➤Our music-pickers took a couple of weeks off for a well-earned vacation, but they're back with a new batch of carefully curated songs for our New Music bin.
The ten songs on her fourth solo album,
Silver City, are "conversations ... celebrating womanhood in all its complexities," says Helm. And while the title of this track might sound like a plea to a departed lover, instead it is a call to a female friend to take control of her life: "Baby, go on / Hand on your heart and your eyes on the road / Get yourself back home." It's also a standout track on this mostly acoustic album.
Rock and Blues Muse writes: "A strangulated electric guitar grinds out the chords ... elevated by searing, yet touching gospel backing vocals. It’s the disc’s most propulsive moment and another example of Helm’s soaring voice." (Photo by Ebru Yildiz)
We've previously featured a couple of singles ahead of the New Jersey native's ninth studio album,
The Hard Way. Now the full collection is out, and we're dropping Track 4 into our New Music bin. It's a gentle love song to someone who isn't always (or any longer?) nearby: "So I keep you in my heart / when you’re not here in my arms."
Dawes: Still Strangers Sometimes
This is the second single from
Oh Brother, the upcoming album from Taylor Goldsmith and his band, of which the only other remaining original member is his brother Griffin. “It’s a song about the spiritual investigation of long-term relationships,” says Taylor Goldsmith. “How a part of ourselves will be unknowable forever, despite our deep connections and intimate understandings of each other.”
Sting: I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart)
The veteran British rocker is about to start a North America tour, joined by his longtime collaborator, guitarist Dominic Miller, and drummer Chris Maas. The new power trio, dubbed 3.0, launches with this single.
Stereogum calls it "a raspy rocker that's driven by the fabled Bo Diddley beat."
Linkin Park: The Emptiness Machine
The California band returns with a new lineup and its first album since the 2017 passing of former lead singer Chester Bennington. Vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain join Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave "Phoenix" Farrell and Joe Hahn. The group's next album, From Zero, is due in November.
No comments:
Post a Comment