April 20, 2020

Best enjoyed with:

• A brisk morning or quiet evening

• Bent Tree Coffee Roasters’ Colombia Nariño, Black

Highlights include:

• The key to funk sorcery from the masters themselves

• A three-note groove from D’Angelo so infectious, it restores my faith in humanity

• One more reason to be excited about Joji’s impending new album, Nectar, due out July 10

• Infectious jangle rock, with a tinge of menace, from Canada’s best band

• Brassy jazz fusion from the UK’s Melt Yourself Down

• Truthfully, the only Post Malone song I’ve ever enjoyed

• Off-kilter shock pop from Sub Urban

• Spellbinding chamber rock from Ohio’s own Jordan Kirk

• Saxophone transcendence from the Shabaka Hutchings led space jazz trio The Comet Is Coming

• Dark, glimmering and mysterious new wave from CMON

• Brit pop perfected from The London Suede, the genre’s unsung heroes

• Post-emo from the absurdly stylized, but gifted songwriter, Oliver Tree

• Groovy, rhythm heavy Swedish psych from Hollow Ship’s debut LP

• A song every bit as sweet as the eating of cotton candy under the Eiffel Tower that inspired it

• A perfect fusion of style and substance from the classic 1982 album of the same name

• Krautrock inspired goodness from L’éclair, Sweden’s masters of proto-groove

• The best cut on Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker’s ambitious, and sometimes successful, Southern Accents

• The return of rap’s best wordsmith, the masked villain MF DOOM

• Golden soul from the modern masters, Kelly Finnigan and Colemine Records

• One of many ambient and dubby masterworks from Brazilian Girl’s multi-genre debut

• An undeniably danceable artistic union between Australian DJ Flume and Toro Y Moi

• An essential offering from synth electronica’s Rosetta Stone

• The title cut from Madonna’s last classic, in all its slap back delay glory

• Shoegaze perfection from Peel Dream Magazine

• Animal Collective at their most accessible and otherworldly