Music Review: DNCE, “Cake by the Ocean”

Music Review: DNCE, “Cake by the Ocean”

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After releasing their debut single “Cake by the Ocean” in 2015 (which reached the top 10 on US Billboard Hot 100), anticipation for another slice of Joe Jonas’ funk-pop experiment, DNCE, was mounting. With over a year of waiting, fans could finally rejoice with the release of the group’s debut, self-titled album, “DNCE” on November 18. The album features tongue-in-cheek lyrics and throwback beats that embraces old-school funk and modern pop as it’s signature sound. With breakout hits like the self-titled opening track, “DNCE,” “Body Moves,” and “Blown,” “DNCE” is the non-believers pop group, a welcome breath of change to a mostly stagnant genre.

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Music Review: Vagabon, “Fear and Force”

Music Review: Vagabon, “Fear and Force”

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Performing under the name Vagabon, Cameroon-born recording artist and New York City transplant, Laetitia Tamko, has given us a preview of her debut album,“Infinite Worlds,” (out February 24th on Father/Daughter Records) with the release of “Fear and Force.” The song is a reworked version of “Vermont II” off her 2004 “Persian Garden EP.” Vagabon softens her voice and instrumentals in this updated version, relying on haunting simplicity to extract more weight from her lyrics of lost love.

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Music Review: Fleetwood Mac, “Mirage, The Deluxe Album”

Music Review: Fleetwood Mac, “Mirage, The Deluxe Album”

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A newly reissued, deluxe edition of Fleetwood Mac’s 13th studio album, Mirage (1982), features a remastered version of the original, plus 13 live tracks, outtakes, and songs picked up from the cutting room floor. Stevie Nicks has never sounded better, her lyrics of loss and joy, never more poignant, than on this remastered version of “Gypsy.” The band’s high profile, personal turmoil (and subsequent struggle to come together to create this album – an attempt to break the chain of hostility that plagued them) although less apparent in Mirage, still pulses through the album’s veins, almost 35 years later.

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Music Review: Gin Wigmore, “Dirty Mercy”

Music Review: Gin Wigmore, “Dirty Mercy”

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Celebrated singer-songwriter and New Zealand native, Gin Wigmore – best known for her raw lyrics and bluesy, raspy voice – recently dropped the lead single from her upcoming studio album, set to be released next spring. On November 4, Wigmore debuted “Dirty Mercy,” an upbeat, rocker-girl anthem that highlights her unrelenting vocals and love for catchy melodies. The release of the gritty single helped kick off her North American tour, “Let it Ride,” which began on November 19 in Mexico City.

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Music Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Skeleton Tree”

Music Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Skeleton Tree”

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Skeleton Tree is the sixteenth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. During recording sessions in July of 2015, Cave suffered the unthinkable: his fifteen year old son, Arthur, died after falling from a cliff near the family’s home. Skeleton Tree is an album of mourning and eerie prophecy. The opening lyrics to “Jesus Alone,” the first track on the album, “You fell from the sky, crash-landed in a field near the River Adur,” was written before Arthur’s death. Throughout Skeleton Tree, Cave’s voice is wounded, the lyrics are longing, and the result is an album for the ages. http://www.nickcave.com/home/

 

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