{"id":8078,"date":"2019-12-04T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2019-12-04T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:55:43","slug":"music-update-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/04\/music-update-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, November 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept this playlist and post a bit short since I&#8217;m about a week-plus from doing my year-end top 100, after which I&#8217;ll do my top 100 songs of the entire decade, on top of all of the other stuff I&#8217;m planning to do between now and the holidays. Stay tuned. As always, if you can&#8217;t see the widget below you can <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/1ncX9vGma2qK0CfQJEIbMB?si=nJ9MLFm2RaqDS7JzVSsNiQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">access the playlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/1ncX9vGma2qK0CfQJEIbMB\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>FKA twigs &#8211; sad day.<\/strong> FKA twigs&#8217; second album, <em>MAGDALENA<\/em>, is definitely more mature and polished, and a better showcase for her incredible voice. While there are some ups and downs there are multiple memorable tracks here, including this, &#8220;cellophane,&#8221; and &#8220;mirrored heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jake Bugg &#8211; Kiss Like the Sun.<\/strong> I loved Bugg&#8217;s first album and the lead single from his second record, &#8220;What Doesn&#8217;t Kill You,&#8221; but he kind of lost his sense of melody after that; this is his best track since then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White Reaper &#8211; Raw.<\/strong> White Reaper&#8217;s brand of punk-pop is nothing novel, but it is really right in my wheelhouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mysterines &#8211; Who&#8217;s Ur Girl.<\/strong> I don&#8217;t really do breakout columns for music, especially since it&#8217;s often unclear when any specific artist is going to release a full-length album, but if I did such a thing for 2020 I&#8217;d have this Liverpool trio on it. Their output to date has such a promising combination of raw energy, seething vocals, and dark melodies under the hard-rock surface that I feel like they should be everywhere a year from now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rina Sawayama &#8211; STFU!<\/strong> The song itself is good, although there are indeed a lot of F-bombs within it, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XojM2D3F-Dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the cringey-funny video<\/a> that takes the song to the next level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BONES UK \u2013 Pretty Waste.<\/strong> I don&#8217;t pay much attention to the Grammy nominations \u2013 they&#8217;re for someone else&#8217;s taste in music, just not mine \u2013 but I did notice that one of the five nominees for Best Rock Performance was this song, by an artist I&#8217;d never heard of before. BONES UK comprise two women and a drummer (known simply as &#8220;Heavy&#8221;) who produce harsh noise-rock with dance elements and lyrics about feminism and toxic masculinity. Speaking of the Grammys, Candlemass and Tony Iommi are going to win the Metal award (for &#8220;Astorolus&#8221;) because Iommi&#8217;s the same age as the voters, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grimes \u2013 So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth.<\/strong> I want to reserve judgment on some of the Grimes tracks until the entire album is out, since she&#8217;s pitching as a concept record, but on their own they&#8217;ve been pretty uneven and generally lacked the accessibility of <em>Art Angels<\/em>, with a lot of the little-girl voice she used on <em>Visions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wye Oak \u2013 Fortune.<\/strong> I assume this is the lead single from a forthcoming album from the indie-rock duo, whose 2018 album <em>The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs<\/em> had some incredible high points and was a promising return to form after the previous record <em>Tween<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James BKS, Q-Tip, Idris Elba, &amp; Little Simz \u2013 New Breed.<\/strong> They had me at Q-Tip, and kept me at Idris Elba, but this second track from James BKS, signed to Elba&#8217;s new label 7Wallace, is a solid enough song even if you don&#8217;t grant bonus points for the name value of the guest stars \u2026 and it led me back to James BKS&#8217;s 2018 single &#8220;Kwele,&#8221; which is even better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beck \u2013 See Through.<\/strong> I prefer Beck&#8217;s more innovative, layered, uptempo stuff, including his last album <em>Colors<\/em>, to the more subdued and restrained style he shows on his newest record, <em>Hyperspace<\/em>. This and &#8220;Stratosphere&#8221; are probably my favorite tracks from the new album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inhaler \u2013 My Honest Face.<\/strong> Inhaler has a bit of a leg up as they start their careers, since their frontman is Elijah Hewson, whose father you may know as Bono. This track seems like it could have appeared on <em>War<\/em> or <em>October<\/em>, but they&#8217;ve earned some plaudits from Noel Gallagher and opened for his High Flying Birds this fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greg Dulli \u2013 Pantomima.<\/strong> Dulli, the lead singer of the Afghan Whigs, is about to release a solo album, the first original material to appear under his own name since 2005&#8217;s <em>Amber Headlights<\/em> (a Twilight Singers project he abandoned and then finished on his own). I enjoyed the Whigs&#8217; 2017 comeback album <em>In Spades<\/em> and find this driving track a promising look at Dulli&#8217;s new album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2026And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead \u2013 Don&#8217;t Look Down.<\/strong> This almost seems a bit mellow for the post-hardcore pioneers, who will release their tenth album, their first in six years, in January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alcest \u2013 Le Miroir.<\/strong> Yeah, this is my favorite metal album of the year, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s close. This is atmospheric, ambitious metal that I could listen to for hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kvelertak \u2013 Br\u00e5tebrann.<\/strong> I&#8217;d never heard of this Norwegian band before finding them on a Spotify playlist, but this feels like vintage Entombed with vocals that are just yelled rather than growled \u2013 death&#8217;n&#8217;roll for the masses. Well, except for the lyrics, which are all in Norwegian, but that doesn&#8217;t bother me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept this playlist and post a bit short since I&#8217;m about a week-plus from doing my year-end top 100, after which I&#8217;ll do my top 100 songs of the entire decade, on top of all of the other stuff I&#8217;m planning to do between now and the holidays. Stay tuned. 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