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Soundcheck CD Picks of the Week
Each week, the Soundcheck staff digs through their inboxes for the best, catchiest, or strangest music they can find.
Georgie James: Places (Saddle Creek)
Take one Washington D.C. punk rocker, add one heartfelt singer-songwriter, and you get the hyper-energetic candy pop duo Georgie James. On their full-length debut, Places, Davis and Burhenn pump out irresistible hooks and harmonies. --Joel Meyer
Places is available for purchase at amazon.com
Michael Holt: Windows
Once a member of a critically acclaimed but woefully underappreciated band called The Mommyheads, this former New Yorker has since moved to Toronto and has been putting out albums under his own name for a few years. His songs range from the sublime to the surreal in any given tune, all sung in a lovely tenor.
--Irene Trudel
For more information, please visit Michael Holt's website: http://www.mommyheads.com/holt.html
Tunng: Good Arrows
The term "folktronica" was coined to try to describe this oddly-named UK sextet and their signature sound: a blend of elliptical storytelling and folksy acoustic guitars with the production techniques of ambient and glitch electronica. But on this, their third full-length CD, Tunng goes for a richer, more accessible pop sound. --John Schaefer
Good Arrows is available for purchase at amazon.com
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado: Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Lucerne Festival Edition)
The name Lucerne Festival Orchestra, a young, multi-national ensemble based in Switzerland, was founded only five years ago. It’s now slated to open Carnegie Hall’s 2007-08 season next week. This new recording of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony shows them at their finest.
--Brian Wise
For more information, please visit the website of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra: http://e.lucernefestival.ch/page/content/view.asp?MenuID=3034&ID=3179&Menu=13&Item=15
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