New music by Manchester Orchestra, Marianne Faithfull and more
Marianne Faithfull, She Walks in Beauty (BMG)
The elevator pitch for this album doesn t do it justice. The veteran singer, known for 60s cuts such as When Tears Go By, reads Romantic poetry (from Byron, Keats, Shelley and the like) over ethereal soundscapes by Nick Cave cohort Warren Ellis.
Sounds self-indulgent, right? It s anything but. Faithfull s weathered yet still-exquisite voice draws each degree of emotion from these classic lyric lines, and Ellis production proves sublime. This is a serene bit of beauty, a few moments of grace in a world that s too often graceless.
About Sesame Street:
SESAME STREET has garnered more than 100 awards, including 101 Emmys, two Peabodys, four Parents Choice Awards and an Action for Children s Television Special Achievement Award.
The series delivers academic and social education that prepares kids for grade school.
Since its premiere, the show s base curriculum has been set by academic research on preschoolers.
Encore episodes focus on music and art and how these tools can be used to develop the whole child - the cognitive, social, emotional and physical attributes.
In addition, Elmo s World, which looks at the world through the eyes of a three-year-old, continues as a featured segment.
16 years after
Superwolf, the first collaborative album from Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney that combined the former’s cracked country croon as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and the latter’s gritted guitar, comes a sequel, of sorts.
Superwolves unequivocally exists in the same soundworld as its predecessor – wearied outlaw soliloquies and playful love songs to kith and kin laced around intensely hushed electric guitar – but is also heavier than last time round.
That’s not to say Oldham’s gone rock, 30-plus years into a career of quiet:
Superwolves’ heaviness is more often implied than enacted, with Sweeney’s guitar playing largely muzzled and hints of feedback swirling in the background of otherwise fairly delicate songs, rendering the likes of ‘God is Waiting’ and ‘Watch What Happens’ as the sort of gothic chamber pop whose ever-present growling low end threatens to erupt at any time, even if it never does.
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Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Share ‘Resist The Urge’ Single
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy released the single Resist The Urge from their forthcoming Superwolves collaborative album as well as a video for the track.
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