May 30: Week 22 of the year. It’s music for vacantly staring out your window this week. Names this week include experimentalists caroline, iconic voice Matt Berninger, legendary Ty Segall, sweet-sounding indie folks Foxwarren and surprise entry, Kathryn Joseph.
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Caroline
Underground indie rock gem caroline breathes in a new expansive set of lungs with a new record. Far more raw and refined than their last, caroline 2 is a multi-layered powerhouse sparking another innovative voice to contemporary music. Featuring iconic soloist Caroline Polachek and her unmistakable vocals on ‘Tell me I knew never that’, Caroline 2 is a eight-piece collective running riot in a boundless headspace.
Get Sunk
Matt Berninger
Rising to fame under Brooklyn indie alternative collective The National, Matt Berninger’s brooding delivery has been a strong staple amongst an equally packed garage-rock revival. Now the singer takes time out of his main mission and departs down the sidelines on his own with Get Sunk, his solo sophomore. It features all the usual quarks of a Berninger project – alternative country-rock wrapped up in a dream-pop bouquet.
WE WERE MADE PREY.
Kathryn Joseph
A surprising welcome on the list, Kathryn Joseph’s fourth is a tactile embarking as it teeters on a knife-edge with beautifully eerie synth throbs nuanced behind Joseph’s aching vocals. DEER. is a breathless testament to Kathryn making music lost in the moment. Worth every minute to just stop and stare.
Possession
Ty Segall
A defining individual in his own right, Segall continues his trawl of solo ethics into diving from one specific sonic sphere into another. His new project, Possession grounds modern psychedlics all the while those strong melodic frameworks remain – lead hitters Fantastic Tomb aswell as self-titled Possession are frequent stand-outs.
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Foxwarren
Canadian college-art quintet Foxwarren return with their delightfully dainty record this week. Traversing the plains of both cantering folk and funk whimsy, 2 reaffirms the bands’ desire to do something a little bit different – and it paying off. Dropping the familiar band-in-a-room routine and opting for plugging in samples from a shared folder, each song part was artificially inseminated, cropped, wedged in until all parts fit and all members equally satisfied.
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