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Also, if you're into Durand, check out J.P. Bimeni and the Black Belts. Been listening to their album Free Me a lot lately, it's really good. Plus, his backstory is pretty insane. This is the description from Rough Trade: The latest great new soul voice, following Leon Bridges and Durand Jones This is the first album from Burundian-born royal family descendant JP Bimeni who’s been based in London since the early 2000s. Musical director Eduardo Martinez and songwriter Marc Ibarz wrote the songs. His backing band are Spanish funk outfit The Black Belts. Horns kick off with a slick smooth James Brown slide of a funk-footed slick as all get out monster. Easy grooves are a rolling tide and a veritable force of soul/nature. Brass stabs accentuate the soul vibes alongside broken-hearted intros, tremeloed guitars and everything you love about the sounds of Stax, Motown and Atlantic’s 1960s output. On his debut album Free Me, Burundian-born JP Bimeni astonishes with a voice that recalls Otis Redding in his prime whilst resonating with the soul of Africa. A refugee who’s been living in London since the early 2000s, Bimeni sings songs of love and loss, hope and fear, with a conviction that comes from the extraordinary experiences life has thrown at him. A descendant of the Burundian royal family, Bimeni fled Burundi aged 15 during the 1993 civil war. Following three attempts on his life - at school he watched as his schoolmates were murdered, he was then chased by motorcycle militia-men and finally poisoned by doctors in hospital - he was given refugee status and fled to the UK where he’s remained ever since. Music has provided the solace that Bimeni has needed to move forward with his life: “If I didn’t have music I don´t know how I would have survived everything”, he says. With it’s classic 60s-sounding Motown and Stax-inspired grooves the album was written by musical director Eduardo Martínez and songwriter Marc Ibarz and Bimeni imbues these tales of love and loss with his tragic experiences making Free Me a deep soul soundtrack to his pained life: “When I sing I feel like I’m cleansing myself: music is a way for me to forget”.

thats fair. I just feel like its alot crammed in the sleeve. Its just asking to get a lengthwise crease on the spine.

Lowered expectations ftw.

Since I liked that J.P. Bimeni so much I explored other titles released by that label (based in Spain, it seems) and came across a release by David Hooper & The Silverbacks called "It's My Turn" - also great stuff! It came out in 2015 but copies are still available via some retailers.

i’m sorry

With the controversy surrounding Orri's sexual accusations and him leaving the band, I would imagine any project(s) that involved him would be put on hold until the dust settles.

Cool, thanks for the heads up. I'll be on the lookout. Tickets are still available here and the show is tomorrow. Will let the board know how it is, I've read mixed reviews of their live show. They're also opening for Interpol so I'll catch them there as well, much different dynamic though.

Same here. I just can't justify the shipping costs anymore. A local store usually has a pretty decent selection of Erased Tapes' stuff, so hopefully it'll be there soon enough.

I am very disappointed with how this game turned out. Being a Bethesda game, even with Fallout 4 being a departure from the earlier games, I held out hope. But even my worst expectation of how the game would turn out seems like it would have been way better than what they released. This type of quality that they released has me seriously worried for Starfield, and especially Elder Scrolls 6.

Hazy Green looks killer

The subscribers variant? Msg the band. They had some on tour, maybe they still have some.

Just saw preorder for Splendor Solis on Amazon.ca (Dec21st). This excites me and hopefully at least one of you!

binged Maniac and Elite over thanksgiving, both series were really great!

More like the Slap Signal.

Dude I could literally kiss you right now. Obviously pre-ordered with the swiftnesses of a thousand pantsless Jack Black's running out of burning building...

Looks like they're switching all of the Oxnard webstore vinyl orders to red vinyl, so heads up for anyone who's biased against colored vinyl

And they're gone. Never to be seen again. Except on eBay.