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DECEIVER
Occupying the corners between fuzzed-out shoegaze bliss, troubadour poetry, and metallic catharsis, DIIV - Zachary Cole Smith [lead vocals, guitar], Colin Caulfield [vocals, bass], Andrew Bailey [guitar], and Ben Newman [drums] - personally inhabit the recesses of their third full-length album, Deceiver. A whirlwind brought DIIV here. On the heels of 2012's Oshin, the group delivered the critical and fan favorite Is the Is Are in 2016. Praise came from The Guardian, Spin, Rolling Stone and more. Pitchfork's audience voted Is the Is Are one of the Top 50 Albums of 2016, as the outlet dubbed it "gorgeous." Simultaneously, frontman Zachary Cole Smith faced down seemingly dormant demons, and the momentum stalled. Two years after embarking on a program of recovery, Smith has emerged with a clear head and renewed focus. For the first time, DIIV lived with songs on the road. During a 2018 tour with Deafheaven, they performed eight new compositions as the bulk of the set. The tunes progressed as the players did. By the time DIIV entered 64 Sound to record with producer Sonny Diperri, the band felt a certain confidence. It's evident on first single "Skin Game," which gallops forth on a clean guitar riff before unfolding into a hypnotic hook offset by an off-kilter rhythm and hummable solo. "Being a recovering addict myself," he says, "there are a lot of questions like, 'Who are we? What is this disease?' 'Skin Game' looks at where the pain comes from - the personal, physical, emotional, and broader political experiences feeding into the cycle of addiction for millions of us." A trudging groove and wailing guitar punctuate a lulling apology on the magnetically melancholic "Taker." For Smith, it's "about taking responsibility for your lies, their consequences, and the entire experience." Meanwhile, the ominous bass line and crawling beat of "Blankenship" devolve into schizophrenic string bends with the vitriolic lyrics. The seven-minute "Acheron" offers a dynamic denouement, flowing through a hulking beat guided under gusts of lyrical fretwork and a distorted heavy apotheosis. "We're proud of this, because we earned it as a band," Cole says. "I'm really happy and grateful just to do it in the first place. I can see the change. It's not a record full of solutions, but I'm living my life. I've examined the consequences of my lies; I've got something to say now."
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November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
There Will Be Blood Music from the Motion Picture
Guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood's Grammy and BAFTA Award-nominated score to writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning film There Will Be Blood, first released on Nonesuch Records in 2007, will be released on vinyl worldwide for the first time on January 18, 2019, via Nonesuch.The LP was mastered for vinyl by Graeme Stewart and Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios and pressed on 140-gram vinyl at Record Industry in the Netherlands with two additional tracks — "Proven Lands (Intro.)" and "De-Tuned Quartet" — and comes in an old-style gatefold jacket.One of the most memorable scores this side of the year 2000, exclaimed IndieWire when placing There Will Be Blood at No. 2 its list of the 25 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century. In this adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel "Oil!," starring Daniel Day-Lewis in an Oscar-winning performance, "Greenwood's work, which is string-heavy and beautifully unsettling, is as memorable as Day-Lewis' performance ... Close your eyes and you can almost feel the oil pulsing beneath the ground."The music is performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra led by Robert Ziegler, the Emperor Quartet, Caroline Dale (cello), and Michael Dussek (piano).Includes two additional tracks — "Proven Lands (Intro.)" and "De-Tuned Quartet"140-gram LP pressed at Record Industry in the NetherlandsThere Will Be Blood
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November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
MY WOMAN
Vinyl LP pressing. Anyone reckless enough to have typecast Angel Olsen according to 2013's Burn Your Fire For No Witness is in for a rethink with her third album, My Woman. The crunchier, blown-out production of the former is gone, but that fire is burning wilder. Her disarming, timeless voice is even more front-and-center. Yet, the strange, raw power and slowly unspooling incantations of her previous efforts remain. Over two previous albums, she gave us reverb-shrouded poetic swoons, shadowy folk, grunge-pop band workouts and haunting, finger-picked epics. My Woman is an exhilarating complement to her past work, and one for which Olsen recalibrated her writing/recording approach and methods to enter a new music-making phase. As the record evolves, one gets the sense that the "my woman" of the title is Olsen herself, absolutely in command but also willing to bend with the influence of collaborators and circumstances. An intuitively smart, warmly communicative and fearlessly generous record, My Woman speaks to everyone. That it might confound expectation is just another of it's strengths.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Recent Additions, Day 63: Bananarama, Pop Life. I'd never loved this album of experiments, made with producer Youth. On vinyl, it opens up nicely, especially the propulsive cover of "Long Train Runnin." Consider me a convert.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Curtain Call 2 [2 LP] Explicit Lyrics
Title: Curtain Call 2 Label: Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records, Interscope Records Format: Vinyl Country: USA, Canada & Europe Released: 2022-11-04 Genre: Hip Hop Style: Pop Rap A1 Godzilla A2 Crack A Bottle A3 Walk On Water A4 Gnat A5 Space Bound B1 Love The Way You Lie B2 Rap God B3 No Love B4 From The D 2 The LBC B5 River C1 Not Afraid C2 Venom C3 Lighters C4 Survival C5 Higher D1 The Monster D2 Lucky You D3 Is This Love ('09) D4 Berzerk D5 Beautiful Sticker on the front: "Eminem 180 gram 2 LP SET INCLUDES 2 UNRELEASED TRACKS: FROM THE D2 THE LBC FT. SNOOP DOG IS THIS LOVE ('09) FT. 50 CENT B0036092-01" Sticker on the back: Made in Germany On back cover and labels side A & C: ℗2022 Marshall B. Mathers III, under exclusive license to Interscope Records. Publisher: - Alejandro Villasana Pub Designee - Kevin Mars Publishing Designee - Anders Olofsson Additional information: Gatefold cover. Runout parts like "1+", "1II", "1=V" & "1=I" are mirrored. Track B1: Additional Guitars [...] for Veers Music. Track B3: Recorded [...] for N.Q.C. Management, LLC. Barcode and other identifiers Barcode 6 02448 00024 8 Barcode 602448000248 Rights Society BMI Rights Society ASCAP Rights Society SACEM Rights Society STIM Rights Society SESAC Rights Society GEMA Rights Society PRS Rights Society SOCAN Matrix / Runout BM71126-01 A1 ST 1+ Matrix / Runout BM71126-01 B1 ST 1II Matrix / Runout BM71126-02 C1 ST 1=V Matrix / Runout BM71126-02 D1 ST 1=I
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November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM