Friday 2012

Random Friday is a sleek and buoyant uptempo album by Swedish composer Solar Fields in the same vein as Earthshine released in 2007. 10 chiseled High-Tech tracks with compact kicks, deep basslines, floating & hypnotic atmospheres, lighthearted melodies and a definite sense of groove! Magnus Birgersson offers his own definition of dance floor music, with a fine mix of progressive, acid, electro & ambient influences - pushing the audio spectrum production one level up. Get ready this time for a multi-colored, fresh & dynamic story : Pick a Friday and lift it off! Everything is possible.

The Paradise Edition added a second CD for a total of 23 tracks. Even after selling nearly three million copies of her debut album worldwide, Lana Del Rey still faced a challenge during 2012: namely, proving to critics and fans that Born to Die wasn't a fluke. In that spirit, she released Paradise, a mini-album close to Christmas, one that finds her copying nearly wholesale the look and feel of her vampish Born to Die personality. The sound is also very familiar. Strings move at a glacial pace, drums crash like waves in slow motion, and most of the additional textures in these songs (usually electric guitar or piano) are cinematic in their sound and references. Del Rey is in perfect control of her voice, much more assured than she was even one year ago, and frequently capable of astonishing her listeners with a very convincing act, even while playing nearly the same character in each song.