{"id":7923,"date":"2019-10-02T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7923"},"modified":"2019-10-02T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:26:59","slug":"music-update-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/02\/music-update-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, September 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still catching up on some albums from the last month, although I did listen to the Vivian Girls&#8217; latest (nothing new to include) and still need to finish listening to Chelsea Wolfe&#8217;s challenging <em>Birth of Violence<\/em>. As always, if you can&#8217;t see the widget below you can <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/3CzbWyd4X5akLYkUUUmY2R?si=8-_fWWeHRKuo1_2T1byrkA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">access the Spotify playlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/3CzbWyd4X5akLYkUUUmY2R\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Temples \u2013 Holy Horses<\/strong>. The best track on their very good new album <em>Hot Motion<\/em> features what might be my favorite guitar riff of the year. The album features a lot of throwback psychedelic rock but manages to still sound fresh, with this, the title track, &#8220;Context,&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;re Either On Something,&#8221; and &#8220;Step Down&#8221; the strongest songs on the record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh Wonder \u2013 Hallelujah<\/strong>. Earworm of the month, and one of the catchiest songs this duo has ever done, whether you like it or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supergrass \u2013 Next to You<\/strong>. These &#8217;90s Britpop stalwarts are back after a nine-year breakup with a greatest-hits record that includes this cover of the first track on <em>Outlandos d&#8217;Amour<\/em>, the first album by the Police.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Pornographers \u2013 Colossus Of Rhodes<\/strong>. I feel like I underappreciate the New Pornographers because they&#8217;re so consistent. This new album doesn&#8217;t quite have the highs of <em>Brill Bruisers<\/em> or the critical acclaim of <em>Twin Cinema<\/em> but still has several solid singles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TVAM \u2013 No Silver Bird<\/strong>. This two-minute track was originally released for Record Store Day and just appeared online last month. It&#8217;s a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/89259485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this track<\/a> by a band of which I&#8217;d never heard until TVAM covered it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foals \u2013 The Runner<\/strong>. I&#8217;m very much here for Foals&#8217; big guitar-laden lead singles from upcoming albums. <em>Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2<\/em>, their second LP this year, drops on October 18th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower Dens \u2013 Hand of God<\/strong>. This Baltimore-based band released its fourth album <em>The Competition<\/em> on September 6th; it&#8217;s somewhere between a meditation and a polemic on late-stage capitalism, led by the 2016 single &#8220;The Real Thing.&#8221; &#8220;Hand of God&#8221; has that new wave-y vibe for which I shall always remain a complete sucker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bombay Bicycle Club \u2013 Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)<\/strong>. They may never come close to 2011&#8217;s &#8220;Shuffle,&#8221; which will certainly appear on my top songs of this decade list (planning that for December), but this lead single from their upcoming LP <em>Everything Else Has Gone Wrong<\/em>, due out in January, is my favorite track of theirs since their big hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She Drew The Gun \u2013 Trouble Every Day<\/strong>. I assume this third single from the political post-punk Wirral group just this year presages an upcoming album<\/p>\n<p><strong>Night Dreamer \u2013 Another Life<\/strong>. Night Dreamer comprises the Smashing Pumpkins&#8217; guitarist Jeff Schroeder and keyboardist\/singer Mindy Song of Wam Dingis, with a clear late-90s indie-rock sound beneath lyrics that at least try to get philosophical, although I don&#8217;t know if they quite hit the intended target.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bat For Lashes \u2013 Desert Man<\/strong>. Natasha Khan&#8217;s fifth album, <em>Lost Girls<\/em>, is more accessible than 2016&#8217;s <em>The Bride<\/em>, although like most of her work I&#8217;ve found it improves on multiple listens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FKA Twigs featuring Future \u2013 holy terrain<\/strong>. It&#8217;s been five years since FKA Twigs&#8217; debut album, with just two original songs in the interim, but this collaboration with Future marks the second single in advance of the October 25th release of <em>MAGDALENE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corinne Bailey Rae \u2013 Jersey Girl<\/strong>. Another cover, this one of a Tom Waits song that was also covered previously by Bruce Springsteen. CBR&#8217;s voice is still mesmerizing and beautiful 13 years after &#8220;Put Your Records On.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grimes featuring i_o \u2013 Violence<\/strong>. Grimes&#8217; <em>Art Angels<\/em> was my #1 album of 2015, but her last single &#8220;We Appreciate Power&#8221; felt like a huge regression; this new track, possibly from her upcoming album <em>Miss_Anthr0pocene<\/em>, starts slow with Boucher overusing that childlike vocal from &#8220;Oblivion&#8221; but rallies quickly with a hypnotic beat from i_o. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/M9SGYBHY0qs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The video is interesting<\/a> but feels like it&#8217;s a chapter of a longer book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danny Brown \u2013 Best Life<\/strong>. Here because it&#8217;s produced by Q-Tip, although I don&#8217;t get the sense The Abstract appears on the record itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That Dog \u2013 If You Just Didn&#8217;t Do It<\/strong>. That Dog had a moment in 1997 with &#8220;Never Say Never,&#8221; not to be confused with the bigger Romeo Void hit of the same name; I don&#8217;t remember this band at all from their first iteration, but they&#8217;ve been back together for a few years now, and will release their first album in 22 years, <em>Old LP<\/em>, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mysterines \u2013 Bet Your Pretty Face<\/strong>. I included &#8220;Gasoline&#8221; on a playlist this summer; both tracks come from the Wirral punk-rock trio&#8217;s four-song EP <em>Take Control<\/em>, released in August \u2013 and yes, that&#8217;s two bands on this list from Wirral, which was not intentional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just Mustard \u2013 Seven<\/strong>. Full-on throwback shoegaze from this Irish quintet who would could have opened for Ride in 1992 with this sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alcest \u2013 Sapphire<\/strong>. I prefer this to Alcest&#8217;s previous single, &#8220;Protection,&#8221; as it&#8217;s closer to the shoegaze\/extreme metal blend they showcased on 2016&#8217;s <em>Kodama<\/em>, without the black metal trappings of their early work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syberia \u2013 Empire of Oppression<\/strong>. These Spanish prog-metal instrumentalists are new to me, but they&#8217;re about to release their second album, <em>Seeds of Change<\/em>, on October 4th. There&#8217;s a lot packed into this six-minute track, with tonal and temporal shifts that alternate intense bursts of swirling guitars with moments of relative quiet, ramping up the pace for a big finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still catching up on some albums from the last month, although I did listen to the Vivian Girls&#8217; latest (nothing new to include) and still need to finish listening to Chelsea Wolfe&#8217;s challenging Birth of Violence. As always, if you can&#8217;t see the widget below you can access the Spotify playlist here. 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