June 11 street date. "Big Mess" marks Danny Elfman's first solo collection in more than thirty years, but it's no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot. The songs here call to mind everything from Nine Inch Nails to David Bowie to XTC at times, balancing dense, harmonically complex arrangements with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. Elfman wrote almost all of the record during quarantine, and while the anger, frustration, and isolation of it all is palpable in his delivery, "Big Mess" is about more than simply blowing off steam. In making the space to truly sit with his emotions and write without limitations, Elfman achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, rediscovering his voice and reinventing himself all at once in the process.
June 11 street date. "Big Mess" marks Danny Elfman's first solo collection in more than thirty years, but it's no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot. The songs here call to mind everything from Nine Inch Nails to David Bowie to XTC at times, balancing dense, harmonically complex arrangements with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. Elfman wrote almost all of the record during quarantine, and while the anger, frustration, and isolation of it all is palpable in his delivery, "Big Mess" is about more than simply blowing off steam. In making the space to truly sit with his emotions and write without limitations, Elfman achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, rediscovering his voice and reinventing himself all at once in the process.
September 27 street date. Julia Nunes is a relentlessly personal 6-figure Billboard charting Kickstarter artist and songwriter. That, plus her powerhouse cello-like voice and thought provoking lyricism garnered her a loyal and long standing following that has carried her from playing the ukulele on You Tube to dropping an album on Conan. Her much anticipated new EP "UGHWOW", produced by Juilliard trained composer Shruti Kumar (No Doubt, Vampire Weekend, Alicia Keys, Nas) and mixed by Vira Byramji (Roger Waters & Lucious, Shirley, The Lie) debuted on the Billboard charts #13 Americana/Folk Album Sales, #33 Independent Albums, #12 Heatseekers, #10 Heatseekers Northeast, #9 Heatseekers Pacific. Paste raves, that "the newer material takes a hard turn toward bass-heavy R&B, which showcases her distinctive, low-alto voice and knack for catchy melodies but fills your headphones with gut-punch beats and cavernous vocal effects".
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