Academic - Sitting Pretty Condition:New Beethoven's late string quartets rank

Beethoven's late string quartets rank among the glories of the string quartet literature

and the 'symphonic fragments' from Le Martyre de saint Sébastien fashioned by André Caplet less than a year after the work's first performance

enjoyable and nostalgic journey through an era in the USA when pop music was an antidote to some difficult social

such as the slow variation movement of K285b

it's restless intensity both unsettling and transcendent

Academic - Sitting Pretty Condition:New Beethoven's late string quartets rankIrish indie rock band The Academic release their sophomore album titled Sitting Pretty. Produced by Nick Hodgson (Dua Lipa, Mark Ronsoand), Sitting Pretty is an album about navigating life in your 20s; the uncertainties and the ever shifting sense of self. The album is a statement of the band ready to announce themselves properly, far beyond the Irish neighborhoods that already claim them as hometown heroes.