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Natalie Merchant - Rarities (1998-2017) (2020) [FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... folk, singer-songwriter
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

01 - The Village Green Preservation Society
02 - Too Long at the Fair
03 - Order 1081
04 - To Love is To Bury
05 - Saint Judas
06 - Birds & Ships
07 - The Lowlands of Holland
08 - Sonnet 73
09 - Learning the Game
10 - My Little Sweet Baby
11 - Political Science
12 - Build a Levee
13 - Sit Down Sister
14 - The Gulf of Araby
15 - Portofino

Rarities is a compilation assembled by Natalie of rare recordings selected from a variety of sources. It includes previously unreleased original songs (“Sonnet 73,” etc.), original songs with radically different arrangements (“Saint Judas,” “Build A Levee”), covers (“The Village Green Preservation Society” by the Kinks, “Too Long at the Fair” by Joel Zos, “Political Science” by Randy Newman, “Learning the Game” by Buddy Holly) and collaborations with David Byrne, Billy Bragg, The Chieftains, Cowboy Junkies and Amy Helm.

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Paul Weller - On Sunset (Deluxe) (2020) [FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... pop, pop/rock, singer-songwriter
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

01 - Mirror Ball
02 - Baptiste
03 - Old Father Tyme
04 - Village
05 - More
06 - On Sunset
07 - Equanimity
08 - Walkin'
09 - Earth Beat
10 - Rockets
11 - 4th Dimension
12 - Ploughman
13 - I’ll Think of Something
14 - On Sunset (Orchestral mix)
15 - Baptiste (instrumental)

On Sunset finds Paul Weller returning to Polydor Records, the label both the Jam and Style Council called home back in the 1980s. Polydor and Weller parted ways after he delivered Modernism: A New Decade in 1989, an excursion into house music that the label deemed too uncommercial at the time. Ironically, On Sunset finds Weller picking up some of the threads left hanging by Modernism, not by reviving the big beat of house music but rather delving deep into soul-rock that looks forward and backward in equal measure. Reuniting with Jan Kybert -- the collaborator who co-wrote and co-produced 2015's Saturns Pattern but largely sat out its 2017 sequel, A Kind Revolution, and didn't appear at all on 2018's True Meanings -- Weller pushes himself into new textural territory, adhering to his love of soul, '60s rock, and folk yet assembling the parts in unpredictable fashions. All this is apparent from the moment the cool electronic groove underpinning the opening "Mirror Ball" starts fracturing into space, losing its rhythm and melody as it enters the stratosphere. A few other songs perform a similar trick -- particularly those like "More," which seem to stretch out across the horizon -- but that fluid sensibility enlivens the leaner tracks, most of which arrive on the second half of the album. As the songs grow tighter, Weller indulges in a few familiar obsessions -- pastoral folk vies with psych-pop in the tradition of Steve Marriott -- but everything is cloaked in a glassy, reflective sheen, one that can sound progressive or electronic or traditional depending on perspective. The ever-changing sound exists largely on the surface, not the songs themselves, as they're sturdy, winning tunes that find Weller in an appealing troubadour mode. What's different about On Sunset is that expansive hybrid of electronic and R&B, a fusion colored by just enough experimentation and craft to make the album feel fresh and distinctly belonging to Weller.

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Neil ***** - Homegrown (2020) [24.192 FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... rock
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 24 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 192 kHz

01 - Separate Ways
02 - Try
03 - Mexico
04 - Love Is a Rose
05 - Homegrown
06 - Florida
07 - Kansas
08 - We Don’t Smoke it No More
09 - White Line
10 - Vacancy
11 - Little Wing
12 - Star of Bethlehem

