There is no end to the amount of music available out there. And sometimes, too much music options can be confusing. To help you get your way out of all this confusion, The A.V. Club is compiling up A-Sides, with some recent releases every week, and they are worth listening to. You can tune in to them and more on Spotify.
1. Sufjan Stevens, ‘America’
According to Sufjan Stevens six years ago when he wrote the song, America was ‘vaguely mean-spirited’, but those skepticisms withered as the country it talked about coiled further into lunacy. This 12-minute song carries the phrase “Don’t do to me what you did to America”, through movements both muted and grand. It has a plain, synth-driven intro that grows from solid to gas, the singer’s mystic melodies leading the track into an intergalactic spectrum of humming and clinking satellites as the tune becomes more and more desperate. While Impossible Soul, ends with communion, America ends with a gloomy ambient wash and some soft piano booms. It sounds delightful but lonely, and not without anger. A press release even said that it sets the template for Stevens’ upcoming The Ascension, a ‘lush, editorial pop album’. The album is also defined as ‘a call for personal changeover and denial to play along with the systems around us’.
2. Nadine Shah, Kitchen Sink
Nadine Shah is a British singer-songwriter and Kitchen Sink is her fourth album. The album represents a flashy spread straight out of a vintage cookbook, magically combining up weird images of tuna and Jell-O salad that, conveniently enough, also capture the awkward mood of this 11-song set. Kitchen Sink is the track of a midcentury housewife undergoing a psychotic break at a dinner party shown by blending vibrating post-punk with charming exotica and haunted, Gothic vocals à la PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. A line from the song ‘Trad’ which is one of the songs of the record, “Shave my legs, freeze my eggs, will you want me when I’m old?” reflects the existential void of marriage and partnership in a sexist world. She fuses these gloomy yet hard-hitting lyrics with changing rhythms and fuzzed-out guitars, giving the horrific yet seductive song a sexy, kitschy, wickedly thrilling effect.
3. Twin Peaks, Side A
Twin Peaks is a prolific band, releasing an album every year or two since 2013. The band talks about the reason behind this new four-song EP album with a handwritten note where they said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no use of recording new albums, so they decided to finish the songs that were closest to completion. Each of the band’s members recorded and sent their tracks which were complied later. The album gives a feel of 1970s FM radio sound, which is typically a Legend Of Zelda inspired track ‘What’s The Matter’. It takes the fans right back into the band’s original, mellow groove, punctuated by high-hat percussion. Another track ‘Whistle In The Wind (The End Of Everything)’ has a raw title, which shows that there is not even a single soul that can’t be alleviated by sax solos and sparkling keyboards. Then there is an irrepressible countrified pop song ‘Any More Than You Want’ that will draw you in with loopy, twangy guitars. It’s just the final track ‘Above/Below’ which is a six-plus minute long song and feels like one from the dark side of 70s rock radio.
4. Little Kid, Transfiguration Highway
Little Kid feels like the ageless Americana and folk sounds that have constantly come back since the 60s and 70s. The song returns to the origins of these styles and instruments to reveal the soul of music. The lyrics of the song written by, Kenny Boothby, takes the listener on a journey of the huge philosophical and spiritual questions, involving Christian imagery and themes to look into the odds of enlightenment and hope for a better future. It is an album of sonic and soulful analysis, looking at the age-old patters to reveal the value in everything in front of us beautifully.
5. Khruangbin, Mordechai
Khruangbin can be called a ‘jam band’. Their refreshing blend of soul and psychedelia is perfect for wide-open festival fields where each groovy bass feels like a cool breeze. But with their third album Mordechai, the band is searching for something more than just good vibes. They have composed a track of the journey that made their places in festival stages. Khruangbin arose in a new kind of world music, which references Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub. While usually, their discography is instrumental, Mordechai takes Khruangbin in a new page where there are vocals fitted in non-English languages. A song from the album ‘Pelota’, uses Spanish lyrics and a gleeful cheered beat to compose a pleasant summer song. Khruangbin’s is a band, you can say, wants to explore more of music by diving into it.
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