SADE – Soldier Of Love
DAVE MATTHEWS & TIM REYNOLDS – Live in las vegas
MASSIVE ATTACK- Heligoland
HOT CHIP- One Life Stand
YEASAYER – Odd Blood
GIL SCOTT-HERON – I’m New Here
WATSON TWINS – Talking To you
MARSHALL TUCKER BAND – Way Out West: Live 1973

GENE PICK: A BROKEN CONSORT – Crow Autumn
On CD and very limited edition LP
‘Crow Autumn’ is the latest album by English composer Richard Skelton, who releases haunting and evocative music under a variety of guises. Recording here as A Broken Consort, Skelton expertly builds on the achievements of last year’s Box Of Birch, creating a dense-yet-delicate weave of textures from a broad palette of acoustic instruments, including guitar, mandolin, piano, violin and accordion. The result is a stunning sequence of swells and eddies, culminating in the orchestral intensity of ‘The River’, with its torrent of interleaved violin melodies and seething undertow.

NEW THIS WEEK PICK 1: GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW – Kings Ballad
On CD and ultra analogue vinyl LP RECORD
“She’s incredible. She’s like Flack, Nina Simone, Ella, she’s something else. She’s like religion. It’s heavy, vibrational music. I’ve never heard a human being sing like this.” —Mos Def
Slicing pop’n'lock-friendly funk with gospel and gracious soul Georgia Anne Muldrow is shining as a true West Coast original. The seeds of early experimental releases are now blossoming as her trademark scattershot beats and adventurous deep jazz melodies have grown to become the backbone for fully crafted songs. With aspirations to be a modern-day Quincy Jones, Muldrow is truly a renaissance musician. She is always looking to take her craft to a higher ground. She channels her unstoppable creativity into music that is commercially viable but does not lose sight of her essence as an artist who challenges the norm. She bears the enviably ability to play all her own instruments, and write and perform her own songs. Everything you hear on Kings Ballad is handcrafted and non-sample-based. She has been called a modern day Nina Simone.

NEW THIS WEEK PICK 2: YEASAYER – Odd Blood, CD on sale 11.99
Available on really nice VINYL LP
Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2007 debut All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer has been around the world and back again. If All Hour Cymbals was Yeasayer’s attempt at global and ambient cultural mash-up then their new album, ODD BLOOD, takes place in an off-world colony sometime after the Singularity. Glimmering reverb haze is eschewed and replaced by a cavalcade of disorienting pitch effects and flickering ectoplasmic wisps. At times Yeasayer sound as if they would be at home playing live in scene from Blade Runner or inside one of Oscar Neimeyer’s concrete modernist temples from the 1960s. After the rubble clears from opening track “The Children”, the album leaps into Yeasayer’s version of the pop anthem with “Ambling Alp,” “Madder Red,” “I Remember,” and “O.N.E.” Yeasayer have plunged into the craft of pop music, and the exercise has paid off. The second half of ODD BLOOD is slightly more experimental in nature. Sci-fi musical jams (“Mondegreen”), maniacal rants (“Grizelda”), and paranoia (“Love Me Girl”) show the band exploring more paranoid motifs, yet never deprive the listener of hooks and ear candy.

NEW THIS WEEK PICK 3: RECKLESS KELLY – Somewhere In Time, CD sale priced 12.99
Somewhere in Time is the next installment in the legend of Reckless Kelly. The last, the inimitable Bulletproof, careened into the Billboard 200 and on up to the top 25 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. It spent weeks at #1 on Americana and Texas radio Now Reckless takes a minute to look back at a time when the crowds weren’t so big and the honky tonk floors a bit dirtier — and just maybe, a bit more real. Somewhere in Time looks back to the roots of brothers Cody and Willy Braun and their musical education at the hand of underground Americana forefather Pinto Bennett. Inspired to bring Pinto’s songs to the world, Reckless Kelly turns up the pedal steel to eleven and offers a truly inspired take on the country music they cut their teeth on. Always seeking to expand the definition of their identity as artists and showmen, Somewhere in Time sheds light on yet another facet of their already brimming legend.