Have always written off Fleet Foxes as boring but have been loving this. So rich and tuneful and dense with little embellishments. Nice in the sun.
I’m keen to listen to the new Young Thug. His ‘singing album’. Had a quick listen to the new 2 Chains ‘Pretty Girls Like Trap Music’ which I’ve surprised myself by loving.
Glad to hear good things about Fleet Foxes. Come across two reviews so far. The Pitchfork one’s written by Ian Cohen, so as if I’m reading that, and the NME one drones on about fonts…
Could always listen to it myself, but I don’t currently have control of the office speakers.
I’ve never been a massive fan of Fleet Foxes, even though they should tick all my musical taste boxes. Always find that I lose interest about halfway through an album. The new didn’t even grab me from the off here. Just nothing to make it stand out. Will give it another go.
Ride is good, Kevin Morby is nice (not as good as Singing Saw). Outside of stuff that has already been mentioned, I’ve also got Jason Isbell, Com Truise, Ruby Suns (this might have been last week), Goldie and Moby all queued up.
took ages for them to click for me, the second album finally got me when i persisted with it as i was due to work at one of their gigs (also helped by 6music hammering it at the time).
haven’t kept up with the singles from the new one but the first single sounded promising
Single Mothers are back with another helping of their brash swaggery post hardcore. There are even a couple of slightly more poppy numbers on it, that worked really well on first listen
I’m a sucker for most things Daryl Palumbo so the debut from Color Film will be getting a number of pumps on my stereo too. it will probably go down as someone else jumping on the New Wave revival bandwagon, but I’m not averse to bandwagonery.
The new Kevin Morby and Fleet Foxes really helped ease me into the working day. Also gave Beth Ditto’s solo album a go; it’s loaded with indie disco bangers!
Intend to listen to:
Jason Isbell - meant to be more along the lines of Drive-By Truckers than the last two
Hundredth - Melodic hardcore goes shoegazey
Rancid - It’s Rancid I guess.
yeah that new Jefre was a huge letdown. His last album was a bit of a mixed bag but this was basically a generic shoegaze album saved only by having some quirky production.