Week in Pop
Crying have sent word of their long awaited big album Beyond the Fleeting Gales available today from Run For Cover Records that features the group firing on their most massive & glamorous cylinders yet. Songs like “Wool in the Wash” find Crying aspiring & rising to Yumi Zouma level heights where every pop inkling that was ever exhibited from the group on their previous EPs becomes fully realized & executed with absolute brilliance.
Ablebody proudly presents the Jess Krichelle directed “One Dime A Day” video to further celebrate the long awaited release of their debut album Adult Contemporaries available now from Lolipop Records. Christoph, Anton & company present an arty day at the office where business as usual is paired with dance-offs to the super smooth, sweet & serene sound that Ablebody has trademarked in recent days & years.
Brooklyn’s own The Can’t Tells share the pop number about gazes & glances with “Looking” featured off their upcoming EP available this fall. Blaze McKenzie, Mike DiSanto & Jon Smith bring about a lot of observations & heart to the equation but the trifecta that results from their three contributions is something so mesmerizing you have to hear it to believe it.
Shop Talk, featuring the talents of Jon Garcia (from Queening, Worms in Dirt), Alexander Perrelli (from Pygmy Shrews) & Bernard Gann (of Liturgy fame) combined talents & powers as heard on the peppy single “Knock on a Door” that brings about all the nervous & anxious energy to get you dancing. Find this and more on Shop Talk’s self-titled debut available November 11 through their imprint Brainbox Records.
French duo Papooz just dropped their self-titled EP today and we have their cover of Arto Lindsay’s “Simply Are” that brings all the smooth grooving riffs to shake a leg & cut a rug with. The breathy delivery and the moving chords provide a feeling & rhythm that is smooth & oh so sweet.
Siblings dropped the big fancy ultra-pop single “Rearview” about observing relationships & bonds through the glances of nostalgia. Like rummaging through the expired dates of yesterday’s papers, Siblings rummage through those reflections from the previous eras where memories of former obsessions come flooding back forward through recollections & emotive beats modeled after the hearts own patterns.
The duo known as denitia and sene, oka Denitia Odigie & Brian “Sene” Marc dropped their video for “open wide.” featured off their upcoming November 18 slated album love and noir. Playing Mercury Lounge the day before release on November 17; Odigie & Marc together combine a penchant for emotive chords & hooks with a passion for conveying feeling in every beat & note.
Alev Lenz collaborated with Olympian / director / model / etc Savanah Leaf on her video or “If Love” that illustrates real time love & warmth. Lenz wrote that the song & video was made in the “hopes to inspire positivity and growth,” where the piano guided arrangement emphasizes that real, genuine endearment that has gone missing from the grand stage of the world (as well as in our own lives).
Introducing Northern California’s own HC Love who emerged with her soft string-plucking lullaby “Dreaming Place” found off her upcoming album Light Breaks available November 4. HC brings about bedtime stories to dream upon where you can feel the entire workings & stresses of the day melting away into the ether while an ineffable comfort takes over.
Thirsty’s second album Albatross will be available November 7 and we give you a listen to the old school rocking & rolling title track. With the “it’s alright” refrain & piano lead rhythms; Thirsty takes you to the most dank dive around and cranks out all the pub tunes you can handle.
Ten Fé’s new single “Turn” just got remixed with extra dance maneuvers courtesy of Ewan Pearson found on the 7″ available October 21 via Rough Trade. More keys, more vocals, more rhythms & dance inspired designs signal the recipe for a private party held at an undisclosed addressed with an even stricter guest list.
Watch Fatt Father’s video for “The Unthinkable” featuring production from D.R.U.G.S. Beats that provides a taste of FF’s upcoming album ‘Veterans Day available on Veterans Day (November 11) from Fueled by Life Media. “The Unthinkable” presents Fatt Father putting the listener in the hot seat while he lays down a consciousness expanding sermon from the trap while D.R.U.G.S. keeps the production tense as you hang onto the edge of every delivered bar & beat.
Hear Rocky O’Reilly’s remix of the Sego track “The Fringe” found off of Hanging Around Remixes where Rocky discovers a new party for the party goers looking for the next & newest thing to get down with. Seesawing keys and a host of swirling & world spinning sounds ensue.
DC’s Priests presented us with the Katie Alice Greer video for “JJ” featuring too many hands touching the still sitting members of the band. Featured off their forthcoming album Nothing Feels Natural available January 27 from Sister Polygon Records; watch & wince & rock along to Priests while they endure what must be one of the most uncomfortable ordeals imaginable.
Available today, treat yourself to the world progressive percussion & more electro-enhanced aesthetics to get you moving via In Drum Play; the just released debut album from Hessle Audio co-founder/operator Pangaea who presents a taste of the following dance floor destroyers that keeps the beat & momentum moving from “Mutual Exchange” through subterranean slapping “DNS”.
In case you missed it, hear The Orb’s new album COW / Chill Out, World! available now from Kompakt that continues the wild soundscapes that they have made for decades that have radically altered & shifted how we hear & think about new electronic forms of sound & art.
Brooklyn’s own beloved Sam Kogon shared the incredible & grand sweeping album Psychic Tears available October 28 from the prestigious Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records. Kogon brings about an unprecedented knowledge of twentieth century modern pop arrangements as he throws in every baroque element to accentuate a situation unraveling wildly out of the scope of control in the most gloriously executed manners imaginable.
