Romantic Piano: Limited Seaglass Wave Translucent Vinyl LP The New Pornographers LEATHER LAMINATE

LEATHER LAMINATE

For their first album as Gilla Band

First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings is a thrilling previously unreleased live recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers captured at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on January 14

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Romantic Piano: Limited Seaglass Wave Translucent Vinyl LP The New Pornographers LEATHER LAMINATEAt first, Gia Margaret called her new album Romantic Piano to be a bit cheeky. Its spare, gentle piano works share more spirit with Erik Satie, Emahoy Tsegu Maryam Gubrou and the Marginalia releases of Masakatsu Takagi than they do with, say, a cozy and candlelit date night. But in that cheekiness lies hidden intention: across the gorgeous set, Romantic is suggested in a more classic sense, what the Germans call waldeinsamkeit. Its compositions