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The new Esperanza Spalding feels like Robert Wyatt in bed with Judy Garland. It has that organic intellectualism that implies ‘I put twelve spells on you because you’re mind’

Esperanza Spalding's '12 Little Spells' is her seventh album released on October 19, 2018 by Concord. Visual artist Ethan Samuel Young has directed the video version of the album.

(Source Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells | Official Site)

Esperanza Spalding

Rolling Stone



...that will make your head spin with its exquisite intergenre oddity, like the prog-meets-pop-meets-spoken-word mini opus

WBGO



..a word that connotes both the benefactions of the Muse and the more routine business of breathing.

Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells

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"Junjo" by Esperanza Spalding is her debut album released on April 18, 2006. >>

Esperanza Spalding's "Emily's D+Evolution" is here fifth album released on March 4, 2016 by Concord. >>

Released on August 17, 2010, "Chamber Music Society" is the third studio

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Neither mother, nor bitch, Courtney Barnett tell us how we feel. Well, it feels a bit like Kurt meets Chrissie spirit!

Courtney Barnett's 'Tell Me How You Really Feel' is her second solo studio album she produced with Burke Reid & Dan Luscombe and released on May 18, 2018 by Milk! Records

(Source Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel | Official Site)

Courtney Barnett

The Art Desk



It’s just that Courtney might think about adding bit more variety if she really wants to reach out beyond the indie ghetto.

The Fader



..she is raw and angry about the state of the world, which comes across via punk-influenced textures, AV Club

Throughout the songs, Barnett’s vocals are blunted and laissez-faire. She’s more content to go with the flow

Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel

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There is a Randy Newman feel in the new Eels’ Mark ‘E’ Everett’s ‘The Deconstruction’ album that comes after four years of reconstruction. Second thought?

Eels' 'The Deconstruction' is their twelfth studio album (after a four-year hiatus), co-produced by leader Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. E and Mickey Petralia and released on April 6, 2018 by PIAS

(Source Eels - The Deconstruction | Official Site)

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Exclaim!



But for the first time, the man they call E keeps his eyes peeled on the past —

Glide Magazine



— some are hazier than others — but there is enough of a sonic lure to add interest, even to the shorter Slant

Everett often throwing in unexpected textures from a harpsichord or theremin without ever quite indulging in the instrumental preciousness

Eels - The Deconstruction

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This week In ‘2000s Throwback’ 15/52

The Strokes, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Lisa Stansfield, Mariah Carey, Garbage, MGMT, Avril Lavigne, Joss Stone, Christina Aguilera, Herbie Hancock, Arcade Fire, Eels, My Chemical Romance

Blue Note publish Norah Jones’ seventh album : ‘Begin Again’ (2019)

Norah Jones' "Begin Again" is her seventh studio album produced by Thomas Bartlettby a.k.a. Doveman, featuring Jeff Tweedy and released on April 12, 2019 by Blue Note.

(Source Norah Jones - Begin Again | Official Site)

Norah Jones

Consequence of Sound



A minor gem showcasing her porous musical boundaries and cross-genre virtuosity

Paste Magazine



here are a couple gems, but “Drank to clear my throat/not to eat the words you wrote” is, hands down, the album’s best lyric. The Arts Desk

A rag tag set of recordings only serves to show Jones's musical maturity

Norah Jones - Begin Again

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Released on November 17, 2009, "The Fall" is the fourth studio album by Norah Jones. >>

Released on February 26, 2002, "Come Away with Me" is the debut album of Norah Jones. >>

Released on February 10, 2004,

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