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my bloody valentine, the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe and Colm Ó Cíosóig, are widely revered as one of the most ground-breaking and influential groups of the past forty years. During an era in which guitar bands denoted, at best, a retro-classicism, not only did my bloody valentine sound unlike any of their contemporaries, the band achieved the rare feat of sounding like the future.

Akiko Suwanai, one of the most talented contemporary violinists, will release her first new album in two and a half years, "Brahms: Violin Sonatas." Prior to the album, "No. 2 in A major, Op. 100, 1st movement" has been distributed.

Norah Jones took liberty with her blockbuster success to set out on a musical walkabout, spending a good portion of the decade following 2004's Feels Like Home experimenting, either on her own albums or on a variety of collaborations. Day Breaks, released four years after the atmospheric adult alternative pop of the Danger Mouse-produced Little Broken Hearts, finds Jones returning home to an extent: it, like her 2002 debut Come Away with Me, is a singer/songwriter album with roots in pop and jazz, divided between originals and sharply selected covers.

Four decades after its release, this is still the most controversial record in Yes' output. Tales from Topographic Oceans was the place where Yes either fulfilled all of the promise shown on their previous five albums or slid off the rails in a fit of artistic hubris, especially on the part of lead singer Jon Anderson and guitarist Steve Howe, who dominated the composition credits here. Actually, the group probably did a bit of both here across 80 minutes of music on a fully packed double-LP set; the group's musical ambitions were obvious on its face, as it consisted of four long songs (really suites) each taking up a side of an album, and each longer than the previous album's side-long "Close to the Edge."

The definitive best of Paul Mauriat, the byword for easy listening that continues to be loved all over the world through the ages. Contains 50 songs in total, including the representative songs "Love is Light Blue," "Olive Necklace," and "Pearl of the Aegean Sea." The 2018 DSD master based on the original analog tapes from overseas/Japan has been converted to 352.8kHz/24bit and recorded (sound source not yet distributed in high resolution) MQA-CD x UHQCD = high-quality disc that can also be listened to in high resolution.