{"id":7597,"date":"2019-05-06T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2019-05-06T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:23:25","slug":"music-update-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/music-update-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, April 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why April was so light on new music, especially since I&#8217;ve already started a new playlist for May and have a half-dozen songs on it (including &#8220;Alligator,&#8221; the new single from Of Monsters &amp; Men). April did bring the debut album from Jade Bird, whom I&#8217;ve featured on many past playlists. I figured it was better to just wrap this one up now and let the May playlist be longer. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/keithlaw1\/playlist\/1GcAvMWQwsTwHpZBcOzgWd?si=z8JWeul4RbWROu_2C78VKQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">access the Spotify playlist here<\/a> if you can&#8217;t see the widget below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/keithlaw1\/playlist\/1GcAvMWQwsTwHpZBcOzgWd\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hatchie \u2013 Stay With Me<\/strong>. The Australian singer-songwriter Hatchie, whose dreamy indie-pop songs have been all over my playlists for a year and a half now, will release her debut album <em>Keepsake<\/em> on June 21st.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ten F\u00e9 \u2013 Waterfalls<\/strong>. Yep, it&#8217;s a cover of the TLC song, which I don&#8217;t even particularly like, but this version is another creature entirely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot Chip \u2013 Hungry Child<\/strong>. The English electronic\/indie stalwarts will put out their seventh album, <em>A Bath Full of Ecstasy<\/em>, on June 21st. It&#8217;s their first album produced entirely by people outside of the band members themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working Men&#8217;s Club \u2013 Bad Blood<\/strong>. If I played this for you and told you it was a lost British New Wave track from 1983, would you have any reason to doubt me?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tame Impala \u2013 Borderline<\/strong>. This might be my favorite song by Kevin Parker since &#8220;Solitude is Bliss,&#8221; in part because it&#8217;s so different from the band&#8217;s signature sound, with a heavy &#8217;70s soul vibe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broken Social Scene \u2013 Can&#8217;t Find My Heart<\/strong>. This song rocks much harder than most of the Broken Social Scene songs I&#8217;ve heard before \u2013 at least, it&#8217;s not the sound I expect from this eclectic Canadian outfit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pharlee \u2013 Darkest Hour<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve criticized the derivative sound of Greta van Fleet a few times here and on Twitter, but if you like their extremely Led Zeppelin thing, I have a few new songs to recommend, starting with this bluesy psychedelic rocker from a new San Diego group helmed by Macarena Rivera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feeder \u2013 Fear of Flying<\/strong>. Yes, the same Feeder who had a modest (and slightly annoying) hit in 1997 with &#8220;High,&#8221; now a duo who announced that their tenth album, <em>Tallulah<\/em>, will drop in August. There&#8217;s no resemblance to their big hit on this driving, melodic rocker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ride \u2013 Future Love.<\/strong> Shoegaze icons Ride, now fully embracing their comeback two decades after their brief heyday, have recorded \u2026 a Britpop song? This has to be the most upbeat track the Oxonians have ever released, the first single from their upcoming album <em>This Is Not a Safe Place<\/em>, which is due out on August 16th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Port Noir \u2013 Champagne<\/strong>. Port Noir&#8217;s label calls them &#8220;post-metal&#8221; but I just think of them as melodic hard rock, not really metal, with some progressive elements as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King Gizzard &amp; The Lizard Wizard \u2013 The Cruel Millennial<\/strong>. Another recommendation if you like Led Zeppelin or other blues-heavy classic rock acts; the prolific Australian band just released their fourteenth album in eight years (!), <em>Fishing for Fishes<\/em>, which is a little inconsistent but has a few real uptempo, blues\/jam tracks like this one and &#8220;Boogieman Sam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Band Of Skulls \u2013 Gold<\/strong>. I was hoping for more rock sounds on Band of Skulls&#8217; new album, <em>Love Is All You Love<\/em>, but it&#8217;s a generally downtempo, mellower album than my favorite of their records, 2014&#8217;s <em>Himalayan<\/em>, with the closer &#8220;Gold&#8221; one of the heavier tracks on the record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helms Alee \u2013 Spider Jar<\/strong>. The intro to this song reminds me so much of the start of &#8220;Prime Cut&#8221; from Prong&#8217;s 1990 record <em>Beg to Differ<\/em>, although this song veers in a more progressive direction rather than the lean post-hardcore style of that earlier song. The Seattle band&#8217;s latest album, released two weeks ago, is called <em>Noctiluca<\/em>, which also happens to be the name of the board game I&#8217;m reviewing this week for <em>Paste<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diamond Head \u2013 Death by Design<\/strong>. These NWOBHM icons will release their eighth studio album, their second with new lead singer Rasmus Bom Anderson, on May 24th, and their sound really doesn&#8217;t seem to have changed that substantially from their influential if still obscure debut album <em>Lightning to the Nations<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why April was so light on new music, especially since I&#8217;ve already started a new playlist for May and have a half-dozen songs on it (including &#8220;Alligator,&#8221; the new single from Of Monsters &amp; Men). April did bring the debut album from Jade Bird, whom I&#8217;ve featured on many past playlists. 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