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• n  one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc
• n  a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc

• PTI picks and reviews the top 100 music albums.
• PTI picks and reviews the top 100 music albums.
• Key album: Spirit of Music.

• record album

News & Articles

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• Album review: Kaija Saariaho, 'La Passion de Simone'
  Album review: Kaija Saariaho, 'La Passion de Simone' New Music Composer Kaija Saariaho's theatrical meditation on the life and thought of the French mystic Simone Weil is a static and rather moody affair, an openly undramatic series of self-contained scenes ("stations") to a rather murky French libretto by Amin Maalouf. There are moments of sudden glory and invention scattered throughout - the ...
  June 14, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• LeAnn Rimes' Spitfire Album Debuts to Disappointing Sales
  LeAnn Rimes' Spitfire album tanked, selling 10,798 copies in its first week. It debuted at No. 36 on the Billboard charts.
  June 13, 2013 - US Weekly
• Pop album review: Boards of Canada's 'Tomorrow's Harvest'
  The album from the Scottish duo enters a world teeming with beauty. "Tomorrow's Harvest," the fourth album by Scottish ambient electronic duo Boards of Canada, begins with the sound of an audio logo, a quick "Intel inside"-suggestive mnemonic that vanishes as quickly as it arrives. The tones are followed by a moment of silence, and the effect is not unlike the strike of a bell before a ...
  June 11, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in ABC News
  Malia's friend had dropped off an album of the two of them. They've been friends since preschool. I just looked through the pages, the house was empty. It was a little tough,Obama said.
• Simon Cowell in Toronto Star
  In Britain's Got Talent she opened her mouth and the world fell in love with her, which is why her album has been the fastest selling of any woman making her debut,Cowell said.
• Tim McGraw in FOXNews
  I'm saddened and disappointed that my label chose to put out another hits album instead of new music,McGraw said. "I've only had one studio album since my last hits package. It has to be just as confusing to the fans as it is to me."