{"id":9461,"date":"2022-06-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T16:27:49","slug":"music-update-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/03\/music-update-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, May 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May went by a little too quickly for my tastes, but it did have plenty of new music, including album releases from Everything Everything, Stars, Porridge Radio, Just Mustard, Craig Finn, The Black Keys, Florence + the Machine, Kendrick Lamar, The Smile, Belle &amp; Sebastian, Arcade Fire, Sunflower Bean, and Black Star. If you can\u2019t see the widget below, here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/21iVOytdkbSEaosva23HyO?si=301ffbdf70db48d3\">a direct link to the playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Klaw&amp;apos;s May 2022 music update\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/21iVOytdkbSEaosva23HyO?si=cf32799bc8b64f5b&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jamie T \u2013 The Old Style Raiders.<\/strong> Jamie T has been quite popular in the UK for about 15 years now, since Zane Lowe gave him a boost before his debut album even appeared, but I haven\u2019t been a fan of his music before, between the cracked-voice sung-talked vocals and off-kilter guitar lines, but this \u2026 put this straight into my veins. Every aspect of this song works, right from that initial power-chord riff through the vocals (his voice is fuller, and its tone more consistent) through the soaring lines over the chorus. I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sharon<\/strong> <strong>Van Etten \u2013 Mistakes.<\/strong> I think this is SVE\u2019s second-ever appearance on my playlists, and the other was a track she did with the National. Her laconic vocal style has never quite done it for me, but paired with a dark and insistent beat to contrast with some of her boldest singing yet. She leaned a bit into distortion and electronic elements on her last album, and they pop up even more on her latest record, <em>We\u2019ve Been Going About This All Wrong<\/em>, although, once again, I\u2019m less of a fan of her slower-tempo tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blossoms \u2013 Born Wild.<\/strong> I liked Blossoms\u2019 latest album, <em>Ribbon Around the Bomb<\/em>, a bit less than I expected given how much I loved the two lead singles, \u201cOde to NYC\u201d and \u201cThe Sulking Poet.\u201d The title track, \u201cCare For,\u201d and this song are all quite solid. Recommended for fans of The Head and the Heart, Whiskeytown, and Lord Huron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Folk Implosion \u2013 Don\u2019t Give It Away. <\/strong>One of two new songs from Lou Barlow and John Davis, their first new music written and recorded together in 23 years, since the last Folk Implosion album was a Barlow solo effort. It sounds like they never left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Young Guv \u2013 Nowhere At All. <\/strong>I saw the name \u201cYoung Guv\u201d and thought it was going to be a horrible white rapper, but it\u2019s actually Ben Cook, the guitarist for Fucked Up, making dream-pop tracks that sound like part of the Paisley Underground movement (early Bangles, Green on Red) rather than something new in 2022. I\u2019m saying that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Porcupine Tree \u2013 Herd Culling.<\/strong> Steve Wilson\u2019s work with Opeth is evident once again on this new track, the third in advance of <em>Closure\/Continuation<\/em>, the British prog-rock stalwarts\u2019 first new album since 2009. This is edited to be a single, so I assume the album version will clock in at 10:28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Smile \u2013 Thin Thing. <\/strong><em>A Light for Attracting Attention<\/em>, the debut album from The Smile (Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead plus Tom Skinner of Sons of Kemet), is almost certainly going to end up among my top ten albums of the year, but I\u2019m still digesting it \u2013 it\u2019s strange and ambitious and full of unexpected turns. This track has a big of \u201cJigsaw Falling Into Place\u201d but moves into different territory with Skinner\u2019s percussion when we hit the first break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Foals \u2013 2001.<\/strong> Foals promised us an upbeat dance album, and through four singles, where\u2019s the lie? This is the funkiest these guys have ever sounded, and it turns out it melds extremely well with their previous sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rina Sawayama \u2013 This Hell.<\/strong> A pretty straight-ahead pop track from Sawayama, this is the lead single from her sophomore album, <em>Hold the Girl<\/em>, due out September 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. I\u2019d be surprised if this album didn\u2019t make her a global star, although I know that isn\u2019t always just about the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>beabadoobee \u2013 Love Song. <\/strong>Beatrice is a talented guitarist who doesn\u2019t let it rip enough, in my opinion, but this is a lovely little acoustic-ish number ahead of her second album, <em>Beatopia<\/em>, due out in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sports Team \u2013 The Game. <\/strong>This extremely British rock band\u2019s second album, <em>Gulp<\/em>, is due out in July. If the Libertines were more upper-class, but no more sober, they might sound like Sports Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adwaith \u2013 Wedi Blino.<\/strong> If you think I\u2019m including this song because it\u2019s sung entirely in Welsh \u2013 the title means \u201cTired\u201d \u2013 then, on the advice of my attorney, I will invoke my rights under the fifth amendment to avoid self-incrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suede \u2013 She Still Leads Me On. <\/strong>When Bernard Butler left Suede after their second album, Richard Oakes, who was just 17 years old, beat out hundreds of other guitarists to take his place. Oakes is now 46 years old. And Brett Anderson is 54. I suppose the bright side here is that I\u2019m still young enough to put out that debut album!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sky Ferreira \u2013 Don\u2019t Forget. <\/strong>Ferreira released one single in 2019, and until now that was her only new music since 2013\u2019s <em>Night Time, My Time<\/em>, her well-reviewed but uneven debut LP. This definitely sounds like a different artist \u2013 this is deeply rooted in mid-80s synthpop sounds, with music like Nu Shooz or even Peter Schilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kendrick Lamar feat. Sampha \u2013 Father Time. <\/strong>I think I\u2019ve settled into a space where I respect Kendrick Lamar\u2019s work, but I know I\u2019ll probably never love it. <em>Mr. Morale &amp; the Big Steppers<\/em> is a fascinating work of art, with some tremendous highlights, including \u201cAuntie Diaries,\u201d which is a massive statement of trans acceptance that also includes frequent use of the f-slur (in context, but still, regrettable). Barring that, this is my favorite track on the record, thanks to the presence of Mercury Prize winner Sampha on the chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stars \u2013 Pretenders. <\/strong><em>From Capelton Hill<\/em> is Stars\u2019 first album in five years, and it\u2019s lovely even without the highs of 2012\u2019s <em>The North<\/em>, which contained my favorite Stars track (and our wedding song), \u201cHold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It.\u201d This is probably my favorite song from the new album, especially with the duet in the chorus between Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Superbloom \u2013 Falling Up.<\/strong> Very Melvins meets the Smashing Pumpkins circa 1994. I\u2019m very vulnerable to music that reminds me of very specific eras, bands, or moments in time. This does it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Just Mustard \u2013 Seed.<\/strong> This Irish group lives on the abrasive side of shoegaze without becoming as inscrutable (or unlistenable) as My Bloody Valentine, whose music I could just never get into. Just Mustard\u2019s second album, <em>Heart Under<\/em>, just came out last Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Killing Joke \u2013 Lord of Chaos.<\/strong> This is not a drill \u2013 we have new music from Killing Joke, a four-song EP called <em>Lord of Chaos<\/em>, and they pick up right where they left off after 2015\u2019s <em>Pylon<\/em>. (The EP actually came out in late March. I\u2019m just behind.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May went by a little too quickly for my tastes, but it did have plenty of new music, including album releases from Everything Everything, Stars, Porridge Radio, Just Mustard, Craig Finn, The Black Keys, Florence + the Machine, Kendrick Lamar, The Smile, Belle &amp; Sebastian, Arcade Fire, Sunflower Bean, and Black Star. 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