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wow!!! august was a pretty stacked month for new releases and it seems like september will be pretty busy too. there were quite a few great records this month - one being my current album of the year. also trying out a new format so these posts will be easier to navigate. i've started linking to the full reviews on my rym page instead of just pasting them over here. i figure it's much easier to get through that way!!
to check out my thoughts on some of the songs that dropped this month click here!!!
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to call it a triumph would be an understatement, the sophomore album from Magdalena Bay is a delicately detailed experience that doubles as an immensely enjoyable pop record. to put it simply, i'm feeling diskinserted πΏ
on his strongest album yet, Parannoul further refines his sound without sacrificing the scrappiness that made his music so endearing in the first place.
my review of Sky Hundred
β released: Aug. 30, 2024
β genres: singer-songwriter, art rock, gospel, baroque pop
unlike the more meditative approach of 2019's Ghosteen, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with a renewed sense of urgency and a striking crop of songs that are sure to make u feel something.
my review of Wild God
β released: Aug. 23, 2024
β genres: indie rock, alternative rock, post-britpop
Fontaines D.C. shed their gothic veneer in favor of warmer sounds on their new record, while unfortunately stumbling into style over substance territory amidst a few incredible tunes.
β released: Aug. 9, 2024
β genres: boogie rock, roots rock, blues rock
the refreshing collaborative spirit of this new King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard record is its biggest strength, but not enough to make this an essential project in their vast discography.
my review of Flight b741
β released: Aug. 16, 2024
β genres: synthpop, nu-disco, chillwave
the fourth album from Foster the People, my favorite band when i was in 6th grade, is an existential ode to synth funk and disco of the 70s/80s that sounds great, but doesn't leave much of a lasting impression.
β released: Aug. 16, 2024
β genres: alternative r&b, trap soul, pop rap
the second installment in Tinashe's BB/ANG3L trilogy is a substantial step down from the first primarily due to its reliance on more mainstream pop/r&b sounds.
David Lynch always has a strong vision for what he wants to convey in his art, but unfortunately, this new collaboration with Chrystabell isn't one of his most worthwhile endeavors.
my review of Cellophane Memories
β released: Aug. 2, 2024
β genre: alternative rock
Smashing Pumpkins' surprise new album isn't as horrible as their garish rock opera ATUM, but it's just as self-indulgent and outright boring as what weβve come to expect from the band.
β released: Aug. 16, 2024
β genres: contemporary country, country pop
Post Malone sticks out like a sore thumb in every genre he inhabits and that continues to be the case with his first full-length country album - his worst record thus far by a considerable margin.
this section will be used on occasion to briefly discuss projects i didn't write full reviews for, but i still think are worth checking out. beginning with ...
Sophcore - Moses Sumney
A decent EP, but I would be lying if I said I was a little letdown. Still very pleasant on the ears, just lacking in substance. Sumney still has a very striking voice. Here's hoping the next project is a bit more substantial.
Some Songs I Wish I Wrote Vol. 1 - This Is The Glasshouse
I didn't have high expectations for a covers EP, but this one really floored me. I really loved his album from last year, As Small As Ants, and it seems as though he's only getting better. He has a really good ear for layered instrumentation, it's certainly this EP's strongest aspect. The arrangements for his cover of Xiu Xiu's "Sad Pony Guerilla Girl" and Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" were big highlights in particular. Definitely give this a listen!
A few months after their Connla's Well EP, Maruja surprise dropped a compilation full of improv jam sessions. It's a bit of an undertaking, but for those who are fans of the band this is definitely a treat. There are so many cool instrumental passages here and it brilliantly showcases how many brilliant ideas are swarming around when the band is in the studio. Their chemistry is off the charts. Here's hoping we get some weird jam stuff on their full-lenght debut, whenever that comes out.
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Chrystabell and David Lynch β Cellophane Memories (David Lynch Music Company)
Photo by David Lynch
Vocalist Chrystabell first worked as an actress with poly-artist David Lynch on the third season of the 2010s incarnation of Twin Peaks, in which she played the FBI agent Tammy Preston. That wasn't the beginning of their collaboration: The two had worked together on her debut album This Train (2011) and the EP Somewhere in the Nowhere (2016). His famous vocal muse, the high soprano Julee Cruise, had quite a different voice from Chrystabell, whose sultry alto combines a warm lower register with the capacity to venture upward in head voice. She has since pursued a number of musical projects with other artists, including Strange As Angels (2021) an album of Cure covers with the Nouvelle Vagueβs Marco Collin. Her reunion with Lynch is on 2024βs Cellophane Memories.
Many often think of Lynchβs work in film and television as primary while assuming that music is a less serious pursuit. They would be wrong. From transcendental meditation to scriptwriting to playing on a recording, he takes all of his activities seriously. Cellophane Memoriesβs electronic music is redolent of ambient synths and not dissimilar to some of the tracks from the reboot of Twin Peaks, or from the work of departed composer Angelo Badalamenti, with whom Lynch had a close working relationship. Mythic images, particularly ones embellished in romantic horror and fantasy β castles, fairies, deserted houses, lonely highways β are the albumβs scenery. The themes of loneliness and isolation go hand and hand with this imagery.
The song βShe Knewβ opens the album using patches that bring the listener right into the Twin Peaks universe, extra vibrato on lower strings, and a sustained high violin closer to straight tone. Chrystabell frequently uses overlapping vocals on Cellophane Memories. βReal Loveβ develops upon the Twin Peaks Season Two cut entitled βBlue Frank.β There are a number of vocal overdubs, each sinuously sliding between their respective melodies.
βThe Answers to the Questionsβ points up a declamatory approach, textual elision. Elision furthers the commingling of sonorities and ambiguates meaning. Some isolated and lonely people talk to themselves. Here, it seems instead that the stories Chrystabell has to tell, with their timeless archetypes, resound again and again. The blurring of narrative and objectivity into subjective textures is a classic Lynchian device as well, as one can see in the photos he takes with a time lapse setting.
βSublime Eternal Loveβ closes the album with an affirming major progression. The vocal overlaps are still there, but Chrystabellβs diction is more distinct, ending a recording of dark pathways moving towards an imagery of endless light.
