Good Lovelies

As a performer, Jill Barber charms her audiences while weaving a romantic spell. Indeed, romance plays a huge role in both her life and her art. “My previous album represented the courtship phase of my career”, she muses. “With Mischievous Moon, we’re getting intimate. The romance is alive and well, but there’s something deeper to be uncovered. The moon has such a venerable presence in the night sky, keeping one eye on us. I don’t know about everyone else, but sometimes it feels like we have our own private jokes, the moon and I. From time to time I can’t help but look up and give it a little wink.

"TOPAZ", Shawn William Clarke’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed "William", wondrously introduces a new sound while maintaining his signature poignant storytelling. Coming out of the bleakness that was 2016, TOPAZ is an ode to new beginnings and renewal. “I was floundering, in between jobs, in an existential funk, so I consciously started 2017 with a new mindset. I quit drinking, and began focusing on TOPAZ”. With fresh determination, he dusted off his electric guitar, and began writing.

“Penny Penguin” is the 24th studio album from legendary children’s musician and global troubadour Raffi. A collaboration with Canadian JUNO award winning folk-pop trio Good Lovelies, the album brings together 14 child friendly tracks that celebrate movement, fun, imagination, and learning. For generations Raffi has been the world's best-selling and most influential children's entertainer, with 15 million album sales and nearly 1 billion streams.

There are many turns along the journey of a heart breaking, mending and thriving again. Moments of sorrow, bareness, determination, courage, risk, restraint and resilience. When acceptance nally appears, we arrive at what is and always would be a Natural Conclusion.

Critically-acclaimed international megastar Bruno Mars has unveiled his first piece of solo music in nearly four years. "Twenty-four Karat Magic" – emphatically – not an album with which to man the barricades, but Mars manages to deliver a lot of conspicuous consumption with more charm than boorishness. Obsessed as it is with surfaces, "24K Magic" packs considerable musical depth in its slavish attention to detail. The cold nihilism of contemporary R&B is anathema to Mars, an old-school song-and-dance man, and so 24K Magic’s vibe of choice revisits the era of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and new jack swing – early 90s R&B.