When you learn that this album is all bassoon, from top to bottom, you might think, “I don’t want that!” But you do, and here is why: It will put you in a great mood.
What could be better than a chorus of bassoons singing and bopping around in your head? Anyone who has spent time with bassoonists knows that they are delightfully quirky. Relatively recently some composers, notably Stravinsky, started to give the singular instrument that is the modern bassoon the respect it deserves, after which it was only a matter of time before these humble geniuses would start to take their creativity seriously and find their voices. Here we have such a bassoonist in Rebekah Heller, who commissioned three of the works and arranged the other two.
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Songs for Sinners is drummer and producer Moses Boyd’s first album in six years, one he’s been thinking about since he was 16. Boyd’s project explores the tensions of spiritual faith and doubt as human forces capable of comforting, dividing, unsettling, and restoring balance via a highly individual meld of contemporary jazz, modern gospel, Caribbean rhythms, and soundsystem culture with individual voices, a choir, and deft musicianship over a dozen tracks.
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Weezer founding member and original bassist, Matt Sharp, while working on a series of “lost-albums” from the cutting room floor of his creative-life, stumbled upon a curious multi-track reel of analog tape. This mysterious reel found at the bottom of a treasure chest of other master recordings just happened to contain Weezer’s very first studio sessions.
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And true to her word, she cuts right down to the bone across the album’s 15 tracks, living and reliving her traumatic experiences with assault and misogyny, processing fragments of trauma in laboured screams and audible gasps, pursuing anyone who’ll listen.
Timeless, and yet always fresh: utterly oblivious of any wiles of the pop business, Planet Yello has been turning on its orbit for nearly fifty years, plunging us into a world where past and future are one and James Bond joins forces with the Man in the Moon, Dionysos and Philip K. Dick. “To the future, through the past,” declares Dieter Meier. With their fifteenth studio album 
At nearly 40 years old 
After an event-filled 45 years, Weird Uncle Al Jorgensen has finally decided to call it quits and to pull the plug on his main musical vehicle, 
Never Too Soon is the second album to appear under Brazilian musical icon 
An ascetic ideal put forth by Modern Love label boss Shlom Sviri led to Andy Stott making one of his most spellbinding albums, his first since 2021’s 
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The Snuts’ new record Joy in Short Moments marks the Scottish band’s fourth studio album, and it follows the huge commercial success of their opening trilogy, all of which peaked in the UK Top 10. It’s easy to see why; the band are constantly catchy and often relatable.
Daughter’s Elena Tonra originally released the 2018 eponymous album Ex:Re (pronounced “ex ray” and derived from “Regarding Ex”) as a one-time outlet for feelings following a difficult breakup. The solo project’s whispery, melancholic vocals and gloomy, often eerie acoustic-electronic textures connected with certain listeners, and it became something of a cult favorite in the years to follow. Tonra eventually went back to the studio with engineer/producer Fabian Prynn and cellist Josephine Stephenson from the debut to record a follow-up. Joining them was Ben Reed (bass), Jethro Fox (electric guitar), and experimental musician Hinako Omori (synthesizers). The resulting Save As picks up where