Neil ***** puts it best: “This album is the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time”. Recorded between June 1974 and January 1975, Homegrown was intended to come out in 1975 before Neil cancelled the release. The album has remained unreleased until now, achieving a legendary status among Neil ***** fans in the process. The album is made up of twelve Neil ***** songs, of which seven are previously unreleased - “Separate Ways,” “Try,” “Mexico,” “Kansas,” We Don’t Smoke It No More,” “Vacancy” and “Florida” (a spoken word narration). Also included are the first recordings of “Love Is A Rose,” “Homegrown,” “White Line, “Little Wing,” and “Star Of Bethlehem” – different versions of which would all later appear on other Neil ***** albums. Neil plays solo on some tracks (guitar, piano and harmonica), and is joined by a band of friends on other tracks, including Levon Helm, Ben Keith, Karl T Himmel, Tim Drummond, Emmylou Harris and Robbie Robertson. Recorded in analog, and mastered from the original master tapes, this long-lost album is a wonderful addition to Neil’s incomparable catalog.

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Cloud Nothings - The Black Hole Understands (2020) [FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... indie rock, rock, indie
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

01 - Story That I Live
02 - The Sound of Everyone
03 - An Average World
04 - A Weird Interaction
05 - Tall Gray Structure
06 - A Silent Reaction
07 - The Mess Is Permanent
08 - Right on the Edge
09 - Memory of Regret
10 - The Black Hole Understands

When it sunk in that there might not be any live shows happening for the foreseeable future, the members of Cloud Nothings began work on what would become The Black Hole Understands. About a month into quarantine, Dylan Baldi and Jayson Gerycz started sending files back and forth, with guitars, bass, and vocals for the new songs being tracked in Philly while drums and mixing happened in Cleveland. This kind of remote recording process isn't out of the ordinary for some bands but it presented a new set of restrictions for Cloud Nothings, completely removing the element of interactive jamming and tightening the production around a set of streamlined summer pop songs. Since the start, every record has had its own vibe, but these songs take a sharp turn away from the noisy thrash and improv tendencies that have shown up on recent albums. The vocals are far more delicate and dreamy, floating along on fast, jangly songs. With clean hooks and uncluttered arrangements (a synth overdub from Bee Mask's Chris Madak is the album's only guest feature), the songs are the kind of concise, hook-heavy blasts the band was churning out in their earliest days, only a little more distant and weary. The Black Hole Understands isn't mellow by any means, but it shows a restraint that very much fits with the strange times that it was born of. The Black Hole Understands is hyper-melodic and high-energy but carries a sense of melancholy and cautious optimism that mirrors the restless dread of life on lockdown.

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Morcheeba - Part Of The Process (The Collection) (2020) [FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. CD
Genre ................... electronic, trip-hop, downtempo
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

01 - The Sea
02 - Part Of The Process
03 - Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
04 - Tape Loop
05 - Trigger Hippie
06 - Undress Me Now
07 - Let Me See
08 - Moog Island
09 - Be Yourself
10 - Howling
11 - Almost Done
12 - Way Beyond
13 - Love Is Rare
14 - Charango
15 - Never An Easy Way
16 - World Looking In
17 - Blindfold
18 - Shoulder Holster
19 - Otherwise
20 - Over And Over
21 - What New York Couples Fight About
22 - Big Calm
23 - Love Sweet Love
24 - Aqualung
25 - Fragments Of Freedom
26 - Post Humous
27 - Friction
28 - Fear And Love
29 - Slow Down
30 - Get Along

London based Morcheeba feature the sweet and fluid vocals of Skye Edwards accompanied by a fusion of laidback fun and blues produced by brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey. Formed in 1995 the band rose to fame with platinum selling album “Big Calm” and although have never been high chart performers their music and unmistakable sound has been featured in a number of high profile film and media ventures. Notable tracks include: The Sea, Part Of The Process, Trigger Hippie, World Looking In, Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day, Blindfold and Tape Loop.

