June 29, 2020

Listening selections for the week ahead, featuring the tunes on loop at The Eisenberg Review HQ.

Best enjoyed with North Pole Coffee Roasting Company’s North Pole Blend with cream.

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Highlights include:

• A life affirming sentiment from the High Priestess of Soul

• Tropical-tinged psychedelia from talented newcomers to the fruitful Melbourne scene

• The building anticipation for Kamaal Williams’ Wu Hen, due out July 24

• Soul sample laden goodness from Teyana Taylor’s Kanye-produced 2018 offering

• Vibey retro-soul jazz from Jorja Smith

• A pairing of jazz heavyweights, new and old

• The epitome of melodic guitar

• Iridescently funky boom bap

• A soaring synth pop classic from Robyn

• The second coming of Kate Bush

• The cacophonous solo return of Sigur Rós’ Jónsi

• An admonishment that breakfast, lunch and dinner is for beginners, lest you not know

• New fire from K-Pop queens BLACKPINK

• Menacing post-punk from Stones Throw’s best signing in a good long while

• Daytime disco for lounging

• Synth-driven funk from Down Under

• Snappy 80s disco from England’s Field Music

• A commonly shared desire, tunefully expressed by Andy Pickett

• The smoothest of muzaks from French maestros Nice Guys

• Cinematic Italian soul featuring rhymes from Illa J

• An infectious jam that also serves as a Who's Who in world music today

• A sunny instrumental beat from Tokyo producer Yu Mamiya

• Delicate balladry from U-zhaan and musical pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto

• An uplifting devotional from The Harlem Gospel Travelers

• A grower from Khruangbin’s excellent new Mordechai