We continue to advise you excellent music that you for some reason could miss, and we suggest listening to ten albums of February. New, Dance Glow Dance Plate and Foo Fighters, an excellent experiment with the classic Music of the Berlin Electrical Cooker, the next masterpiece of Nick Kale and the Triumph of the Canadian group The Weather Station. These and other albums are in our review and playlists.
THE WEATHER STATION IGNORANCE
Until recently, it was not very clear, as first of all, to represent Tamar Lindeman - or as a Canadian actress, or as a participant in the folk group The Weather Station. The priorities were placed in 2018 with the release of the same album - a collection of seven-bed songs with a scope to a wide audience (Lindeman pop-ambitions have fascinated at least in the single Kept IT All to MySelf). But the fully writer and performance talent of Tamara Lindeman reveals exactly now when The Weather Station Group, in which the artist took a confident position of the band leader, released the fifth studio album IGNORANCE. Now the Canadian Group is a mini-orchestra who perfectly framed the quiet, introverted songs of Lindeman and turns them into small masterpieces. Despite the fact that in some extent, the compositions with the IGNORANCE text centers are strong in each of the components: beautiful melodies, rich arrangements, clear structure and dynamics - even matte, patterned Vocal Tamara Lindeman on the background of all this riotiness sounds appropriate and adds intimacy and Chamber of this entry. If you never heard about The Weather Station, now it's time to fix it.
Foo Fighters Medicine At Midnight
It is difficult to say who is more fruit and talented: Dave Groz - a musician or Dave Groza is a marketer. About how he restarted his career and which path did it for 25 years of existence of Foo Fighters, you need to record in textbooks for beginner music managers. To the tenth full-formal album, his group approached in excellent form and became one of the contenders for inclusion in the Hall of Glory Rock and Roll (at the very first year), although Medicine Atly Midnight reaffections at the sure of the confident title of main pop album Foo Fighters . The album went out in early February and immediately jumped on the tops of the charts in many countries - from the UK to Australia. Here you can hear strong and dynamic rock-milking, welded dance rooms with a reneranous in the direction of David Bowie, tearful ballads and a burning social, in general, a complete set in all senses of a successful album for the maximum wide audience: a clerk jumping under a rocknik in a pub, holding A glass of whiskey with a cola in the hands of a permanent listener of the radio station, which has the most averaged musical tastes, an old rocker, quoting "male" music, and other canonary characters. In this sense, Medicine At Midnight copes with his task: this is a collection of songs, as if written specifically in order to like everyone. This is their main dignity and disadvantage simultaneously.
SLOWTHAI TYRON.
Hooligan shape and varying content British guy Tyrone under the pseudonym Slowthai two years ago recorded one of the most resonant, evil and provocative debuts in pop music. Since then, he is trying in every possible way to draw attention, and at times it is good for him - if not in creativity, then in a public space for sure. The new Tyrona work - a two-part album lasting a duration of 35 minutes, for which the artist wants to appear in front of the listener in two hypostasses: first, evil and aggressive, decorated with a rapper, trying to develop the success of the debut album; And then a wounded guy with a rich inner world, which also has feelings. The main advantage of the album Tyron is that these 14 tracks are not felt tightened: Slowthai has turned out to be a quick record with the involvement of large stars - from Cepping Sicle and James Blake to a $ AP Rocky, thanks to which Tyron cheerfully jumped into the American market. In the media plan, of course, the second album of Tyrona and did not closely repeated the success of the debut recording, but on the general background of what is happening with rap, it looks quite worthy.
Christian Löffler Parallel: Shellac Reworks
A record with a stunning background, which would be happy to replenish your collection of any artifacts. In Germany, there is a label of classical music Deutche Grammophon, from the end of the XIX century, the masterpiece of academic music on the plates. In the label collection there are Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner and other great people, the world famous writings of which were produced in Germany on shellac plates - a natural resin, which is generated from the excrement of insects-Chervests in the tropical forests of India and Southeast Asia. Deutche Grammophon decided to digitize these amazing records, but not quite ordinary way. He handed them to the Berlin Electron Cristian Leffler, who used orchestral samples to create a full-fledged work. Before him stood a very difficult task - not to spoil, do not shift the world classics, but to create your own masterpiece based on works of masters. And it turned out! This is a thin, melancholic music in which the shadow of the era of the great composers appears from the chims of the Embirator and silent techno. Swells on this album 50 minutes of its time, dissolve in this music and get a real pleasure.