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The Allman Brothers Band - Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection (2020) [FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... rock, classic rock
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

01 - Trouble No More (demo)
02 - Don’t Want You No More
03 - It’s Not My Cross to Bear
04 - Dreams
05 - Whipping Post
06 - I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (live at Ludlow Garage, April 11, 1970)
07 - Midnight Rider
08 - Revival
09 - Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
10 - Hoochie Coochie Man
11 - Please Call Home
12 - Statesboro Blues
13 - Stormy Monday
14 - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
15 - One Way Out
16 - You Don’t Love Me / Soul Serenade (live at A&R Studios, August 26, 1971)
17 - Hot ’Lanta (live at A&R Studios, August 26, 1971)
18 - Stand Back
19 - Melissa
20 - Blue Sky
21 - Ain’t Wastin Time No More (live at Mar y Sol Festival, Puerto Rico, April 2, 1972)
22 - Wasted Words
23 - Ramblin’ Man
24 - Southbound
25 - Jessica
26 - Early Morning Blues
27 - Come and Go Blues
28 - Mountain Jam (live at Watkins Glen, New York, July 28, 1973)
29 - Can’t Lose What You Never Had
30 - Win, Lose or Draw
31 - High Falls
32 - Crazy Love
33 - Can’t Take It With You
34 - Pegasus
35 - Just Ain’t Easy (live at Merriweather Post Pavilion, July 19, 1979)
36 - Hell & High Water
37 - Angeline
38 - Leavin’
39 - Never Knew How Much (I Needed You)
40 - Good Clean Fun
41 - Seven Turns
42 - Gambler’s Roll
43 - End of the Line
44 - Nobody Knows
45 - Low Down Dirty Mean (live at the Beacon Theatre, March 10 & 11, 1992)
46 - Come On Into My Kitchen (live at radio & Records Convention, Los Angeles, June 11, 1992)
47 - Sailin’ ’Cross the Devil's Sea
48 - Back Where It All Begins
49 - Soulshine
50 - No One to Run With
51 - I’m Not Crying (live at the Beacon Theatre, March 13, 1999)
52 - Loan Me a Dime (live at World Music Theatre, August 26, 2000)
53 - Desdemona (live at the Beacon Theatre, March 25, 2001)
54 - High Cost of Low Living
55 - Old Before My Time
56 - Blue Sky (live at the Beacon Theatre, March 21, 2005)
57 - Little Martha (live at the Beacon Theatre, March 21, 2005)
58 - Black Hearted Woman (live at the Beacon Theatre, March 26, 2009)
59 - The Sky Is Crying (live at the Beacon Theatre, October 28, 2014)
60 - Farewell Speeches (live at the Beacon Theatre, October 28, 2014)
61 - Trouble No More (live at the Beacon Theatre, October 28, 2014)

The Allman Brothers Band's first jam together- and last song performed together-was a Muddy Waters song "Trouble No More" which also became their first demo'd track. The recording has remained unreleased until now, kicking off this 50th anniversary collection.

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Dashboard Confessional - The Best Ones of the Best Ones (2020) [FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... rock, alternative, emo
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

01 - Screaming Infidelities
02 - The Swiss Army Romance
03 - Again I Go Unnoticed
04 - Saints and Sailors
05 - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
06 - Hands Down
07 - So Impossible
08 - The Best Deceptions (MTV Unplugged)
09 - The Sharp Hint of New Tears (MTV Unplugged)
10 - The Brilliant Dance (MTV Unplugged)
11 - Drowning
12 - Ghost of a Good Thing
13 - Don’t Wait
14 - Stolen
15 - So Long, so Long
16 - Vindicated
17 - Fever Dreams
18 - Belle of the Boulevard
19 - We Fight
20 - Heart Beat Here

Dashboard Confessional's first-ever career-spanning compilation, The Best Ones Of The Best Ones, is a thoughtfully curated collection of the band's most beloved songs and features selections from all seven studio albums, the So Impossible and The Drowning EPs, and the band's legendary, Platinum-certified MTV Unplugged performance. From start to finish, The Best Ones Of The Best Ones showcases the profound durability of Dashboard Confessional's music over the past two decades. The collection highlights singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba's extraordinary ability to give a cathartic voice to the messiest of emotions, which led the band to ascend from a bedroom project to a global sensation.

