The buildup is slow but the payoff is immense.
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With its thunderous drums, sweeping cello and gorgeous melodies, all four Grizzly Bear members’ strengths are on full display on the stunning penultimate track from Shields. “Chained” is The xx doing what they do best, stripping their music away to a few ethereal, yet melodically satisfying elements.īrimming with life and further enhanced by the Dap-Kings’ horn hits, on “Who”, David Byrne and Annie Clark’s mutually detached personas play off each other to brilliant effect. The effect when the deluge of sound in “Pale Lights” gets temporarily buried low in the mix, almost beneath the mix, and Elverum describes “pale lights from other islands,” in a fractured voice reminiscent of Will Oldham, is eerily brilliant, the restrained violence making an opening for the kind of serenity that one returns to time and again, mystified. Where the memorably eventful day-in-the-life narration ends and a sort of chain of awkward and painful events and reflections gets reeled out, the confessional collides with the kaleidoscopic. “The World Moves On” is one of the best songs Lekman has recorded. Part of a quadruplet of songs that kicks off Sun in spectacular fashion, infectious single “Ruin” provides a winning twist on the Southern soul of Chan Marshall’s last two records.Īrguably, the greatest moment in both vocals and production on Devotion occurs on “Wildest Moments,” a tear-jerking testament to both triumph and failure in which Ware follows the titular refrain with both “We can be the greatest” and “We can be the worst of all.”Īlthough it’s not among the most typical touch points for The Fresh and Onlys, channeling Echo and the Bunnymen proves to be one of the better ones for the band as this anthem truly soars.
If this is just the beginning, Iluga is most assuredly going places. “Till We Ghosts,” the debut single by Petite Noir, aka South African producer and singer Yannick Iluga, is a haunting, hypnotic blues explosion with swirling riffs, booming drums and Iluga’s deep vocals. What “Her Fantasy” lacks in terms of duration against Matthew Dear’s previous album’s epic centerpiece “Little People (Black City),” it more than makes up for in dense, blissful sonic structures. As prelude, its first half is all goosebumps and adrenaline as main event, its second half is profound in its transformation from the corporeal to the transcendent. “The Apostate” is the most truly majestic moment on The Seer, a slowly lumbering creature that awakens and breathes, grows and intensify, seethes and soars. Mario the barrio colonoscopist, and a clippity-clop horse sound, as well as a bawdy call of giddy-up, giddy-up girl. Strangeness remains, as on “Symphony of the Nymph,” alluring with its groove and organ chords, trifling or getting true, as you see it, with lyrics about nymphomania in discotheques and bibliotheques, Dr. Rick Ross’ guest spot isn’t half bad either.Īriel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Symphony of the Nymph” Now close to 40, Nas is on top of his game with this fiery track driven by Nasir Jones’ unstoppable lyrical flow and a piano hook that serves to intensify his verses. On an album that serves as an outlet for Fang Island to explore their immensely talented technical skills, “Sisterly” offers an incredible balance of acoustic and heavy electric guitar sounds, each instrument suspended in perfect harmony.
For now, here’s a heavy addition to the already epic playlist of our 2012 jams. Our fall edition of the Endless Playlist is 24 tracks deep, and over the next two months even more great songs will be released, though by then we’ll be in year-end territory. It certainly still feels like summer outside, and the compilation of unstoppable jams we’ve been putting together over the past year only keeps on stacking up. Summer ended over the weekend, which is a drag only in an abstract sense.
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