The 2022 Music Thread

[GoGo Yubari]

Wet Leg album is good and best of all it's short! Feels like a neat synthesizing of some various elements of '00s indie. "Supermarket" and "Piece of Shit" are my favorites of the songs they hadn't put out before this.

Also really dug Confidence Man's second album that they put out last week. Listened to most of it driving on the freeway in California back to the airport. It's not as funny as much of the best stuff from Confident Music For Confident People outside of "Angry Girl," which is a delight, but it does feel a little more cohesive as a whole album.

[Benji]

New RHCP album is okay. Definitely not their best work, but a decent follow up on Stadium Arcadium (the last from this particular lineup) and way better than their last album which was utterly forgettable.

Particularly digging "Here Ever After" for the classic RHCP dance funk and "Tangelo" as the ballad.

[GhostMachine]

I can honestly say there's not a single song off RHCP's last album that I'd go out of my way to listen to again. Even "Sick Love", and I'm an Elton John fan.

Haven't heard Tangelo yet, but I do like "Here Ever After" and "These Are The Ways".

[MalaCloudy Black]

I didn't realize it while watching her set but Megan Thee Stallion performed some of a new song at Coachella!

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

[RPS]

25 minutes ago, Serpenticloud said:

 

I just listened to Steve Earle the other day and thought "I bet Cloudy loves this"!

[MalaCloudy Black]

One of the companies responsible for producing Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits is bringing a new festival to Arkansas, called FORMAT.

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Called FORMAT (an acronym of “For Music + Art + Technology”), the festival will run September 23–25 on “250 acres of forest-enclosed green land” at the Sugar Creek Airstrip in Bentonville, Arkansas.

It bills itself as “a multidisciplinary experience, combining a mind-expanding music lineup featuring some of the greatest acts on the festival scene with immersive installations by dynamic visual and performing artists, site-specific commissions, and architectural interventions,” according to a release.

FORMAT is founded by events company Triadic (Mafalda Millies, Roya Sachs, and Elizabeth Edelman), and will be produced in partnership with C3 Presents, which produces Lollapalooza in Chicago and Austin City Limits in Texas, among other live festivals. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its satellite contemporary art space the Momentary have also signed on as official partners, with local Arkansas company OZ Events.

Among the musical acts included in this year’s line-up are Beach House, Phoenix, Rüfüs Du Sol, The War on Drugs, The Flaming Lips, Khruangbin, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Jungle, and Herbie Hancock. In addition to the regular main and side stages typical at festivals like this, FORMAT will also include “alternative settings where musicians will perform—hidden forest enclaves, an open-air pavilion, a converted disco barn, and a multi-room speakeasy,” per the release.

 

(btw, that's a different Nick Cave than the one you're probably thinking of)

[RPS]

That is an exceptional line up. 

[livid]

The new Arcade Fire is really good. Real return to form. 

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

 

@Jimmy @Cymbols

[Jimmy]

I objectively have no idea if it's any good but of course I love it 

[Hobo]

A third album in three years from the Mountain Goats?!

Admittedly i just didnt get into Getting Into Knives and have only listened to Dark in Here once

this may be my favourite of the songs they have led with from recent albums tbh

The video is great too.

[MalaCloudy Black]

The vocalist for Dance Gavin Dance is stepping away from the band after allegations of sexual misconduct. 

[livid]

Horsegirl is awesome 

 

[RPS]

Ravyn Lenae's album HYPNOS is wonderful. I think the album title aptly describes the music. R&B music that sounds like it's curating a very lovely dream. 

Grace Ives Janky Star is really wonderful stuff as well. Melodies are very good. There are little electronic flourishes here or there that elevate the music. Really good. 

Charlie XCX Crash was good. Charli XCX always hits it out of the park for singles and has very good albums. Trend continues. Infinitely listenable.

I was not a fan of Wet Legs LP. Will listen again though.

700 Bliss Nothing to Declare is phenomenal. The arrangement and production is very oppressive and overwhelming. Lyrics are on point. Uncomfortable at times but that's the point. 

[RPS]

Rosalia's Motomami is astounding. Album of the year. I passively enjoy lots of different Spanish music - my hubby loves bachata and my mother in law Spanish. A lot of these genres can be very traditional. Rosalia finds little ways to deviate and innovate. 10/10 from me. If you want a grab bag of Spanish music genres, check it out. 

Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti is also very good. 

The new Perfume Genius album is his most dense and experimental. Definitely an experience in focus on the sounds of human versus singing. Lots of times the music is accompanied by whimpers or moans. I really enjoy it but I don't know if I'll be up to listening something so heavy often. 

[RPS]

Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupil have an album called Topical Dancer. What a trip. Describing it does not do it Just cr. It's gritty, raw, bizarre, almost punk like electronic music. Accompanying it are lyrics delivered in a dead pan manner that are simultaneously witty lyrics and cutting criticism. One is a compilation of the most rote and overused cliches said with zero enthusiasm. Another is a commentary on being a racialised immigrant in Belgium. Another just has Charlotte laughing and remarking "you just needed to be there". It is both bizarre and humorous. Lots of bizarre vocal alterations and a minimalist tone. 

[tristy]

 

LET'S FUCKIN' GOOOOOO!

I've missed them so much  Hard to believe it's been 10 years.

Here is the audio, because the music video is 11 minutes of footage for an almost 3 minute song.

Edited June 21, 2022 by tristy

[Gorka]

15 hours ago, RPS said:

Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupil have an album called Topical Dancer. What a trip. Describing it does not do it Just cr. It's gritty, raw, bizarre, almost punk like electronic music. Accompanying it are lyrics delivered in a dead pan manner that are simultaneously witty lyrics and cutting criticism. One is a compilation of the most rote and overused cliches said with zero enthusiasm. Another is a commentary on being a racialised immigrant in Belgium. Another just has Charlotte laughing and remarking "you just needed to be there". It is both bizarre and humorous. Lots of bizarre vocal alterations and a minimalist tone. 

Esperanto is hilarious and cutting.

HAHA was another song that stuck in my head, just wild the way it's chopped up. 

[RPS]

35 minutes ago, Gorka said:

Esperanto is hilarious and cutting.

HAHA was another song that stuck in my head, just wild the way it's chopped up. 

It's all so interesting. Definitely operating in a league of its own. 

Did you listen to the 700 Bliss Nothing to Declare album? Very similar vibes, but way more forward lyrically and influenced by 90s house whereas Topical Dancer is influenced by 00s dance punk.