You Were Never Really Here (2017)

Devolver, the second solo album from Jamie Lenman, may well be the most eclectic album of his career to date, a smorgasbord of musical styles and elements fused together and filtered through the perspective of one of the country's finest songwriters. The evidence is plentiful; I Don’t Know Anything begins with a bass line that sounds like the procreated offspring of The Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight and Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust. The industrial dirge that permeates throughout Mississippi evokes the dark, twisted downward spiral that percolates throughout the work of Nine Inch Nails. Bones sounds like louche lounge music that’s been hi-jacked by an overdriven bass tone, as if Norah Jones decided to jam with The Melvins after one too many G&Ts.

Was geht ab! This is Max from Real Social Dynamics, and I have a question for you: Are you someone who suffers from Fear or Approach Anxiety? When you go out, do you experience feelings of self-doubt, maybe even self-hatred, shyness… What about other negative thoughts, such as nervousness? It’s easy because the Fears of your past have a profound effect on your NOW.

In January of 2014, Tim Bennett was the lead singer and main songwriter of a band called Whistler’s Father who had just recorded an album called, Highly Irregular. “I was unfamiliar with Americana as a music genre,” he explains. “That album was what I came to think Americana was all about; country, blues, folk, bluegrass and a little bit of rock.” Since then, Bennett has gone on to record two solo albums, Inevitable Discovery (2016) and now The View From Here which will release on August 11th. Straddling country rock, The View From Here employs the same musicians that Bennett met while working with Whistler’s Father. “That project took a year and a half,” said Bennett. “What I got from that experience was a great place to record, Custom Taylored Studios, and a great group of session musicians that I fondly refer to as ‘The Demolitionists’. These guys were pitched to me as today’s ‘Wrecking Crew’ and they have certainly lived up to that comparison.”

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, film/record producer, satirist, and author. He is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, original songs that are style pastiches of the work of other acts, and polka medleys of several popular songs, featuring his favored instrument, the accordion. His works have earned him four Grammy Awards and a further eleven nominations, four gold records, and six platinum records in the United States. This Hi-Res collection includes all of his studio albums.