In “As It Was,” Harry Kinds latches on to the sort of peppy electro-pop that the Weeknd up to date from teams like a-ha. The tune is from Kinds’s third album, “Harry’s Home,” due Might 20, and its insistently upbeat manufacturing stokes the anomaly of the lyrics. When he sings,
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Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs
If you’re unfamiliar with the extraordinary world of the New Zealand people musician Aldous Harding, the mesmerizing music video for her 2019 single “The Barrel” might be the place to begin. The track is breezy and lightweight — gently strummed acoustic guitar chords, a buoyant piano riff — however because
Soccer Mommy Stretches Her Sound, and 12 Extra New Songs
Sophie Allison, who information as Soccer Mommy, continues to stretch past the sparse indie-rock of her early songs. “Shotgun” previews an album due in June — “Typically, Ceaselessly” — that’s produced by Oneohtrix Level By no means (Daniel Lopatin), an auteur of massive, blurry implications. “Shotgun” is a promise of
‘Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Residence 2 U’ Evaluate: Songs on Overdrive
Olivia Rodrigo, the pop sensation whose world megahit “Drivers License” put her profession within the quick lane in 2021, is, naturally, driving a automotive within the first movie about her life. She makes the identical journey — Salt Lake Metropolis to Los Angeles — within the director Stacey Lee’s movie
Arcade Hearth Ignites a Recent Period, and 11 Extra New Songs
Not often does important consensus pivot as rapidly and sharply because it did for Arcade Hearth, a band that started the 2010s snagging a shock album of the 12 months Grammy for its beloved, towering double album “The Suburbs,” and ended the last decade caricatured as out-of-touch scolds when its
Overview: ‘A Music of Songs’ Makes a Sacrament of Remembrance
A couple of sheets of coloured tissue paper, encumbered by a trinket to maintain them from fluttering off. That is what viewers members discover on their seats upon arrival at “A Music of Songs,” Agnes Borinsky’s new theater piece impressed by the biblical Music of Songs, and it’s one thing
The Buzzy Band Moist Leg Journeys Out at a Social gathering, and 13 Extra New Songs
The newest single from the buzzy post-punk revivalists Moist Leg tells a extra linear story than their drolly absurdist breakout “Chaise Longue”: “Angelica” captures that all-too-relatable expertise of feeling awkward at a foul occasion, observing with a pang of envy the individuals who really appear to be having enjoyable. “I
Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 Extra New Songs
Profession vs. household. Creative inspiration vs. a secure life. “The world ending and the size of my ambition.” Florence Welch takes all of them on in “King,” which affirms each the dangers and rewards of her decisions. Like most of the songs Welch writes and sings for Florence + the
Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Increase the Ante, and 13 Extra New Songs
Ed Sheeran resorted to well-used card-deck analogies in “The Joker and the Queen” on his 2021 album, “=,” for considered one of his many endearing confessions of humility: “I do know you would fall for a thousand kings,” he sang as piano and strings cushioned his ballad phrases. Now the
Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ Era Outtake, and 13 More New Songs
In 2000, Radiohead ripped apart old, pompous Britpop assumptions. With the sessions that yielded the albums “Kid A” and “Amnesiac,” the band followed its most arty, experimental inclinations and looked inward at the same time. “If You Say the Word” is a song that the group completed but shelved, which