds as raw and violent as they are winkingly playful, as if Black Dice and Melt-Banana were caught in the middle of some kind of psychotic square dance together.
The duo’s setup—which involves a primitive assemblage of hacked feedback oscillators, colorful Rococo tin boxes, and a contact mic plugged directly onto Ver’s neck to capture her barking intonations—harkens back to an era of DIY where live performance meant everything. Blurring the line between reckless improvisation and tightly-knit compositions, the band achieves a disorientingly complex interplay. Though Sea Moss’s music may initially seem to be an act of pure blunt force, the duo’s true prowess lies in the intricacy of their rhythmic interplay. As freeform as it all might seem, SEAMOSS2 contains the band’s most potent, precise compositions yet, refining the distinct style they forged on disorienting releases like Bread Bored and Bidet Dreaming into a thrilling act of controlled chaos.
In an era where the communal spirit of DIY feels more difficult to achieve than ever, Sea Moss embody the classic ethos of weirdo punk music in all its absurdity and wonder. It’s this same sense of scrappiness that’s earned them attention from legends like Lightning Bolt and Machine Girl, and SEAMOSS2 illustrates why they’re every bit as deserving of their own trophy in the noise-rock hall of fame—one adorned in broken contact mics and scuffed-up scratches from one too many bloody basement shows.

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Pam Pam Ida

Koa Moang

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (RecordJet)

Lobby Boy

Autobahngold

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Mansions & Millions Mixtape Volume 5

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Mansions & Millions)

14,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Antinote)

10 Years Of Loving Notes

22,49 €* 29,99 € -25%

Looking Glass Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Hugging the bend and blowing kisses since 2012, Antinote has been a vessel of choice for lovers of left-of-centre dance music and retro-laced boogie. Covering a supremely wide range of styles, the Parisian outlet has carved out a musical lane truly its own by putting on a nonstop celebration of electronics’ inexhaustible power of enthralment. A pledge of quality-driven curation and never-ending search for the next thrill that’s proven untiringly relevant throughout the years and opens onto its second decade of existence with equal panache.

Toasting to its ten years splashing the game with continuously reasserted outsider bravura, label captain Zaltan has bottled some of the finest expressions out Antinote’s versatile vaults of sound to form the present “X” compilation, “ten years of loving notes and foolin around 2012-2022". From totem animal IUEKE’s oddball musique concrète (“fiano-church") to the candid synth-pop of Lithuanian outfit Domenique Dumont (“La Dolce Vita"), via Feminielli’s outré mix of ghetto-house and ominous croon (“Nobody’s Boy”) and Tel-Aviv vibist Alek Lee’s signature synth-splattered 80s wave (“Different Plans”), it’s a smorgasbord of colours and vibrations that prepares to avalanche across your sound system.

Take the esoteric shoegaze of Epsilove, Shelter and Thomas Riguelle (“From The Spaceship in My Room”) and prepare to move upstream a river of saturated guitars and all-engulfing reverbs; let Low Jack’s jagged floor aggressor drill a hole in your head (“Feel 2020”) or opt for further ankle-breaking UK-bass-influenced riddim traction from DK & Geena (“BelleTech One”). A further cosmic-friendly epic, Chimère FM (I:Cube!) embarks us on a ride near Saturn’s belt (“La Genèse du Monstre à Suze") whereas former Antinote apprentice River Yarra snipes a hail of Italo-informed arpeggios and giallo-esque bass murk to compelling effect (“Blooms”) and L.I.E.S. head honcho Ron Morelli goes all in with a formidable, old-school dusty house chugger (“Tribute”).

