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Happy Thursday!
While I was fleshing out the Wikipedia list for my release radar this week, I found an album that supposedly comes out tomorrow, according to press and to the MusicBrainz database, but has already been on streaming services
since, like, January? Tidal even says the release date is tomorrow, even though the whole album is already streamable. Someone’s gotta tell me how that works.
Anyway, that album is “Tongues” by Tanya Tagaq, and it turned out to be my… favorite? album I’ve heard all week. Tagaq is a Canadian Inuit singer and Polaris Music Prize winner who draws upon the Inuit form of throat singing called katajjaq. Inuit throat singing is practiced by a pair of singers facing each other and aligning their in-breaths with their partner’s out-breaths in a sort of friendly competition to see who can outlast the other. Tagaq reinterprets this tradition by performing solo on her recordings, and using this style of singing to channel implacable, inconceivable grief and rage. I’m going to keep it a thousand with you and say this is not a straightforwardly pleasant listen, and in fact it made me feel genuine fear. favorite songs: “Colonizer (Tundra Mix),” “I Forgive Me,” “Teeth Agape”
https://tidal.com/browse/album/196592320
In other news, ended up really digging Kristine Leschper’s debut album under her given name (after having gone by Mothers),
The Opening, or Closing of a Door. These songs are instrumentally rich, and are catchy in an off-kilter way. There are some really dreamy drone parts with a strangely dissonant melody over it that remind me of some of the songs Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch composed together. There are multiple separate moments that independently remind me of the third movement of “To Be Over” by Yes. It meant I had to take a quick Yes break in the middle of the album, but that’s not necessarily a bad quality for an album to have. favorite songs: “Picture Window,” “Blue,” “Carina,” “This Animation”
https://tidal.com/browse/album/200203390
Maybe if I liked Leschper I should give Cate Le Bon another try… (Sorry Jirin.)
Bolded albums were not on my last tier list three weeks ago.
My favorite albums of the year:
- 1. 40 Watt Sun - Perfect Light
- 2. Yard Act - The Overload
- 3. Superchunk - Wild Loneliness
From here on out, these tiers are sorted alphabetically. It doesn’t really feel right to do the pseudo-ranking thing I did before when some of these albums I don’t really remember all that well, or I might not have given enough time to reveal themselves to me.
Albums that I recommend:
- 2 Chainz - Dope Don’t Sell Itself
- Adria Kain - When Flowers Bloom
- Basia Bulat - The Garden
- Gang of Youths - Angel in Realtime
- Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion
- Kristine Leschper - The Opening, Or Closing of a Door
- Tanya Tagaq - Tongues
- Trentemøller - Memoria
- The Weeknd - Dawn FM
Albums that I like quite a bit:
- Band of Horses - Things are Great
- Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
- Boris - W
- Frank Turner - FTHC
- Glaive - Old Dog, New Tricks
- Grentperez - Conversations with the Moon
- Infected Rain - Ecdysis
- Judy Collins - Spellbound
- Madrugada - Chimes at Midnight
- Mary J. Blige - Good Morning, Gorgeous
- Once Human - Scar Weaver
- RuPaul - Mamaru
- Sally Shapiro - Sad Cities
Albums that I like decently enough:
- $NOT - Ethereal
- Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch
- Conway the Machine - God Don't Make Mistakes
- Dan Andriano and The Bygones - Dear Darkness
- Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
- FKA Twigs - Caprisongs
- Kiefer Sutherland - Bloor Street
- KYLE - It’s Not So Bad
- Mach-Hommy - Dollar Menu
- Metronomy - Small World
- Nilüfer Yanya - Painless
- Oh Hiroshima - Myriad
- Peach Pit - From 2 to 3
- Pinegrove - 11:11
- Shamir - Heterosexuality
- Somi - Zenzile: The Reimagining of Miriam Makeba
Albums that didn’t leave that much of an impression on me:
- Alt-J - The Dream
- Bad Suns - Apocalypse Whenever
- Benee - Lychee
- Billy Talent - Crisis of Faith
- Christina Aguilera - La Fuerza
- Eric Nam - There and Back Again
- Half Alive - Give Me Your Shoulders Pt. 1
- Khruangbin and Leon Bridges - Texas Moon
- Kim Petras - Slut Pop
- Korn - Requiem
- Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor
