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but it s possible to suspend disbelief and think the leads are made up on the spot i love the guitar tone on the rhythm part in the chorus enough to let the unneccessary autotune on julian cassablancas voice slide i d prefer the song without that effect but i get the appeal of having this uncanny tonality in the middle of a track that otherwise feels so smooth and natural buy it from amazon sofi tukker featuring j balvin cook cook is a song for the body and not the mind the track is pure adrenaline and sensation it probably sounds great in a club but i know it sounds amazing in a gym that said i find it kinda funny that the members of sofi tukker are singing innocuous lines about cooking up a fun song and wishing a loved one could see how successful they ve become while j balvin raps in spanish about being a nymphomanic rock star porn star who s constantly on a mission to bust and really it s the poignant aside that feels out of place this is absolutely the most appropriate music for rapping about wanting to fuck buy it from amazon no comments april 6th 2026 7 44pm a song defying gravity u2 is ground zero for me they weren t the first act i loved as a kid but they were probably the first that i took seriously achtung baby wasn t my first album but it was certainly the first that i absorbed as such a world unto itself sophisticated rock music for adults just a bit beyond my full comprehension as a 12 year old boy it s still one of my all time favorite records and i m somehow still growing into it now even though i m a lot older than u2 were at the time they made it u2 were one of the first acts where i learned all the lore in part because i had an older friend who was an absolute fanatic and had read all the books and collected all the b sides i d do the same with other artists as a teen r e m pearl jam pavement the smashing pumpkins sonic youth blur radiohead but u2 had some different tensions u2 s decisions could be extremely frustrating their choices could be vexing they have a tendency to overthink everything i first encountered them at their creative and commercial apex so i ve spent decades witnessing their gradual decline i love pop but they don t and most other people dislike it so that appreciating that record has always been a little fraught i think all that you can t leave behind has some good songs but it s mostly corny and mawkish and i like how to dismantle an atomic bomb a bit more but it s kinda stale from there it gets trickier i think most of no line on the horizon is clumsy and awful and while i appreciate the concept of songs of innocence only three or four of those songs actually hit the target songs of experience is pure flopsweat a band deep into middle age pushing back against waning commercial relevance by chasing the worst aspects of 2010s mainstream music by collaborating with the vile ryan tedder what a depressing record the edge stripping away everything that made him an interesting musician in order to be more like onerepublic at least aim for coldplay u2 have been semi dormant for a long time they haven t released an album of new material since 2017 and aside from a few aggressively bad stand alone singles they ve been solidly in retrospective mode they put out songs of surrender a collection of 40 new acoustic arrangements of old material in 2023 bono wrote a memoir with the same title they played an achtung baby themed residency at the sphere in las vegas which was the first run of shows they ve ever performed without a core member of the band as larry mullen jr was recuperating from surgery at the time i m extremely jealous of everyone who got to see that show by the way i should ve seen it not you u2 quietly returned this year with two eps of new material that were dropped without announcement or fanfare at the start and conclusion of lent days of ash released on ash wednesday a fairly dark set of songs meditating on grim recent events the ice occupation of minneapolis the genocide in gaza the mahsa amini protests in iran easter lily released on good friday is a brighter set of tracks focused on friendship and faith the two eps are a return to form at least in that they ve let go of chasing hits and have allowed themselves to simply sound like u2 if they ve felt any anxiety in the past about relying on their stock moves that s gone now this is factory settings u2 this is a mixed blessing it s very nice to have new u2 songs that are embarrassing in some way and even better that a few of them are among the best tracks they ve released in the 21st century but it s a little deflating to notice how much this new material relies on iteration rather than inspiration the days of ash tracks mostly sound like how to dismantle an atomic bomb but with achtung baby guitar flourishes easter lily revisits the tonality and aesthetics of the unforgettable fire but with a touch of all that you can t leave behind era spiritual bombast the edge is mixing and