There’s obviously more to "Antinote X" than the sum of its parts, and Jean Luc’s post-Plantasia jazz hybrid (“La Truite”), Arabica’s decadent, anti-colonial spoken number (“Multo Storia") or fellow Antinote in-house visual designer Nico Motte’s vintage disco churner (“All The Money In The World”) are there to attest. Not to forget Panoptique, up with a lashing, dissonant treat for the senses (“Un Licenciement”), Leo Martelli under guise as Sammy Patanegra with a tribal jacking weapon (“Maria”), Pont Levis floating into emotional hyperspace (“L’Espace et le Coeur de L'Âme”), Trigger Moral in with a marvel of a hip-hop gem emerged from some retro-futuristic wormhole (“soul assssn”) and Laporte rounding it off downtempo, modular ambient style for good measure (“Sleepers”). Ten years on, Antinote still leading the pack.

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Alela Diane

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Believe Digital)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Irascible)

Batbait

Dirty Clothes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Silence Wore A Silver Coat

Stella Sommer

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Buback)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness

The Third Wave Of

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Bobo Integral)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original

Ajay Mathur

Talking Loud

39,19 €* 48,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (SA)

Gwilym Gold

Blue Garden

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Spittle)

391 Selezione 1

Impossible Princess Violet Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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You've been waiting for it, and finally here it is ! A natural compendium to the 391 series, with a strong selection straight to vinyl. Spittle cds series 391 is filling a void screaming out for revenge. We're not actually talking about hard to find material, but properly unreleased songs and compositions locked for several decades in some virtual memory lane. A proper distillate from the ongoing series, which showed the hidden roots of the Italian new-wave (with all the possible links to art-rock, goth, post-punk and industrial). Creativity has never been lacking and sometimes complete with a burst of originality, what lacked was a good promotion and a more accessible way to the underground market. Now you have it. Enjoy !

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Kylie Minogue

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (BMG)

27,19 €* 31,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Energie)

Moncrieff

Warm

20,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mesh-Key)

The Rabbits

38,99 €*

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Twisted and irreverent, The Rabbits combined ear-splitting guitar shrapnel with one of punk’s greatest-ever snot-nosed vocalists. With hints of PIL or Chrome, but beamed in from a parallel dimension and filtered through the warped lens of visionary loner Syoichi Miyazawa. First-ever vinyl release, fully remastered from the band’s original early ’80s cassette releases, and housed in a sturdy tip-on sleeve. Includes a double-sided, printed insert. Edition of 500

Singer-songwriter Syoichi Miyazawa’s tale is a confounding one.

He grew up in a small town in Yamagata Prefecture (in northern Japan), loved Dylan and The Beatles, and had very little exposure to, or interest in, underground music. And yet, shortly after 24-year-old Miyazawa arrived in Tokyo in 1978, he began performing solo shows at tiny clubs in the city, singing and playing guitar. His performances quicky devolved from brisk acoustic jaunts to lengthy, heavy dirges sung in a snot-nosed wail over a blown-out electric guitar detuned to produce a kind of sonic sludge.

At one of his earliest gigs, a mutual friend introduced him to Endo Michiro, who would soon become the legendary front man of Japanese punk icons The Stalin. It turned out Miyazawa and Endo had attended Yamagata University at the same time just a few years earlier, but hadn’t known each other at school. In Tokyo, they became fast friends, moved into the same apartment building, and for years were inseparable. Endo played guitar and drums on Miyazawa’s debut release, the “Christ Was Born in a Stable” flexi disc. But while Endo was social and outgoing, Miyazawa preferred to be alone, avoiding concerts unless he was performing.

Despite these antisocial tendencies, Miyazawa came to despise playing solo. In 1982, an eccentric high school student named Chika introduced herself at one of Miyazawa’s gigs, and Miyazawa asked if she’d play bass. She agreed and drafted two of her friends to play second guitar and drums. The Rabbits were born.

Miyazawa wrote the tunes, and had a clear vision for the group, but struggled to get the sound he wanted from the other members. His second guitarist was more of a fusion player, and Miyazawa took great pains to get him to tone down the shredding. The group quickly went through multiple line-up changes. Frustrated with the sound of their first proper recording (self-released as the “X1(x)” cassette), Miyazawa spent a full year mixing their second cassette, “Winter Songs,” on his own.

