50 New Albums in 2025 - new! improved! 2025!
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Feb 2023
10:08am, 10 Feb 2023
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mattglen_
Just added a review for Beyonce's 'Renaissance' album. Inspired to listen to it by the recent Grammy Awards "controversy" for this album not winning Album of the Year. Can't see it personally but I enjoyed the album nonetheless.
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Feb 2023
10:51am, 10 Feb 2023
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Chrisull
I seem to have a fallen down a Dionne Warwick/Burt Bacharach rabbit hole rather than listening to new stuff at the moment. (There are worse rabbit holes to fall down) But it does highlight a question who is arranging stuff remotely in the same league as Bacharach currently? And I don't even mean the "Bacharach sound", it's more an absolute virtuoso feel and flair for the production, the arrangement, the way the songs go. I am deeply average musician at best, but even I can get annoyed by some of the artists I like just putting out songs that feels badly or just insensitively played/written. Heavy handed piano plonking is a particular bugbear of mine. I can't remember where I saw this article - may well have been on fetch so apologies if I'm recycling - but there was a billboard article on number 1 records losing key changes tedium.co and the author partly puts it down to the fact that key changes are pretty hard to achieve (not impossible) in current music software. The guy who writes the above article listens to 1143 number ones and demonstrates the declining trend with a graph. I'm not saying good music needs key changes, in fact many key changes by rote are lazy and dull. But it feels like a retrograde step and symptomatic of what I'm describing. And it's not punk/hip hop/grime I'm getting at, those genres aren't aiming for that, they have their own fortes and strengths. Sufjan Stevens is one of the few I can think of, or perhaps Julia Holter within the indie canon who buck this trend (and the latter has tackled "Don't make me over"), I'm sure there are more. Who else would you make a case for? |
Feb 2023
10:55am, 10 Feb 2023
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ElDuderino
Going to stick up a review for The Waeve in a moment. I enjoyed this but I'm not sure how often I'll go back to it.
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Feb 2023
11:18am, 10 Feb 2023
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g1ngerrevolution
As a mediocre musician, I really appreciated that article. Thanks Chrisull
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Feb 2023
12:49pm, 10 Feb 2023
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Dvorak
Chrisull, I've been listening to the latest Cassandra Jenkins, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, and it struck me how well-arranged it was. Not exactly the chart mainstream though. Listening to quite a bit of 80s, it does strike me how many ideas songs tended to have, compared to the simplistic fare of now. |
Feb 2023
11:33pm, 10 Feb 2023
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The Terminator
Dvorak that Cassandra Jenkins album is fantastic isn't it 😍
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Feb 2023
6:45pm, 12 Feb 2023
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HowFar?
I listened to the Leftfield album today. It was the first one of the new listens that has brought a smile to my face on the first play. A couple of the tracks transported me back to the black, sweaty, strobe filled, smokey Mancunian rooms of my youth. Happy days. I also had a listen to Just Mustard - female vocal shoe gazing that had hints of Lush. A good day of new listens for me. |
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Feb 2023
8:13am, 13 Feb 2023
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The Terminator
Ooh I'll try that Just Mustard thanks HF. I haven't tried Leftfield. I love Leftism and still listen but it's a nostalgia thing and not the type of music I go to these days. I'm loving the new Yo La Tengo album. Have offered reviews for Molly, Meg Baird, Raye and Hamish Hawk over the weekend too. |
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Feb 2023
9:12am, 13 Feb 2023
33,697 posts
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ElDuderino
I've started the new Yo La Tengo album and am liking it a lot too. I always slip into a rabbit hole of their back catalogue when I listen to Tengo so haven't managed more than one listen yet. 
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Feb 2023
11:11am, 16 Feb 2023
29,347 posts
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Hendo
Mostly lurk on here but +1 for Just Mustard
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