August 3, 2020

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

Best enjoyed with Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ Hair Bender with cream.

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Highlights include:

• Sleepy brit pop from Dan Croll

• An enrapturing jazz invocation from bass virtuoso Derrick Hodge

• Sensual grooves courtesy of two Big Crown Records mainstays

• Jittery jazz rhythms from across the pond

• Intimately textured indie pop from Jean-Sébastien Audet

• Vibey bedroom pop from the daughter of Ernie Isley of Isley Brothers fame

• Melancholy yearning from Julian Casablancas and The Voidz

• A blast of energy from Austin’s hottest band

• Atmospheric indie from Sydney’s Even as We Speak

• Resplendent Americana-alternative from Cleveland’s own Holden Laurence

• Intense afro-groove from one of Colemine Record’s newest acts

• A glorious blast of yacht rock from the always excellent Young Gun Silver Fox

• British free jazz from one of its pioneering acts

• A Joji banger

• The ‘70s influenced BLM anthem you need, produced by Eli “Paperboy” Reed

• Spontaneously inspired rock from Young the Giant that has aged remarkably well

• The frantic, and compelling, fusion of rockabilly and punk from Flat Duo Jets  

• Buttery genre fusion from the wintery English countryside

• Mystical Argentine rock featuring the vocal talents of Melingo

• One of the very best Bob Dylan covers

• Continued reason to be excited for Haley Blais’ forthcoming LP

• The latest shapeshifting work from musical polymath Andrew Bird

• Jazz-funk from James Mason of Roy Ayers’ fame

• Math-y glam goodness from Factual Brains

• The power closing track from Phoebe Bridger’s Punisher