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We enjoyed ourselves immensely at today’s in-store show, experiencing unique, inspiring, genre-blurring music, courtesy of NATHAN BOWLES, CASEY TOLL and REX MCMURRY. A good time was had by all, some ears were opened, toes were tappin’, it was all good. If you missed it, we have Nathan & Co.’s new album PLAINLY MISTAKEN in-stock on vinyl LP & CD.

On Glazed, *repeat repeat deliver a batch of songs entirely true to the album’s title: sugary and sticky and impossibly shiny, all glistening harmonies and candy-coated hooks. But beneath the gloss lies something more jarring and jagged, a raw vitality generated by the Nashville band’s buzzy rhythms

The first thing that hits is the funk. Ellison’s more upbeat productions have always had a squelchy, roly-poly quality, but thick wah-wahs and clavinet gives the beginning of Flamagra the feel of mid-’70s Stevie Wonder. Boisterous jams with Anderson .Paak (“More”) and George Clinton (“Burning Down The House”) come off like Ellison strutting

Each song is dedicated to a corresponding body part, which is weird but also delightful. On “Until The Next Full,” she sings, “Our eyeballs are hollow/but presently hold shape/around a gooey filling” is obviously dedicated to her eyes, as is the sultry “Thang” with its purring demand that you “sink into your hip,”