…includes three discs consisting of the original album, live tracks from Samia’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert, the band version of “Is There Something in the Movies?” and tracks from her cover/remix album project titled ‘The Baby Reimagined’.
A native New Yorker and daughter of professional performers, Samia Finnerty had acted off-Broadway and appeared on prime-time TV by the time she released her first angsty guitar and piano songs as a 20-year-old in 2017. After rising through the touring ranks with opening slots for the likes of Cold War Kids and Soccer Mommy on the strength of early songs, Samia makes her full-length and Grand Jury label debut with The Baby.
Recorded with a trio of producers, including members of Hippo Campus, the album…
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… includes three previously unreleased covers, including her take on Otis Redding’s ‘The Happy Song (Dum Dum)’, recorded during the original sessions.
“Forest and the Shore” by Keith Christmas is remarkable. In his essay for Gather in the Mushrooms, compiler, author and Saint Etienne member Bob Stanley says it is “as evocative as its title. The song has a deeply wooded sound, like a cross between Serge Gainsbourg’s “Ballade de Melody Nelson” and Ralph Vaughan Williams.” To this can be added the brooding, dramatic melancholy of Scott Walker’s “The Seventh Seal.”
Let’s face it: even Richard D. James has probably lost track of all the aliases he’s forged during his decades-long career. There are the ones we are party to — 
For over 20 years, Hayden Desser has been making music on his own terms and on his own schedule. The three-time JUNO nominee has produced, engineered and mixed most of his records at home, creating a world of his own, exploring themes ranging from love lost and found to bear maulings and home invasions.
Boundary-pushing electronic duo and technological pioneers 
Primed by London Calling for the reluctant genre to open itself up to its place in the grand rock’n’roll lineage, the 1980s opened it up to folk traditions and fantastical lyricism, while punk opened up traditional music to the delight of slurred singing and unthinkable abrasions.
…this expanded edition features five previously unreleased demos and alternate takes, along with the never-before-heard track “Hey Ah Nothin’”.
Ryan Adams marks 25 years of his breakthrough solo debut with a reimagined take on ‘Heartbreaker’. Featuring eleven newly recorded versions of songs from the original 2000 album. With subtle string arrangements and a renewed emotional depth, these reworkings revisit the ache and vulnerability that made the original so enduring.
The eponymous debut of Oh Wonder came about in September 2014, when the songwriting team of Anthony West & Josephine Vander Gucht embarked on a goal to record and release a song per month for a year, culminating in a full-length album. What the duo didn’t foresee was accumulating millions of digital streams of their songs in the meantime, leading to a record deal with Republic Records and sold-out future tour dates before the album was completed or they’d ever set foot on a stage.
…expanded release includes two extra tracks (‘Line Open’ and ‘Landscape’) released on a CD single promoting the soundtrack more than 30 years ago, but were not included on the original soundtrack album. 
In 2017, Los Angeles multi-instrumentalists 
Pantsula dancing and kwaito go hand in hand. Both emerged from the townships of Johannesburg, and both were forces of joy and genius during desperate times. When kwaito landed on the global main stage around the turn of the millennium, star acts like TKZee, featured pantsula dancers in their hit music videos like the brilliantly upbeat “Dlala Mapantsula.”