Hundreds of CDs are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most recent Music CDs for adults.
REASONABLE WOMAN (CD)
Sia's first proper album since 2016 is so filled to the brim with pop perfection, it almost overwhelms with how effortless it is for her to craft such instantly connectable songs. The collection is everything Sia does best, and the sonic equivalent of a myriad of things: an empowering embrace, secrets told late at night, going to the best party in the world, the vulnerability of declaring you love someone, the steadfast determination to keep going, even if your love isn't returned; the messiness of being human; the exuberance of being human. In essence, it is life happening to us,...
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View REASONABLE WOMAN (CD)CAN WE PLEASE HAVE FUN (CD)
Kings of Leon are coming back big with their 9th full-length studio album, Can We Please Have Fun. As the title suggests, it's a document of one of this era's great rock n' roll bands cutting loose, trying new things, and, yes, having some fun. Recorded at Dark Horse studio and produced with new collaborator Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Florence + the Machine) the album sees a new side of Kings of Leon. On the new album, the band harkens back to their gritty origins while simultaneously finding new gears. It's the sound of a band unified in vision and...
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View CAN WE PLEASE HAVE FUN (CD)ROCKMAKER (CD)
The cheekiest band in the land is back with their twelfth studio album. Accompanied by guests Debbie Harry, Slash, and Pixies' Frank Black, The Dandy Warhols wrangle paranoia, untangle anxious discontent, and lust after life while the dance grooves go deeper, heady drones get weirder, and riffage fit for bong rips hammers. This is the Dandy's clearest statement yet, at no sacrifice to their outré leanings. This is the sound of outsider alt-psych fixtures looking in as the walls come down.
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The music on Deeper Well, the seven-time Grammy winner's fifth album, is almost chimeric. Rolling acoustic guitars, puffy clouds of strings and synth, warm bass punctuations, layered harmonies, moments of Celtic melody, and plenty of room on the tracks for Musgraves's silvery vocals. On the bright, almost folky title track, the 30-something songstress surveys her life and priorities, recognizing what feeds her and drains her, and even examines the childhood she's left behind on her way to now. Saturn returns, cardinals embody a dead friend, love is given and taken, streets rush by, belongings are packed and old chapters deserted,...
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View DEEPER WELL (CD)BEST OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (CD)
A collection of original songs spanning his storied 50-year recording career, from 1973's Greeting from Asbury Park, NJ to 2020's Letter To You. It will be available as an eighteen-track set. The collection will span early-career favorites like "Growin' Up" and "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)," staples of Springsteen's live shows from "Dancing In The Dark" to "The Rising," best-selling breakouts like "Born To Run" and "Hungry Heart," as well as recent releases "Hello Sunshine" and "Letter To You." Here, these career-spanning works appear together in one set for the first time. The packaging includes archival photos and a new essay.
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View BEST OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (CD)SHIP TO SHORE (CD)
When Richard Thompson began writing songs for his latest album, the artist was instinctively drawn to his own musical roots, employing them in the service of fashioning a deep and diverse twelve-track collection that pulls from various styles, genres and eras, but remains unmistakably Richard Thompson.
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View SHIP TO SHORE (CD)HERE IN THE PITCH (CD)
The fourth album from the beloved, beguiling songwriter Jessica Pratt, was written and recorded between her home of Los Angeles and Brooklyn over the course of three years. Pratt enlivens her timeless, placeless folk sensibilities with newfound instrumentation and an expanded ensemble, both under the influence of '60s spectral pop. Whereas Pratt's 2019 record Quiet Signs floated elegantly in the ether, this album is entrenched in more earthen characteristics, as the title suggests, and her craft is emboldened with a newfound gravitas.
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View HERE IN THE PITCH (CD)CLANCY (CD)
Three years after releasing Scaled and Icy, twenty one pilots return with a brand new album. They have been giving fans cryptic teases of what is to come, including the single Overcompensate.
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