Benny Andersson (ABBA) - Piano (2017)

Year: 29 September 2017 (CD 2017)
Label: Mono Music (Sweden), 479 8143
Style: Classical, Instrumental, Piano Music
Country: Stockholm, Sweden (16 December 1946)
Time: 76:48
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 253 Mb

Provided it’s played by a virtuoso, the Piano is one of the most beautiful acoustic instruments to ever grace humanity. As far as virtuosos go, it’s fair to say that Benny Andersson fits that description for his musical prowess is legendary.
While Andersson is clearly the focus here, Piano delivers a collection of songs that were not only written by Andersson but penned in collaboration with other exceptional tunesmiths. From ABBA to Benny Anderssons Orkester to Chess, Piano is a life’s work, reworked for the piano, and it is nothing short of spectacular.
More often than not, however, music is appreciated in the background to numerous other aspects of our lives, but if you have the opportunity to sit and listen, this album will not only captivate you but will likely bring you to tears.
(full version: subjectivesounds.com/musicblog/benny-andersson-piano-album-review)

01. I Let The Music Speak (03:33)
02. You And I (06:43)
03. Aldrig (04:04)
04. Thank You For The Music (03:43)
05. Stockholm By Night (03:15)
06. Chess (03:57)
07. The Day Before You Came (04:36)
08. Someone Else's Story (03:48)
09. Midnattsdans (03:24)
10. Malarskolan (02:12)
11. I Wonder (Departure) (03:43)
12. Embassy Lament (01:27)
13. Anthem (03:19)
14. My Love, My Life (03:46)
15. Mountain Duet (04:33)
16. Flickornas Rum (02:13)
17. Efter Regnet (02:37)
18. Trostevisa (03:33)
19. En Skrift I Snon (05:14)
20. Happy New Year (03:14)
21. I Gott Bevar (03:45)

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Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) - Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie (2017)

Year: June 9, 2017 (CD Jun 9, 2017)
Label: Warner Music UK (Europe), 0190295828318
Style: Pop Rock
Country: U.S. / UK
Time: 39:38
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 298 Mb

Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie (also referred to as simply Buckingham McVie) is a studio album by Fleetwood Mac vocalists Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, released on June 9, 2017. Four of the five "classic members" of Fleetwood Mac are featured on the album; vocalist Stevie Nicks is the sole member absent. The album was recorded at The Village Recorder, where Fleetwood Mac had recorded their Tusk album. Work on the album began soon after Christine McVie rejoined Fleetwood Mac in 2014 and resumed following the conclusion of the band's On with the Show tour. Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie sold over 22,000 units in the United States in its first week and debuted within the top 20. It debuted at No. 5 in the United Kingdom and was certified silver in November 2017 for sales exceeding 60,000 units.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Buckingham_Christine_McVie)

01. Sleeping Around The Corner (03:47)
02. Feel About You (03:27)
03. In My World (04:24)
04. Red Sun (03:15)
05. Love Is Here To Stay (04:25)
06. Too Far Gone (03:20)
07. Lay Down For Free (03:56)
08. Game Of Pretend (04:33)
09. On With The Show (03:46)
10. Carnival Begin (04:40)

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The Flock - Truth - The Columbia Recordings 1969-1970 [2CD] (2017)

Year: 1969-1970 (CD 2017)
Label: Esoteric Recordings (Europe), ECLEC 22606
Style: Jazz Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Time: 65:30, 65:19
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 410, 436 Mb

