VINYL FORMAT. Yakiimo is Simone White's second and most accomplished album released by Honest Jon's. Part memoir and part American chronicle, this record is a sublime mixture of simple, Americana-steeped arrangements and White's own genre-defying combination of rawness and the gorgeous, intimate fragility of her voice. Mark Nevers produced this record with the same organic perfection he brought to her previous album, I Am the Man. But here, Simone White's songwriting has matured, and this collection of aco...   [ read more ]

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In appearance, this two-disc anthology would seem to be an exercise in hearse chasing, issued just months after the great singer's death. In reality, no matter what the intention of the record label, this anthology accomplishes what virtually every other attempt failed miserably to do: definitively represent all the stages of Simone's career. While RCA has done a number of fine Simone collections, including The Very Best of Nina Simone: Sugar in My Bowl 1967-1972, which featured a number of unr...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Indie pop darlings Au Revoir Simone follow up their critically acclaimed The Bird of Music with their third release, Still Night, Still Light. Lush, intricately arranged keyboard sounds create a backdrop for the ladies' beautiful vocal harmonies in a soundscape ranging from the intimately delicate to the powerfully psychedelic. The album is a warm, circuitous current of energy that is gorgeously incandescent and instantly familiar.

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