It's surprising to realize that
Flying With Angels is just the 10th studio album in a discography that begins with 1985's
Suzanne Vega. But the songs are as sharply observed and beautifully crafted as ever. This opening track slyly comments on today's political situation by emphasizing with someone ranting on a streetcorner - "The doomsday prophet / Whose words have all come true."
It's good to hear again from this Auckland, N.Z., quartet. Since 2022's
Expert In A Dying Field, vocalist Elizabeth Stokes says she has "been on what one might call a 'health journey.' For parts of the last few years, I kind of felt like my body was a vehicle that had carried me pretty well thus far but was breaking down, something I had little to no control over." This single, she says, is "about being alive and existing in a human body."
We dip once more into
And the Adjacent Possible to feature this track that
Rolling Stone calls "a charming, yet hard-charging tune that pairs crunchy guitars with a tender message: “In this grand ballroom of nothingness / We soar, we sail to the only song there’s ever been: Love.”
The band from Bristol put out an EP in 2023, and now is prepping its debut album,
Things We Don't Know Yet. It will include this new single that features guest saxophone from John Waugh, known for collaborations with The 1975 and Sam Fender. The song is billed as "a sarcastic take on the breakdown of a relationship and the biting realisation that you're happier now that it's over."
This is the title track from the upcoming fourth album by this Baltimore group.
Pitchfork says the "experimental hardcore band sinks deeper into its stylistic hallmarks" on the track, and "sound[s] rigid and fluid at once, playing into blasted guitars and dreamy interludes that tempt escapism." (Photo by Atiba Jefferson)
