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  Tracklist: In the Air Tonight This Must Be Love Behind the Lines The Roof Is Leaking Droned Hand in Hand I Missed Again You Know What I Mean Thunder and Lightning I'm Not Moving If Leaving Me Is Easy Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles cover) Face Value is more than just Phil Collins’ solo debut—it's a raw, deeply personal outpouring of emotion disguised as a pop record. Written in the aftermath of his first divorce, the album channels heartbreak, frustration, and reflection into a genre-blurring collection that balances experimental production with striking vulnerability. The opening track, “In the Air Tonight,” remains iconic not just for its thunderous drum fill, but for its icy atmosphere and restrained build-up. It's an emotional sucker punch that sets the tone for the entire record. Tracks like “I Missed Again” and “This Must Be Love” move toward soul and R&B, while “Behind the Lines” and “Hand in Hand” rework Genesis-era complexity into tight pop structures. One ...

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...