Songs about familiar record shops in Boston and strange streets in Italy. Songs about alienation from friends and intimacy with the stranger on the sidewalk. Songs about transitions from small town to city, from city back to small town, from functional alcoholism to alcohol functionalism. Songs about bad attitudes that should have been left in the 80s and those from the past that we wish we could conjure now. Nine tracks, fifty-eight minutes. The fifth album from the masters of understated beauty. More upb...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The arrival of Little Boots has signaled something of a collective epiphany. Sometimes you don't know what has been missing from your life until it's right there in the room with you, and then you wonder how you ever managed without it. It has been barely a year since her solo project tentatively began, and already Victoria Hesketh is UK pop music's most talked about new star. Ticking off every major piece of "next big thing" feature press without even a properly released single to her name, ...   [ read more ]

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Tenor saxophonist Boots Randolph released numerous instrumental country-pop albums throughout the '60s and '70s. Randolph's choice of instrumentals were geared toward both the country and easy listening audiences. This Bear Family compilation focuses on Randolph's early recordings, featuring "Hey Elvis," "Blue Guitar," and "Estrellita," and his biggest chart-topper, "Yakety Sax." At 23 tracks, Yakety Sax is probably more than the casual Boots Randolph listener w...   [ read more ]

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