matching elements of his established palette but there s nothing new here i can t tell whether that s intentional or not u2 song of the future i don t want to damn this music with faint praise but given the context what else can i do these songs aren t anywhere near as excellent as what u2 produced between 1984 and 1997 song of the future is good u2 music but it s not great u2 music if you already like u2 the lead guitar part will scratch a very specific edge itch i definitely think mediocre u2 is better than a lot of other bands at their best but if you don t have a lot of affection for them i don t think a song like this will move the needle i think this requires an existing investment in the band and possibly also some sunk cost mindset like you sorta need to be impressed that they can still do it you need to see them as rising above lowered expectations buy it from amazon u2 easter parade easter parade is more interesting to me and i think it has more to offer than nostalgia even if the edge is going full the unforgettable fire mode with the composition mullen jr s drums feel especially brisk and i love the bounce in adam clayton s bass part it all clicks together beautifully i hope they have the sense to perform this one in concert bono sings easter parade with the earnest and dramatic tone of his younger self but where there was once a fiery urgency he now conveys patience and certainty people generally don t think of bono as being a humble guy but there s always been a true humility in his many songs of faith and devotion something in me died but i was no longer afraid he sings in the chorus maybe this is where the growth and change is for late stage u2 bono shedding the showmanship stripping away his artifice and standing before us as he s always truly been a believer buy it from amazon no comments april 3rd 2026 3 45pm freed of it rostam like a spark like a spark feels loose and wide open from the start with rostam s gentle strumming offset by a meandering lead played on acoustic guitar it sounds like the two parts are wandering in the same general direction in conversation but not necessarily locked together it s a lovely illustration of rostam s lyrical sentiment about loving someone without wanting to possess them his guitar part is structured but easygoing providing some space for the noodling lead to do its own thing without necessarily containing it his voice is soft and relaxed conveying gratitude appreciation and generosity he sings i only ever wanted you to feel freed of it in the chorus but he sounds like the one who s been liberated buy it from amazon no comments april 2nd 2026 1 57am the underworld of the night squeeze what more can i say squeeze s new record trixies was written well before the band existed back when chris difford and glenn tilbrook were teenagers in the mid 1970s the record a concept album about a nightclub set in the far off 1980s was shelved and the band pivoted to the new wave adjacent sound of their initial run of classic records i can t imagine they deliberately planned to keep a stockpile of songs written close to their prime to fully realize very deep into their career but that s effectively what they ve done the songs on trixies aren t quite up to the high standard of cool for cats argybargy and east side story but they re not far off either as it turns out difford and tilbrook were pretty much fully formed songwriters from the start the melodies are sharp the songwriting is sophisticated and the lyrics are vivid and witty it s basically exactly what you expect from squeeze but with some very obvious mid 70s influences bowie solo mccartney roxy music in the mix knowing that they wrote these songs so young adds an extra layer of charm to the material they were teen boys fascinated by adult nightlife imagining a fun and seedy world just beyond their experience even when the lyrics don t quite gel it s still a fun glimpse into the minds of young guys who were clearly very excited to enter the world of adulthood performed from the perspective of their much older selves buy it from amazon no comments march 31st 2026 12 47am brain is on standby lee scratch perry mouse on mars rockcurry who would ve guessed that a hallagallo groove would go so well with the stoned mutterings of dub reggae legend lee scratch perry not me but i m not surprised since i love pretty much anything with that distinct motorik groove mouse on mars and the late perry are an unexpected pairing but make sense when you consider how much of either s body of work comes down to tweaking recordings until they become a bit surreal mouse on mars also gravitate to odd vocal tones and cadences they made an entire record with the fall s mark e smith back in the 2000s and a lot of their best tracks include cartoonishly distorted vocals rockcurry mixes familiar elements into a vaguely alien new form perry s sleepy phrasing melting into the zoned out groove but contrasted with bright super saturated keyboards and a slightly too