Recommended Pop: Baroque Pop music (#1 - #40)
UMBRELLA TREE: The Church & The Hospital
Bohemian bookworm prog-pop.
Recommended if you like The Fiery Furnaces, Arcade Fire.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
THE DIMES: The Silent Generation
Sunny day indie-pop you can revel in.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, Death Cab for Cutie.CD price: $12.97
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Radio & Recording Rarities, Volume 25
Rare performances by popular artists from radio and records.
Recommended if you like Arthur Collins, Byron Harlan.MP3 price: $10.00
SIR HAAKON & THE POPULAR MUSICIANS: What Is To Come...?
As if Paul Mc Cartney wakes up Nick Drake and John Lennon: and all 3 go for a trip in the English countryside.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CONTRANOVA: Infinity In All Directions
Chamber pop, smart lyrics catchy melodies backed by bassoons, bass clarinet, vibes contra-bassoon, trombone and harp
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.00
ARMS AND LEGS: Arms and Legs
One guy, a guitar, some strings, and a '60s UK flair, make up these beautiful folk-pop concoctions.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GRETA GERTLER & THE EXTROVERTS: Edible Restaurant
Greta's new, tasty pop exploration into the meaning of food (and more), recorded with brilliant New York-based tuba rock band THE EXTROVERTS and mixed by master chef, Bryce Goggin.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CANTINERO: Better For The Metaphor
Multi layered, thoughtful Pop Music for the whole family.
Recommended if you like Rufus Wainwright, Andrew Bird.CD price: $9.89
JOANIE MENDENHALL: On a String
"Pop smarts with a keen melodic sense and an inviting old-school sensibility." (SD Union Tribune)
CD price: $13.95
GREGORY PEPPER & HIS PROBLEMS: Gregory Pepper & His Problems
Homespun baroque-pop from the city of Guelph, Ontario.
CD price: $12.97
MICHAEL WEBSTER: Report
Mind-blowind psychedelic pop songs that change speed and style every couple of seconds.
CD price: $7.50 / MP3 price: $4.95
NICOLE RENAUD - DAMEKUTA: Le Gris Remix
French lounge music.
Recommended if you like Buddha Bar, hotel costes.MP3 price: $4.00
THE LAVA BROTHERS: Waking Birds Will Harmonize
Smart pop featuring meticulously crafted songs, intricate arrangements, and lush harmonies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
BENJAMIN BRACKETT: Hear Ye Hear Ye
Plangent, melancholy, and sweet; this album blends folk, pop, and indie rock sensibilities into an album that is at once deceptively simple and rife with grand themes.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
LUCIA IMAN: Lucia Iman
Impressionist pop, indie folk, retropop, Jazz infused, Baroque pop, Acoustic vocalist like Joni Mitchell meets Feist, soulful delivery, intimate phrasing, introspective lyrics
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
MILLBROOK: Cathedrals
Quirky and orchestral; soaring and theatrical; pop/rock for lovers of Rufus Wainwright, Queen, The Beatles, and Jon Brion.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SWEETBLEEDERS: The Lightning Bug Luau
Sweetbleeders craft enduring melodies and surround them with a variety of musical textures in The Lightning Bug Luau, their third release which integrates spastic guitars, marching horns and barroom piano with their peculiar brand of alt-rock and Baroque
CD price: $7.00
THE TORN ACLS: Cedar-by-the-sea
Moody, often uptempo indie pop. A carefully arranged patchwork of Rhodes, glockenspiels, melodicas, Casio keyboards, saw, and various other devices.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
SHENANDOAH DAVIS: We; Camera
Classical-infused old-timey baroque-klezmeric folk.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
YA YA BOOM: Isn't Pretty
Firecracker indie rock with occasional two-tone beats & funk and/or jazz timing.
Recommended if you like Kate Smith, Tsunami Bomb.CD price: $10.00
THE BRIGADIER: The Rise and Fall of Responsibility
Quirky, melodic and ambitious pop rock.
CD price: $12.97
ANDREW: A Beautiful Story
Classic pop melodies with real strings; file under baroque pop.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
PAULA KELLEY: Nothing/Everything
A grand collection of pop bridging the gap between her power-pop roots and the baroque pop she's making today.
CD price: $9.97
CHIMP: can't stop, on fire
"This is baroque pop at its finest, recalling not only the High Llamas, but more pertinently Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson.'' - Totally Wired Magazine
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
SHENANDOAH DAVIS: Our Favorite Idols
A home-recorded collection of gothic ballads, lackadaisical sea shanties and dreamy wanderings.
Recommended if you like Cat Power, Joanna Newsom.MP3 price: $5.00
ALEXANDRA DAY: No Castles No Moats
Vocal versatility, ease, and sincerity blend with classically trained piano playing to create an evocative pop sound infused with jazz, classical, middle eastern, and folk elements.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANN VRIEND: When We Were Spies
An epic cinematic pop album of heart-wrenching and triumphant love songs, both personal and political.
CD price: $13.00
JAKE SHILLINGFORD: Written Large
A grand collection of acoustic pop ballads with piano,cello and harpsichord. Baroque pop.
Recommended if you like The Divine Comedy, The Postal Service.CD price: $12.97
BOURGEOIS HEROES: Come Out and Play with Bourgeois Heroes
Fans of 1960's baroque pop and sloppy garage rock will eat up this new EP by New England's favorite and cutest duo, Bourgeois Heroes. It's got everything one needs from tap shoes to a string quartet, recalling the Zombies, the Pastels & Jon Brion.
CD price: $7.00
MARIÉ: Marié
Tastefully done art pop with electronic influences lead by a gentle voice and soothing melodies. Telling and introspective lyrics supported by a strong harmonic foundation, woven together with elements of jazz and rock.
CD price: $15.97 / MP3 price: $8.00
CHRIS LAMBERT: Two Guns
A 19 year-old wordsmith and multi-instrumentalist paints vividly haunting scenes with an acoustic guitar and a unique combination of instruments not commonly heard in contemporary music.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MAMMOTH LIFE: Kaleidoscopic Art Pop
Shiny happy pop music with layered melodies & tight vocal harmonies.
CD price: $11.50
STEVE KUSABA: The Tunnel 2007 Remix!
The style is "Omni". This refers to a mixing of all types of musical genres, procedures and instruments. The more homogeneous the mix the better, the melodies themes and motifs must work in all places. (Have you ever heard a pop song in muzak when it just
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SYLVARLUXE: And Then She Heard the Echo of the Big Bang
Experimental cerebral art pop-with-a-wink. Tuetonic nightclub reverie; decadent deconstruction with cinematic string indulgences pitted against shards of electric guitar, roaming funk bass, and a chanteuse in a bachelor pad.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE NATIONAL PEP: Love Punks Want To Make You Cry
If Syd Barret was in Queen, if Smiley Smile rather than Pepper had revolutionized music, if Ogden Nash had written lyrics for the Lovin' Spoonful, they wouldn't have made music that sounds very much like this.
MP3 price: $1.00
PATRIC STEEL: Days Gone By
Concentrated pop rock, Baroque and Celtic all in one blast by an artist with rarefied material.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
THE COLOR GUARD: Cornucopia (EP/DVD)
With layered guitars and imaginative melodies, New York's most inventive co-ed pop foursome has created a sound where spheres of prog, metal, psychedelia, and first-rate pop intersect.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
BRAD BROOKS: Spill Collateral Love
Second release from singer-songwriter Brad Brooks. Atmospherically moody concoctions of disturbed circus mania, or orchestrated pop songs for the common criminal.
CD price: $10.00
