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Warm Water and Waiting Game (Banks)
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These quietly demanding tracks have a beautiful ease with underlying intensity. Her name is BANKS. This Los Angeles singer sets her sweet vocals over the smooth electronic sound, the first track, "Warm Water", is produced by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. The sound is simple and precise. It's fantastic. And with her newest release, "Waiting Game", Banks has a different intensity,...
Riptide (Vance Joy)
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The first time I heard this song was about a month ago, when it was part of the April 2013 Birp! release. I gave it three stars out of five on my iTunes. But when I heard it again today, it sounded like an old, familiar tune that struck a different chord than it did one month ago. So I...
Paradise Valley (John Mayer)
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When Born and Raised was released, I was unsure about the authenticity of John Mayer's new sound until I learned of the involvement of Nash and Crosby, which seemed to bring understanding to his new sound. With Paradise Valley, Mayer has once again matured as a musician into a new phase of his...
#97 - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)
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Admittedly...this is the first Dylan album I've listen to from end-to-end. And it's beautiful. Wearing earbuds that silence the outside noise relatively well, I'm currently listening to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan as I write this post. For those of you who don't know, it's Dylan's second release, issued on May 27, 1963. It...
The Civil Wars (The Civil Wars)
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After their debut album, Barton Hollow, the Civil Wars have released another record with beautifully sung stories and their characteristic southern, country-folk. On their second full length album, titled The Civil Wars, this singer-songwriter duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White have a darker sound, with the tone set by "The One That...