{"id":9669,"date":"2022-12-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2022-12-01T23:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T04:55:36","slug":"music-update-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/music-update-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, November 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A shorter playlist this month, although that doesn\u2019t quite reflect the month in music, since a number of artists on this list released new albums in November. The next music posts from me will be my year-end albums and songs rankings, which I\u2019ll probably run the week of December 19<sup>th<\/sup>. As always, if you can\u2019t see the widget below you can <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/6DKePueLsAuJKqR6KtKkJ8?si=dba72e465c8d48ba\">access the playlist here<\/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 November 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\/6DKePueLsAuJKqR6KtKkJ8?si=8546a878aaf4433a&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SAULT \u2013 God in Disguise.<\/strong> SAULT released <em>five<\/em> new albums on November 1<sup>st<\/sup>, offering them as a free download for five days through their site, but they\u2019re also now all on streaming platforms. I haven\u2019t even gotten through two of them, but there\u2019s far more of the soul, funk, and R&amp;B influences that were all over their first four albums and absent from this spring\u2019s <em>Air<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metronomy \u2013 It\u2019s Good to Be Back.<\/strong> So this song came out earlier in the year, and I missed it, only hearing it because the cover of the song done by the punk band Panic Shack showed up on my Spotify Release Radar. The cover borrows the basic chord pattern and vocals, but it\u2019s nothing like this shimmering, sunny pop track. When Metronomy stays on the right side of the line, they put out some great pop melodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>White Reaper \u2013 Pages.<\/strong> Just about anything new from White Reaper is an auto-include for me. These Kentucky garage-pop stalwarts will release their fourth album, <em>Asking for a Ride<\/em>, on January 27<sup>th<\/sup>, but it sounds like their core sound hasn\u2019t changed one bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Black Honey \u2013 Heavy.<\/strong> The third single ahead of their upcoming third album, <em>A Fistful of Peaches<\/em>, due out in March, this is less abrasive and more melodic than \u201cCharlie Bronson\u201d but still harder-edged than most of their first two albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jamie xx \u2013 KILL DEM.<\/strong> Still no official word on a follow-up to 2016\u2019s <em>In Colour<\/em>, which included two of the best songs of the decade in \u201cLoud Places\u201d and \u201cSeeSaw,\u201d although this is Jamie xx\u2019s second new single of 2022. It\u2019s more EDM than either of those tracks from <em>In Colour<\/em>, both of which slowed the tempo down for more melody and vocal elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phoenix \u2013 All Eyes on Me.<\/strong> Also on my to-do list is Phoenix\u2019s new album, <em>Alpha Zulu<\/em>, which came out in early November, although every song I\u2019ve heard has brought their <em>Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix<\/em> heyday of effusive indie-pop to mind, and it feels like a step forward after 2017\u2019s <em>Ti Amo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crawlers \u2013 Too Soon.<\/strong> Another heavy, grimy track from this Liverpool quartet, who just released their first EP, <em>Loud Without Noise<\/em>, at the start of November, featuring this track and \u201cI Don\u2019t Want It.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Wombats \u2013 Good Idea at the Time.<\/strong> Yet another solid track from the leftovers EP <em>Is This What It Feels Like to Feel Like This?<\/em>, which has songs that didn\u2019t make the cut for February\u2019s <em>Fix Yourself, Not the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>shame \u2013 Fingers of Steel.<\/strong> A post-punk band from south London, shame (stylized in all-lowercase) will release their third album, <em>Food for Worms<\/em>, in February. The track has clear roots in early post-punk but with more elements of post-hardcore music like that of Quicksand or Thrice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weird Nightmare \u2013 So Far Gone.<\/strong> The debut album from METZ guitarist Alex Elkins, also called <em>Weird Nightmare<\/em>, dropped back in June, and he\u2019s already back with another new track, which continues in the same vein of garage-pop that\u2019s more melodic than METZ\u2019s stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Panic Shack \u2013 Meal Deal.<\/strong> Remember when I mentioned Panic Shack up top? Here\u2019s their latest single, a raw, wryly comic punk song with some <em>de rigueur<\/em> commentary on consumerism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STONE \u2013 Money (Hope Ain\u2019t Gone). <\/strong>I exclude EPs from my year-end album lists now, but I will say STONE\u2019s debut EP <em>punkadonk<\/em> is one of my favorite records of the year. It\u2019s just five tracks, but this one and \u201cWaste\u201d are both excellent, and the Liverpudlians show some range here beyond just pure punk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Venomous Concept \u2013 Voices.<\/strong> I\u2019m not usually into super hardcore punk, but this song is on the accessible side of that genre, and the band is interesting, as it was founded in 2004 by former members of Brutal Truth and Napalm Death and once included Buzz Osborne of the Melvins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wheel \u2013 Impervious.<\/strong> This Finnish prog-rock act released a three-song EP in November called <em>Rumination<\/em>, although there\u2019s no word yet on a new album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shorter playlist this month, although that doesn\u2019t quite reflect the month in music, since a number of artists on this list released new albums in November. The next music posts from me will be my year-end albums and songs rankings, which I\u2019ll probably run the week of December 19th. As always, if you can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1275,359,167,852,747,787],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2022-in-music","tag-alternative","tag-indie","tag-music","tag-post-punk","tag-progressive-metal","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9670,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions\/9670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}