After issuing a half-dozen records as a solo artist, the singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist presents her latest album as a creative collaboration with her band.
Pitchfork reports: "During rehearsals for her 2022 tour, Van Etten grew tired of her own voice and impulsively asked her band to 'just jam.' The experiment yielded two songs ... and left the singer 'feeling very inspired.' ... On
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, the frontwoman surrenders to the rhythm on a stormy, unsettled album centered on groove and mood." This track bemoans the modern impulse to replace personal interaction with electronic devices: "All these things we think we lack / All this time we can't get back."
The 13th album from Dan Auerbach's project with Patrick Carney,
No Rain, No Flowers, is on its way this year. This first single comes just 10 months after the duo's
Ohio Players LP. It also follows a dispute with their former management company that resulted in the cancelation of their 2024 tour. Carney says: "We were already on a creative streak, and the best thing we could do, rather than sit at home, was just go back in the studio."
Inhaler: All I Got Is You
We previously featured a couple of the singles from
Open Wide, and now with the release of the full LP, we're picking this track for the New Music Bin. Reviewers have noted more variety of styles and influences here than on the band's previous albums, with
Glide Magazine hearing "touches of The Smiths and The Cure" on this number.
Momma: I Want You (Fever)
Ahead of the Brooklyn indie-rock quartet's next album,
Welcome To My Blue Sky, comes this song of jealous love. The group says it's "about wanting to be with someone who has a girlfriend, or someone who isn’t over their ex. It’s pining after someone, but there’s also some confidence knowing that that person wants to be with you." There's not much subtlety in the lyrics: "Pick up and leave her / I want you, fever."
Talk about a limited release:
Good Music to Lift Los Angeles, an extraordinary collection of 90 tracks by as many artists, put together as a fund-raiser for California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the LA Regional Food Bank, was available for just one day (Feb. 7) via Bandcamp. The website also donated all its fees that day to MusiCares. Luckily we got the word in time to snag the bundle of originals and covers, demos, alternate takes and live recordings - including this song that we understand has popped up in Modest Mouse live sets but never had a studio release.
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