It's a new week and new music. This is the kind of stuff that should make us feel great to be human. Art never stops, and we are special that way.
The good part is that we are getting closer to summer and warmer weather in the Northern Hemisphere, so that means more music. People like to drive around with their tops down on the vehicles blasting the latest classic records, one assumes.
But what is new this week that you should hear? Here are four albums you must add to your rotation. Some you might be listening to in 30 years as well.
4 albums released this week you should be listening to right now
Mclusky - The World is Still Here and So Are We
Nothing like waiting 20 years between albums and then delivering a record that sounds as if the band has been rehearsing for this moment each day for two decades. Mclusky is famously bombastic live, and while the energy of outstanding performances is hard to capture in the studio, the band comes close here.
The song titles are what you would expect from the band, such as "autofocus on the prime detective," but the post-hardcore delivery is strong. Start your day with this one, and you will be ready for those problems at work.
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke - Tall Tales
Don't let the minimalist tone fool you. This album is not drone. Instead, the wonderful instrument of Yorke's voice meshes perfectly with Pritchard's production, and we have what begins as something bleak and expands to something quite glorious.
Stick with the album. You'll be happy you did, literally speaking. The project is uplifting and fulfilling.
PinkPantheress - Fancy That
A bit more fleshed out than previous work, the bass still lives on (as it should on any PinkPantheress project), but this record is far more poppy. That doesn't make it less delicious, but long-time fans who love her drum and bass schtick might not be completely ready for her new path.
Try "Stateside" first and see how you feel. I guess you will want to explore more and will not be dissatisfied with what you find.
billy woods - Golliwog
Not for the faint of heart, woods brings the horror fully realized lyrically and sonically. This record has moments of beauty, of course (every woods album does), but overall, it is heavy and bleak. The issue is that it all feels so real through woods' delivery.
There is a narrative arc of an evil golliwog based on a story woods wrote when he was younger. If you didn't have your own PTSD before listening to this gem of an album, you might afterward.