The Flock was an American, Chicago-based jazz rock band, that released two albums on Columbia Records in 1969 (The Flock) and 1970 (Dinosaur Swamps). The Flock did not achieve the commercial success of other Columbia jazz-rock groups of the era such as Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears, but were recognized for featuring a violin prominently in their music. The violinist, Jerry Goodman, went on to become a member of Mahavishnu Orchestra and a solo artist. They also received some exposure with their release of a cover of The Kinks' "Tired Of Waiting For You" as a single in April 1970.
The Flock had three early singles on Destination Records and one on USA Records, local Chicago labels, recorded between 1966 and 1968. Goodman was not in this line-up but worked as a roadie with the band. All four singles, "Can't You See (That I Really Love Her)", "Are You The Kind", "Take Me Back" and "What Would You Do If The Sun Died?" are available on CD.
The promising first album was further into jazz fusion than either Chicago or Blood Sweat & Tears, influenced by Miles Davis' Bitches Brew album, in which Webb participated, but whose performance was not recorded. The first album was produced by Grammy Award winning producer of jazz and classical albums for Columbia Records John McClure. with liner notes written from the audience at Whisky a Go Go by John Mayall, on July 9, 1969. The band went back into the studio and recorded a second album entitled Dinosaur Swamps, (with Jon Gerber replacing Tom Webb) featuring the hit, "Big Bird." They began work on a third studio album, provisionally titled Flock Rock, but rumours at the time had Columbia Records' Clive Davis raiding The Flock and recruiting Goodman for the Mahavishnu Orchestra project. Glickstein's remembrance of the event was, according to the sleevenotes with The Flock compilation CD Truth, slightly more matter-of-fact: "In reality the band members started going in different musical directions. You know. That old song."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flock_(band))

01. Introduction (04:53)
02. Clown (07:45)
03. I Am the Tall Tree (05:34)
04. Tired of Waiting (04:39)
05. Store Bought - Store Thought (07:00)
06. Truth (15:24)
07. What Would You Do If the Sun Died? (02:48)
08. Lollipops And Rainbows (04:05)
09. Tired of Waiting (Single Version) (02:42)
10. Store Bought - Store Thought (Single Version) (02:44)
11. Clown (Part One) (03:12)
12. Clown (Part Two) (04:38)

01. Green Slice (02:03)
02. Big Bird (05:50)
03. Hornschmeyer's Island (07:25)
04. Lighthouse (05:18)
05. Crabfoot (08:14)
06. Mermaid (04:53)
07. Uranian Sircus (07:13)
08. Chanja (02:38)
09. Atlantians Truckin’ Home (04:50)
10. Afrika (04:34)
11. Just Do It (06:35)
12. Mermaid (Single Version) (02:49)
13. Crabfoot (Single Version) (02:49)

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Cheap Trick - We're All Alright! [Japanese Ed. SHM-CD] (2017)

Year: June 16, 2017 (CD Jun 16, 2017)
Label: Big Machine Records (Japan), POCS-24012
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Rockford, Illinois, U.S.
Time: 53:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 405 Mb

It's difficult for any band or artist to sound enthused after decades of making music. Automatic pilot and rock 'n' roll root rot can easily set in.
There are some exceptions: Paul McCartney has had some late-career gems; same goes for David Bowie and the Monkees. You can add Cheap Trick to that list. They sound positively vibrant and genuinely excited on We're All Alright! 
Unlike many of their contemporaries, Cheap Trick have never broken up, stopped touring or quit making new music. They have also never stopped putting everything they have into what they do either. Coming hot on the heels of last year's Bang Zoom Crazy Hello, We're All Alright!  follows in the footsteps of its predecessor while adding a couple of new twists to the mix.
Guitarist Rick Nielsen welds together riffs borrowed from the Kinks and the Who for the album's first single, "Long Time Coming," while "Nowhere" takes on a Ramones-like charge in its speed attack. Other songs follow a similar path, with no track clocking in at more than four minutes. This pace gives the album a whiplash flow that recalls some of their earliest records.
A few of the songs actually date back several years. "Radio Lover" was put on the shelf in the '90s, and it's rescued from oblivion here as an amphetamine-fueled hard rocker. "Lolita" slaps keyboard sequencers on top of glam-rock boogie. And "She's Alright" features some Bob Dylan-styled phrasing from singer Robin Zander
Cheap Trick also dip into the past by covering Roy Wood again. As they've done in the past with "California Man," "Brontosaurus" and "Rock and Roll Tonight," they take the Move's 1968 song "Blackberry Way" and spin it in their direction.
The band pushes itself on We're All Alright!, turning in enthusiastic and engaging performances throughout. They still sound like a bunch of guys half their age. "Who knows what forever is about?" Zander asks on "The Rest of My Life." He doesn't pretend to know the answer.
Cheap Trick sound like they still have something to prove, and perhaps they do. After a couple of trying and triumphant years -- there was a legal hassle involving former drummer Bun E. Carlos, and they were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 -- they sound ready for their next chapter.
(ultimateclassicrock.com/cheap-trick-were-all-alright-review/)

