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Hinds -- The Prettiest Curse -- blue wax

I have the first two HInds albums and a couple of 7"s and every once in a while I throw them on to see if I should finally get rid of them, but I always end up putting them back in the stacks. This new album is different. This is (almost) the album I wanted in the first place. The awkward, skeletal, amateurishness is (almost) gone. The first half, especially, is very catchy, a summer album for sure.
 
Vis-à-Vis - Obaa Mansah
Balla et Ses Balladins
Orchestre Black Santiago - Abalo
Angelique Kidjo - Celia
44th Move

I went on my first foreign trip for ages yesterday and arrived back to find this fabulous haul. Totally wonderful releases from Ghana, Guinea and Benin, plus what feels like a companion piece to Remain In The Light for Angelique Kidjo (and is just as good, featuring Tony Allen on drums) and yet another amazing record from the UK jazz scene.

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Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Avotche Voun & Houilivou
Gnonnas Pedro - Mi Gnonnou Le

These brilliant 7s also turned up - all super rare, had to amend two of them on Discogs. My first Gnonnas Pedro single; I rather fear this is a slippery slope like many other slippery slopes I've taken...

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Some killer albums (plus an unexpected one) arrived today.

John Coltrane - Anthology (Impulse!, 1974 Japan-only Box Set)
I have had this on my wantlist for ages and happen to see a fantastic looking copy on eBay. I placed a bid for less than its lowest sale price on Discogs and, unbelievably, ended up winning it. Its in stellar shape, usually these older boxes have a lot of damage but this is absolutely fantastic. The records have obviously been well looked after as well, no marks and housed in some decent inners. Also comes with a booklet which, ounderstandably, is mostly in Japanese apart from a 'scanned' letter from the president of Impulse!

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Archie Shepp & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Looking At Bird (Steeplechase, 1981 First US Pressing)
J. Cole - KOD (Dreamville, 2020 Limited Pink Pressing with Alternative Cover Art)
Another one I have been keeping an eye out for. The more I listen to Steeplechase records the more its becoming one of my favourite labels. Pretty affordable records as well, and the music is more than worth it. The J Cole is a funny one as I never actually expected or ordered it. Back in 2018 he released a signed pre-order copy of KOD but massive delays meant that people have only just now recieved copies of it. I cancelled my order just under 2 years ago and got a full refund, however regardless if you cancelled or not they sent out these free limited copies as an apology.
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My friend bought me Eminem Music To Be Murdered By Red/Black Splatter version its excellent 👌🏼🔥 you can see it top row and also the same friend (we only know each other through Instagram about 6 years now and we both love hiphop) is moving apartments and I helped him today shift some Kallax in my van. He also gave me all of this in a big bag today including a mint OG copy of Ice Cube The Predator 😮 whatta guy 🙌🏼
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Jmcg85 said:
My friend bought me Eminem Music To Be Murdered By Red/Black Splatter version its excellent 👌🏼🔥 you can see it top row and also the same friend (we only know each other through Instagram about 6 years now and we both love hiphop) is moving apartments and I helped him today shift some Kallax in my van. He also gave me all of this in a big bag today including a mint OG copy of Ice Cube The Predator 😮 whatta guy 🙌🏼
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Damn, I need better friends!
 
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This just showed up today. The lady from Eerie Wanda backed by members of Best Coast, Swans and Melvins? Yes, please! THIS IS GREAT!

BTW: It sounds like MBV if you could hear the vocals. Kinda. And then it starts to sound like Sebadoh after a while.
 
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Skalap said:
Fresh deliveries with two Blue Note 80th reissues, two Kendra Morris including our beautiful AoTM, three J-Jazz records shipped from Tokyo, replacement copies from VMP and the (veeeeeery) long awaited 2019 membership guft from Cherry Tree/The National club.

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It finally arrived! haha. I keep seeing if The National might post more copies of vol 2 on their website every once in awhile...i'm hoping that they add some right before vol 3 comes out.
 
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