Week of January 30, 2022
Listening selections for the week of January 30, 2022—featuring the latest from Miles Kane, The Soundcarriers, Night Palace and more—best enjoyed with Rising Star Coffee Roasters’ Halo Hartume for notes of tea and an unctuous fruity tartness.
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Highlights include:
Glittering glam rock balladry from Miles Kane’s new Change the Show
Sputtering folkadelica shimmer from The Soundcarrier’s Wilds
Aching dream pop from Night Palace
The Chayla Hope Choice Find of the Week™: ethereal electonica from French producer, songwriter and vocalist Oklou
The groovy return of Toro y Moi, from his forthcoming album MAHAL out on Dead Oceans April 29
A wistful, bass-driven psych pop gem from Spaceface’s new Anemoia
Resplendent Middle Eastern disco funk from Hamid Al Shaeri and Habibi Funk Records
A 2018 banger from Pusha T to tide us over until the release of his credible “Album of the Year” claim
The latest in funky psychedelia from St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ The Alien Coast
Lively, Afrobeat-inspired jazz from Shay Hazan’s endlessly excellent Reclusive Rituals
Smoldering moody pop from Jim-E Stack featuring Empress Of
BARS from Tobe and FAT Nwigwe
A languid R&B ballad from The Internet’s 2018 Hive Mind
A heavy, haunting bop from Sam Gellaitry
The much anticipated new collaboration between pop stars Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama
Brazilian disco funk from Sérgio Mendes
Galvanizing new indie rock from Mattiel
A thrilling new jazz discovery from tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd
Dark and dank new grooves from Radiohead side project The Smile
A rumbling progressive rock opus from WEEED’s Do You Fall?
Strident new acoustic rock with a molten guitar solo from Andrew Cashen
A swaggering new single from Spoon
An every-bit-as-excellent B side from Duck Ltd.’s 2021 highlight Modern Fiction
Another of the many honeyed lo-fi melodies on Ari Roar’s Made to Never Use
Funky, '80s-style ambient synth pop from Years & Years new offering Night Call