Kelly Lee Owens' masterful second album Inner Song finds the convention-blurring techno producer and singer / songwriter diving deep into her own psyche—excoriating the struggles she's faced over the last several years and exploring personal pain while embracing the beauty of the natural world. It's a leap in artistry from a musician who burst forth on the scene with a confident, rich sound, and Inner Song is endlessly enticing when it comes to what Owens is capable of.

Thinking of dreamy, melancholic electronic music with an organic approach Parra for Cuva is one of the names which come to mind immediately. After the strong start of his first single Ordel feat. Kyson & Beau Diako, Parra for Cuva asked uprising producer Rezident to give the song a new twist. Rezident, the project of emerging 21-year-old producer David Roif, demonstrates that electronic music best sustains itself when these two worlds interlace.

Five seconds flat, the 2022 album by Lizzy McAlpine, is available on standard black vinyl, CD and digital. A 2022 artist to watch, Lizzy has crafted a deeply intimate and beautiful album featuring GRAMMY Award winners FINNEAS and Jacob Collier.

Matthew Sweet's essential 1991 power-pop tour-de-force gets its high-res due on Intervention's Expanded Edition release. In addition to including the original CD release's 15 tracks, this hybrid CD/SACD includes three demo tracks not included on the original release- "Good Friend," "Superdeformed" and "Teenage Female."

Having previously lived for extended periods in Vienna and Los Angeles, London-born Sohn now resides in the pine forests of Catalunya, Spain, and it is this new environment that inspired ‘Segre’. Named for the river that feeds into the Pyrenees in Northern Catalunya, Sohn explains, “during the last years of immense change and upheaval, following that river up to our mountain home has become my way of re-centring myself.”

One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane's 4th Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. "Almost 50 years after [it] was released, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out." (NPR). Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Today, indie meets alternative rock band Family Dinner announce their debut album “God Looks Out for Fools” set for release August 16th, 2024, via Other People Records (Modern Color, Soft Blue Shimmer).

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) return with their 14th studio album Bauhaus Staircase, over six years after the triumph of their Top 4-charting record The Punishment of Luxury. The album was born from the impetus to kickstart new explorations during lockdown when as Andy McCluskey admits: “I rediscovered the creative power of total boredom.”

Rain Dogs is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, Rain Dogs is generally considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years. The album, which includes appearances by guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot, is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by Rolling Stone as merging "Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, [and] the elegiac melancholy of New Orleans funeral brass, into a singularly idiosyncratic American style". In 1989, it was ranked number 21 on the Rolling Stone list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s". In 2012, the album was ranked number 399 on the magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

This release reunites Cole with producer by Tommy LiPuma, who produced "Unforgettable" and was the hit maker behind George Benson and Diana Krall. This collection is a classic blend of jazz-inflected pop, with the best and the brightest in the business. Backed by a plethora of stars, including trumpeter Roy Hargrove, bassist Christian McBride, pianist Joe Sample, and drummer Lewis Nash, Cole's lithe, Ella Fitzgerald-tinged vocals are showcased in a number pleasing settings.

On the rare gem, "A Funky Situation", Wilson Pickett blends his trademark soul with elements of disco. Produced by Don Daily and Rick Hall, the effort includes horn arrangements done by the great, Harrison Calloway Jr. Released in 1978, the album features one of Pickett’s all time classics, “Lay Me Like You Hate Me,” the perfect showcase of his musical genius.

"Night Dreamer" is Wayne Shorter's fourth album, recorded and released in 1964. The legendary tenor saxophonist is joined by a star-studded lineup: Lee Morgan on trumpet, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman, and Elvin Jones on drums. This well-rounded Blue Note debut is comprised of all Shorter originals, and is a classic outing from an historic tenor player.

"Juju" is Wayne Shorter’s 1964 classic. Within this undeniable masterwork, the influences of John Coltrane are evident. The recording, his second as a bandleader for Blue Note Records, highlights his unmatched virtuosity. Performing with artistic sensitivity, the album features pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reginald Workman and drummer Elvin Jones. This is the same rhythm section Coltrane utilized for his 1961 album Africa/Brass. The quartet not only showcases their thrilling chemistry but also their riveting solo talents, performing Shorter originals including “House Of Jade”, “Mahjong”, “Juju” and many more. The album is an essential document of Wayne Shorter’s compositional genius.

Hailing from Western Australia and touted as one of the most exciting new bands to emerge in recent years The Southern River Band will release their aptly named record D.I.Y, via Cooking Vinyl Australia. It has riffs for days and in the wise words of Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) ‘This is a proper f*cking rock band’.

Halifax/Kjipuktuk, NS) Leaf Music and Canadian violinist Mark Fewer announce the launch of Alikeness (LM296), available August 16 in digital and physical format. Alikeness features the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia together with percussionist. Aiyun Huang, soprano Deantha Edmunds, and violinist/conductor Mark Fewer in an all Canadian, all strings-based program.