Hazy Days, Clear Tunes

Tracklist (Standard Edition): Run Away with Me – 4:11 Emotion – 3:17 I Really Like You – 3:24 Gimmie Love – 3:22 All That – 4:38 Boy Problems – 3:42 Making the Most of the Night – 4:07 Your Type – 3:19 Let’s Get Lost – 3:13 LA Hallucinations – 3:04 Warm Blood – 4:13 When I Needed You – 3:41 Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks: Black Heart – 3:25 I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance – 3:39 Favourite Colour – 3:29 Never Get to Hold You – 4:13 Love Again – 3:37 When Emotion dropped in 2015, it didn't exactly explode — but it did shimmer, slowly and steadily. Released in the long shadow of “Call Me Maybe,” Carly Rae Jepsen’s surprise breakout single from 2012, Emotion could have easily been dismissed as another attempt at bubblegum chart relevance. Instead, it revealed itself to be one of the most finely crafted pop records of the 2010s, a lush, synth-laced homage to ‘80s pop that elevated Jepsen from a one-hit-wonder into a pop cult icon. W...

Tracklist: Chan Chan – 4:18 De Camino a La Vereda – 5:03 El Cuarto de Tula – 7:27 Pueblo Nuevo – 6:06 Dos Gardenias – 3:04 ¿Y Tú Qué Has Hecho? – 3:13 Veinte Años – 3:31 El Carretero – 3:29 Candela – 5:29 Amor de Loca Juventud – 3:23 Orgullecida – 3:19 Murmullo – 3:51 Buena Vista Social Club – 4:50 La Bayamesa – 2:54 Some albums document a sound. Others document a moment. And then there’s Buena Vista Social Club, which doesn’t just capture either — it resurrects a lost world, breathing life into Cuba’s golden age of music with intimacy, soul, and astonishing beauty. Released in 1997, this album wasn’t part of a trend or a carefully strategized release. It was the result of a chance collaboration between American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder and a group of aging Cuban musicians, many of whom had long faded into obscurity or retired. The project was never meant to be a cultural phenomenon — yet it became one of the most successful and belo...

Tracklist (Original Jamaican Release): Marcus Garvey – 3:27 Slavery Days – 3:34 The Invasion – 3:22 Live Good – 3:14 Give Me – 3:11 Old Marcus Garvey – 4:03 Tradition – 3:00 Jordan River – 2:59 Red, Gold and Green – 3:11 Resting Place – 3:07 Marcus Garvey isn’t just one of the greatest reggae albums ever made — it’s one of the most important works of Black consciousness in modern music. Released in 1975 by Burning Spear (the stage name of Winston Rodney), this album re-centered reggae away from dancehall vibes and romantic themes and planted it firmly in the soil of African pride, historical memory, and revolutionary thought. Named for Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist and Black nationalist who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the early 20th century, the album channels Garvey’s legacy into a spiritual and political manifesto — one set to some of the most hypnotic and elemental rhythms in reggae. Winston...

Tracklist: Witch Hunt – 8:07 Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum – 5:54 Dance Cadaverous – 6:45 Speak No Evil – 8:23 Infant Eyes – 6:51 Wild Flower – 6:04 Personnel: Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone Freddie Hubbard – trumpet Herbie Hancock – piano Ron Carter – bass Elvin Jones – drums Speak No Evil is more than a high point in Wayne Shorter’s career — it’s a defining document of mid-’60s post-bop, a subtle pivot between the structured innovations of hard bop and the freer explorations of modal and avant-garde jazz. Released in 1966, this album stands as one of Blue Note Records’ crown jewels and arguably Shorter’s greatest studio effort as a bandleader. Recorded on Christmas Eve 1964, Speak No Evil captures a group of jazz giants at the peak of their creative interplay. Shorter had already made waves with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and was then deep into his role as a core composer and tenor saxophonist in the Miles Davis Quintet. But here, he takes center stage with ...

