{"id":7073,"date":"2018-10-31T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:43:50","slug":"music-update-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/music-update-october-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, October 2018."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge month for new tracks \u2013 thirty strong this time around, ranging from indie rock to dance to metal to two tracks that are somewhere in the country\/folk range. As always, if you can&#8217;t see the playlist below you can <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/keithlaw1\/playlist\/5bKbf5oqqZhTvtYGk9u3PC?si=ZkFpzJl2QUufLi3Bex983w\" target=\"_Blank\">access the Spotify playlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/keithlaw1\/playlist\/5bKbf5oqqZhTvtYGk9u3PC\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy Williams \u2013 Canary<\/strong>. The former member of the Civil Wars has a new album, <em>Front Porch<\/em>, due out early next year, with this the A-side of a new single (with &#8220;The Trouble With Wanting&#8221; the B-side), featuring a strong melody and her always amazing voice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HAERTS \u2013 Fighter<\/strong>. Now a duo, HAERTS released their long-awaited second album, <em>New Compassion<\/em>, on October 5th to very little fanfare or attention, but it&#8217;s almost as good as their debut \u2013 the sound is similar but it doesn&#8217;t quite have the standout tracks of their self-titled first album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hatchie \u2013 Adored<\/strong>. One of two songs on this playlist from Adult Swim&#8217;s series of singles is the latest from Aussie singer-songwriter Hatchie, who continues to occupy this ethereal space that recalls early Lush and the Cranberries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radkey \u2013 Rock &#038; Roll Homeschool<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve been waiting for this trio to put out another rocker like this since 2013&#8217;s &#8220;Cat and Mouse.&#8221; More of this, please.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drenge \u2013 Autonomy<\/strong>. The title track from this duo&#8217;s new four-song EP that also features the song &#8220;Outside,&#8221; which appeared on my September playlist. I assume there&#8217;s another album coming soon, since their last came out in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Struts \u2013 Fire (Part 1)<\/strong>. A guilty pleasure of mine, although I recently told a friend I thought the Struts were just the Discount Arctic Monkeys. This is the best song on their latest album, which tends too much to the bombastic side of alternative pop for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khruangbin \u2013 Maria Tambi\u00e9n<\/strong>. If this sounds familiar, it&#8217;s the opening music to the Crimetown podcast series. Khruangbin avoid labels for their music but it&#8217;s definitely some sort of indie rock\/funk with influences from various world music genres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Port Noir \u2013 Old Fashioned<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know what to make of this song, which veers a little close to rap-metal for me, but the chorus is tremendous and I love the dark tone of the music throughout the track.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speedy Ortiz \u2013 DTMFA<\/strong>. The other Adult Swim single on this list is probably 95% of typical Speedy Ortiz but that&#8217;s still good enough for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Django Django \u2013 Sand Dunes<\/strong>. Django Django put out an album, <em>Marble Skies<\/em>, back in January, but they&#8217;ve since released a six-track EP of songs recorded before (or maybe during?) those sessions, including this mid-tempo track that really would have fit quite well on the longer album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Brown \u2013 First World Problems<\/strong>. New single from the Stone Roses&#8217; lead singer, not his best but definitely featuring his typically snarky lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ten F\u00e9 \u2013 Won&#8217;t Happen<\/strong>. The lead single from the soft-rock band&#8217;s upcoming sophomore album, <em>Future Perfect, Present Tense<\/em> (due out in March), is more of the same as their first album provided \u2013 and that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swervedriver \u2013 Mary Winter<\/strong>. Swervedriver returned in 2015 with their first album in 17 years \u2013 the same hiatus that Ride and Slowdive took, in fact \u2013 but it was unremarkable without any strong hooks or remotely memorable songs. This new single has that certain something, and I think it&#8217;s their best song since the title track from their last pre-breakup album <em>99th Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The London Suede \u2013 As One<\/strong>. I didn&#8217;t love <em>The Blue Hour<\/em>, their latest album, because it was overrun with dirge-like tracks, but this wildly dramatic song is one of the few standouts for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maisie Peters \u2013 Details<\/strong>. I have no idea why this 18-year-old British singer\/songwriter hasn&#8217;t become a global star. Her voice is adorable, her lyrics clever, her melodies catchy. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Keuning \u2013 Restless Legs<\/strong>. That&#8217;s Dave Keuning, founding guitarist of the Killers, with his first solo track. He&#8217;s announced his first solo album, <em>Prismism<\/em>, will come out next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arkells \u2013 Hand Me Downs<\/strong>. Arkells, like the Struts, are a bit too pop-oriented for me overall but occasionally hit enough of a melodic high point for me to overlook the commercial production. &#8220;Relentless&#8221; is the best track on the new album; this would be my second-favorite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beths \u2013 You Wouldn&#8217;t Like Me<\/strong>. New Zealand quartet The Beths dropped their first full-length album, <em>Future Me Hates Me<\/em>, in August, featuring this very &#8217;90s punk-inflected power pop single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christine and the Queens \u2013 5 dollars<\/strong>. The French singer\/songwriter H\u00e9lo\u00efse Letissier has received universal praise for her latest album, <em>Chris<\/em>, which is certainly one of the smartest and most inventive pop records of the year. If there&#8217;s a US hit single to be had here, this is it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White Lies \u2013 Believe It<\/strong>. Much better than anything off White Lies&#8217; last album, comparable to my favorite track from them, 2013&#8217;s &#8220;There Goes Our Love Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hinds \u2013 British Mind<\/strong>. I&#8217;ll include anything this Spanish quartet releases, obviously. I don&#8217;t think any band sounds like they&#8217;re having as much fun as these four women do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allie X \u2013 Little Things<\/strong>. Allie X had posted an older song called &#8220;Sculpture,&#8221; which was on this playlist earlier in the month but has since disappeared from Spotify and isn&#8217;t on the EP she just released last week, <em>Super Sunset<\/em>. That does include this track; &#8220;Science,&#8221; one of my favorite songs from the summer, and the solid &#8220;Girl of the Year,&#8221; which I just find a little hard to listen to because of the chorus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Longwave \u2013 Stay With Me<\/strong>. I was totally unfamiliar with Longwave, who put out four albums between 1999 and 2008, until hearing this song, which appears to be their first new single since they reunited, but this song has a great &#8217;80s new wave vibe at its core, like the best work of White Lies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TVAM \u2013 Porsche Majeure<\/strong>. TVAM&#8217;s album <em>Psychic Data<\/em> is probably going to end up on my top albums of the year list, featuring multiple strong mostly-instrumental tracks like this one, with Joe Oxley creating swirling electronic hooks that evoke all manner of emotions \u2013 this track feels especially menacing to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greta Van Fleet \u2013 Lover, Leaver<\/strong>. Everyone compares Greta Van Fleet to Led Zeppelin, but I think the better comp is Kingdom Come \u2013 it&#8217;s derivative rather than paying homage, still occasionally catchy or interesting enough to merit further listens (as on this song or &#8220;When the Curtain Falls&#8221;), but on the whole it&#8217;s nothing we haven&#8217;t heard a hundred times before. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud Nothings \u2013 Another Way Of Life<\/strong>. I&#8217;d grown a bit tired of Cloud Nothings&#8217; sound, which never seemed to evolve, but this closer to the band&#8217;s short new album (35 minutes, with one track accounting for almost a third of that) seems to point to at least some small change in their style.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toundra \u2013 Cobra<\/strong>. Instrumental, progressive metal from Madrid, musically similar to early Opeth but without vocals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haken \u2013 Puzzle Box<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve known of Haken for years but never put them on a playlist before this track, which I think gives us the prog metal band&#8217;s strongest melody to date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High On Fire \u2013 Spewn From The Earth<\/strong>. You kind of know what to expect from High on Fire at this point, I think. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Behemoth \u2013 Bartzabel<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve always thought of Behemoth as a bit of a joke \u2013 the music was fine, but they so thoroughly covered themselves in the juvenile trappings of black metal that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V72NKRyX1NA\" target=\"_blank\">verged on self-parody<\/a> \u2026 but I have to admit this song is quite good if you can get past the death growls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge month for new tracks \u2013 thirty strong this time around, ranging from indie rock to dance to metal to two tracks that are somewhere in the country\/folk range. As always, if you can&#8217;t see the playlist below you can access the Spotify playlist here. Joy Williams \u2013 Canary. 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