Jack White, Bloc Party, and the return of Girl Talk (plus 21 more albums coming in April)
Kurt Vile, Digga D, The Regrettes, and more top the list of albums we can’t wait to hear in April 2022
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Clockwise from left: Digga D (Photo: Joseph Okpako / Getty Images), The Linda Lindas (Photo: LA Family Housing Home Together 2021 / Getty Images), Kele Okereke (Photo: Mike Lewis Photography / Getty Images), PUP (Photo: NurPhoto / Getty Images) Graphic: Libby McGuire
April showers us with a bevy of great new releases this year. There’s the return of long-running indie artists like Bloc Party, resurgent records from throwback maestros like Father John Misty, metal-as-fuck offerings from the likes of Meshuggah, and Scrunchies carrying on the mantel of riot grrrls in the best possible way; in other words, something for everyone. Hopefully, you’ll find something here you didn’t know was coming—or better yet, discover a great new artist you never even knew existed.
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A new SPR3 video came out recently too!
I’m firmly on the “loves Kurt Vile” side and everything I’ve heard from the new album so far has me thinking it’s another winner.But Tess Roby!!! Her first album Beacon is a real tearjerker, even if you hear it without knowing that she wrote it in the wake of her father’s death and used some of his vintage synths to record it. I had no idea a new album was coming. Very pumped for that!
There’s stuff to hear? I gotta go find it, then. Kurt Vile is a class act and a fun musician.
Yeah, there’s (I think) three songs released from the album so far & they’re all good. Definitely go find it!
A friend told me about Orville Peck about 7-8 months ago, and I’ve been hooked. I’ve already got my ticket to see him next month.
The third single from FJM’s upcoming album is my favorite (“Goodbye Mr. Blue”). Really looking forward to this. I’m in the minority on this, I know, but God Favorite’s Customer is my favorite album by him. Imminently listenable from front to back.
Good crop of albums here. Things are looking up for spring.
Seems like The Regrettes are settling down for success in the middle of the pop road. I’m finally going to see them live in a few weeks. Glad I’ll still get to see the rock n roll side before it gets quantized.
They have a good pop sound but it’s definitely the punk edge that attracted me to them, I’d be happy if they just bounce back and forth between those genres.
Oh, hooray, more Kurt Vile mumbling words that will inevitably be played at my retailer’s muzak 😫
I wish that Bloc Party was as good as they were with those first few albums, and I maintain A Weekend In The City and Intimacy are unappreciated classics, though Silent Alarm is a bona fide masterpiece. I did really love Kele’s 2014 Garage-tinged solo album Trick. It was beautifully british. I saw them a few years ago and they do still put on a hell of a show.
Is Weekend in the City under-appreciated? It’s damn near as good as Silent Alarm … They do seem to share a similar fate with some their other early 00s brethren like Interpol and The Strokes – two unimpeachable great albums, and then a long career afterwards searching for the same magic, and achieving it only intermittently.
Did you know, if you click play on a video and then his next slide, the video still plays. You can do this with multiple video to create the worlds worst mashup.
Haven’t heard of High Pulp before but that sounds exactly like my jam so I’m checking them out.
Speaking of new music, Eurovision has finished up posting all the songs for this years ESC:
I’ve heard of 16 out of 26. Huh.
It’s not often I find a new song from a current artist that I like, but this one got me.
I still hate Poppy for ripping this off from Jellyfish. lol (1:23) (1:12)
I’m curious what you think of this band called Enuff Z’Nuff? They’re pretty much forgotten now. On the surface they seem like a typical glam metal band of the time. But they had more in common with The Beatles than eavy metal. They had some of the most melodic sounding songs around at the time. I think one of the members recently died. Maybe the singer? I dunno. For some reason today, I just randomly remembered them lol. Maybe people just had Enuff Z’Nuff of them? lol
The Beatles were the first band to use an Instrument called the Mellotron. It was famously used on Strawberry Fields. You’ll hear it right at the beginning.Ever since then other artist have used it to great effect. A famous use of it was by Ozzy Osbourne in the track, No More Tears. (2:59)Jellyfish used it as well Enuff Z’Nuff uses it at the beginning of this track Jimmy Fallon even brought up the Mellontron last night lolAt (0:43) Jimmy ruins it in a corny way though when he starts singing lol.There’s even a playlist of every artist and band that used the Mellotron lol