Django Django Glowing In The Dark
Django Django - from those groups that are great in all sorts of thematic selections and feel great in playlists, but at the same time someone is unlikely to call them among their loved ones and is their loyal fan. The British create a strong and slim material from the album to the album, withstand a fairly high bar for a demanding listener, but are "one of those groups", that is, they do not have the necessary charisma to bring their own brand to a new qualitative level. But it is an overlap, rare case. And we are talking about not bad, in general, a group with good potential. So Glowing In The Dark can be safely advised to a friend Melomanu and dig out beagrawn tracks for personal playlists from the album. "One thing to which we really sought, creating this album, is to be a little more playful with songs and not too bodied in detail," said the bass player Jimmy Dixon, and it looks like the truth: Glowing in the Dark It sounds very relaxingly and naturally, as if the musicians turned off the inner bore and simply as Kaifaneli. This buzz, enjoying the process very clearly felt in the album.
Mogwai AS The Love Continues
For the 25 years of existence, the Mogwai Scottish group has become an audobrand and together with God Is An Astronaut (also, by the way, released a new album in February) is the most recognizable and famous team in the grandgright. At the same time, with each new album, it becomes more difficult to add some specific descriptions for the music of the Scots: the branded wall of sound, monumental, squeezed instrumental compositions - in general, all this is a very cinematic and applied story, which in the studio version is suitable for the soundtrack and background Listening, and ideally designed for concert impressions and emotions. On the other hand, it does not touch anyone to say that Mogwai record the passage album. No, this is a corporate identity, handwriting, thanks to which the group is learned instantly. It is difficult to create such a powerful brand, and even more difficult to fill it with life and develop in a fairly narrow framework of the genre. The Scots do it perfectly well.
Ghetts Conflict of Interest
Justin Clark to some extent is one of the pioneers of Grahima: In 2003, he released a mixture of 24 tracks, in which many of the current stars of the genre took part. The GhettS himself is not to remain in the shade, but did not create the amount of media hype, which was formed, for example, around Sicleat and Stormi - two main apologists of the Grahma, which grew in world stars. It's hard to believe, but during Clark's career, Clark has released only three albums, and the third - Conflict of Interest - came out in February. These are 18 compositions in which the artist is trying to show Greym in all variety, using both aggressive, underground techniques, and pop canons with the attraction of the relevant artists like the Oskomina Ed Shiran, whose presence on any album allegedly adds the status and media album. There is a resistant feeling that even excluding fittings with shiran, skepta, Stormi and other prominent artists, this entry would absolutely would not lose: it is a strong, emotional album, albeit rather tightened.
Naïssam Jalal Un AUTRE MONDE
Parisian Nassas Jalal is known to equally and as a jazz flutstic, and as a left-wing activist. She was born in the family of Syrian emigrants, studied at the conservatory game on a classic flute, and then suddenly left for Damascus to master the nay - the same flute there, only longitudinal. Then the girl returned to France, got into the Levatsky party and became an eco -activist. The album of her group RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE is just a statement on the topic of an environmental catastrophe, and it becomes clear already on the terrible cover of UN Autre Monde. Fortunately, the cover is the only weak point of a strong jazz album, in which great professionals participated in the record. Jalal leading on the album gives maximum emotion: her flute is talking to a listener, as if living, with her voice dialogue and the girl herself is singing, then almost breaking on a cry and turning this entry to the extremely emotional statement, while complex, multilayer, polyritical . Un AUTRE MONDE - an album that clings immediately, shakes a listener by the shoulders and requires maximum involvement.
Nick Cave / Warren Ellis Carnage
Each new album Nick Cale can be provided with a ruthless characteristic of "professional suffering", but it will be too superficial, albeit exactly, work description. Australian is really masterfully drawn with the most severe emotions and knows how to embody them in music so that even the last buckwar began to empathize and not dare to say or write something sick-yazy. The new album Cave recorded along with his long-standing companion on a number of groups and projects Warren Ellis, with which before the duet format has already produced the Soundtrack album to the movie The Road. In this record, the musician departs from the internal experiences and intimate tragedies (the latest albums of Calee were largely related to the death of the Son) and pays attention to tragedies and cataclysms external: the entire entry is permeated with some kind of apocalyptic anticipation, contemplating irreversibility and accomplishment before the storm. Keive looks at what is happening as if removed from somewhere on top - just watches chaos and fixes this moment. It turns out with him, as always, impressive.
Cassandra Jenkins An Overview ON Phenomenal Nature
The branchy creative path of Kassandra Jenkins began at an early age: since childhood she studied to play the guitar, and under the age of 12, he performed in the family folk group. In general, the atmosphere was initially very creative, so the girls had no options initially. An Overview on Phenomenal Nature is the second album of Jenkins, which she recorded two years after the tragic news. In 2019, Cassandra was supposed to join the group of David Berman Purple Mountains, but this did not happen: Berman committed suicide. As a result, Jenkins continued the solo career and with the help of multi-instrumentalist and producer Josh Kaufman recorded the album beautiful on all sides in his studio. This small record is inhabited by numerous characters: many of them stay with listeners from the song to the song, some appear suddenly and also suddenly disappear - this is a kind of game, thanks to the air and accurate arrangements perfectly performed. The album is recorded in the Best New Music category by PitchFork edition and is one of the most notable releases of February.
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