Courtesy of your good friends over at Sacred Bones; lose yourself in the pools of pure feral & dissonant perdition on Uniform’s “Ghosthouse”. Pummeling your speakers in violent audio waves that deals in backwards flipping percussion, growling guitars & a shouting delivery; this is one of those singles that is going to sit with you for more than a hot minute.
Presenting a lazy & thoughtful listen from Lower Plenty with “Bondi’s Dead” featured off the upcoming fourth album Sister Sister available November 18 from Bedroom Suck / Omnian Music Group. LP’s strums in casual ways with lyrical exposition that feels as if inspired by happenstance & various random thoughts & occurrences.
From the top tier tastes enjoyed over at felte, we bring you Soviet Soviet’s new single “Endless Beauty” that carves new romantic resonances & sentiments with electrified & addictive chord progressions. Soviet Soviet fires out a SCUD missile of sound that rewrites the rules of aloof pop where their distant approach & implementation of echo creates a larger scale rendering of their beautiful subject of infinity glamour & prestige.
Enjoy the youthful reflections on the nostalgic single “Boyish” from Hippo Campus that sports production from BJ Burton with natural visuals courtesy of Jimmy Bloniarz from Hyper House. The feeling of a second childhood is stirred as the aches of adulthood are dissolved into the feeling of a throwback picture book.
Contributing to the “Sympathy For the Devil” canon, catch Goan Dogs’ video for “Devil Inside” that features fancy performance visuals of the band set to stunning stage lights. The artistic poses and Brit pop sensibilities allude to the anarchy from within with a sound that has us listening for more.
Let Soft Lions takeover the steering wheel with their new free driving single “Freeway” featured off the upcoming John Vanderslice produced EP XOXO available October 28 from Velvet Blue Music. “Freeway” is a DIY anthem devoted to the eternally open roads made for raising cain and plain causing a whole lotta heck.
Get lost in the trippy projections from Mad Alchemy Analog Liquid Light Show in the Skyler Payne-Holmes video for Elephant Stone’s smooth psych popping “Photograph”, featured off the new album Ship Of Fools available now digitally from Elephants on Parade & physically November 25 from Burger Records. Elephant Stone keep their acid rock reign/revival thriving where they pick up where the your 80s & 90s alt. heroes left off. Catch them on tour from October 16 through November 16.
SAINTE, oka rising artist Tay Jardine, presents the Raul Gonzo video for “Technicolor” that utilizes a series of vintage pop art visuals to reinforce the artist’s current day penchant for maximalist & instant radio pop.
Utrecht, NL’s Jo Marches lead by Johanneke Kranendonk shares a listen & view from the new Silver & Gold EP with the Iris Deppe video for “The Night” that entertains essences of evening with image overlays & an array of color filters. The urgency of evening is emphasized by Johanneke as you are brought from cobble stone street to inviting waterways.
Hugh Augustine enlists none other than Syd Tha Kyd in the APLUS video for The Most Art produced “Nights on Replay” that revels in those evenings that you want on repeat. Most Art keeps the atmosphere & percussion operating on a hi-art level as Augustine & Syd praise those nights to remember that you wish could last forever.
Those looking for a fancy new single to kick off their weekend with hedonistic vibes & temptations; check out the fifth single from XUITCASECITY with the night move requests of “Stay The Night” that is bound to be played on clubs and featured in commercials for days to follow.
From Menace Beach’s Memphis Industries album Lemon Memory, check out the minimalist visuals for “Maybe We’ll Drown” where we see b/w arty screen test imagery of MB’s own Liza Violet shredding away in excellent timing & fashions.
Sharing English pop translations to commemorates the life and poetics of Chinese factory worker Xu Lizhi, TheUse along with Rachel Mason, Black Saturn & Charvak R. Jagtap provide their own creative renderings of the fallen FoxConn worker who left behind an archive of poetry. Presenting a listen to “On My Deathbed”, Rachel Mason’s unmistakable vocals reach toward that ghost/soul in the electronic machine with the refrain of “call back the soul that I’ve lost” that will permeate your consciousness for days. On My Deathbed / Journey to Truth will be available November 4 via Aagoo Records.
Kristin Hersh dropped the creative & arty visuals for her new single “Soma Gone Slapstick” courtesy of Orrin Anderson & Ryder James featured off her new album Wyatt At The Coyote Palace. Orrin & Ryder’s visual arrangements focuses on Hersh sitting & strumming streams of thoughts, feelings & observations on her guitar where her her lyrics are intertwined with found sounds of crowds that mix in with her rumbling riffs.
Brooklyn trio Del Caesar dropped the truth & falacy entertaining rock & roller found off their second release EP 2 available November 11 via their label Reheated Spaghetti.
Kissy, aka Sasha Ortiz, dropped her Mark Solomich produced single “Osaka” that brings about the late NYC vibe that is dreaming of late nights in futuristic cities in Japan.
Visual artist/producer Joshua Robertson is Mountns who dropped the new single “Hey Love” ft. Lewis Lane that provides intimate elements of introspection that span across hills, valleys, mountains & sees that seek a new sort of paradise somewhere/anywhere. Also catch the cool visuals via mountns.com.
Currently on tour in Europe with Parquet Courts, check out Pill’s self-made video for “Dead Boys” where the band takes you to a Queens cemetery where we are brought to the crypt of Houdini in a ceremonious paying of respects to the legend while Veronica Torres sends out a seering toast to all the dead dudes. Find this and more off the Mexican Summer album Convenience.
