NToM #50
Blues Rock, Post-Punk Funk, Electronic R&B, Jazz, Modern Classical
Hey everyone — first off, sorry for going quiet these past few months.
Life.
In an effort to keep this going, I’m going to focus on creating a new issue when I find an artist or album that truly captures my interest instead of searching through the new albums each week just to find content. So, it may not be every Monday, but I do hope to have a bit more consistent output. I hope you still find it valuable.
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New Album
PVA - No More Like This
Top Tracks – Enough, Anger Song, Okay
Genre – Trip-Hop, Electronica, Post-Punk, Art-Pop
My take – London trio PVA have made a record that lives in the body as much as the ears. It's Massive Attack meets Portishead in a dark industrial warehouse. Ella Harris's vocals are somewhere between a whisper and a command throughout, and the whole thing pulses with a kind of sensual tension that doesn't let go.
New Album
Puscifer - Normal Isn’t
Top Tracks – Bad Wolf, The Quiet Parts, Pendulum
Genre – Post-Punk, Darkwave, Industrial, Electronic
My take – Maynard's weirdest and hardest to classify is always entertaining. Normal Isn't is a protest album wrapped in gothic synths and dark humour — Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails arguing in a room while Carina Round wanders in and steals the whole show.
New Album
Demob Happy - The Grown-Ups Are Talking
Top Tracks – Power Games, Who Should I Say Is Calling?
Genre – Psychedelic Rock, Desert Rock, Hard Rock
My take – Recorded in the desert in Joshua Tree, this album hits hard with the same riff-heavy swagger as Queens of the Stone Age and the similarities don’t stop there. Power Games is the kind of track that makes you wonder why you haven't been paying closer attention to this band. Good stuff.
New Album
GUM - Blue Gum Way
Top Tracks – Expanding Blue, Man Ray Bay, It Happens Almost Every Day, New Equator
Genre – Psychedelic Pop, Neo-Psych
My take – Jay Watson — best known as the multi-instrumentalist (the gum) holding things together in Tame Impala and Pond — has made killer solo record under his GUM alias. It's warm, melancholic, has some twists and turns, and is the kind of record that reveals more with each listen.
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