Mark McGuire OUR FAMILY (2021)

my man makes the most uplifting good morning Sunday morning jams, just full-hearted, wise and uplifting odes to a brief life lived well

Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/The London Symphony Orchestra PROMISES (2021)

Les anges reviendront, et quand vous verrez celui qui est censé vous aider, vous pleurerez de joie

Quand les anges

Jonathan Hultén CHANTS FROM ANOTHER PLACE (2020)

This is some otherworldly stuff.  Hultén is a guitarist for Tribulation, which is by all accounts one of the best European metal bands, but I have enough trouble trying to keep up with PNW metal.  This is extreme in the other end, soft as anything Trees or The Roches put out, but adorned with bones and ash--to me it sounds like Celtic private mourning music, grief ethered into the constellations, spinning madly, dutifully above us.

stay for the guitar solo and then vaya con Dios

Willie Dunn CREATION NEVER SLEEPS, CREATION NEVER DIES (anthology)

do you dig Gordon Lightfoot but wish he was more timeless and had God's own baritone?

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great microcosm of the late 20th century American tragedy. High school football is thrilling, mesmerizing, and needs to be abolished immediately.

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Anita Baker RAPTURE (1986)

 

 Haché et Vissé de Houston à Bordeaux. Bon courage!    

Anita Baker owns. Her record label makes it a little hard to hear her stuff, they got it locked up in the glass case with all the single malts, ah! the peat

the singles were the best tracks from LDR's new album but we got a new one on the way this summer.

  No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

beautiful. had me fighting back tears. Lockwood is the most essential writer of the Twitter age.

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 PS That Touché Amoré album got me so fired up I went from being comatose to unable to sleep for four hours, proceed with caution!