Cassandra Jenkins' An Overview on Phenomenal Nature emerged from the blue earlier this year. With pandemic unknowns and political upheaval leaving most at frayed ends, the New York-born musician’s assuring voice and expansive fresh take on songwriting created a much needed reflective space for listeners worldwide.

"Swirling guitars… layers of noise… drugged out soft male and female vocals going back and forth… sounding like part love, part death, part hope, part sadness. It's as if they've turned their instruments into liquid and poured them into your ears."

Aili Järvelä, widely known as an authentic and soulful performer, and Sointi Jazz Orchestra, one of Finland’s most interesting new jazz groups, joined forces to release a Finnish-language album titled Unituulia.

Quanti danni ha fatto il “casco d’oro”, quanti danni… Certo, il geniale tocco degli stilisti Vergottini nell’acconciatura ha reso indimenticabile nell’immaginario collettivo l’apparizione di Caterina Caselli a Sanremo nel 1966, con Nessuno mi può giudicare; ed è tutto da dimostrare che lo stesso brano avrebbe potuto avere lo stesso successo se interpretato da Adriano Celentano – originariamente doveva essere suo infatti, poi però optò per un’altra “discreta” canzone: Il ragazzo della Via Gluck – perché davvero la stessa fisicità della Caselli, vocale e non solo, dava una marcia in più. Quindi sì: in quel momento, l’operazione fu perfetta.

Unica è un album in studio della cantante italiana Ornella Vanoni, pubblicato il 29 gennaio 2021, in occasione dei suoi sessant'anni di carriera.

Weihnachten, das Fest der Liebe und Nächstenliebe. Das Fest, bei dem die Familie zusammenkommt und besinnliche Tage verbringt. Das Fest, um das Jahr für Jahr diese einzigartige Magie schwebt, die die Zeit still stehen und den Menschen sich auf das Wesentliche besinnen lässt: dass wir alle Brüder und Schwestern sind. Weihnachten, das Fest, das auch Patricia Kelly tief im Herzen trägt und mit ihrem neuen Live-Album „My Christmas Concert“ mit 13 deutsch- und englischsprachigen Titeln zum Ausdruck bringt.

Cape God is the fourth studio release from Allie X and includes collaborations with Troye Sivan and Mitski. "In early 2018, I saw the documentary that started my journey to write this record. It's an HBO doc called "heroine: cape god".

Julie Doiron is back with I Thought Of You, her first solo record since 2012"s So Many Days, emanating a radiative force with nothing more than her guitar and her unmistakably indomitable voice. In her time away from the solo spotlight she has remained deeply entwined with music, releasing a critically acclaimed record with members of Cancer Bats and Eamon McGrath as Julie and The Wrong Guys, translating some of her previous work for Spanish label Acuarela, and returning to her otherworldly collaboration with Mount Eerie for Lost Wisdom pt 2.

Based in the East Bay, vocalist Karen Marguth found her calling in jazz while living in Fresno, CA through the early 2000s. California's Central Valley sustains a surprisingly thriving jazz community and it was there that Marguth earned national renown with her four jazz albums, featuring the tight circle of musicians she surrounded herself with. Until features her interaction with two Fresno groups, along with a third, representing her latest collaborators from the Bay Area.

Hush’ is the gloomy & dreamy sophomore album by Belgium based and internationally celebrated shoegazers Slow Crush.

Emma Ruth Rundle's forthcoming Engine of Hell is stark, intimate, and unflinching. For anyone that's endured trauma and grief, there's a beautiful solace in hearing Rundle articulate and humanize that particular type of pain not only with her words, but with her particular mysterious language of melody and timbre.

Bent Knee are not a band for convention. In fact, since forming in 2009, the Boston-based six-piece have been on a constant journey of musical exploration that thoroughly disregards it. The result is five records that completely defy categorization and transcend genre. In other words, the band don’t just break the rules, they make up their own. That’s ensured they exist exclusively on their own terms. Frosting, the band’s sixth full-length, pushes those boundaries even further.

Tasha’s second album, Tell Me What You Miss The Most mingles pockets of introspection with wide, expansive, marveling at what’s yet to come. Born and raised in Chicago, Tasha is a musician who writes songs that take loving and longing seriously. Whether dwelling in the sad thrum of an impending break up or the dizzying, heart thumping waltz of new infatuation, here is an album that traces one artist’s relationship to herself in love.

Storage units hold possessions on pause from the outside world, objects capable of reconnecting us to a time or place. Hana Vu (born in 2000s California) grew up with her family making regular use of public storage spaces in Los Angeles, moving every few years, leaving a mix of the sacred and the mundane to sit inside concrete and steel.

Aimee Mann returns with new album Queens Of The Summer Hotel out via Super Ego Records. This LP has 15 songs inspired by the book Girl Interrupted, written by Susannah Kaysen.