Shygirl Bawdy is a Lot [nick León + Six Sex]

Digitally remastered and expanded three disc (two CDs + DVD) edition of this 2002 album. A New Morning turned out to be Suede's last album. This deluxe edition features the non-album A and B sides as well as demos from the collections of Brett Anderson, Richard Oakes and Neil Codling. The DVD features the videos for the singles and the Asia-only DVD release Suede: Up Close And Personal, filmed in Singapore, as well as a previously unreleased acoustic performance filmed at the Madrid branch of record store FNAC on the day of release. The bonus feature is a February 2011 interview with Brett, Richard and Neil about the making of the album, along with a short film put together by Simon Gilbert from his own contemporary camcorder footage.

JPNSGRLS released their latest LP Divorce earlier this year, but the band's singer Charlie Kerr has been keeping extra busy with a solo project on the side. He's been recording on his lonesome under the moniker Matt and Sam's Brother, and Exclaim! is pleased to introduce you to the new project with the video premiere of "Spacesuit."

Of all the factors making the more cynical amongst us dread the oncoming of another festive season, the preponderance of the same dozen records spun endlessly across the airwaves and in department stores for months prior to the big day, is one of the most potent. But with a compilation as refreshing, thrilling and eclectic as this alternative yuletide collection now available, with its delightful tunes actually complementing the event in question, the time has come to welcome in the season of goodwill while enjoying the likes of The Reindeer Boogie, North Pole Rock, Mambo Santa Mambo or one of 53 other Christmas Crackers as presented on this 2 disc set.

The program is a strong point straight off here; the Alessandro Scarlatti Missa Breve and the Stabat Mater by his son Domenico are both rich, fascinating works that progressively deconstruct the model of making music around two (or more) separate choirs, a century old by the time the Scarlattis took it up. The Stabat Mater is a really lovely work, but it's been hampered in the repertory but uncertainty over performance practice; it's not clear how many singers should be used, or how they should be deployed in solos and massed groups (if any). It is not really a double-choir work at all but a mass in 10 parts, with those subdivided into various groupings including five plus five.

Blues Buddha - I Like It A Lot (2010)
MP3 320 kbps | 00 h 35 min 04 sec | No Scan | 81MB
Copyright: 2010 Stoopid Daddy Records | Genre: Blues, Boogie, Piano

Because of the wonderfully written lyrics, and the intensity at which they are sung, Blues Buddha just runs away with this one. Who would of figured that "Better at Hello", a melancholy ballad, would be his strong suit. This is my interpretation of what "songs of the year" sound like.By Peter "Blewzzman" Lauro