Week of January 23, 2022
Listening selections for the week of January 23, 2022—featuring the latest from Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, JID, Ibibio Sound Machine and more—best enjoyed with Rising Star Coffee Roasters’ Red 5 de Diciembre for spicy notes of chocolate and nuts.
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Highlights include:
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat period perfect conjuring of Berlin-era Bowie
Good vibes in steady supply from LEISURE
An infectious display of KAYTRANADA’s craft, featuring velvet-voiced oft-collaborator Shay Lia
A stellar new single from JID featuring 21 Savage, Baby Tate and a nasty beat switch
A celebration of D’Angelo’s neo-soul masterpiece Voodoo as it turns 22 this week
Hard groovin’, Hot Chip-produced Afro-electronica from Ibibio Sound Machine
For fans of Mac Demarco and The Strokes, jangly lo-fi guitar pop brilliance from Ari Roar’s new self-released Made to Never Use
Shoegaze ecstasy from Young Prisms first new album in 10 years, Drifter, out March 25 on Fire Talk
Gross garage rock à la The Ramones from The Spits
Contemporary mod-glam excellence from Miles Kane’s new Change the Show
Hypnotic cumbia from Combo Chimbita’s nigh album IRE, out on ANTI January 28
The Chayla Hope Choice Find of the Week™: sublime LatinX pop from Kali Uchis
A new refractory pop gem from Sam Gellaitry
Slippery, sunny funk from Chicano Batman’s 2020 Invisible People
Psychedelic dream pop bliss from Spaceface’s forthcoming Anomeia, out January 28
A fiercely fun hip hop jam from Kojey Radical and Knucks
The placating, Kadhja Bonet spotlighting conclusion to Bonobo’s new Fragments
Smoky, guimbri-led Middle Eastern jazz from Shay Hazan
Plodding folky prog from Portland’s WEEED
Fiery, raw sounding music from northern Mali’s Al Bilali Soudan
Crystalline neo-psychedelic folk from The Soundcarriers’ new Wilds
Gorgeously textured regret pop from Sun June’s 2021 release Somewhere
Supremely chilled vibes from Khruangbin’s career-best Con Todo El Mundo
A fun Violent Femmes cover from Gnarls Barkley that has stayed with me
Charlotte Day Wilson and BADBADNOTGOOD synthesizing R&B magic