All snark is set aside to explore the sensation of seeing the places we come from crumble after moving on to some place ostensibly better. There’s also “The Fall of Home” which is just heart-achingly gorgeous. Musically, this album includes some of the most energetic songs LC! has put out since the absolutely transcendent Romance is Boring. Gareth never stops being Gareth whether that means setting an almost literary scene, capturing a particular brand of malaise, whip-smart punchlines or super-specific sports references. As always, these songs are lyrically captivating.
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The hyper-literate twee punks I’ve loved for a full decade now have grown into a wonderfully dependable, mature indie rock band. “DQ” is on my shortlist for songs of the year, and one that I’m sure will be in my rotation for years to come. Lead singer Eva Hendricks sounds downright effervescent, but her high, perky voice fits in with songs that are all forward momentum and chugging guitar. Guppy is an entirely transparent attempt to replicate the soaring buzz of ’90s alternative-rock, and it accomplishes that modest goal with aplomb. The string-filled melodies are made all the more remarkable because they share an album with “Brick”, which has more in common with Death Grips than a lot of songs on Rocket. That basically describes most of my favorite Wilco songs, after all. That may sound like faint praise, but it’s meant as a rousing endorsement. “Bobby”, “Poison Root” and “Proud” are fine, extremely pleasant and slightly weird pop songs with warm twang. I prefer the warmer, mellow first half of the album. This album is equal parts hummable alt-country and industrial freakout. This really is a virtuosic display of everything one of rock music’s best working songwriters does right. Unlike some past releases (looking at you Manipulator) this album is a tight collection. There’s straight-ahead rockers, Sid Barrett-esque psyche-pop and a really sweet love song. But this might strike the best balance among the prolific garage-rockers prodigious-but-disparate strengths. He’s even done a self-titled release before. Ty isn’t reinventing the wheel here in any sense. His flow continues to be a dense labyrinth of internal rhyme and references, but in a way that’s more approachable than To Pimp a Butterfly. The album is a little less focused than some of Kdot’s other releases (I can’t picture a U2 feature on any of his other albums), but not every album needs to be a Statement. Kendrick Lamar continues his streak of dominating the rap game. But, it is some of his most interesting and personal work ever. His flow sounds off, and the rhymes aren’t always particularly clever. Strictly speaking, these aren’t Jay’s best bars. The tabloid-fodder infidelity confessions are what’s drawn the most coverage, which makes sense because I can’t recall Jay-Z ever sharing this much of his personal life, but equally interesting are Jay-Z’s thoughts on race and black unity, which I don’t recall ever before being quite so explicitly dissected on an album by HOV. It is warm, slightly opulent and gives the album a cohesion lacking from some of Jay’s lesser works. Certainly not better than Reasonable Doubt or The Blueprint, but it compares favorably to The Black Album and American Gangster. I expected this corporate partnership release to be as uninspired as Magna Carter Holy Grail or Kingdom Come or The Blueprint 3, and was floored to hear an album that can comfortable mingle in the upper echelon of Shawn Carter’s discography. Not a single song surpasses the five-minute mark and most are shorter than three minutes. He continues to rap about depressing realities over severe-sounding beats in a way that’s fun, mostly thanks to gallows humor punchlines and a rapid pace. Vince Staples released his second consecutive instant classic LP this year. There’s genuine guitar heroics, and the hooks are plentiful. It’s unabashed, straight-forward rock influenced by The Ramones, Cheap Trick, Big Star, The Replacements and The Exploding Hearts.
The second album from Louisville-based power-poppers, White Reaper, is one of the year’s most fun releases so far. Truly, this is good, uh, rock’n’roll music. White Reaper – The World’s Best American Band In no particular order, these are the releases from this year that I’ve enjoyed the most. I’m cruising along and already past 40 albums, so barring a monumental collapse I should hit my target.Ībout 90 percent of my first-time listens this year have been new music. My New Year’s resolution was to listen to at least one album I had not heard before per week.
I’m not 100-percent sure, but I’m fairly certain that I’ve listened to more new music in 2017 than I have in any other year.
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