Tag: new music
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deize tigrona – foi eu que fiz
Coke. Guns. Booty. Beats. No, that’s not Michael Gove’s shopping list. It’s how Alex Bellos once distilled funk carioca. Deize Tigrona takes the last two , hurls them into direct lyrics, and lets them wobble above floor-shaking energy. Her drive is the most intensely arresting aspect of Foi Eu Que Fiz. Tigrona straps to her […]
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sports team – GULP!
I feel like I’m in the daydream of a 13 year-old guitarist in 2009. The writing on GULP! is at once opaque and accessible—“I watch my future drying like its paint” is a neat encapsulation of the band’s appeal to a distracted ear. Besides the unfathomable ‘Kool Aid’, Sports Team’s intentions seem agreeable and familiar, […]
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makaya mccraven – these times
‘These Times’ has been lovingly made with a torrent of textures. Through the labyrinthine motions, McCraven and his entourage stay relentlessly kinetic with an unusual level of calm. That is a genuinely great aspect of this record: it is testing, but it works for you, with you. The liquidus quality of the marimbas, flute, and […]
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blood orange – four songs EP
This EP contains four more songs of the expected output from Blood Orange. That would be a better title. While Four Songs is enjoyable, airy, easy to digest, I do have a complaint: it’s inarguable. There are so few edges, it resembles the hand sanitiser that fails to sink into your skin and leaves an […]
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the beths – expert in a dying field
The singles from The Beths’ latest record feature rousing riffs lightly glazed with an optimistic grunge (it exists, by the way). The ocean into which those singles were flowing, Expert in a Dying Field, shouldn’t necessarily be better, but greater. It’s that memorable critique of indie albums, that I feel hesitant to write: a lot […]
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