June 8, 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:

• The best distillation of Run The Jewels righteous anger to date

• Signs of life, and frustration, from the world’s best punk band

• Musical fearlessness that should be lauded from an all-time great

• The summer jam you didn’t know you needed, even if you don’t live in LA

• An oddly charming tune, supposedly written for the Bond film Live and Let Die

• The self-described sincere music of Gabriel Gundacker

• An exhilarating fusion of house music and jazz from Down Under

• Words of wisdom from Erykah Badu’s magnum opus

• A jittery slab of groove from producer extraordinaire Kamaal Williams

• Sun-soaked pop from Cincinnati’s Coastal Club

• Cosmic, Afro-house stylings from Raz & Afla

• A reminder from South African DJ Esa of music’s power to resist oppression and division

• Psych with a side of kraut from pop artist Luke Temple

• The satisfying collision of dream pop and disco

• A perfection of the rap duo recipe

• Sunny soul glam from the late, great Richard Swift

• Robotic electo-rock from Canadian singer, composer and music producer Shawn Tennant

• The latest from Chicago indie soul outfit Fat Night

• A fruitful reimagining of a Local Natives classic, buoyed by Slyvan Esso

• Continued reason to be excited for Phoebe Bridgers’ forthcoming Punisher

• Spank Rock’s trap-tastic first release under his birth name, Naeem

• A falsetto masterclass from Joel Culpepper and Redinho

• R&B magnificence from Prince

• Jangly guitar brilliance from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s sophomore LP

• A visit into the prison of Matt Berninger’s mind, and first look at his impending solo record