Tracklist: Untitled (Hidden Track) – 0:46 Archangel – 3:59 Near Dark – 3:55 Ghost Hardware – 4:55 Endorphin – 2:57 Etched Headplate – 6:00 In McDonalds – 2:09 Untrue – 6:17 Shell of Light – 4:40 Dog Shelter – 2:01 Homeless – 5:20 UK – 1:42 Raver – 4:58 When Untrue was released in 2007, it didn’t arrive with fanfare or hype. There were no performances, no music videos, no interviews — just a shadowy figure known as Burial, offering up something intimate, grainy, and heartbreakingly human. Nearly two decades later, it's widely regarded as a modern classic — not just in electronic music, but in contemporary music as a whole. Untrue sounds like the memory of a city you’ve never been to, or a moment you’re not sure ever really happened. Its textures are damp and ghostly — chopped vocal samples float in and out like fragments of conversation overheard on a rainy night. Beats shuffle and skip as if they’re barely holding themselves together. There...

Tracklist: Demented Aggression – 2:15 Sarcophagic Frenzy – 2:45 Scourge of Iron – 4:44 Encased in Concrete – 3:13 As Deep as the Knife Will Go – 3:25 Intestinal Crank – 3:54 Followed Home Then Killed – 3:36 The Strangulation Chair – 4:09 Caged... Contorted – 3:30 Crucifier Avenged – 3:57 Rabid – 3:04 Torn Through – 3:38 Death Walking Terror (Bonus Track) – 3:31 (on some editions) By the time Torture was released in 2012, Cannibal Corpse had already carved their legacy into the flesh of death metal — repeatedly, violently, and unapologetically. This was their twelfth studio album, and somehow, it proved they were only getting tighter, meaner, and more dangerous with age. Working once again with producer Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel), the band recorded at Mana Recording Studios in Florida — a fitting birthplace for such controlled chaos. Rutan's production is razor-sharp, giving the record a clean but crushing sound that perfectly ma...

  Tracklist: Oblivion – 5:46 Divinations – 3:39 Quintessence – 5:27 The Czar – 10:55 I. Usurper II. Escape III. Martyr IV. Spiral Ghost of Karelia – 5:25 Crack the Skye – 5:54 (feat. Scott Kelly) The Last Baron – 13:01 With Crack the Skye, released in 2009, Mastodon stepped through a portal. They didn’t just push the boundaries of progressive metal — they shattered them. What emerged was not just an album, but a fully immersive spiritual and sonic journey, and arguably the band’s defining artistic statement. If Leviathan was fire and Blood Mountain was earth, Crack the Skye was air — vast, mystical, and unbound by the laws of gravity or genre. The album’s sprawling concept blends astral projection, Rasputin, wormholes, and the afterlife, woven together as a metaphor for loss, grief, and searching for meaning beyond death. At the emotional core of the album is drummer Brann Dailor’s tribute to his sister Skye, who died by suicide at a young age. Her...

  Tracklist: Sultan’s Curse – 4:10 Show Yourself – 3:02 Precious Stones – 3:46 Steambreather – 5:03 Roots Remain – 6:27 Word to the Wise – 4:00 Ancient Kingdom – 4:54 Clandestiny – 4:28 Andromeda – 4:05 Scorpion Breath – 3:19 (feat. Scott Kelly) Jaguar God – 7:56 By 2017, Mastodon had been through the fire — both personally and professionally. With Emperor of Sand, they returned not just with another concept album, but one rooted in real-life pain. Built around the metaphor of a desert wanderer marked for death, the album mirrors the band members’ own experiences dealing with cancer diagnoses and loss in their families. Emperor of Sand isn’t just heavy — it’s emotionally loaded. It asks hard questions about mortality, time, and the toll of illness, all wrapped in Mastodon’s unique fusion of progressive metal, sludge, and melodic rock. Musically, the album strikes a balance between the melodic sensibilities of The Hunter and Once More 'Round the Sun, ...

