Back to english version, The Queen Is Dead will be out sometime in english, sometimes in italian, thanks.
MAN MAN
New album for Man Man entitled ‘Carrots on strings’ out on Sub Pop Records. Man Man make very well crafted pop rock with a realistic and irreverent attitude. One of their greatest peculiarities are the choruses that are really catchy and stick in the listener’s brain.
The tracks of this work are all enjoyable, small but important joys that always hide within them something interesting and sweetly melancholic. The album was composed and is very much affected by the pandemic and what it brought with it, and it also describes situations of substance abuse and things from our daily lives that we may not want to describe but it does so in a very delicate and balanced way.
Man Man’s pop rock draws from both the past and the future, it is a continuous musical journey that never stops and fits very well into both the American indie and pop traditions. Currently there are few bands capable of making a beautiful, charged melody like Man Man, and the whole record is worth listening to from start to finish.
LOMA
Third album for Loma, it is called “How will i live without a body?” and will be released by Sub Pop Records. The trio composed of Emily Cross, Dan Duszynski and Jonathan Meiburg proposes a very fine-grained pop, sometimes close to jazz, very elegant but also very raw in certain passages, strongly centered on the very special voice of Emily Cross, an unicum in popular music. The group’s compositions are wide-ranging and show, like a photographic negative, the other side of pop, the dark and less easy side of pop.
Actually, to call this record pop is a bit reductive, because it embraces many musical genres and above all does not fossilise in one, but ranges freely, in the rarefied air as in the clear sky. Each song is particular and the record should be listened to song by song, as it is constructed. Recorded between Texas, Germany and England, it speaks of loss, recovery, drift and regeneration through painful but necessary processes, always in perpetual struggle against the fear of being alone and lost in this sea.
Loma do not offer consolation, they do more by offering us a pop gem of great beauty, a liberation in the face of the ugly things that pass before our eyes all day long.
WASHED OUT
‘Notes from a quiet life’ is the fifth album by Washed Out to be released by Sub Pop Records. The group offers electronica-soaked and very catchy pop with high-quality melodies. There is a lot going on in their sound and in some moments one is thrown into a very fresh balearic pop that tastes good.
The tracks on the album can be simply listened to as well as naturally danced to and lend themselves very well to both. The production is elegant and brings out the group’s full sound very well, a round that rolls along gracefully and pleasantly.
There is no hurry in ‘Notes from a quiet life’ and this is perhaps a consequence of Ernest Greene’s move to the country from the city as the band’s creative force, who in 2021 like many others left Atlanta to return to the countryside where he grew up, with a radically different pace of life. This is Ernest’s first entirely self-produced record, with mixing assistance from Nathan Boddy (James Blake, Mura Masa) and David Wrench (Caribou, Florence + the Machine). The result is a really good record, sweet and visionary, describing everyday life from a completely different and very particular angle. Washed Out’s electro pop is a very comfortable dress to be in and with which to walk around the world simply living.
Greene is a very good musician and composer and, above all, very adept at putting into music what he feels, managing to share it with us as well. Also special is the video for ‘The Hardest Part’, made with ‘multidisciplinary artist, writer and director Paul Trillo and with the use of Sora from Open Ai, an artificial intelligence model still in development, and the result is something to behold.