01. You Got It Going On (03:11)
02. Long Time Coming (03:12)
03. Nowhere (02:45)
04. Radio Lover (02:46)
05. Lolita (03:16)
06. Brand New Name On An Old Tattoo (03:32)
07. Floating Down (03:49)
08. She's Alright (03:39)
09. Listen To Me (03:13)
10. The Rest Of My Life (04:18)
11. Blackberry Way (03:13)
12. Like A Fly (03:22)
13. If You Still Want My Love (04:23)
14. When I Wake Up Tomorrow (Live) (Bonus track) (03:38)
15. The In Crowd (Live) (Bonus track) (04:46)

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Robert Plant (ex Led Zeppelin) - Carry Fire (2017)

Year: 13 October 2017 (CD Oct 13, 2017)
Label: Nonesuch Records (Europe), 7559-79349-3
Style: Rock, Folk, Blues Rock
Country: West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England (20 August 1948)
Time: 49:05
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 320 Mb

Charts: UK #3, AUS #16, CAN #12, GER #10, NLD #29, NOR #9, NZ #7, SWE #12, SWI #7, US #14. UK: Silver
In recent years Robert Plant has been defined by a stylistic restlessness, but his 11th solo album doesn’t deviate wildly in tone from 2014’s Lullaby and ... the Ceaseless Roar. He’s backed once again by the Sensational Space Shifters, who artfully flesh out the rock and folk elements with splashes of bendir, oud and djembe. Lyrically Carry Fire sees Plant address bigger issues, whether the evils of colonialism on New World (for its diametrically opposed perspective, it’s a yin to Immigrant Song’s yang) or nationalism on Carving Up the World Again. Other highlights include the heavy blues and Chrissie Hynde duet on Ersel Hickey’s Bluebirds Over the Mountain, and the knowingly titled The May Queen.
(theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/15/robert-plant-carry-fire-review)
If you’re a Robert Plant fan, you’re probably going to buy this album anyway. Plant, the lead singer and lyricist for the band Led Zeppelin, is a mainstay in the music industry and has built up enough industry cred that he can do whatever the hell he wants. And, at least for his newest solo album, Carry Fire, whatever the hell he wants seems to be a folkish, Americana sound.
This isn’t new ground for him: Plant has previously worked with bluegrass/Americana artist Alison Krauss, and his previous solo albums also had this same sound. This only goes to show how Plant’s made this folky Americana sound his own. Carry Fire is a very chill, very lovely album whose main flaw is that it has a hard time rising from good to great.
(full version: theyoungfolks.com/music/111795/album-review-robert-plant-carry-fire/)
While the three albums he's released since that collaboration with Alison Krauss - 2010's Band of Joy, 2014's Lullaby ... and the Ceaseless Roar and the new Carry Fire - haven't topped it, the onetime Led Zeppelin singer has refused to settle into expectations, unlike so many of his contemporaries who cling to their classic-rock pasts like the past 40 years never happened.
Plant, too, is somewhat stuck in a place he's visited before, but at least the familiar-sounding Carry Fire journeys across the globe in search of those sounds. Once again, he surveys everything from American Appalachian music to Eastern rhythms and textures to populate his songs.
He also makes room for more traditional rock 'n' roll too, pushing against chugging electric guitars and rolling drums on "New World .. " and cooing declarations of love on the acoustic "Season's Song," which wouldn't be out of place on Zeppelin's unplugged third album.
(full version: ultimateclassicrock.com/robert-plant-carry-fire-album-review/)

01. The May Queen (04:14)
02. New World (03:29)
03. Season's Song (04:19)
04. Dance With You Tonight (04:48)
05. Carving Up the World Again... A Wall and Not a Fence (03:55)
06. A Way With Words (05:18)
07. Carry Fire (05:25)
08. Bones of Saints (03:46)
09. Keep It Hid (04:07)
10. Bluebirds Over the Mountain (04:58)
11. Heaven Sent (04:42)

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