Recent Soothing Releases

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  Bob Marley / Bob Marley & the Wa …
  The Capitol Session '73
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  Previously unreleased live-in-the-studio set that documents the Wailers as a group and not just Bob Marley's backing band.

  - Mark Deming
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  Low
  HEY WHAT
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  The long-running slowcore act continues their deep dive into electronic noise on these ten songs of chaos and fleeting beauty.

  - Mark Deming
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  Saint Etienne
  I've Been Trying to Tell You
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  The long-running group abandon song structures in favor of impressionistic, sample-based pieces that sound like dub versions of imagined late-'90s pop ballads.

  - Tim Sendra
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  Nite Jewel
  No Sun
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  This dark, challenging, and often fearless album pushes past the hazy R&B tendencies of previous work into more daring and emotionally raw avant-pop territory.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Bruno Bavota
  For Apartments: Songs & Loops
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  Recorded while on lockdown, Bavota explores two different approaches: loop-based synthesizer explorations and intimate piano pieces.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Lucinda Chua
  Antidotes
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  The singer/songwriter, producer, and composer's first two EPs flow between R&B and ambient pop with a velvety, subtle beauty.

  - Heather Phares
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  Dan Nicholls
  Mattering and Meaning
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  A collection of nine pieces that juxtapose and refract the sound of acoustic piano with otherworldly electronics, loops, and field recordings.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Quickly, Quickly
  The Long and Short of It
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  Lo-fi beatmaker transitions into vibrant singer/songwriter with electronic production tendencies on this collection of vibrant, warm, and rapidly changing sounds.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Mae Powell
  Both Ways Brighter
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  An optimistic indie pop debut from a songwriter who puts a soft-focus filter and jazzy vocal spin on Frankie Cosmos inspirations.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  Blackbear
  misery lake
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  Dark, angsty EP from the genre-blending songwriter, with guest appearances from Travis Barker and Sasha Alex Sloan.

  - Paul Simpson