Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Free Design, “Butterflies Are Free: The Original Recordings 1967-72”

“Sorry – only one group like this to a generation,” renowned engineer-producer Phil Ramone wrote on the back cover of The Free Design’s 1968 sophomore album You Could Be Born Again.  After over 50 years, The Free Design are still a singular group, difficult to pigeonhole.  Their gentle, even childlike style has frequently landed them in the sunshine pop genre, but that match was never quite right: not only were they from New York, but their sound lacked the brightness and even brashness that characterizes much of that genre.  Some of their…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 27

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!  To our U.S. readers, we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and to our readers around the world, we hope you’re staying safe and enjoying a lot of great music in these most challenging of times. Cee Lo Green, Cee Lo’s Magic Moment (Real Gone Music)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our friends at Real Gone Music have a Christmas-green color vinyl edition of Cee Lo’s Magic Moment, the 2012 holiday album by neo-soul icon Cee Lo Green.  Boasting an eclectic range of Christmas-themed tunes (among them…

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