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<\/p>\nNEW MUSIC: Kristofer \u00c5str\u00f6m, Joan Shelley, Petite Noir, Suede<\/b><\/p>\n
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New Music is brought to you by Deadly Music!<\/a> which covers mostly indie, alternative, electro pop, post rock and ambient music, with a bit of everything else deadly thrown in for good measure.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kristofer Åström – “One More Drink” \/ “Poor Young Man’s Heart”<\/strong><\/p>\n Swedish singer-songwriter Kristofer Åström is an old hand at this point having spent close to 20 years on the scene.<\/p>\n As fans await his forthcoming 10th studio album, Åström has recently been releasing a series of live<\/a> recordings with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n The latest of those is “One More Drink,” a track that in the hands of a bedroom wannabe would likely have been an embarrassing mess.<\/p>\n Åström however brings his experience and greatly underrated talent to the table on a series of tracks that put him top of the pile in the heartbroken three chords and the truth sad boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n If Damien Rice<\/a> is your thing but you too found his recent third album a disappointment, you could do worse by exploring Åström’s back catalog.<\/p>\n Watch the original version of Poor Young Man’s Heart below.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joan Shelley – Over and Even<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n With an eye on the past, the four tracks on the EP eschew theatrics in favor of simple folk songs. <\/span><\/p>\n Like a less chatty Laura Marling on this year’s brilliant <\/span>Short Movie<\/span><\/i>, Shelley is to Sandy Denny what the English singer-songwriter is to Joni Mitchell.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Petite Noir – “MDR”<\/strong><\/p>\n His latest track “MDR” is a Grease<\/em>-referencing soul-pop effort with African percussion that comes off like something from the lost Prince album between Around The World In A Day<\/em> and Parade<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n Just as well because reviews suggest new Prince album HitNRun Phase One<\/em> is less than brilliant.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Suede – Dog Man Star 20th Anniversary Live – Royal Albert Hall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n With anniversary performances quite the thing at the moment, the nostalgia trip can be a kind of sad desperate money grab (stand up Stone Roses).<\/span><\/p>\n Suede however have avoided the pitfalls of many such efforts and in front of a clearly rapturous, likely middle-aged audience this album highlights what made Dog Man Star<\/em> one of the best albums of the 1990s.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post NEW MUSIC: Kristofer Åström, Joan Shelley, Petite Noir, Suede<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Continuing in the singer songwriter genre we have Kentucky’s Joan Shelley with her fourth release, the mini-album <\/span>Over and Even<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Petite Noir – aka South African native Yannick Ilunga – is gearing up for the release of his debut album Life Is Beautiful<\/em> with a series of genre hopping singles. <\/span><\/p>\n
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With their seventh studio album <\/span>Night Thoughts<\/span><\/i> due for release early next year, Suede – a band central to the hysteria around 1990s Britpop – have just dropped a 2014 live<\/a> recording of their second album <\/span>Dog Man Star<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n