Albums that don’t really do it for me at all:
- Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
- Cory Wong - Wong’s Cafe (didn’t finish)
- Dolly Parton - Run, Rose, Run (didn't finish)
- Inna - Champagne Problems
- Leighton Fields - Consequences (didn’t finish)
- Magnum - The Monster Roars (didn’t finish)
- MØ - Motordrome (didn’t finish)
- Said the Sky - Sentiment (didn't finish)
- Scorpions - Rock Believer (didn't finish)
- Snoop Dogg - BODR (didn't finish)
- St. Paul and The Broken Bones - The Alien Coast (didn’t finish)
- Subtronics - Fractals (didn’t finish)
Albums that I got distracted partway through, but might like to finish at some point:
- Beach House - Once Twice Melody
- Black Country, New Road - Ants from up There
- Hurray for the Riff Raff - Life on Earth
- Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa
Back to ranked listing:
My least favorite albums of the year:
- 2. Skillet - Dominion (didn't finish, although I really did try)
- 1. Dustin Lynch - Blue In The Sky
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A non-exhaustive list of albums coming out tomorrow (March 11) for you to peruse:
- Alex Cameron - Oxy Music
- Archie Roach - My Songs: 1989–2021
- Ben Abraham - Friendly Fire
- Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 4
- The Boo Radleys - Keep On with Falling
- Brandon Boyd (the guy from Incubus) - Echoes and Cocoons
- Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts
- Charlie Collins - Undone
- Dallas Woods - Julie's Boy
- The Districts - Great American Painting
- Drake White - The Optimystic
- Drug Church - Hygiene
- Ella Henderson - Everything I Didn't Say
- Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow - Zhigeist
- Ferris & Sylvester - Superhuman
- For King & Country - What Are We Waiting For?
- Ghost - Impera
- Hank Williams - I'm Gonna Sing: The Mother's Best Gospel Radio Recordings
- Hoodoo Gurus - Chariot of the Gods
- Ho99o9 - Skin
- Jenny Hval - Classic Objects
- Khontkar and Downtown Dion - Fire Department
- Lil Durk - 7220
- Men Without Hats - Again (Part 2)
- Nick Mono - The Sun Won't Stay After Summer
- Orion Sun - Getaway
- Rex Orange County - Who Cares?
- Set It Off - Elsewhere
- Shaman's Harvest - Rebelator
- Shenseea - Alpha
- Tapani Rinne and Juha Mäki-Patola - Open
- Taylor Alxndr - 1993
- Team Me - Something in the Making
- Thomas Headon - Victoria
- Trey Anastasio (the guy from Phish) - Mercy
- Upsahl - This Is My First Live Album
- Widowspeak - The Jacket
- The Wiggles - ReWiggled
- Wolves at the Gate - Eulogies
Archie Roach has done a lot of important work advocating for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and this triple album is an anthology of his whole catalog. I might put it on in the background in the kitchen or something and get an idea of who this guy is.
Speaking of Indigenous Australians, I might listen to Dallas Woods's debut grime album? Sounds like it could be fun.
The Wiggles album is a bunch of Aussie artists paying tribute to The Wiggles, followed by The Wiggles doing a bunch of covers of popular songs, including "Elephant" by Tame Impala. I haven't heard it yet but it sounds amusing.
If you're a fan of Turkish hip hop, check out the Khontkar release, produced by Harry Fraud.
If all of Lil Durk's
7220 is as good as "Ahhh Ha" then that will definitely be worth a listen. I didn't think of this when I was writing my
latest post on the Hot 100 thread, but I think YoungBoy's counter-diss might have actually given "Ahhh Ha" a boost in popularity. Kinda pitiful.
Also gonna listen to Benny out of curiosity, although Griselda's approach to hip hop is not really my thing.
The Hank Williams album is a compilation of recordings from his radio show. They were released on a box set in 2010, but BMG has been trying to make them more available. I kinda wanna listen to this at some point, maybe on a Sunday morning while making waffles. Hank Williams is good waffle-making music.
Bryan Adams
So Happy It Hurts, AOTY 2022?? we will see
I cannot add this to the Wikipedia list yet because they don’t like to list artist-album pairs where neither the album nor artist have Wikipedia pages yet, but Sometimes Y, a collaboration between Waylon Jennings’s son Shooter Jennings and Kid Rock-type Yelawolf, is releasing a self-titled album tomorrow and I will probably listen to that out of morbid curiosity.