Afrobeats is a prime example of the future-pop that actually transpired, a hyper-digital sound far easier and oozier on the ear.
But these Fela-like or Marley-esque moments tend to melt into the glide-and-glisten of the sound. Twice as Tall triumphs not so much for its substance but as a shimmering surface, a landslide victory for the politics of pleasure. Using only her transmuted and multi-layered vocals, the Berlin-based composer creates a dense architecture where choral music and meditative techno meet. While some vocal lines emulate pulsing bass and celestial synth, the prevailing current is a surging chorus of near-language, struck through with the unmistakable trembles and notches of a human voice.
Look , Pramuk seems to declare, at how much we contain. Eventually, they were shared on Instagram by Gibbs himself, completing an utterly contemporary loop of art and life. Room for the Moon feels like a safe place to hide from mounting anxiety. So as she thrashes between anti-capitalist bops and introspective anthems, Sawayama assumes the role of both pop diva and pop rebel, subverting expectations of what the genre could and should stand for.
For their exquisite follow-up Flower of Devotion , Dehd upgraded to a proper studio, refining their gritty alchemy without scrubbing it too clean. Kempf and Balla trade yearning, hiccupy vocals across riffs that reverberate like heat waves off asphalt, as McGrady thuds away through the humid air.
Duval Timothy is constantly dismantling to rebuild on Help , a gorgeous, crestfallen record about possession and healing. His songs can be layered and minimal, lingual and graphic, natural and mechanical—all coming together in a work that both registers the omnipotence of imperial history and documents an ongoing restoration process.
Hannah Read can make a melody out of anything. Throughout Hannah , her fifth album as Lomelda, her expressive warble blooms and shrinks into strange and beautiful phrasings, heightening their meaning. She sings like no one else in indie rock, as though she is guided by a golden energy from within.
New Orleans electro-punks Special Interest see catharsis in demolition. Ka has spent his 40s laboring over how to animate the ghosts of his home. Singer-songwriter Alex Stoitsiadis was supposed to be hollering his hooks over melodic post-hardcore guitars in roiling cap clubs, and the scenes of heartbreak he described were supposed to be playing out for listeners in real life.
The internet has plenty of playlists full of pillowy background noise, built for tuning out while you dig into the task at hand.
Workaround inverts that dynamic: By requiring sustained close attention to the thumps and shimmers in your headphones, it offers something truly meditative. They are mostly untitled, proceed according to a single tempo across the whole album, and feature a drastically limited instrumental palette. Rarely does a particular sound last longer than a single beat.
There is almost no reverb. But if you listen closely, a universe might open in the split-second space between two hi-hats. Synth stabs that at first seem uniform take on entirely new shapes with every repetition.
Each element, shorn of everything extraneous, glows with significance. Produced while Drakeo the Ruler was awaiting retrial in Los Angeles on a bogus gang charge, Thank You for Using GTL is punctuated with robotic warnings from the extortive inmate phone service over which it was recorded.
Across the record, the rapper uses singular rhythms and invented syntax to imagine his jewelry eliciting gasps from the juror box, chide police for snooping through his DMs, and laugh along with the inmates nodding their heads to his phone calls. By now, Drakeo has been released from jail, making GTL a testament to resourcefulness that will hopefully remain an anomaly in his catalog.
For all its gentleness, it is an album of deep resolve, unshakable in its commitment to the idea that a better world is possible. No artist wants to be pigeonholed, but for Strange this resistance is crucial to the art he makes as a Black man working in a field most associated with white dudes. His deep familiarity with each of those touchstones—he prefaced Live Forever with an EP of National covers—allows him to explode them from within and rethink not just how but if they speak for him.
It makes for a complex and personal statement about the nature and worth of Black creativity and labor. Infinite worlds are contained within the threads of that teal yogurt shop shirt and that infamous cardigan , carving a path for the Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe to expand ever onward.
It shifted once we knew that [Emmy] was leaving. To suggest that we plan anything very much… that would be incorrect. Like what happens with people as they grow up or get older, and things change for the characters and the actors. So you want to be open to it. If Emmy had wanted to stay longer, and we were ending the series, I think we would have left her probably getting married or [at] some other step in her life, moving forward, but she would have still been very much a part of the family and part of the place.
But Emmy has been terrific for nine seasons and came to me and said she was ready to try some other things. She got married to Sam [Esmail] a couple years ago, and they spend a lot of time apart.
All of it went in towards her taking the next step in her life. Why did you want Ian be the one to encourage her to leave Chicago? He had to come out and accept who he was. What went into crafting those? And what message did you want to leave the viewers with in those scenes?
Will we learn where she went next season via a text message or a mention of some sort? Its universal appeal is in the courage to tell the truth: everybody has the choice to keep the status quo and live a muted version of themselves, but this memoir is a rallying cry for anyone, straight or gay, who has denied the bigger truth of who they are. Mark anonymous if you do not want your name displayed.
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