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The Rentals - Q36 (2020) [24.96 FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... rock, electronic, alternative rock
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 24 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 96.0 kHz

01 - Shake Your Diamonds
02 - Nowhere Girl
03 - 9th Configuration
04 - ***** Beat Cosmonaut
05 - Above This Broken World
06 - Forgotten Astronaut
07 - Conspiracy
08 - Breaking And Breaking And Breaking
09 - Great Big Blue
10 - Information (And The Island In The Sky)
11 - Spaceships
12 - Goodbye, Steve
13 - Invasion Night
14 - Another World
15 - Machine Love
16 - Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad

The Rentals' lineup is now Matt Sharp with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner and The Killers drummer Ronnie Vanucci, and they made this album with frequent Flaming Lips collaborator Dave Fridmann as mixing engineer and guest vocal contributions from The Gentle Assassins Choir, School of Seven Bells' Alejandra Deheza, and others. Together, the 16 songs of Q36 make something that genuinely earns the term "epic." It's by far the most ambitious music that Matt Sharp has ever released, and he pulls it off. The Rentals' first reunion album proved they could still churn out quality versions of the music they made in the '90s, but I don't know who could've predicted Matt would return six years later with a star-studded lineup and an album that is both literally and figuratively out of this world. This is the kind of album that music nerds dream up when they're shooting the breeze about hypothetical supergroups and album concepts that will never exist. But I promise you're not dreaming, Q36 really does exist, and it's as great as it sounds like it'd be.

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Hum - Inlet (2020) [24.88 FLAC]



Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... space rock, post-rock, shoegaze
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 24 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 88.2 kHz

01 - Waves
02 - In the Den
03 - Desert Rambler
04 - Step Into You
05 - The Summoning
06 - Cloud City
07 - Folding
08 - Shapeshifter

The inscrutable shoegaze legends return with a towering reunion album, their first in 22 years. Unexpectedly, it is their most emotionally accessible music yet. Often times, a reunion album reminds you why you fell in love with a band in the first place, proves they've still got it, and helps re-establish the band as a force within an era that they had long been absent from. But in rarer cases, a reunion album cements a band's legacy further than ever before, closing a book you might not have realized had been left open. Inlet, Hum's first album in 22 years, is the latter.

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Charlie Daniels - The Roots Remain (1996) [FLAC]



Released ................ 1996
Source .................. CD
Genre ................... country, americana
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

01 - Then, Now and Until the End
02 - Uneasy Rider
03 - No Place to Go
04 - The South's Gonna Do It Again
05 - Orange Blossom Special
06 - Trudy
07 - Caballo Diablo
08 - Long Haired Country Boy
09 - Funky Junky
10 - Texas
11 - Birmingham Blues
12 - Wichita Jail
13 - Dixie on My Mind
14 - Sweet Louisiana
15 - Saddle Tramp
16 - Billy the Kid
17 - High Lonesome
18 - Midnight Wind
19 - Passing Lane
20 - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
21 - Mississippi
22 - Reflections
23 - The Legend of Wooley Swamp
24 - Money
25 - Carolina (I Remember You)
26 - In America
27 - Ain't No Ramblers Anymore
28 - We Had It All One Time
29 - Still in Saigon
30 - Running With That Crowd
31 - American Farmer
32 - Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye
33 - Cowboy Hat in Dallas
34 - Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues
35 - Honky Tonk Avenue
36 - Midnight Train
37 - Uneasy Rider '88
38 - Simple Man
39 - Play Me Some Fiddle
40 - (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks
41 - To Be With Joanna Again
42 - Renegade
43 - Layla
44 - Talk to Me Fiddle
45 - Little Folks

Roots Remain is a three-disc box set covering the Charlie Daniels Band's entire career. Over the course of 45 songs, the box touches upon all of his hits -- including "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," "Long-Haired Country Boy," and "Uneasy Rider" -- plus key album tracks, B-sides, and several unreleased and rare gems, such as his take on Eric Clapton's "Layla." Roots Remain is the most comprehensive compilation of Charlie Daniels recordings ever assembled and it misses very few important tracks, making it the one definitive retrospective.