Wye Oak - Civilian + Cut All the Wires: 2009 - 2011 (Green Swirl Vinyl)Ten years after it's release, Wye Oak's Civilian remains a raw, sinewy punch of a record bleak and intense and lonely and self assured all at once. The album unravels with the sort of self questioning and uncertainty that come with youth, and it's specific confidence in unflinchingly probing all of those emotions, feeling them to their deepest extent even when it's tearing you apart at the seams. When Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner released Civilian, it

showing just what an explosive

It was with Gooding that the group scored their biggest hit with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972

Andres Segovia - His Contemporaries 4

A much harder hitting and edgy record than his later more polished and pop orientated releases it announced to the world that a new rap star had arrived

However the similarities between flamenco and blues have been well documented: both are the outlet for a poor

" writes Timothée Picard in the essay accompanying this release

in songs that Michel-Rolph Trouillot revisited with his pen

Susan Morrison of The New Yorker serves as an Executive Producer of the project

Prokofiev and Stravinsky

Hartmut Enke

a series he repeated from February

and has plenty of weight (with splendid brass sonorities in Night on the Bare Mountain) plus an effective ambience