June 22, 2020

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

Best enjoyed with Rabble & Lion Coffee’s Rwanda Tumba Village, black.

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Highlights include:

• A soul invocation from Colemine Record’s Ironsides

• Jubilant psychedelia from Pond and Tame Impala’s Jay Watson

• The second coming of XTC, but actually British singer-songwriter Wesley Gonzalez

• A profound question, posed over the most wholesome of yacht-rock grooves

• Golden soul and vintage funk repurposed for the dancefloor

• The fruitful pairing of post-punk and disco from De Lux

• Sample sorbet from one of L.A.’s best beatsmiths

• A reaching vocal performance that never ceases to render me speechless

• An Erykah Badu banger that references the aforementioned cut at its conclusion

• K-pop perfected from BLACKPINK

• Big glam energy from my new favorite Austin group

• Killer riffage from one of the best guitarists in blues rock today

• The live remix of Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now” that has Quincy Jones smiling somewhere

• Ambient house from the UK’s original rave innovators

• The third and final single from Khruangbin’s forthcoming Mordechai, out June 26

• A dubby new wave of blues from North Africa’s Bab L’Bluz

• The 70s synth soul transformation of Egyptian Hip Hop’s former vocalist

• Dreamy indie from St Francis Hotel and Portugal. The Man

• Bass forward grooves from The Districts, with a dash of new wave

• Compelling jazz from multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Nate Mercereau

• Food for thought from the always excellent and prolific Anderson .Paak

• The surprise protest record we needed from secretive British studio collective SAULT

• Aspirational funk from Columbus, Ohio’s Parker Louis

• A bop from sun-soaked funk revivalists Orgone

• Fearless and complex pop from Sleater-Kinney’s underrated The Center Won’t Hold