Recent Relaxation Releases

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  Pat Metheny
  Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)
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  This live trio outing with Marcus Gilmore and James Francies offers older material and new work played with elasticity, adventure, and warmth.

  - Thom Jurek
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  The Beach Boys
  Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf …
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  Dozens of previously unreleased tracks join remasters of two original albums from a curious and creatively rich phase of one of rock's most important legacies.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Robben Ford
  Pure
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  On his first instrumental album since 1997, the guitar master delivers a wonderfully diverse and balanced collection of funky originals.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Booker T. & the MG's
  The Complete Stax Singles, Vol. 2
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  The 20 tracks on this series' second volume completes the portrait of the band's Stax run, offering hits, misses, and surprises.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Colleen Green
  Cool
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  After stripping away layers of lo-fi punk-pop noise, Green's third album is a batch of unassuming songs that follow the '90s alt-rock playbook.

  - Tim Sendra
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  Quickly, Quickly
  The Long and Short of It
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  Lo-fi beatmaker transitions into vibrant singer/songwriter with electronic production tendencies on this collection of vibrant, warm, and rapidly changing sounds.

  - Fred Thomas