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Subject: AMG New Release Newsletter - 11.15.11.
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Here are our editors' picks for this week's most noteworthy new releases. For more information, click through on a specific album or just visit the New Releases page on our site.
Featured Albums:
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Childish Gambino Camp Glass Note
In the time before this wonderful album named Camp existed, the "actors who rap" proposition would have been all red flags. Brian Austin Green, Mr. T, Joaquin Phoenix, and many others are on the "cons" list, while the "pros" would have been Drake (barely counts, unless Degrassi: The Next Generation was your thing) and maybe AVN award-winner Dirt Nasty. These were the horrible odds Community star and comedy writer Donald Glover was up against when he took the Internet's Wu-Tang Name Generator to heart and became rapper Childish Gambino, but anyone who right-clicked on one of his 2010/2011 mixtapes can tell you, he beat those odds, and with Camp, indie rap fans won the Lotto.
Underground Rap, Alternative Rap
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Drake Take Care Cash Money Records
After the huge commercial and artistic success of his last album, Thank Me Later, Drake threatened/promised that his next album would be a straight-up R&B record that forsook rapping for vocals. The plan fell through but his 2011 album Take Care has the feel of a late-night R&B album, full of slow tempos, muted textures, impassioned crooning, and an introspective tone that is only rarely punctured by aggressive tracks, boasts, and/or come-ons.
Contemporary R&B, Pop-Rap, Pop
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The Who Quadrophenia [The Director's Cut] MCA
Quadrophenia has been reissued before, including a notably remixed version in 1996, but it has never been expanded. The 2011 "Director's Cut" makes up for lost time by offering two different expanded editions of the album (presented in its 1996 remix): a double-disc edition rounded out with 11 demos -- all performed solo by Pete Townshend, two of which are songs that didn't make the final cut -- and a Super Deluxe Edition that adds an early version of the album comprised entirely of Townshend demos, a DVD containing 5.1 mixes from selected songs from the album, and a host of extras highlighted by a 100-page hardcover book featuring many photos, memorabilia from Townshend's archive, lyrics, and a new, lengthy essay from Pete.
Album Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Prog-Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll
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Betty Wright & the Roots Betty Wright: The Movie S-Curve Records / Ms. B Recor
Betty Wright: The Movie is this Miami soul legend's first album since 2001's Fit for a King, but it's hardly a return. During Wright's decade away from making her own records, she was busy helping others -- including Kelly Clarkson, Joss Stone, Diddy, Keyshia Cole, and Lil Wayne -- as a songwriter, arranger, producer, and background vocalist. Here, she links up with the intrepid Roots crew and several supplemental session musicians, and she wrangles complementary appearances from Stone and the tremendously underappreciated Lenny Williams, as well as disruptive interjections from Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg.
Soul, Adult Contemporary R&B
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Paul Anka Songs of December Decca
Vocal Pop, Christmas, Holidays, Adult Contemporary
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Nicola Benedetti Italia Decca
Baroque Chamber Music
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Birdy Birdy Atlantic
Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness Arts & Crafts
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Caveman CoCo Beware Original Recordings Group
Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
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Ray Charles Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles Concord
Jazz Blues, Soul Jazz, Urban Blues, Piano Blues, Early R&B, Soul, Country Soul, Early Pop/Rock, AM Pop, Pop-Soul
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Crystal Stilts Radiant Door Sacred Bones
Noise Pop, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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The Dø Both Ways Open Jaws Wagram
Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Geir Draugsvoll Sofia Gubaidulina: Fachwerk; Silenzio Naxos
Contemporary Orchestral and Chamber Music
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Glee Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album, Vol. 2 Epic
Soundtracks, TV Soundtracks, Cast Recordings, Holidays
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Hélène Grimaud Mozart Deutsche Grammophon
Classical Piano, Chamber and Vocal Music
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Vince Guaraldi The Charlie Brown Collection Fantasy
Crossover Jazz, TV Soundtracks, Holidays, Cool, Mainstream Jazz, Christmas, Tribute Albums, Smooth Jazz
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Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles II Fueled by Ramen Records
Alternative Rap, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
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Mary Halvorson/Jessica Pavone Departure of Reason Thirsty Ear Recordings
Structured Improvisation, Modern Composition, Free Improvisation, Avant-Garde Jazz
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Korallreven An Album by Korallreven Acephale
Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Dance, Club/Dance
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Dan Laurin The Father, the Son and the Godfather BIS
Baroque and Classical Chamber Music
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Maysa Motions of Love Shanachie Records
Adult Contemporary R&B
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Odonis Odonis Hollandaze Fat Cat
Noise Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Alternative Pop/Rock
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The Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1 Cloud Recordings
Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Quatuor Diotima American Music Naïve
Modern and Contemporary Chamber Music
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Nobuyuki Tsujii Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Challenge Classics
19th Century Piano Music
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Original Soundtrack Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Rhino
Sing-Alongs, Soundtracks, Song Parody
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The PreZcotts Gossip Rocket Science
Teen Pop
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Pterodactyl Spills Out Jagjaguwar
Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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The Puppini Sisters Hollywood Verve Forecast
Harmony Vocal Group, Vocal Pop
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R.E.M. Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage: 1982-2011 Warner Bros.
American Underground, College Rock, Jangle Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid/Mats Gustafsson Live at the South Bank Smalltown Superjazzz
Avant-Garde Jazz, Structured Improvisation, Electronica, Modal Music, Experimental
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Frank Sinatra Sinatra: Best of the Best EMI
Traditional Pop, Standards, American Popular Song, Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop
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The Steve Adamyk Band Forever Won't Wait Dirtnap Records
Alternative/Indie Rock, Punk Revival
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The Supremes More Hits by the Supremes [Limited Edition] Motown
Uptown Soul, Girl Groups, Motown, Soul, AM Pop, Pop-Soul, Early Pop/Rock
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Tegan and Sara Get Along Warner Bros.
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Folk, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Various Artists Mad Decent, Vol. 1 Mad Decent
Dubstep, Indie Electronic, Club/Dance, Left-Field Hip-Hop
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Various Artists This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday, Vol. 2 Universal Republic
Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Holidays
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Matt Wertz Snow Globe Handwritten Records
Holidays
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