1975 proudly mysterious singer-songwriter Matty Healy leads his group to chamber pop with “Part of the Band,” the first song on the album “Being Funny in a Foreign Language,” due out in October. He sings about “Cleansing and Heroin Bing”, “Waxinista’s Tote Bag Chic Barista”, and literary gay liaison. “I was Rambo and he was Paul Verlaine.” He also asks, “Did I wake up ironically?” The production, from string ensemble to carefully selected folk rock to saxophone choir, is all mixed and wandering near the end. It’s a pandemic mess, self-questioning, and boring, and the melody has plenty of room.John Pairless
Alvvays, “Pharmacist”
Kick start the latest single from Canadian dream pop band Alvvays. As soon as vocalist Molly Rankin sings the line, the song suddenly turns into a melancholic melody and a crouching guitar fantasia. My bloody Valentine’s and Japanese breakfast tips hang in a hazy atmosphere, but Rankin’s bittersweet delivery is a bit too early for the opening track of his next album, Blue Rev, “Pharmacist.” Gives a unique emotional attraction like a moving dream that ends in.Lindsay Zoraz
Julien Baker, “Guthrie”
“Guthrie” is a quiet and miserable addition to Julien Baker’s 2021 album “Little Oblivions” from the collection “B-Sides”, which will be released later this month. Like “Little Oblivions,” this song shows what it’s like to be an addict. “No matter what I get, I always need a little more,” she sings. However, while Baker overdubbed into a rock band on “Little Oblivions,” he soloed on “Guthrie,” crying over his mistakes and choosing a comfortable waltz on his guitar. This song is a crisis of conscience and faith, and a humble voice is heard by self-awareness. “I wanted to get better, but that’s not the case,” she says.Palaces
King Princess, “Change Rock”
“A year without separation may have broken us, baby” King Princess sings in the song “Change the Locks” about how pandemic proximity and friction can break relationships. increase. When King Princess (Brooklyn songwriter Michaela Strauss) realizes how bad things have happened, it’s the three-code folk rock that explodes into hard rock. She wants to hold up. I know she can’t.Palaces
English R & B lags behind American innovation by years, sometimes decades. The vocal trio Flo is catching up with Americans behaving like Destiny’s Child in the 1990s. Master recording techniques and use voices, musical instruments, and machines to sharpen self-determined messages and evoke male beliefs. The way Flo juggles individual voices and two or three parts of harmony, flirtation and anger is reminiscent of Destiny’s Child, but definitely “Why do you need to be so immature?” They sing. Don’t you communicate? It’s easy to see who’s wrong, even before the crying baby sample goes into the mix.Palaces
Ghetto Kumbé, “Pila Pila (Trooko Remix)”
Ghetto Kumbé is a group from Bogotá that uses electronic devices to enhance Afro-Colombian drums and socially friendly lyrics. In 2020, he released a powerful self-titled debut album and opened it for Radiohead. The group handed over the tracks of the album to various producers for the album “Ghetto Kumbé Clubbing Remixes” to be released in November. “”Pira Pira “ A brave tribute to the power of drums was recreated by Grammy Award-winning Honduras producer Trooko (who worked on “Residente” and “The Hamilton Mixtape”). He took it a step further, switching the meter from 6/4 to 4/4, moving its fascinating lead vocals to the beginning of the song, and constantly bringing in hopping salsa basslines, electronic foots, jazzy pianos, and twitch drum machines. Hurry up.Palaces
Killer Mike featuring Young Thug, “Run”
Young Thug’s poems, still imprisoned, only add to the urgency of Killer Mike’s first new track, Run, as a solo artist since his important 2012 album, RAP Music. In Run the Jewels’ four fruitful albums, it’s common to hear Mike rap El-P’s kinetic, collage-like beats, but now that Killer Mike can tap. It’s fresh here to hear him link again with the understated veteran NoID, to a smoother flow. “The competition for freedom won’t win,” he wraps the chorus and offers some welcome counterprograms to your standard Independence Day jingoism. ZOLADZ
Domi & JD Beck (featuring Anderson Park), “Take a Opportunity”
Jazz may be one of the only remaining spaces where the term “internet star” still means something. Domi & JD Beck is Exhibit A, a post-jazz Zoomer duo of masters who appear to have jumped out of the cartoon, and its awesome elements are suitable for small screens. Included, hyperactive beats. References to the history of jazz are poured into the aesthetics of speeding up television jingles.Domi and Beck find a champion at Anderson Park, and their debut album “Not Tight” is co-released by his new album. label And Blue Note Records. Reminiscent of lounges, 70’s fusion, trip hop, and breakbeats, this LP offers a non-stop dopamine drip of fate scrolling, with an emphasis on star features such as Thundercat, Snoop Dogg, and Mac DeMarco. .. “Take a Chance” is their moment with Paak, and his seriously wrapped pledge of dedication does not exactly match the soothing atmosphere of the song with the geometrically sound pop hooks sung by Domi and Beck. If you are suffering, keep it against them.Giovanni Russonello
Thai Sean Sorry Trio, “Enchantment”
Tyshawn Sorey, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and MacArthur’s “genius” grant, wrote experimental sweet-length works. Residence composer With an opera company or New system For group improvisation. It’s been a while since everyone really thought he was a “just” jazz drummer. Therefore, for Sorey, recording a standard album with a piano trio is considered a curve ball. Of course, he loves to throw curves. Sorey recently collaborated with pianist Aaron Diehl, one of the standard jazz traditionalists, and versatile bassist Matt Brewer to create an album of lesser-known jazz classics and Canon songs, “Mesmerism.” Was recorded. Horace Silver’s “Enchantment” is usually played as a taut rhythmic samba, but the trio modifies it and Deal applies the rich precision of his harmony to Solei’s loose limb shuffle beats. increase. RUSSONELLO
