The follow-up to blue-eyed soul singer Jesper Lindell’s March, 2026 release which found the Swedish vocalist and his band ensconced at Alabama’s Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, replicates the process at Memphis’ famed Royal Studios.
The concept was to record previously chosen and rehearsed covers of music originated at those iconic locations in the 60s and 70s, bringing a fresh perspective from a guy who only knew these songs from the radio (or probably streaming), and have it engineered and mixed by Boo Mitchell, son of the famous Willie Mitchell.
The simply titled Royal like the previous iteration, combines relatively popular songs crafted in Memphis such as Sam & Dave’s “When Something Is Wrong with My Baby” and Ann Peebles’…
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Shadows opens with “The Lone West,” a short, desolate instrumental featuring a simple keyboard refrain with a flute-like quality and what may be an early ’70s drum machine. There’s a bit of Young Marble Giants in there. The Brian Eno of Another Green World, too. The Ghost Box label’s characteristic nebulousness is also apparent.
Everything 
Since their debut album, 2014’s Sun Structures, established them as neo-psychedelic rockers in the first degree, Temples have made a point of never repeating themselves. The albums that followed have taken all sorts of creative left turns, from Volcano‘s synth-heavy modern pop to Hot Motion‘s stripped-down jangle to Exotico‘s stadium indie grandeur. The shift they make on 2026’s Bliss is their most drastic. Influenced by the electronic music and rave culture of the ’90s, the band trade out guitars for synthesizers, pump up the beats, and do their best to add some psychedelic mystery to a very retro dance-rock sound. The album is loaded with slamming beats, huge-sounding synths, jagged sound effects, and dancefloor vibes. Tracks like “Revelation” and…
…freshly remastered from the original analog tapes and includes 4 previously unreleased bonus tracks; “It’s Such a Pretty World Today (Movin’ version),” “Let’s Get Movin’,” “This Town (Film Intro),” and “RC Cola (It’s a Mad Mad Cola)”.
Cécile McLorin Salvant makes big orchestral jazz feel refreshingly intimate on 2026’s With Every Breath I Take. Her first fully orchestral album, it finds the Grammy-winning singer joined by the Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckely, with arrangements by Darcy James Argue. Also by her side is her trio, featuring longtime pianist Sullivan Fortner along with bassist David Wong and drummer Kush Abadey.
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…This expanded edition has been newly remastered from the original tapes and includes five bonus tracks and two additional discs featuring live performances recorded on the ‘Magic Is a Child’ tour at Hofstra University, Long Island and The Community Theater, Phoenix, AZ in October and November 1977.
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Each American Aquarium album is best viewed as a slice of BJ Barham’s life. The frontman writes in the moment, and his music is a distillation of the world as he sees it, and the life he has carved for himself along with his wife, Rachael, and their 8-year-old-daughter, Pearl, in the increasingly-suburbanized Wendell, NC, a half hour east of Raleigh. In the two years since the last Aquarium record, as he wrote and recorded what became New Ways to Lose, Barham has been thriving.
Having ceded creative control to numerous collaborators on 2022’s 
There’s some significance to the release of Winter Songs – it’s the first album featuring Steve Swallow as a leader since 2013, and the first one since the passing of Carla Bley, his multi-decade partner in life and music. Considering the folks he’s most associated with – free jazz pioneer Jimmy Giuffre, vibraphone maverick Gary Burton, genre-agnostic guitarist John Scofield, quirky keyboardist Jamie Saft, his artistically unique spouse – fans might be surprised at the vibe on Winter Songs. Joined by saxophonist Chris Cheek, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, pianist Gil Goldstein, guitarist Steve Cardenas, and drummer Adam Nussbaum, Swallow takes us back in time, when jazz was transitioning from bebop to hard bop in small clubs around New York. Though known for his…