Ibibio Sound Machine announce album Chopping Mountain and share lead single 'Concept of Love': Afro-disco, vocoder, Eno Williams in full flight. https://go.stereobar.net/2gpz1s0

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The Tubs sign to Merge, share cover of Metallica’s 'Fade to Black'

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-tubs-sign-to-merge-share-cover-of-metallicas-fade-to-black/

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M. Ward , A Wasteland Companion, 2012 on Merge.

M. Ward’s 7th studio album, including a cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Sweetheart.” He’s joined by Mike Coykendall, Mike Mogis, Jordan Hudson, Adam Selzer and others, including vocals from Zooey Deschanel. M. Ward produced.

I just love M. Ward’s voice and his approach to songwriting and production – across his solo work and She & Him. (No, the “Me and My Shadow” is not the Irving Berlin/Al Jolson tune but a new song).

My copy—via Magnolia Record Club—is a signed 2024 reissue on metallic swirl vinyl with lacquer cut at Chicago Mastering Service by Jason Ward.

Destroyer, Labyrinthitis, 2022 on Merge Records

Dan Behar and co’s 13th studio album with John Collins, Joshua Wells, David Carsell, Nicolas Bragg, Ted Bois, and JP Carter.

Was number 30 on Pitchfork’s 50 Best of 2022.

My copy is the Vinyl Me Please edition on gray vinyl with black spatter.

The Mountain Goats, Getting Into Knives, 2020 on Merge

Nineteenth studio LP from John Darnielle and crew, recorded at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, and produced by Matt Ross-Spang. Similar crew to Dark in Here which was recorded shortly after this LP.

Love the liner notes credits for Ross-Spang: “the man himself, the dude with the heater in the basement, the fellow you know from the back room, the man who will not personally sell you any knives but can direct you to a guy who has at least three, two of them quite exotic.”

My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is the “gold metallic” 2xLP limited edition pressing.

The Mountain Goats, Dark in Here, 2021 on Merge

Twentieth studio LP from The Mountain Goats, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals and produced by Matt Ross-Spang. THe Mountain Goats this time include John Darnielle with Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and Matt Douglas, supported by Spooner Oldham, Will McFarlane, Susan Marshall, and Reba Russell.

Darnielle is such an amazing and interesting songwriter. The subtitle of the album is “12 songs for singing in caves, bunkers, foxholes, and secret spaces beneath the floorboards.” Who else (Flaming Lips?) would have a song titled “Aruging with the Ghost of Pater Laughner about his Coney Island Baby Review”?

My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is the blue vinyl limited edition with an etching on side 4.

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#69LoveSongs
#MergeRecords 1999

Un disco de una sencillez y belleza abrumadoras.

An album of overwhelming simplicity and beauty.

https://themagneticfields.bandcamp.com/album/69-love-songs

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Recensie: Carson McHone – Pentimento ★★★★
https://writteninmusic.com/albumrecensie/carson-mchone-pentimento/

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