(while not new I just found this song yesterday and I am quite enjoying in, particularly at the 1:29 mark when the song picks up. I believe its guitars mixed with a wind flute)
Olafur Arnalds has a new record out that is really good. Re:member. If you do not know him, he’s an Icelandic pianist. He has done a lot of very creative projects over the years and is still super young. His latest record, he employs two upright pianos which “listen” to his piano and plays their own melodies based on an algorithm that Olafur and his friend created. It’s pretty crazy.
I also really like his Living Room Songs album a lot. Daily listen for me. I just got tickets to his show in Seattle in January, so pretty stoked to see him finally.
Good take on this track, really enjoy listening to it, and Lily Allen really adds a nice spin to it, you can just catch her accent, which I think adds to the feeling of the song.
I’ve been browsing TIDAL using Roon. I saw this and clicked because I am generally happy with Blue Note’s production. Ambrose Akinmusire’s 4th album, Origami Harvest.
This is great headphone content. I don’t know quite what genres it breaks. Jazz, Hip-Hop, Chamber, and Spoken Word for sure. Thoughtful and brilliant. Some explicit lyrics, but tastefully done. I may add this to my list of content to use for critical listening and if I ever do reviews. Very well produced.
Makes me want to glue the MQA path from Mac Mini to iFi xDSD to modded STAX tube amp to STAX headphones (old) permanently down. I could miss the Penn State football game listening to this.
It was just released October 12. On a number of services. Tidal has a sample video.
St. Vincent is the apparent reincarnation of Prince
St. Vincent (Anne Clark) rose to prominence with the 2014 album St. Vincent, at which time she was certainly one of the most unusual people in the “mainstream”–if mainstream music even exists today. She also displayed quite a talent for rolling around on stage (37:00 minute mark):
She’s an art rocker who attended the Berklee College Of Music. With 2017’s Masseduction, the art rock became more explicit and downright kinky:
So now in 2018, she released MassEducation, a song-by-song self-cover of the entire Masseduction album. What makes it different is that it’s 100% voice and piano. So, you must focus on lyrics such as “I can’t turn off what turns me on” with an arrangement that could occur in any jazz/standards lounge anywhere. The meaning isn’t drowned out by the visuals and production here. I guess that’s the point. Brave new world. Postmodern Jukebox to your own work.
All of this brought to mind one of the more unconventional mainstream pop hits of all time: Prince’s rhythm and falsetto Kiss:
Naturally, (in the postmodern genre) old-school Tom Jones almost immediately released a more conventional cover. It was also a genuine 1980s hit:
St. Vincent: Arty, explicit, professional risk-taker
Prince: Arty, explicit, professional risk-taker
Don’t expect or even try to like everything they have created, but expect to be surprised.
I don’t speak French, but I really like this artist and she just put out a new album! It is kind of interesting/compelling listening to someone sing in a foreign language. Definitely give it a listen if you have the time…
It’s a little outside of the “1 year” category, but I have a feeling this album may have slipped beneath the radar and will therefore be “new” to most everyone here. Great post-rock album for zoning out. Maybe it’s just me, but I sometimes get a Zimmer vibe from this album: