Dna Extraction

Dorian Holley, backup singer for Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, etc. Partners with his daughter Nayanna Holley, herself a veteran backup singer for Kelly Clarkson, The Weeknd, Cheryl Crow, et al, fully realizing a cross-generational musical legacy. This is the first album for the father-daughter singing tandem, a collection of favorite songs from the 70s and 80s, chosen at the height of the global pandemic to recall our ability to heal and to hope for better days ahead.

DEVO 'Recombo DNA' is a 2-CD collection packed to its aluminum-wafered edges with 42 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS* which have been carefully cultivated from the effusively illustrated tapeboxes of the Official DEVO Archive. These recordings cover the period just after their first independent Booji Boy singles to the year before they sign with Enigma Records. In other words, for the first time on this planet, The Archivists are proud to be able to officially present to you Original Demos, Alternate Takes, Rough Mixes, Unissued Masters and Other Audio Arcana from the years DEVO were signed to Warner Bros Records. Augmented with almost a dozen scrumptious pre- and post-WB-era delights, 'Recombo DNA' collects over two-and-one-half hours of Prime DEVO Double Helix Fun.

On Welcome to My DNA, their third studio album, Aviv Geffen and Steven Wilson of Blackfield continue to pursue their neo-progressive Pink Floyd-meets-Tears for Fears sound, overlaying it with doom-ridden imagery. The Pink Floyd influence is overt in the slow-paced soundscapes and echoey vocals, though at times Blackfield pick up the pace and even rock a bit, notably on "Blood," which has a Middle Eastern rhythm at times…