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Negro Swan is Devonté Hynes' fourth album as Blood Orange. In his own words, the album is "an exploration into my own and many types of black depression, an honest look at the corners of black existence, and the ongoing anxieties of queer/people of color"
It was inevitable that Alex Turner would incorporate the loungey swagger of his busman's holiday the Last Shadow Puppets into his main gig of the Arctic Monkeys, yet the soft louche touch of Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino comes as something of a shock.
No less intense than it's more feverish predecessor, the exquisite new album un-furls O'Brien's trademark melodic flair, his gift for simultaneously vivid and subtle arrangements and lyrics that couch his hopes, fears and dreams in richly absorbing poetry
Singles Going Steady, lovingly restored and re-mastered from its original ¼ tapes for the first time since its original release. Newly curated booklet featuring an essay from punk authority Clinton Heylin & previously unseen images.
The Car is the seventh studio album from Arctic Monkeys. Featuring ten new songs written by Alex Turner, produced by James Ford and recorded at Butley Priory, Suffolk, La Frette, Paris and RAK Studios, London.
With their basic sound intact - searing guitars, driving rhythms and sexually-charged lyrical savvy - the 11 tracks on Blood Pressures find The Kills embracing a fuller sound than on their sparse, minimalist previous album, 2008's Midnight Boom.
Lives Outgrown is the culmination of a decade's worth of songwriting for Gibbons, with the singer ruminating on motherhood, anxiety, menopause, and mortality over the course of the album's 10 tracks.
Over the course of six self-recorded and mostly self-released LPs, Alex G has built a body of work unassuming in it's presentation but astounding in it's depth.
Enveloping Hopkins' journeys across geographical and cosmological spectrums, the album is an inimitable and all-embodying journey in and of itself. It's a rewarding and personal listening experience; one highly recommends indulging in without distraction.
Musically, there are bits of The Stone Roses, "What's The Story Morning Glory", and "Nevermind". As catchy as those reference points are, it's the songwriting that has won the band a fiercely dedicated following; a mix of the observational storytelling of
House of Sugar— (Sandy) Alex G’s ninth overall album and his third for Domino — emerges as his most meticulous, cohesive album yet: a statement of artistic purpose, showing off his ear for both persistent earworms and sonic adventurism.
