Monthly Archives: February 2023

TVD Radar: Romeo Void, Live from Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980 in stores 4/22

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Romeo Void, a breakout band of the San Francisco new wave scene of the early 1980s, shares details of their first fully-authorized concert release. Live from Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980, is an official Record Store Day selection, arriving in stores April 22. The 11-track album will be available in a special galaxy-blue colored vinyl edition, as well as CD and digital. All formats are released by Liberation Hall with distribution by MVD Entertainment Group.

Romeo Void was formed in 1979. Drawing inspiration from the local underground music scene, the band’s founding members were San Francisco Art Institute students Debora Iyall (lead vocalist, lyricist) and Frank Zincavage (bass guitar), alongside local musicians Peter Woods (guitar) and Jay Derrah (drums). They soon added saxophonist Benjamin Bossi. According to Iyall, the name Romeo Void referred to “a lack of romance.”

Live from Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980, was captured during the same period that Romeo Void was recording its critically acclaimed debut album for 415 Records, It’s a Condition. Derrah was still drumming with the band at this live show, but was replaced by John “Stench” Haines by the time the sessions for It’s a Condition were underway. Live from Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980, features one of three Romeo Void live sets captured that year at the famed punk club by deejay Terry Hammer, who would typically broadcast portions of his recordings on the UC-Berkeley radio station KALX.

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Graded on a Curve:
Nina Simone,
Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles

Remembering Nina Simone, born on this day in 1933.Ed.

To say Nina Simone needs no introduction surely feels right as far as clichés go, but it ignores that thousands of music fans are currently unfamiliar with her work. And that’s thousands too many. Those looking to dive into her vast discography are presented with a marvelous opportunity, as BMG is offering Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles on compact disc and on vinyl with a bonus 7-inch. Over the decades much of its contents have been fitfully available, but in oft-shoddy editions and with little or no context for the novice. With warm sound and informative notes by Ashley Khan, the set amplifies Simone’s brilliance from the beginning. Its release is reason to celebrate.

My introduction to Nina Simone came through her 1961 Colpix 45 “You Can Have Him” b/w “Gin House Blues,” which was tucked into a jukebox housed in a tea room in my hometown. Ruth’s Tea Room it was called, but the proprietor was named Vivian. It was just her and a canine companion, a friendly boxer named Zeus. On weekends, high school friends and I would often end up there to do exactly what you’d expect; converse and drink tea, though she also made a splendid orangeade. And on every visit, someone would get up to play that jukebox.

Occasionally, Nina’s A-side would get picked, but it was really “Gin House Blues” that we loved. And you might assume that hearing that record sent me on an immediate search to hear more of Simone’s work, but no; at that moment, in that context, curiosity and an unquenchable musical appetite was quelled by the comfort of ritual. Right then, those two songs were enough.

Naturally, I eventually took the plunge, and it was frustrating that Simone’s pre-RCA stuff wasn’t easy to find. It’s true that Little Girl Blue, her debut album for Bethlehem, which features most of the songs on Mood Indigo, has a long reissue history, but most of the action seems to have occurred in Europe and Japan. In the ’90s there was a slew of Bethlehem jazz reissues in the bargain bins, but Nina’s album never turned up. But over time and a handful of compilations, it was possible to piece together nearly all of Simone’s sole session for the label.

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UK Artist of the Week: ESSIRAY

Coming all the way from Dublin this week, Irish newcomer ESSIRAY has already made quite the splash with the release of her new single “Mr Perfect,” out now.

An indie-pop delight from the offset, “Mr Perfect” combines hints of soul, pop, and indie creating something truly mesmerizing and instantly infectious. Talking about the single, ESSIRAY, aka Rachel Murphy, explains, “’Mr Perfect’ isn’t about one person or one situation, for me it’s about the combination of emotions I’ve felt thoughout my early twenties and navigating my love life.

As a young woman in this male dominated society it can often feel like we’re being told how to act and how to present ourselves; trying to live up to this societal standard created by men. The track also has a lighthearted undertone of coming out of a relationship, those rose tinted glasses coming off and you’re just feeling happy in yourself.”

The single has already seen support from the likes of New Music Friday UK and Fresh Finds Pop on Spotify, and we expect great things are to come from this vibrant Irish native. Watch this space…

“Mr Perfect” is in stores now.

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Graded on a Curve: Neutral Milk Hotel,
The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel

On February 24, Merge Records unveils The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel, reissuing a prior vinyl boxset that was assembled and self-released by Jeff Mangum on Neutral Milk Hotel Records back in 2011. Along with the outfit’s two celebrated studio albums, On Avery Island and In an Aeroplane Over the Sea, the set includes Live at Jittery Joes as a picture disc, two 10-inch EPs, three 7-inch discs, and two posters. Altogether, it’s an exquisitely designed one-stop-shop annotating a defining act of the Indie Era.

In 1994 Neutral Milk Hotel released “Everything Is” as either a 7-inch (two songs) or a CDEP (three songs), the set marking Jeff Mangum’s commercial (that is, non-demo) debut. For The Collected Works, as on the self-released box set prior, “Everything Is” gets expanded to a 7-song 10-inch. First album On Avery Island followed in 1995 (issued as a 2LP in Merge’s edition of the box set), its contents firmly planted inside the realms of indie rock, the disc well-received overall while not generating too much in the way of hubbub, as I recall.

That might read like modest beginnings, and that’s not wrong, but if Neutral Milk Hotel had closed up shop after On Avery Island’s release, which is to say, prior to the emergence of the group’s consensus highpoint In an Aeroplane Over the Sea, they would still be very much worth discussing, especially in connection to the lo-fi and psych-folk wings of the ’90s indie superstructure.

Bluntly, my assessment of Aeroplane as NMH’s consensus highpoint rather than an agreed upon masterpiece is due to its divisiveness as a record, and I’m not talking about the anti-hipster sentiment that began swirling around the album in the wake of its slow-blooming cult stature. No, Aeroplane is just a spectacularly weird experience that’s as likely to inspire fidgets in a listener as rapt attention and adulation.

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In rotation: 2/21/23

Record Store Day 2023 features fresh vinyl from Taylor Swift, Rolling Stones, more: How to buy. Vinyl fans, rejoice. Record Store Day returns April 22 with dozens of exclusive new releases as well as reissues from artists in an array of genres, from Paul McCartney to Pearl Jam, RZA to Wilco, Miles Davis to the Grateful Dead. A full list of 2023 releases is here. Since 2009, musicians with a deep-seated love of vinyl have teamed up to remind digital-age music fans that some of the more revelatory audio moments happen on hot wax. “Over the years I’ve fallen in love many times and many of my greatest loves have been discovered in record stores,” says singer Amanda Shires, who along with star musician husband Jason Isbell are this year’s Record Store Day ambassadors. “I fell in love with Leonard Cohen at Ralph’s Records in Lubbock, Texas. I found Big Star at Offbeat in Jackson, Mississippi,” Shires says in a release. “Record stores are environments where you can be yourself, like what you like and love what you love.”

Milford, DE | Shock Vinyl opens in Milford: Former photojournalist follows his dream. It’s a common thing that when someone retires, they end up busier than ever. For Marc Clery, he didn’t stay retired, but went back to work again, opening Shock Vinyl in downtown Milford. Clery was a photojournalist for 45 years, working for publications such as the Miami Herald and the News Journal. But what Clery, a music lover who once played drums and amassed his own record collection, really wanted to do was have his own record shop. He started looking into making his dream a reality by researching sites in Dover and Milford in July 2022. He hit upon a suite in the newly renovated Shops of Penney Square on Walnut Street. The building was purchased by EasySpeak owners Zack and Marissa King in 2021 and has been rehabbed as a restaurant and retail complex. “It’s got a really great, retro feel,” Clery said.

Larchmont, NY | 2 passions, 1 roof: Orthodontist runs record shop in same building as his practice. A Larchmont orthodontist is living out both of his passions while contributing to charity. Dr. Garrett Weston can be found catering to his patients in his Larchmont office on a regular weekday, but he’s also the owner of Underground Vinyl, a record store. “My dad was a vinyl collector and an audiophile and was always really into good sounding music, and I just grew up around that as well. And always wanted to work in a record store when I was a kid and never got the job,” he says. Now both of his passions coexist under one roof. “If you had told me in high school or college someday, you’re going to have a building where you’re the orthodontist upstairs and you’re going to have a record store downstairs, I would have been psyched to hear that, but I would have never thought that back then,” he says. All of the profits made at the record store are donated to charity. The store also hosts events to give local musicians a platform to play.

Oshawa, ON | Vinyl sales spin in the right direction for local store owner: André Lessard is seeing something he hasn’t seen in awhile: younger kids coming in with their parents to buy their first record player – some as young as 10 years old. Weekends have been especially busy this year for the owner of Another Spin Records, while weekdays has provided more “me-time” for customers. “It’s been really good so far, I mean knock on wood that we’ve had a really good year this year,” he said. The store, located at 25 Bond St. E., opened just over a year ago. “Last year was fantastic for our first year, but this year it’s been fantastic for the beginning of the year,” said Lessard. He was worried about what the start of this year would look like for the shop, but hasn’t had a problem so far. “I thought people were gonna budget themselves on their vinyl, but it hasn’t, we haven’t seen that yet,” he said.

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We’ve closed TVD’s HQ for the Presidents’ Day holiday. While we’re away, why not fire up our Record Store Locator app and visit one of your local indie record stores?

Perhaps there’s an interview, review, or feature you might have missed? Catch up and we’ll see you back here on tomorrow, 2/21.

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TVD’s The Idelic Hour with Jon Sidel

Greetings from Laurel Canyon!

I want a Sunday kind of love / A love to last past Saturday night / And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight / And I want a Sunday kind of love / Oh, yeah, yeah

I want a, a, a love that’s on the square / Can’t seem to find somebody / Someone to care / And I’m on a lonely road that leads to nowhere / I need a Sunday kind of love

I do my Sunday dreaming, oh, yeah / And all my Sunday scheming / Every minute, every hour, every day

Oh, I’m hoping to discover / A certain kind of lover / Who will show me the way

Solomon Burke proclaimed it, “everybody needs somebody to love.” It likely came out of of the psyche of co-writer Burt Berns. The morning before Valentines Day, I had such thoughts, so I dipped by Sweet Lily, a local french bakery snuggled at the base of the canyon, and bought a raspberry tart for both Susan and Jonah.

Love songs are so great because they are often so simple but so deep. As I get older, I tend to think more about love songs the days after Valentines than the days before.

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New Release Section: New Man, “Hedgerow”

VIA PRESS RELEASE | The new New Man EP, “The New New Man,” is infectiously catchy, amusingly witty and pushing the boundaries of what you expect from a pop song. The kind of pop songs that are inspired by Harry Nilsson, XTC, or Jellyfish. The kind of pop songs with squishy keyboards, race whistles, and vocal layering abound. “The New New Man” is full of delightful surprises; unexpected but pleasing in every form.

Cody Newman, aka New Man, has always had a keen penchant for writing taut and infectious pop songs brimming with their own identity. Calling it “Power Pop” would be understandable because it’s layered with harmonies and it’s catchy as hell but it also isn’t right as these songs flourish outside the rules of that genre. “Pop” means a million different things. “Indie Rock” is near meaningless. Maybe there’s a Venn Diagram overlap with “Baroque Pop” and “The Beach Boys” and “Fun Beck-like Songs.”

We won’t go as far as to say that New Man lives outside of genre because that’s absurd. As soon as you hear it, you’ll know it. It’s familiar and comfortable but it’s never rote or predictable. “The New New Man” is absolutely brimming with fascinating arrangements, instrumentation and memorable moments. We can’t wait for you to hear them all.

The first of six singles is out today, “Hedgerow.” It’s the last song on the new EP and every two weeks we’re going to release another song until they’re all out in the world. Keep your eyes peeled for future song announcements. Oh, and one more fun fact, all of the artwork for these releases was create by Midjourney; the AI assistance that turns prompts into visuals. Get a more detailed look at each over the next few weeks!

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Demand it on Vinyl: I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson At 100 in stores 4/28

VIA PRESS RELEASE | A dazzling array of musicians, across generations and genres, have contributed to a new album that celebrates the deep influence and legacy of Doc Watson, the North Carolina guitarist, singer and songwriter who would have turned 100 on March 3 of this year.

I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 features new renditions of some of Watson’s most beloved recordings from his expansive catalog. It will be released April 28 on FLi Records / Budde Music and features Nora Brown, Rosanne Cash, Jerry Douglas, Chris Eldridge, Steve Earle, Bill Frisell, Corey Harris, Valerie June, Jack Lawrence, Lionel Loueke, Jeff Parker, Dolly Parton, Ariel Posen, Marc Ribot, Matthew Stevens and Yasmin Williams. It was produced by guitarist/ songwriter/ producer Matthew Stevens (known for his work producing and performing with esperanza spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington) over the past year and executive produced by Mitch Greenhill, Matthew Greenhill, and Peer Steinwald.

“The Last Thing On My Mind,” written by Tom Paxton in the early ’60s, was a staple of Watson’s catalog and recorded/ performed by Parton throughout her career. She released a recording of it in 1967 with Porter Wagoner, and Watson and Parton performed it together in 2001 at MerleFest. “Doc Watson is everyone’s hero and a great guitar player. Some say he is the absolute best, and I was honored to get to work with him a few times in my career,” says Dolly Parton.

Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson earned 7 GRAMMY Awards and 23 nominations including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1997 from President Clinton and has been the subject of multiple books, boxed sets, and compilation albums.

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Graded on a Curve;
Black Sabbath,
Sabbath Bloody
Sabbath

Celebrating Tony Iommi in advance of his 75th birthday on Sunday.Ed.

Dear Satan, I’ve always considered you a cool guy. Lord of the Flies, Leader of the Loyal Opposition, natty dresser, boogie man of little kids and grown Puritans alike–even your horns are badass.

So why, if you don’t mind my asking, did you appoint Ozzy Osbourne your ambassador to our world of sin? I would have thought you’d do better than a drug-addled, ant-snorting, famous-for-biting-the-heads-off-small-animals shlub in tragically ill-fitting leather pants. Had you come to me for advice, dear Lucifer, I’d have recommended someone more appropriate–Jimmy Page say, or Maroon 5. Of course it’s possible Ozzy swiped your title without your permission. Plenty of people have done so over the years, Mick Jagger included, and maybe you figured if you’re gonna cut milksop Mick a break you might as well give poor witless Ozzy a pass too.

Or–and I’m working on this assumption–you’ve let Oz get away with it because Black Sabbath is quite arguably the first and heaviest heavy metal band to ever ooze its way out of the Underworld. What’s more, they scare the shit out of lotsa people, most of ‘em parents, music critics and hippies. You must love putting the frighteners on hippies–all that peace and love shit’s enough to make you puke hellfire.

Zonked metal kids are dead sure you’re partial to such early Sabbtunes as “Iron Man” and “War Pigs” cuz they sound real evil, but that’s not the way I see it. You’re a dancer, as Mick Jagger can attest, and I’m betting your tastes run more to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. If early Black Sabbath was a cement mixer grinding its way up a steep incline in first gear, come 1973 they’d slapped a super-charged engine on that puppy and tricked it out with some nifty accessories including strings, synthesizers and Rick Wakeman, who makes for a nifty head ornament. Satan can’t drive 55.

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The Best of Radar: The Podcast with Evan Toth, Episode 76: Graham Nash

PHOTO: RALF LOUIS | Sometimes, in order to go forward, you must first take a look at your past. Graham Nash has a rich and undoubtedly storied history behind him and he has recently released a live album titled, Graham Nash: Live which features him performing his first two albums—Songs for Beginners (1971) and Wild Tales (1973)—in their entirety. 

Nash, however, has often focused on the future and shows no signs of slowing down. While he’s excited about this new live release, he’s also recently published A Life in Focus: The Photography of Graham Nash which showcases his longtime affair with photography. And, as we learn in this interview, he’s just completed a brand new solo album which is due to be released in early 2023. But in this chat, Graham and I talk about why he chose to revisit his first two solo albums and the experience of retracing the footsteps he made nearly a half-century ago.

Of course, we also discuss the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, making long-term musical relationships work and how you can’t really envision where you’re going, unless you know where you’ve been.

Evan Toth is a songwriter, professional musician, educator, radio host, avid record collector, and hi-fi aficionado. Toth hosts and produces The Evan Toth Show and TVD Radar on WFDU, 89.1 FM. Follow him at the usual social media places and visit his website.

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Graded on a Curve:
Red Cross,
“Red Cross”

What were you doing at age 12? I can tell you what I was doing. Living in a one traffic light town in South Central Pennsylvania, playing backyard football with my brother, sister, and neighborhood kids, plowing through all 167 paperbacks in Ballantine Books Illustrated History of WWII, and serving as co-founder and vice president of the Anti-Orioles Association, a two-person organization (my older brother was president) dedicated to the hatred of the Baltimore Orioles.

Meanwhile, across the county in Hawthorne, California (home of the Beach Boys!) middle-schooler Steven McDonald was playing in a hard core punk band called Red Cross, whose first gig was opening for Black Flag. Steve’s band mates included older brother Jeff on vocals, Greg Hetson (who would go on to the Circle Jerks and Bad Religion) on guitar, and Ron Reyes (who would become the second of the three pre-Rollins vocalists of Black Flag) on drums.

After being threatened with a lawsuit by a certain international vampiric blood-sucking organization sharing the same name, Red Cross changed their name to Redd Kross, but not before releasing their first record, the eponymous EP “Red Cross,” in 1980. Meanwhile they were playing gigs in Orange County, whose hardcore scene was infamous for its ultraviolence. The McDonald brothers, who were friendly and smart and too busy sponging up the pop culture references that would inform their subsequent albums, thought it was all pretty stupid. Much as the Beastie Boys, who were undergoing a crash course in pop culture on the other side of the right coast, likely felt about NYC’s fist-to-the-face hardcore scene.

Anyway, “Red Cross” is a great little record, six songs with a total running time exactly one-minute and 22 seconds shy of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” But it’s far cooler than “Stairway to Heaven” because instead of bustles in hedgerows and spring cleans for the May queen, “Red Cross” includes songs about cover bands, hating high school, girls who use Clorox Bleach to lighten their hair (not a good idea!) and various and sundry other important cultural issues. The piper may indeed lead us to reason, but who needs reason when they’ve got Annette Funicello?

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In rotation: 2/17/23

Record Store Day Announces 2023 List: It’s coming on Record Store Day, (Saturday, April 22, 2023) so it’s time again to roll out the incredible titles in the offing for the big, enduring holiday built in support and celebration of independent record stores the world over. This particular Record Store Day, the 16th, sets a high bar as far as the magnitude, artistry and diversity of the releases is concerned. (The UK list is here.)

New York, NY | Inside the Unlikely New York Record Store That Sells Vinyl to the Stars: The Greenwich Village record store, owned by a one-of-a-kind NYC character, stocks the shelves of Lana Del Rey, Rosalía, Bella Hadid, and more. When a 20-year-old Jamal Alnasr moved to New York City in 1990, he barely spoke English and only knew the names of 10 artists, like Madonna and Boney M, whom he’d heard on the radio. A native Palestinian, he arrived in the city after a few years spent living in Jordan as a teenager. He used music to teach himself English, then landed his first job at a record shop on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, where he read CD pamphlets, learned lyrics, and researched artists’ influences. After four and a half years, he opened up his own shop, Village Music, down the street, with the money he had saved from working. On opening day, Alnasr decided to put his collection of rare records up for sale, and made $5,000. “If people came in and meant to spend $20, they would spend $200,” he recalls. “I had a lot of rare stuff.” Word eventually got out that he was the man to see if you were looking for an impossible-to-find record.

San Francisco, CA | Harmonic convergence: How a stellar record fair led to a brand new record store: Globe Spinners and Offshore Sounds were sparked by two vinyl fiends who shared a love of worldly rarities and dealing discs. When one crate-digging record lover and concert promoter who was laid off during the pandemic met another record lover whose academic work specialized in media cultures of the mid-century Far Left, it was magic—or at least a boost for Japanese City Pop fandom in the Bay Area, for which both qualified. Peter Arko and Dylan Davis not only shared a love of global vinyl rarities but a yen for dealing records, mostly out of necessity in this astronomically expensive corner of the world. The two launched quarterly record fair and swap Globe Spinners together—the next one is Sun/19 at Harmonic Brewing in SF, polishing off SF Beer Week with tons of vendors and DJs, food, and, of course, drink—to focus on international genres and get together with like-minded friends. Now, they’ve opened a record store, Offshore Sounds, in new space 710 Collective. Offshore Sounds is the latest addition to a music scene that’s recovering from the past three difficult years and embracing physical media more and more. It’s certainly something to get jazzed about.

UK | Meet the people ‘Behind the Counter’ of the UK’s vinyl revival: We are pleased to announce the return of Behind the Counter for a fourth season. The 12-part video series, which had more than two million viewers across season three, celebrates the unique culture and heritage of independent record stores across the UK. A collaboration between Record Store Day, Classic Album Sundays and Bowers & Wilkins, Behind the Counter, takes you on a tour of some of the UK’s best-loved independent record shops, showcasing the passion of the owners who are “embedded in the local community” (Steve – Winyl, Manningtree) and dedicated to introducing music fans to their next favourite artists and albums. From Glasgow to Southampton, Isle of Wight to Belfast, music fans are introduced to a new record shop every week whose stories are told through individual episodes released on Tuesdays at 10am on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.

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TVD Live Shots: Palaye Royal, Yonaka, and Starbenders at Eventim Apollo, 2/10

In 2015 I was invited to speak at a digital marketing event during Canadian Music Week in Toronto. While in town, I mapped out the various gigs I planned to see, with the big one being Faith No More during their comeback tour. After Faith No More, I walked to the nearby Hard Rock Cafe, where there was a showcase happening for up-and-comers. One band in particular was hyped up pretty big, and they were set to hit the stage at midnight. Having my camera gear with me and always up for a shoot, I started snapping away. Little did I know that I was capturing a band that was primed and ready to reinvent a genre and ultimately create their own.

What I saw that night in Toronto was three brothers calling themselves Palaye Royale. They had made a name for themselves with their punk rock DIY attitude of doing everything themselves, building their audience, recording independently, and creating a massive buzz. This was a case where the record labels come to them instead of the other way around. Sumerian Records was that label, and as I remember at the time, it was primarily a metal label but starting to broaden its roster.

One could argue they set a precedence for others, including Earache Records with Rival Sons etc., which very likely kept these labels afloat during the dark days of illegal downloads. It’s easy to see why they would be all over a band like Palaye Royale, especially after seeing the show that night. These guys were young dudes, three brothers, who clearly had chemistry playing together, but furthermore, they were fusing two of my favorite genres; glam and early ’70s bluesy rock ‘n’ roll. Not to mention, much of the leg work was already done—they just needed help pushing them to the next level. Enter major record label.

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New Release Section:
Ben Folds,
“Winslow Gardens”

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Ben Folds will release his new album What Matters Most on June 2 via New West Records.

The 10-song set was co-produced by Folds and Joe Pisapia (K.D. Lang, Guster) in East Nashville, TN and features guest appearances by dodie, Tall Heights, and Ruby Amanfu. What Matters Most is Folds’ first studio album since his chart-topping collaboration in 2015 with the string ensemble yMusic.

Folds says, “There’s a lifetime of craft and experience all focused into this one record. Sonically, lyrically, emotionally, I don’t think it’s an album I could have made at any other point in my career.” He adds, “More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful. I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have when you started.”

Today, Folds shares the first new music from What Matters Most with the album highlight “Winslow Gardens,” an off-kilter pop song about losing track of the passing time while isolating with a loved one.

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