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Voices of Animals and Men is the first full-length album by the Young Knives, released on 21 August 2006. The album's title is a reference to the Adam and the Ants song "Animals and Men", which is in turn a reference to the Futurists. The cover features a figure made of straw, a reference to the Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival. The album was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize. The band's first single, "The Decision", was included on the album. It was originally released on 21 November 20...
Happy Hollow is the fifth album by the American indie rock band Cursive. It was released on August 22, 2006, on Saddle Creek Records. Saddle Creek Records began shipping pre-orders on August 8, 2006. The album is named after a neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska. The album is the first since the departure of cellist Gretta Cohn whose instrumentation was a fixture of the band's 2003 release The Ugly Organ. The album features significant five-piece horn arrangements courtesy of Nate Walcott. The lyric...
The Shining is the third studio album by American hip-hop producer and rapper J Dilla, who died on February 10, 2006. The Shining was incomplete at the time of J Dilla's passing and was posthumously completed by producer Karriem Riggins. Discounting the instrumental album Donuts, The Shining was the first full-length solo release by J Dilla (featuring newly recorded vocals) since Welcome 2 Detroit five years earlier, and as such was highly anticipated. It was released on August 22, 2006, through...
So This is Goodbye is the second studio album by Canadian electronic music group Junior Boys. It was first released by Domino Recording Company on August 22, 2006 in Canada, and on September 11, 2006 in other territories. Junior Boys, now solely comprising the duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Matthew Didemus following the departure of founding member Johnny Dark, recorded the album in Hamilton, Ontario and wrote much of the album's material, with the exception of a cover of the Frank Sinatra song "Whe...
Post-War is the fifth studio album by M. Ward. It was released on August 22, 2006, by Merge Records. It features the single "To Go Home", a cover of a song written by Daniel Johnston. Guest appearances were made by Jim James of My Morning Jacket (who sang on "Magic Trick"), Rachel Blumberg, drummer for the indie rock band The Decemberists, Neko Case, and Mike Mogis. Ward has said that the song "Today's Undertaking" was heavily inspired by Roy Orbison's 1963 single "In Dreams". All songs by Matt ...
The Body, the Blood, the Machine is the third studio album by American indie rock band The Thermals. The album was released on August 22, 2006, on Sub Pop Records, and was produced by Fugazi's Brendan Canty. According to the band's official website, "the album tells the story of a young couple who must flee a United States governed by fascist faux-Christians." The music review online magazine Pitchfork placed The Body, the Blood, the Machine at number 186 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2...
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Mad that TBTBTM and Happy Hollow were released on the same day. Probably the two big indie rock albums that are properly evocative of that post-9/11/Iraq/Bush-era political climate that weren’t by Conor Oberst…
I always jump to Neon Bible for that vibe
60th anniversary for The Supremes A’ Go-Go, their ninth album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supremes_A ’_Go-Go
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Emotion: Side B (stylized as E•MO•TION: Side B) is the third extended play (EP) by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on August 26, 2016, by 604, Schoolboy and Interscope Records. Jepsen developed Side B as a companion piece to her third studio album, Emotion (2015), in response to fan demand. Side B features unreleased songs that were cut from the original effort. Like its parent album, Side B takes heavy influence from 1980s pop music, with lyrical narratives that revolve arou...
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Prima Donna is the second extended play by American rapper Vince Staples. It was released on August 26, 2016, by ARTium Recordings and Def Jam Recordings. The extended play features guest appearances from Kilo Kish and ASAP Rocky, while the production was handled by DJ Dahi, James Blake, John Hill and No I.D. On June 20, 2016, Vince Staples revealed on The Fader cover story interview that he would be releasing his six-song EP, called Prima Donna. On August 15, 2016, the release date was announce...
The Walker Brothers’ second album, Portrait, turns 60. Reyt set of pipes on him, that Scott Walker.
Portrait is the second album by the American pop group The Walker Brothers. Released in 1966, the album was their most successful and reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. The group's musical accompaniment was directed by Ivor Raymonde and Reg Guest and produced by John Franz. Receiving good to mixed reviews, the album was first released in both mono and stereo LP formats in August 1966. The album was later released on CD having been remastered and expanded in 1998. The sleeve notes wer P...
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25th anniversary of the UK releases of both of these. I remember excitedly waiting at the record store at Reading Festival (those were the days) for them to go on sale at midnight.
Iowa is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Slipknot. Produced by the members and Ross Robinson, it was released on August 28, 2001, by Roadrunner Records. The title refers to the band's state of origin, Iowa, which members have stated is one of their greatest sources of inspiration. With much anticipation for the album following the success of their 1999 debut album Slipknot, pressures on the band were high. Their relationships with each other suffered and this was later d...
Toxicity is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band System of a Down, released on September 4, 2001, by American Recordings and Columbia Records. Expanding on their 1998 eponymous debut album, Toxicity incorporates more melody, harmonies, and singing than the band's first album. Categorized primarily as alternative metal and nu metal, the album features elements of multiple genres, including folk, progressive rock, jazz, and Armenian and Greek music, including prominent use of ...
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Mad that the two best non-Deftones nu metal albums came out the same day!
35 years for one of the best debuts of all time.
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30th anniversary for Man, the third album by Neneh Cherry.
Man is the third solo studio album by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry, released on 2 September 1996 by Hut Records and Virgin Records. Three singles were issued from the album, "Woman", "Kootchi", and "Feel It". Preceding the album release, a duet with Youssou N'Dour called "7 Seconds" was released as a single to promote the Senegalese singer's studio album The Guide (Wommat). Almost two years later, the track was also added to Cherry's album. The album includes two cover songs: "Trouble Man" by Ma...
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