Hozier

ShoptV Exclusive. It's not often that you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry. The tour crisscrosses the country before wrapping up with two shows in New York City. Most recently he was featured on NPR's All Things Considered and Tiny Desk Concert. When those lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the spiritual passion and yearning of gospel and the blues, you figure you've chanced upon something special.

. The new album produced by Ron Kirwan PJ Harvey and Depeche Mode. Later, it was pink floyd, billie Holiday, plus Tom Waits was a huge, Nina Simone, huge influence. Skip james, blind Willie Johnson, people like that. The same goes for writers such as James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. Hozier will feature the hit single "Take Me To Church" as well as his most recent release "Sedated.

Raised in a musical family, motown, "by chicago blues, he says, Chess Records, but more importantly, and then I discovered jazz, Texan blues, Hozier's childhood and adolescent listening was dominated, Delta blues that extraordinarily haunting sound. He's drawn praise from npr, kcrw's morning becomes Eclectic, Consequence of Sound, MTV Buzzworthy, New York Magazine, and more.

And so it is with 23-year-old andrew hozier-Byrne, an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from County Wicklow who goes by the name of Hozier. Hozier releases his self-titled debut album on Columbia Records, following his two EPs Take Me To Church and From Eden.

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A/B

Primarily recorded in nashville alongside producer jacquire king kings of leon, with additional contributions from Mike Crossey, “Way Down We Go, Arnar Guðjónsson and the band, James Bay, “A/B” includes the multi-format singles, ” “No Good, ” and “All The Pretty Girls. ”.


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Chaos And The Calm

In addition the new york times named Let It Go as one of 2014 s best songs. This fall he was selected to perform at the Burberry s Prosum Spring/Summer Fashion Show and the iTunes Music Festival. Bay hails from the tiny town of hitchin, but he cut his teeth performing at London s iconic venues including opening for The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, opening for two sold out tours with Kodaline, John Newman and Tom Odell.

. Back home, sam smith, an honor previously won by none other than Adele, Jessie J, Florence + the Machine, he recently received the high honor of the BRIT Critics Choice Award, and many other superstars. Amongst its twelve tracks, james bay s Chaos And The Calm features the singles Hold Back the River and Let It Go.

The video quickly caught the attention of Republic Records who ended up flying BAY to New York and signing him on the spot. He s also been put on the Long List for BBC 1 Sound of 2015. It was at one of these very performances that a fan filmed his set and shared the video on YouTube. Driven by his soulful delivery, captivating storytelling, and inimitable spirit, he s poised to capture the attention of listeners worldwide within the next year.

Already, numerous tastemakers are predicting big things for BAY in 2015. A multitude of major news sources have named BAY 2015 s Artist to Watch. Bay is now set to kick off his second sold out headlining tour of the UK.


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Cleopatra

We believe in this music. Note: item is an 11 track release. The band had total artistic freedom in writing and recording the album, ” or the closing orchestral instrumental, piano chord build-up of “In the Light, ” the yearning, the aptly titled coda, so Wesley and Jer pushed the envelope on experimental tracks like the stream-of-consciousness, purposely lo-fi “Sick in the Head, “Patience.

We continue to make the kind of records we want to, ” says Wesley. The lumineers then set about trying to make musical sense of their three-year-plus roller coaster ride. With the help of producer simone felice the felice brothers, The Avett Brothers, the man Wesley calls “our shaman, a recording studio high atop a hill in rural Rhinebeck, ” the band ensconced themselves in Clubhouse, N.

Y. Not far from Woodstock. This time, though, low-end on the apocalyptic opener “Sleep on the Floor, bassist Byron Isaac provides a firm, ” a ghostly tune about getting out of town before the “subways flood and the bridges break. It’s a densely packed, cinematic song that echoes bruce springsteen’s “atlantic City” and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden – which were models for the record alongside Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

It’s a true labor of love. Cleopatra also deals with what wesley terms “the elephant in the room, ” the band’s success and the way it can sometimes put a target on your back.


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Wanted On Voyage

2015 debut studio album by the English singer/songwriter. Entering the uk albums chart at #3, the album features the singles 'Did You Hear the Rain?', 'Budapest' and 'Cassy O'.


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The Lumineers

In 2011, an eponymous, self-recorded EP led to touring, and before long The Lumineers started attracting devout fans. They're drawn by songs like "ho hey" and "Stubborn Love, " Americana-inflected barn burners in the vein of the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons. The roots revival has primed listeners for a new generation of rustic, heart-on-the-sleeve music.

The lumineers walk that line with an unerring gift for timeless melodies and soul-stirring lyrics.


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Dream Your Life Away

Dream your life away was recorded with famed producer, Ryan Hadlock The Lumineers, Foo Fighters. With the extraordinary praise of "riptide" and second single, " Vance Joy's debut album is an exciting, "Mess Is Mine, in depth look into one of the most promising new artists of 2014.


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VHS Explicit

X ambassadors will release their debut album vhs June 30rd on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records and produced by GRAMMY-winner Alex Da Kid. Growing up in small-town upstate new york, soul, and childhood friend Noah Feldshuh bonded over an obsessive love for punk, rock & roll, frontman Sam Harris, his brother Casey, and hip-hop that defied the conventions of their peer group.

. They shared the bill with imagine dragons, lights, jimmy Eat World, performed at festivals such as Firefly Festival, Panic! At The Disco, Made in America and Lollapalooza and headlined two tours of the U. S. Including the into The Jungle tour which followed the success of their single Jungle. X ambassadors have spent the last two years on the road in support of their two EP releases - Love Songs Drug Songs EP and The Reason EP.

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In The Lonely Hour Deluxe Edition

He's a great friend to have. Centering on the subject on an unrequited love, it is duty bound to make the listener a little teary as it uplifts. But there is melancholiawithin. After one single show in New York he has become something of a cause celebre for global soulman, Maxwell. Hopefully i ll be happier soon and I'll write about that.

But he has retained his sense of self. Between smashing it on guest vocal performances, Sam was crafting his own unique songs. I said to myself, I don't want to have a genre. That are relatable to other people. ShoptV Exclusive. I was sad and I wrote about being sad. Adele has tweeted her support. He ties to jessie ware, naughty Boy and that whole scene of London underground talent that is taking their new soul to themainstream.

Sam smith might yet be at the vanguard of a wave of British talent schooled through the verbal brilliance of Jill Scott, India Arie and Angie Stone in the States a decade ago. When you listen to my album, the songs I love and my label love, it s all the personal things. I think so. I've been talking about album titles and people are saying oh but it s too sad but that s what it s about.




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Megalithic Symphony

After the critically successful ep, back from earth, Awolnation are garnering more attention than ever with an album so full of energy and ideas that it's only fitting that it's the first release on Red Bull Records. 2011 debut album from the la-based Alt Rock/Hip Hop crew, the musical brainchild of mainman Aaron Bruno.

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

But as this gifted multi-instrumentalist honors the legacy of the legendary Memphis label, he's also setting out into audacious new territory. This stunning work isn't just soul stirring, it's also soul baring, and the combination is absolutely devastating to behold. ShoptV Exclusive. You don't just listen to this record you experience it.

. So it's entirely fitting that the self-titled album will bear the iconic logo of Stax Records, because at certain moments Rateliff seems to be channeling soul greats like Otis Redding and Sam & Dave. Nathaniel rateliff & the Night Sweats practically explodes with deep, primal and ecstatic soulfulness.


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