![]() Not just an entirely unexpected return after 24 years – a return to peak form that doesn’t simply seek to warm over past glories, but moves forward, reflecting the changes in dance music since Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt last made an album together. Better still, the concept here was: “What would Aphex Twin do with a chamber ensemble and a church organ?” LS Everything But the Girl – Fuse (I only came to love it more when I learned that it was a concept album about “a retired dentist who wrote elegant minimalist jazz circa 1970”.) Where that album was breezy and balmy, the follow-up is powerfully sad, with deep woodwinds leading furrowed, circular melodies – not a million miles from a much darker take on Alabaster DePlume’s breakout album To Cy & Lee. Photograph: Pat Martin Brendan Eder Ensemble – TherapyĮder is a Los Angeles-based jazz composer and film scorer (including for Ari Aster) whose last album, Cape Cod Cottage, I discovered purely on the basis of the lovely painting on its cover. Laura SnapesĬaptivating smoothie … Eddie Chacon. And those flute solos … Read the full review. However close the focus, it’s never less than captivating. Sometimes it saunters (Comes and Goes), sometimes it struts (Holy Hell, with its killer drums), sometimes it skews spiritual (The Morning Sun). BBT Eddie Chacon – SundownĪn uplifting musical renaissance continues: after 2020’s Pleasure, Joy and Happiness rescued the Would I Lie to You smoothie from the annals of one-hit wonders, Sundown refined that album’s sultry R&B into an even more spectral proposition. And there are dark moments of self-doubt, such as the fantastical 10-minute piano ballad Turbines/Pigs, plus references to their back catalogue and themselves: “BCNR, friends for ever!” It’s more musical theatre than indie rock, done by a troupe with no comparison in their scene. There are softboi romances and a multi-part story about woodland creatures, but, hearteningly, the band sell the whimsy without a shred of irony. ![]() Live albums can feel like addendums for fans only, but this one has drama and heft: the sound of a band regrouping around a completely new set of songs after their frontman quit. ![]() Yeah, we heading way+way up back to the top it’s just the truth (wow, woo)Į.t.Black Country, New Road – Live at Bush Hall ![]() Yeah, every time i count my money up, i just see blue Yeah, my twizzy on the run, so we gotta watch the way we move (woo) Yeah, ridin’ ’round with tris, so, drop (woop, woop, woo) No, no, these is not no underwear, i bought the choosy (woo, woo) My b+tch told me she want, and listen to my music (no, no, no, no) I’m a drug addict, but at least i don’t abuse it (don’t, yeah) The owner of chrome hearts stuck up with my music (really?) Ion’ even wanna hit, i been to lazy, i’m want wock’, yeah I was on live, instagram, they just shoot up three and i tell my guap up (buh)Įvery time she pull up on me, that b+tch give me top, huh I ain’t virgil with this money, f+cked it up a kiss (kiss) I been doin’ this sh+t for a long time, i ain’t new to this (no cap, no cap) I if i don’t got lip’ i’m sippin’ greener critch (lip’, yeah) I just make the beat, made this with jay trench, yeah (yeah) kelly, the way i p+ss on ’em (elliante+ah) Y’all be fasting, you don’t really be eating like this (yeah, y’all switching sides up, my bro)ĭiamonds on my wrist (flawless diamonds), i would put that honeycomb right up on my b+tch I be crashing, i’ma take the perc’ with the tris (yeah, wit’ that tris, y’all switching sides up) They asked me, “how you get your lifestyle like this?” (yeah, skah) Yeah, i’m a rockstar lil’ b+tch (hey, huh)Īll my diamonds bleedin’, yeah, they can’t touch y’all lil’ kids (hold up, yeah) phone home, i ain’t been so friendly (brr, gle) I jus’ bought the rolls royce and five, yeah (woo, woo, woo, skah)īig stones, yeah, the bigger bentley (yeah, bentley, hahaha)Į.t. (everybody misses+, every time i hold my b+tch now she+, pop a tes’+es’, i just called my b+tch up, got my hammy, perky intense, everytime my toolie+ yeah, woo, woo, woo)
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