The hard work paid off — the sound of “Winter Songs” is striking, and unlike anything the band’s peers produced. There’s liberal use of delay on the vocals, giving the music a psychedelic feel, but the guitars are caustic, cutting through the mix like metal shrapnel. The rhythm section seems on the verge of teetering out of control throughout, an overdriven and pummeling current below abrasive slabs of guitar and vocals. Even at their most aggressive, though, The Rabbits had strong pop sensibilities, complete with cooing backing vocals and the occasional harmonica solo. Miyazawa delivers his borderline nonsensical lyrics with equal amounts of menace and gaiety, consistently riding that fine line as only a natural oddball can. At times, the band sounds like a distant cousin of PiL, Chrome or The Homosexuals, but beamed in from a parallel dimension and filtered through Miyazawa’s warped lens.

Although The Rabbits briskly sold all 500 copies of the "Winter Songs" tape, live audiences at the time seemed dumbfounded by the group, and would stare at them in silence. After two years together, The Rabbits called it quits in 1984.

When asked if any of the many legendary groups (Les Rallizes Desnudes, G.I.S.M., etc.) he shared stages with left an impression, Miyazawa recently revealed that he always left the venue as soon as he finished performing, so he never caught any of the other bands…

All of which is to say —

The Rabbits are one of the great punk bands of the early ’80s, but their leader had no interest in the punk scene and always thought he was making “normal” music. They rubbed shoulders with a slew of notable groups of the era, and their singer was best friends with arguably the most famous Japanese punk of all time, but Miyazawa shunned fraternization and purposefully distanced himself from his peers.

Could this be why so few underground music fans are familiar with the group, even in Japan? Why they seem to have been written out of the official history of Japanese punk? One can never know for sure, but Mesh-Key hopes to remedy this travesty by offering this compilation, the first-ever official LP by The Rabbits, to a new generation of punk and psychedelic music connoisseurs. credits

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Lee Paradise

Lee Paradise & Co

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Pop

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Toronto’s Dan Lee steps out of the spotlight and into the producer’s chair on the new collaborative Lee Paradise LP, Lee Paradise & Co., due October 28 2022 on Telephone Explosion. Lee Paradise & Co. follows 2020’s critically acclaimed The Fink LP, and finds Lee flipping the shadowy nihilism of the project’s previous releases upward into a sort of cybernetic universality. This is Dan Lee in producer mode, veering away from the pursuit of a singular musical direction rooted in personal vision, towards of a process rich in collaboration, emotional expansion and tonal exploration.

Starting off as a set of mood-focusedinstrumental sketches drafted by Dan on his own, the compositions began coloringthemselves in after he started sending the tracks out to collaborators, asking them to contribute without much in the way of direction or intention. With help from an ensemble cast of artists including Carlyn Bezic (Jane Inc.), Jonathan Pappo (Scott Hardware, No Frills, Ducks Ltd), Scott Hardware, Isla Craig, Victoria Cheong (New Chance), Jay Anderson, Charise Aragoza & Lukas Cheung (Mother Tongues) and Daniel Woodhead (Moon King), nearly every aspect of this album’s creation eventually became open to collaboration, from musical performances, lyric writing, and vocals all the way through to mixing and mastering.

Sonically, the record is still unmistakably Lee Paradise: a widescreen polyrhythmic psychedelia that melts, bubbles, whirrs and klanks; the sound of the human and the machine grooving in accordance towards new futures. The album’s sonic palette is at once synthetic, warm and extraterrestrial. Arpeggiated square wave melodies dance in lockstep with crunching hi-hats, digital bells and chimes fall like crystal rain in stereo above plush pads and gurgling bass figures. Used to finishing the records on his own, Lee mixed this album with Montreal’s Asher Gould-Murtagh and the results are spacious, dusty and dubbed out. “Carnival” sets the scene with it’s stuttering, busted funk groove and ribbons of aqueous vocal harmony from New Chance’s Victoria Cheong. “Raffles”(featuring one of Daniel’s two vocal performances on the record) radiates a mellow optimism in its solar-warped balearic bliss. The album’s final track, “Youngish” is a gliding, melancholic downtempo instrumental thumper saturated in a kaleidoscopic array of lysergic tones. As always, the record anchors itself to the dancefloor with the screwed-down electro of “Cement”, the swinging midnight afterglow of “Leaving” and “CS2X”’s fluttering rave arpeggios.

