Happy Belated Record Store Day!

I realize I’m almost a week late with this, but I felt the need to share my own discoveries as I wandered the streets of lower Manhattan looking for the best choices in records. Here’s what I found.

The second studio album of artist and producer M83 of Midnight City fame, Dead Cities is an entirely instrumental journey through one of the most beautiful electronic soundscapes in recent years.

 

Beirut's debut album brings the wonders or acoustic strings and accordion and combines them with a beautiful classical tenor voice to bring you a true marker in Indie Folk music.

 

One of the most ambitious and successful soul albums of all time, Songs in the Key of Life is a double album that belongs in any music lover's collection.

 

The famed sophomore release that includes Message in a Bottle and Walking On The Moon, among other great tracks.