Everything Now finds Arcade Fire making a bolder and tighter move in a dance music direction than on Reflektor, but unfortunately it’s even more of a mixed bag.
The weekly segment in which Anthony touches down on some of the best and worst tracks he has heard in the past week.
Here’s the second single from Chelsea Wolfe’s heavy new album Hiss Spun. “Vex” has pretty much all the qualities I liked about “16 Psyche,” but I especially love the grim, growled vocals lent by Aaron Turner this time. Hiss Spun is out September 22 through Sargent House.
Converge is back with their first pieces of new music in five years! Admittedly, the lead single “I Can Tell You About Pain” kind of strikes me as the band by the numbers, but the B-side “Eve” is fucking epic and effectively expands upon some of the slow and sludgy
The Killers have a new album on the way titled Wonderful Wonderful, and this latest single is a peppy piece of post-punk revivalism that I’m pleasantly surprised to say lives up to that title. The album drops September 22 via Island.
Susanne Sundfør teams up with former Czars frontman John Grant on “Mountaineers,” probably her spaciest track to date – with an amazing ending to boot. It’s the second single from the Norwegian singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Music for People in Trouble, which will be released August 25 via Bella Union.
A round-up of the greatest albums Anthony reviewed this past month!
Nine Inch Nails follows up last year’s Not the Actual Events EP with a moodier and more atmospheric set of tracks, which I don’t find to be quite as well-written or exciting.
The first half of Raskit is some of the most hard-nosed grime you’ll hear all year, as well as some of Dizzee Rascal’s strongest material since Boy in da Corner. Unfortunately, things go downhill fast shortly thereafter…
Shabazz Palaces return with deeply flawed twin concept albums.