Lee Paradise & Co. is the sound of an expert producer and sound sculptor conceding to the elusive flows of inspiration, knocking genre conventions askew and hopscotching between a variety of styles, musical identities and sound worlds with absolute panache.

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Ingredient

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Mannequin)

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Pop

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Ingredient is the elegant collaboration of Toronto poets, composers, producers and dear friends Ian Daniel Kehoe and Luka Kuplowsky. Their self-titled release is an enigmatic electronic avant-pop record attuned to the micro and macro perspectives of the natural world. Ingredient is an album whose lyrics are more poem than lyric, and whose songs exist in a merger of house music, philosophically-minded lyricism and contemporary R&B. One might recall electronic and art-pop luminaries such as Yukihiro Takahashi, The Blue Nile, and Arthur Russell, or connect it to contemporaries like Nite Jewel, Westerman and Blood Orange. A distinct world of dance, of questions, of secrecy and ultimate softness.

Eight years of friendship forges strange telepathy.

In the summer of 2020, Ian Daniel Kehoe was entrenched in a new feeling of heaviness; psychosomatic symptoms had started to proliferate; stress made new pores across the body, bending sensitivity into pain. His days were met with confusion, detachment, sleeplessness and pain without causation. Disfigured, he felt that what had been central and centering was blown out to the periphery of things. In a moment of self-preservation he reached out to his dear friend Luka Kuplowsky to make an album together. For Kehoe, it was an instinctual grasp for the anchoring truthfulness of deep friendship and the potential for a dedicated creative collaboration. Kuplowsky’s presence was light, supportful and curious, eager to explore musically the sounds they were mutually drawn to: house music, ambient pop, dub. The duality between Kuplowsky and Kehoe – between the Aflight and the Unmoored – is a portrait of a friendship whose exchanges came easy and produced an outpouring of song. Creation and therapy crisscross. In email correspondence that catalogs their process of collaboration, affection abounds: “feels bare without the Luka Licks”, or “Love you so much”, or “Kinda just overwhelmed with deadliness coming in at all angles.” When their voices first come in together on “Wolf,” that harmony arrives in a dramatic avant-pop sound that is bold and wondrous.

Kuplowsky and Kehoe both arrive at Ingredient as established artists whose works are committed to language’s propensity to provoke and mystify. Kuplowsky’s 2020 album Stardust is an idiosyncratic and otherworldly blend of pop and jazz romanticism grounded by Cohen-esque vocals and a stirring philosophical curiosity. Kehoe’s entrance into the new decade has hatched four records of pop experimentation, most recently 2022’s Yes Very So, a euphoric and bold album of poetic synth-pop and meditative ambient instrumentals. Kuplowsky and Kehoe’s union as Ingredient is a beautiful and unusual chemistry that integrates their distinct approaches while bringing forth a newness: a sound that alternates between cinematic technicolor and dubbed out fogginess; a lyricism that exchanges their lucid and clear poetics for a playful and obtuse verse. The album intuitively taps into the opposing emotional states of Kuplowsky and Kehoe during the conception of the record, contrasting the buoyancy of trumpeting keyboards (“Resurface”), angelic synthesized voices (“Come”), and rolling bass (“Photo”) with the record’s underlying darkness of whirring buzzsaw textures (“Transmission”), whooping sirens (“Wolf”) and murky ambience (“Illumination”). Lyrically, this duality arises in the record’s flux between openness (“Variation”, “Raindrop”) and existential dread (“Wolf”). “Illumination” most clearly crystalizes this opposition, reconciling the verses’ neurotic yearning for enlightenment with the chorus’ liberating doctrine of negation: “no more devotion… no more delusion”. Amidst the gradations of light and dark, Kuplowsky and Kehoe trade indelible, lush melodies as though their voices are made of a substance that melts easily one into the other. The harmony of poetry, sound, and texture cuts through your brain fog like a wet diamond.

Ingredient’s self-titled record was assembled by Kuplowsky and Kehoe over the course of six months in a home studio they frequented daily. Amidst synthesizers and drum machines they composed, re-composed, and workshopped a wide array of music, ultimately focusing on a set of eight songs that lived in a shared musical and philosophical world. Recording days often ended in basketball games at a local court or a rooftop commune over a pot of tulsi tea and a crossword puzzle. Kuplowsky brought in the Blue Cliff Record – the classic anthology of Chan Buddhism – whose inscrutable and sublime insights remained constant throughout the recording process as an activator of reorientation and reflection. While Kehoe was frequently rendered physically immobile by bouts of anxiety, a patience and mutual caring governed the pace of their creation; rest, stretching and meditation became equally important as the act of arrangement. Invited into their intimate circle of composition was Thom Gill, whose heavenly voice uplifts “Variation” and “Raindrop,” and Karen Ng, whose alto sax simmers and dances around the funky strut of “Raindrop.”

The lyrics on Ingredient reflect the persistence of change, the infinite variability of nature where randomness and divergence are no accidents. In Daoism, duality, in the form of Yin and Yang, is not contradictory as it is in Western idealist philosophy, but rather composes the eternal and lived paradox of our changeless-changing universe: changeless because all is change, and changing because the dynamism of the Dao makes each moment transformational. Kuplowsky and Kehoe refract this way of seeing the world, as in Variation: “Variation in the natural world / there it is.” Ingredient is an experience of the manifold ways of saying there it is of the transformational world, and there it is, unfolding. Elsewhere, change and ephemerality is addressed through the record’s preoccupation with non-human perspectives, reorienting the listener to the wolf, the mouse, the emerald frog, the centipede, the bird, the fly in the lamp. The album cover visualizes this fascination with the striking image of a reddish-orange frog atop a defamiliarized landscape of dark green leaves. Mirroring the exploratory process of the record’s collaboration, the frog also signals the amphibian’s natural inclination to leap into boundless potential. Kuplowsky and Kehoe’s lyrics manifest philosopher and ecologist Timothy Morton’s concept of “the mesh,” drawing attention to the “vast, entangled web” of interconnectedness that connects all life forms and interweaving the songwriters’ shared wonder into the Animal’s unknowability. As Luka narrates in the breakdown of the dance-floor ready “Photo,” “the closer we observe things, the further they retreat into abstraction.” In Ingredient’s ecosystem, perception is a reversible fractal where the world’s minutest details mirror the shape of the cosmos.

According to the Dao, the path to healing starts by reorienting perception away from the self and toward the self’s subsumption in Totality. For Kehoe, collaborating with Kuplowsky became the reorientation necessary for the self-preservation he was seeking, opening up a shared creative practice to navigate and soften the complexity of his psychological shattering. The album begins with Kuplowsky intoning “colossal faith” which bounces around the stereo field in a cloud of echo, and it is the enormity of “faith” that centers both Kuplowsky and Kehoe’s collaboration and their inquisitiveness in the vast mysteries of our very being. Truth in Ingredient is not an essential nugget, but a bending of the light – it is the equivocal entanglement of how we are in nature as nature, but with a plea or prayer under our breath that marks our felt distance from what we are a part of: “carry me towards the mountains of my birth / returning to the nest / the silence of the earth.”

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Bourbonese Qualk

The Spike Lp