July 6, 2020

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

Best enjoyed with Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ Holler Mountain with cream.

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Highlights include:

• Expansive psychedelic Americana from the son of Willie Nelson

• The existential fusion of jazz, soul and electronica from Albert’s Favourites artist Scrimshire

• Signs of promise from new supergroup, Dinner Party, who’s forthcoming debut drops July 10

• Global grooves from Kutiman’s imminent new album Wachaga

• Eli Paperboy Reed’s inspired Delta blue meets swing cover of a Steely Dan classic

• A highlight from Funkadelic’s 1970 debut album

• Yeezy season approaching, this time with a beat nasty enough to fit in with the best of Yeezus

• A dancefloor ready exploration of ego, with the brief return of conscious-ye

• The trap banger of the year from Kid Cudi and Travis Scott

• Sunny vibes that signal the continued evolution of insurgent songsmith Ron Gallo

• A fruitful, drum machine-driven reworking of a Mikal Cronin gem

• Dizzyingly tight grooves from Vulfpeck offshoot The Fearless Flyers

• The best Herzog song since 2014’s Boys

• The summer jam you needed from Holy Mattress Money and Clemont

• Beats and flows so smooth they would make MF Doom proud

• Gnarly grooves NYC-based funk combo The Du-Rites

• A classic from the Queen of Lebanese pop

• Brooding ska from the previously unreleased collaboration of Michael Siefert and Liz Wittman

• Minimalist lo-fi disco dub from Berlin’s RAS

• A cold, yet inviting synth pop embrace from Melbourne’s Cut Copy

• Delicate, weeping guitar work from Britain’s Porij

• Pop therapy drawn straight from the sounds of the 80s

• A funky offering from one of Israel’s best drummers

• A genre-spanning highlight from Son Little’s new album aloha

• Plunderphonic audio sorbet from East Coast musician Jon McKiel