August 10, 2020

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

Best enjoyed with Deeper Roots Coffee’s Losantiville blend, black.

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Highlights include:

• Hypnotically danceable electronica from Four Tet’s cryptic wingdings alias

• A highlight from Glass Animals’ otherwise pedestrian new album Dreamland

• Vibey soul rock from up and coming Israeli talent Isaac DaBom

• The oft-sampled hit single from Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay Yellowman

• New brooding soul fire from the mighty Budos Band

• A reminder from Beirut to stop and smell the roses

• Cinematic experimental indie from one of Daniel Hart’s solo ventures

• Immersive synth-driven balladry from Nonesuch Records’ Vagabon

• The radiant final single, featuring Diplo, from Joji’s second studio album Nectar

• The just-as-fun-to-slow-drive-to spiritual successor to Smokey Robinson’s “Cruisin’”

• Bewitching afro-futurist rock from Shadeemus and Shumba Maasai

• A soulful, yet understated, teaser from Oscar Jermone’s forthcoming solo debut

• An absolute knockout collaboration from Florida emcee Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats

• A bop from one of Chicago soul’s unsung progenitors

• Impenitently heavy riffage from the best metal record of the year so far

• A reminder of just how excellent The Police are

• Melancholy psychedelic mod from a band that never made it, but definitely should have

• Groovy instrumental soul every bit as crisp as its namesake

• Vapor wave perfected

• Spooky, reverb-drenched glam from a recent signee to Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Records

• Anthemic brit-pop from White Denim frontman James Petralli

• Hard-edged funk from the ‘70s masters of the break beat

• Jazz fusion from one of the genre’s pioneering guitarists

• One of many essential inclusions on Strut Record’s revelatory Nigeria 70 series

• A melodic tribute to soul music’s greats from Tulsa, Oklahoma’s The Gap Band