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Jill Barber Homemaker
Outside Music • Folk
Guest Artist: Slow Leaves
Jill Barber returns to her folk roots with her new album, delivering 10 quietly profound songs about the complexities of motherhood, marriage, and the struggle to feel at home in one’s own identity. 15429481 $18.99
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 10
Shania Twain • Queen of Me
Republic Records • Country Shania Twain’s sixth original full-length album is her most triumphant-feeling body of work: an album about standing in your own power and worshipping yourself. It features the lead single Waking Up Dreaming. 15487527 $18.99 Parental Advisory
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 3
Steve Hill Dear Illusion
No Label Records • Pop/Rock The acclaimed singer-songwriter celebrates his 25th year as a recording artist with this release. Known over the last ten years as a one-man band, Steve Hill shares the spotlight with a horn section. 15464272 $24.99
Charles Richard-Hamelin & Andrew Wan Schumann The Three Violin Sonatas
Analekta • Classical After recording the sonatas for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, a triptych that won numerous awards, Andrew Wan and Charles Richard-Hamelin continue their fruitful collaboration. 15464221 $27.99
Mathieu Gaudet Schubert The Wanderer
Analekta • Classical Schubert: The Wanderer by pianist Mathieu Gaudet is the seventh volume in his wonderful collection The Complete Sonatas and Major Works for Piano of the great Austrian composer Franz Schubert. 15464222 $27.99
Black Ox Orkestar Everything Returns
Constellation • World After a 15-year hiatus, the original lineup of Black Ox Orkestar has reconvened for a new album. It is an incisively atmospheric, melancholic, yet resolute album of uniquely modern Jewish folk music. 15486638 $22.99
AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2
poolblood Mole
Next Door Records • Pop/Rock poolblood, the musical nom de plume of Toronto’s Maryam Said, is an ethereal spirit of punk rock, swirling and dancing in the air with a collection of gorgeously orchestrated bedroom pop music. 15471959 $18.99
AVAILABLE JANUARY 13
Maya Killtron Persimmon
Love Touch Records • R&B Singer-songwriter, violinist, and producer Maya Killtron releases her sophomore album. A mix of modern boogie, funk, string quartet, and yacht rock, the record is a definitive coming of a certain age for the Toronto native. 15389870 $24.99
AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2
Leland Whitty Anyhow
Innovative Leisure • Jazz Whitty’s project is a departure from the improvisationfocused collaborative band that has made his name. The album title references Whitty’s do-it-yourself approach to composition, production, and multiinstrument performance. 15486163 $19.99
