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Bella Union
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
A refined, poignant, lyrical debut album by London indie pop singer/songwriter Blake Watt.
Western Vinyl Records
AllMusic Rating: 3.0 stars
The fourth album by Luke Temple's mysterious alter ego is a mostly instrumental one intended as soothing background music but deceptively alluring.
Lex / Lex Records
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
An album of dingy, woozy indie bops from L.A.'s Zahara Jaime, their fourth.
NG Records
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The Neapolitan duo continue to craft organic, vintage-sounding disco and funk grooves drawing from global influences.
Sono Luminus
AllMusic Rating: 5.0 stars
This theatrical work transforms a tragic chapter of medical history into a hauntingly beautiful and intimate concept album.
Avie
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Song cycle program traces humanity's evolving relationship with nature through established performers and significant contemporary commissions.
Deutsche Grammophon
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Two masterworks in identical key reveal contrasting emotional territories through the pianist's refined sensibility and established ensemble partnership.
Chandos
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Kaleidoscope closes its Brahms quartet cycle with a vivid, persuasive pairing that elevates a neglected contemporary.
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A founder and key member of the Influence Music collective, Melody Noel is a Billboard-charting Christian singer and songwriter whose projects have spanned mainstream pop and personal worship music. She began her career writing pop music for others before Influence Music was launched in 2017. Their debut album, 2018's Touching Heaven, reached number two on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart. After releasing several additional singles with the music collective as well as a set of solo archival pop material, Melody Noel made her official solo debut with the 2025 ... Read More about Melody Noel
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August 2, 1976
By 1976, Lee "Scratch" Perry was well established at his Black Ark studio, a fact proven by the quality of the creations emerging from its walls. Super Ape (released 50 years ago this month) is a dubwise, alternate universe to Perry's Black Ark vocal hits. It awaits anyone willing to heed it's closing call: "This is the ape-man, trodding through creation, are you ready to step with I man?".
