"As depressive as Conor Oberst's songs often are,"
writes AllMusic, the sound of the new album with his Bright Eyes band,
Five Dice, All Threes, "is largely bright and lively." So it is with this track, which "kicks off with a childlike melody played on xylophone and mirrored by a chorus of whistling." (The LP title refers to a game called
Threes in which the lowest score wins and 3s count as zeros.)
On his 21st album,
Daylight Savings Time, the Mississippi-born singer-songwriter, now based in Asbury Park, N.J., celebrates life's simple pleasures - such as that extra hour of evening sun, and having "a place to stay and ... a place to park." Even when he sings about how "the lowdown blues won't let you be," he offers hope: "You'll have to wait 'em out as best you can." We're featuring this lighthearted track that asks a question that's often on our mind when driving: Why do automakers churn out cars in boring colors "that look like rainy weather?"
Here's the title track from the debut full-length album by multi-instrumentalist William Turner and vocalist Georgie Fuller, retro-pop-rockers from Brighton, UK.
Glide Magazine calls the track "a winner with slapping drums, bubbling bass, and huge crescendos."
We can't get enough of the Brooklyn outfit's new album,
Year of the Banana. So as "Moving Without Touching" rotates out of our New Music bin, we're popping in this track. A love song to a plant? Why not?
This title song from the new album by Todd Austin John Elsliger's band is clearly based on pandemic claustrophobia - although it could apply to any couple for whom togetherness has gone a little too far. "Boxes of things that we ordered, left by the door / To a world that we don’t visit anymore ... Both working from home for the last 2 or 3 years ... If the TV goes down, we’ll have nothing left to say."
Austin John: Survive Each Other
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