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This Brooklyn Via Cincinatti guintet have been making great music since 2001, and their third album (if yOu don't cOunt last year's magical mini, Cherry Tree) is a beautiful and potent piece of Americana. Some of it is rarnbunctious. some almost too tasteful; elsewhere singer Matt Berninger‘s halt-slurred delivery and Opaque lyrics combine With hovering guitar lines to CODJUFG the Simple intimacy of a bedtime
stor. a”: the damp panic 3‘ " gr‘t'nare T'e sardcn c s 2‘ ‘Ar f'e “HIV; and he mm- ebipnany ct ‘Lit Ur,” are ’JlNIQUS nigh cotnts. but this surprisingly muscular and deceptively uplifting re’LOrd is low on filler and nigh on genius
'James Smarti
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SINGER SONOWRITER MONICA QUEEN Return of the Sacred Hean
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Those who only kn( w Monica Oueen from her most celebrated collaboration (With Thrumi WIH be interested to hear her second album; there's certainly no mistaking the mice but it appears In the calmest and most ethereal of tones. giVing a pleasantly unsteady edge to every torch-style ballad it graces. Anyone who can evoke both Martha Wainwright and the husky echoes of a reined-in Janis JOpIin shOuId be
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CON T EMPORAHY ANG BROWNRIDGE Kenneth Leighton Complete Solo Piano Works
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The late Kenneth Leighton was a very
"‘Taer‘tta' t'gure on the Scott‘s" rt‘tisit‘ :‘w‘t‘ttt‘. 1‘31" as a composer and as :‘rotessor OT music at ft! 'tt‘urgt‘ Urinersih Ar‘aela Reinstth performs his complete works for solo piano au'ass three CDs on This Sut‘erlt collection from the Edinburgh- l‘tttlt‘xl [\‘t‘lltllltlll ldl‘t‘l There are 18 separate ‘.‘.t"l\t;_ itlt‘lti’tliltg soiiatas. ElttllJlllldS. a Fantasia tjttr‘frar‘1mr‘frstua. narrations. studies and xarious \tt‘t‘tthltHl‘ll
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