MJ Lenderman - Manning FireworksMJ returns with another surefire must hear and own album. This guy can do no wrong. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin' a cold one with some buds; a voice reminiscent of the high lonesome warble of a choirboy. Songs snake their way from a lo fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville's Drop of Sun studios, but the recording setting doesn't

Available on limited indies-only blue vinyl

but also because Tony had been so eager to share these songs with the world

Multilayered too is the record’s wide and wonderful list of inspirations: its writing informed by the saxophone of Sam Gendel

This 10th anniversary edition of Sufjan Stevens‰۪ 2005 ‰Û÷Illinois‰۪ album replaces balloons (which themselves replaced Superman in 2005) with rising comic book Chicago-born superhero Blue Marvel

Composed by Abul Mogard in April and May 2020 Made with upright piano

Il Guardiano Del Faro (translated as “the guardian of lighthouse”) is a nod to the small Italian fishing town Porto Santo Stefano

Not just a Soul and Funk LP

Chinatown Shuffle

delay and flute

They‰۪ve enjoyed dizzying highs and suffered crushingåÊlows

“Black Lips have crafted a very solid album

were driven by a mixture of political and artistic imperatives to reject the cliches and conventions of orthodox