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Music Box Opera

Delerium sets tracklist for Music Box Opera; free download of title track

Vancouver Electronic legends, Delerium have announced an October 30 release date for Music Box Opera. The new record will be their first studio album in 6 years.

Delerium has come to be known for pairing amazing vocalists with their ethereal Synths. Past colloaborations include the likes of Sarah McLachlan (Silence), Kristy Thirsk (Flowers Become Screens, Returning), Leigh Nash Innocente, Run For It), Emily Haines (Stopwatch Hearts), Matthew Sweet (Daylight) and more.

Some of their longtime collaborators like Thirsk, Nash and Jaël are back, back it is the new collaborators that have use drooling. Honey-voiced Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers William, Ormonde, Lotte Kestner), Azure Ray and Leona Naess are but a few scheduled to appear on Music Box Opera.
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Anna-Lynne Williams

Under The Covers: With Anna-Lynne Williams

With her honey-tinged tones, Anna-Lynne Williams is one of our favorite female vocalists. Over the years, she has released a bevy of material, collaborating with The Chemical Brothers (Hold Tight London) Au Revoir Borealis (The World Is Too Much With Us) and John Grant amongst others, 3 studio albums and 3 EPs with the Ethereal Indie band Trespassers William, Ormonde (with Robert Gomez) and a solo Folk project called Lotte Kestner.

Thankfully, there is a never a shortage of beautiful material coming out from Anna-Lynne, but even better is that fact that, like us, she has quite an affinity for cover songs.
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Please Please Please - A Tribute To The Smiths

Under The Covers: Please Please Please tribute to The Smiths

It’s becoming pretty standard for bands to cover The Smiths these days. Some covers are completely unnecessary, and some are very memorable such as Dream Acadamy’s take on Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want from Ferris Beuler and Love Spit Love’s version of How Soon Is Now. Continuing on with the tradition, American Laundromat Records has just put out a compilation of 20 indie artists taking on their favorite song from The Smiths.

This album features contributions from several of Strangeways favorite artists.
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