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Stephin Merritt Showtunes (Nonesuch) 3 of 5 Stars As Stephin Merritt releases go, the concept behind this one is pretty simple: between 2003 and 2005, Merritt—founder of the Magnetic Fields—wrote the scores for three operas. Then he compiled selections from them onto a single record, named it “Showtunes,” and released it as an album. No grand, sprawling ruminations on age-old concepts (as in “69 Love Songs”); no coy word games (as in 2004?...
...Nonesuch)4/5 StarsAlthough alternative pioneers Wilco have garnered almost as much critical praise for their dynamic concerts as for their genre-bending studio albums, the band’s mid-November release of “Kicking Television” represents the first official effort at documenting their formidable live show.Originally slated as half of a joint CD/DVD release—the DVD was cancelled because singer/song-writer Jeff Tweedy deemed the footage too “claustrophobic”—the double disc album contains 23 songs, mostly culled from the band’s recent studio effort...
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...well-sculpted melodies buried in layers of static, radio noise and percussion, so bewildered executives at the band's record label, Reprise, that they refused to release it. In response, Wilco left Reprise, bought the rights to the album and released it eight months later on the independent label Nonesuch--a saga chronicled in Sam Jones' 2002 documentary, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. The album sold nearly 500,000 copies, easily the most of Wilco's career...
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