Where GaGa excels, and why she crossed over, is how she doesn’t leave all this as a collection of hooks and rhythms, she shapes them into full-blown pop songs, taking the time to let the album breathe with chillout ballads and percolating new wave.
As if Lady Gaga‘s debut album, “The Fame,” wasn’t loaded with enough hits-four No. 1s on Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40 chart, to be exact-the set’s companion EP boasts eight new tracks, nearly all of which are worthy of heavy rotation.
For once, Gaga’s quotidian performance-art stunts can be heard in the sound of her music: ARTPOP brims with blindingly vivid, jubilantly executed, idiosyncratic pop.
Sharp, bruised, and blunt. Live Through This collects Hole’s best, including Violet and Doll Parts, on a 180g LP reissue of their 1994 classic. Short, loud, and quietly furious.
Linda Perry - Let It Die Here 2LP (desert glass vinyl): a raw, confessional double LP of 17 songs about grief and release. From 'Balboa Park' to the title track, Perry's voice is blunt and cinematic. Gatefold pressing.
Comprised of members Olu and WowGr8, the pair met as freshmen at Mays High School in Southwest Atlanta and were deeply influenced by their surroundings.