July 13, 2020

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

Best enjoyed with Bent Tree Coffee Roasters’ Hounduras Marcala, black.

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Highlights include:

• An ode either the persimmon or textile fabric from my new favorite Berlin-based disco group

• The vibey pairing of musical heavyweights Madeon and EARTHGANG

• Sunny Ethiopian jazz from Hailu Mergia’s most recent LP

• Lysergic swirls and textured grooves from Kevin Parker’s grower of a fourth album (reviewed here)

• What I imagine a David Bowie bedroom pop song would sound like

• Multi-genre fusion from one of London’s best new musical collectives

• Horn forward badassery from Tora

• Continued range from a Canadian band with near limitless potential

• The latest from Brazilians songstress Céu, featuring The Life Aquatic favorite Seu Jorge

• Breathtaking string and vocals melodies from Alex Turner and Miles Kane that remain lodged in my head

• One of my all-time favorite love songs from multilingual crooner Raghu Dixit

• The teaming of the supremely talented Jesse Fischer and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

• A groovy reminder we all stand on the shoulders of those that have come before us

• Progressive jazz rap from some of the genre’s modern-day renaissance men

• Retro Hawaiian funk from eight-sibling band Aura

• A pop masterpiece from Oakland native Sven Gamsky

• Lush, twinkling from the one-time touring guitarist of the Monophonics

• Breezy R&B from Maine-based singer-songwriter Mike O’Hehir

• Blue-eyed soul perfected

• One of many high points on Brittany Howard’s solo debut

• A show-stopping bonus banger from Doja Cat’s Amala

• Classic soul in the Curtis Mayfield style

• Jittery electro-groove anchored by Denitia’s soulful voice

• Feel-good indie act Peach Pit’s namesake song

• A shimmering slab of alternative soul from Brooklyn’s Madison McFerrin