brisk tempo that adds a touch of garage flavor to the mix buy it from bandcamp slayyyter yes goddd what if justice circa 2007 went even harder what if kesha was kinda metal and way more unhinged what if you combined those things and drenched it in the musical equivalent of hot sauce that s basically what yes goddd is but i feel like that s still underselling its hyperactive maniac charm it s sleek and pop but also brutal slayyyter used to be more of a novelty gay pop thing but now she s making music that would make me worry about the safety of people in the pit at her shows buy it from amazon no comments march 26th 2026 7 25pm switch on the light grace ives neither you nor i grace ives is a musical shape shifter but her shape only shifts so much her voice and palette is consistent but her songwriting mostly comes across as her writing her own version of types of songs and it s rarely obvious archetypes or particular popular songs she s a little more esoteric like she s trying to create a vision of pop that s exclusively the sort of interesting non hits that have been filling out pop records for a few decades now neither you nor i has the unmistakable feel of a trip hop adjacent track circa 2000 2003 it s mostly in the sound of the central loop which has the semi ironic cosmopolitan vibe of so many samples from that period there is no credited sample in this song which either means the label is being cagey about clearances or that ives john debold and ariel rechtshaid created it from scratch i would love for it to be the latter it d be the musical equivalent of people who bake oreos from scratch at home the ives ness of the song comes through in the lyrics in which she sings somewhat cryptically about a relationship with someone who s interested in exploring kinks but can only go so far with it which is nice i guess because it means they re on the same page the word that really stands out to me is chubby which comes up a few times over chubby little knife stab in my chubby side it s an interesting choice it s cute and mildly self effacing one of the more gentle words for fat a little sexy for some people but it s also directly attached to violence in this context you can infer a lot of mixed feelings and erotic tension in that juxtaposition buy it from bandcamp no comments march 24th 2026 11 57am another piranha mclusky as a dad anger is real it s arguably the strongest emotion we can feel and it s certainly the most destructive there s lots of ways for anger to be righteous and sensible something that fuels constructive behavior but i think more often than not we experience anger in stupid pointless petty ways it manifests in ways that make us look foolish it can be hilarous this is basically the foundational premise of mclusky s music they convey earnest rage through pummeling distorted bass lines and gnarled guitar hooks but andrew falkous lyrics and sneering vocal affect present that anger as absurd dark comedy sometimes he s peevish and snarky but mostly he comes across as someone who s stepped outside himself just enough to get how funny and ridiculous his own rage is so he leans all the way into it the magic trick is that he doesn t totally undermine the fury in the music you get to have it both ways in mclusky songs as a dad takes this approach to a natural conclusion with falkous singing from the perspective of a child taunting their father it s mean but mostly quite silly the capricious cruelty of a mind that hasn t developed empathy or a greater sense of context just yet falkous slips easily into this mindset which feels very specific to a little kid but is obviously still commonly found in adults buy it from bandcamp no comments march 18th 2026 8 28pm at some point it s all uncharted waters the new pornographers votive back in 2007 it felt like a big swerve when the new pornographers fourth album challengers was about 55 ballads up to that point the band specialized in up tempo bops i saw shows early in their career which ended with a third of the audience dancing on stage with them even with a few notable ballads on twin cinema the challengers record came as a surprise but in retrospect this seems crazy there wasn t that much of a change between the third and fourth record and the shift towards variation in texture and tone was an inevitability as the band transitioned from supergroup project to ongoing band it s almost 20 years later and the new pornographers have changed again the former site of their tenth album is pretty much bop free the tone is icier the mood is fairly somber and according to carl newman the lyrics are interconnected song cycle that culminates in the the title track i m taking his word on that even with this narrative intention his writing is as oblique as it s ever been the new pornographers used to be one of canada s crop of too many people on stage bands but they ve shed some members in recent years kurt dahle and dan bejar both departed after the group s masterpiece brill bruisers in...