  Once More 'Round the Sun – Mastodon’s Psychedelic Metal Odyssey Tracklist: Tread Lightly – 5: 14 The Motherload – 4: 59 High Road – 4: 15 Once More ' Round the Sun – 2: 58 Chimes at Midnight – 5: 32 Asleep in the Deep – 6: 12 Feast Your Eyes – 3: 23 Aunt Lisa – 4: 08 Ember City – 4: 59 Halloween – 4: 39 Diamond in the Witch House – 7: 49 ( feat. Scott Kelly) By the time Mastodon released Once More 'Round the Sun in 2014, they were no longer just metal’s best-kept secret. They were veterans of the modern heavy scene, with a discography that blurred the lines between sludge, prog, and classic rock. Coming off the emotionally rich and critically adored The Hunter (2011), expectations were high — and Mastodon answered with an album that was both a continuation and an evolution. Once More 'Round the Sun is vivid, sprawling, and surprisingly accessible. It doesn’t chase radio hits, nor does it bury itself in concept. Instead, it strikes a b...

  In 2002,  Mastodon  didn’t just arrive — they  erupted .  Remission , the band’s debut full-length, is less of an album and more of a primal scream — a declaration that metal was about to get a serious shake-up. Wildly aggressive, technically masterful, and full of animalistic energy,  Remission  was the sound of a band with something to prove. And they proved it loudly. Tracklist Crusher Destroyer – 2:00 March of the Fire Ants – 4:25 Where Strides the Behemoth – 2:55 Workhorse – 3:45 Ol’e Nessie – 6:06 Burning Man – 2:47 Trainwreck – 7:03 Trampled Under Hoof – 3:00 Trilobite – 6:29 Mother Puncher – 3:48 Elephant Man – 8:01 (instrumental) Before they became progressive metal titans with concept albums about whales (Leviathan) and wormholes (Crack the Skye), Mastodon were hungry. And Remission reflects that hunger in every blast beat, every chaotic riff, every unhinged vocal. From the opening blast of “Crusher Destroyer...

  Tracklist  Blood and Thunder – 3: 49 I Am Ahab – 2: 45 Seabeast – 4: 15 Ísland – 3: 57 Iron Tusk – 3: 03 Megalodon – 4: 22 Naked Burn – 3: 43 Aqua Dementia – 4: 25 Hearts Alive – 13: 39 Joseph Merrick – 3: 33 ( instrumental) In 2004, Mastodon dropped Leviathan , and the metal world hasn’t been the same since. Inspired by Herman Melville’s Moby- Dick , this wasn’t just a concept album — it was a tidal wave. A roaring, riff- packed plunge into obsession, madness, and the mythic power of the sea. While their debut Remission introduced Mastodon’s technical ferocity, Leviathan was where they fully unlocked their vision. This is progressive sludge metal with a literary soul and a primal scream. From the very first moments of “ Blood and Thunder” , Mastodon sets sail with ferocity. Guest vocalist Neil Fallon ( of Clutch) adds ballast to the chorus, shouting “ White whale! Holy grail!” — a battle cry for metalheads and Melville fans alik...

  By 1999, The Flaming Lips were a band long immersed in noise, psych- rock, and experimental detours — more cult curiosity than household name. Then The Soft Bulletin arrived like a transmission from a parallel world: shimmering, orchestral, and heartbreakingly sincere. It was as if the band had touched the void and come back not with fear, but with awe. Often dubbed the " Pet Sounds" of the alternative era, The Soft Bulletin marked a massive stylistic leap for the Oklahoma band. Gone were the fuzzy freak- outs and chaos of earlier records. In their place: lush string arrangements, pulsing synthetic textures, and Wayne Coyne’s cracked, human voice, trembling with vulnerability. This is an album about life and death , love and decay , and the cosmic insignificance of it all — but somehow, it's also a celebration. “ Race for the Prize” , the opener, feels like a triumphal march for underdog scientists racing to save the world. It’s euphoric and tragic at once, setting...