I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs , but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.
New releases
CD
Amanda Shires, Take It Like a Man Björk, Fossora Santigold, Spirituals Steve Reich, Runner / Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
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Das EFX, Dead Serious Dashboard Confessional, The Places That You Have Come to Fear the Most Descendents, Somery Huey Lewis and the News, Picture This Pale Saints, In Ribbons
Vinyl
Aaliyah, Aaliyah Cyndi Lauper, True Colors George Michael, Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 Robyn, Honey Sting, The Bridge
Reissues
CD
Janet Jackson, Japanese Singles Collection Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)
Vinyl
Caitlin Cary, While You Weren’t Looking
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I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs , but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.
New releases
Vinyl
Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale and the Right Steppers
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Camper Van Beethoven, La Costa Perdida Sinéad O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (Limited Edition) Siouxsie and the Banshees, Juju Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Scream Smashing Pumpkins, Lull Steven Wright, I Still Have a Pony U2, War (Deluxe Edition) Wire, 154 Wire, Chairs Missing Wire, It’s Beginning to and Back Again
Vinyl
Alexander O’Neal, Hearsay Amanda Shires, To The Sunset Christine and the Queens, Chaleur Humaine Eugène Ysaÿe, Six Sonatas for Violin, Op. 27 Guadalcanal Diary, 2 x 4 Patrick Cowley, Muscle Up Prince, Chaos and Disorder Sam Hunt, Southside The Faint, Danse Macabre
Reissues
Vinyl
Silk Sonic, An Evening with Silk Sonic
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I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs , but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.
Catalog
CD
Amanda Shires, Down Fell the Doves Joshua Bell, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Cleveland Orchestra) Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Steve Winwood, Arc of a Diver Van Halen, Van Halen Yo-Yo Ma, Barber: Cello Concerto / Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra (David Zinman, Baltimore Symphony) Various Artists, Living in Oblivion, Vol. 4
Vinyl
Black, Wonderful Life FINNEAS, Optimist Linda Ronstadt, Canciones de mi Padre Soundtrack, The Crow
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I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs , but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.
New releases
Files
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Reunions Livre at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville Powerbleeder, Welcome Back
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Amanda Shires, To the Sunset
I gave this album a cursory preview when it first appeared in mid-2018, but I didn’t follow up till now. Shires’ husband, Jason Isbell, sang the album’s praises, and he’s right — To the Sunset is ambitious.
John Luther Adams, Become Desert
I went to the Saturday world premiere of this work in 2018, so it was pretty much guaranteed a spot on this list.
Frida, Something’s Going On
This album would be akin to Janet Jackson’s Control in the way Frida distances herself from ABBA.
Shiina Ringo, Sandokushi
No, this album won’t dislodge Shiina’s first three albums off the pedestal, but it’s her most diverse since Karuki Zaamen Kuri no Hana , and Shiina on an off-day is still many leagues interesting than most artists at their apex.
Soundtrack, Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu Ka?
My experience with anime can be divided in two: before “Do You Remember Love?” and after “Do You Remember Love?” I will always treasure Robotech for introducing me to Japanese animation, but that show really did butcher the source material.
Madonna, Madame X
The singles preceding Madame X ‘s release did not do the album justice. It’s a far more ambitious work than the singles let on.
Re-Flex, The Politics of Dancing
The Politics of Dancing is a reliably 80s synth album, but that title track is an unshakable earworm. Cherry Red in the UK is giving it an expanded reissue in July 2019.
Roger Daltery, Under a Raging Moon
This album is steeped in the ’80s, which is probably why it appeals to me so much.
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I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs , but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.
New releases
Vinyl
Catalog
CD
Amanda Shires, To the Sunset Charles Ives, Symphony No. 4 / The Unanswered Question / Central Park After Dark / Symphony No. 3 (Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot) Colin McPhee, Symphony No. 2 / Concerto for Piano with Wind Octet / Nocture / Balinese Ceremonial Music (Brooklyn Philharmonic, Dennis Russell Davies) Cypress Hill, III (Temple of Boom) Florence + the Machine, Lungs Franz Schubert, The Last Four String Quartets (Quartet Italiano) Franz Schubert, Winterreisse (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove Kansas, The Best of Kansas Ladytron, 604 Ladytron, Witching Hour Living Colour, Collideoscope Living Colour, Stain Michael Jackson, Bad Re-Flex, The Politics of Dancing The Temptations, The Ultimate Collection The The, Infected Soundtrack, Battlestar Galactica: Season 4
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