Week of January 9, 2022

Playlist Update
Written By Teddy Eisenberg

Listening selections for the week of January 9, 2022—featuring the latest from The Smile, Let’s Eat Grandma, Holy Mattress Money and more—best enjoyed with Gimme Coffee’s Stargazer for cosmic notes of almonds, chocolate and raspberry.

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Highlights include:

  • The punky debut single from Johnny Greenwood, Thom Yorke and Tom Skinner’s new collaborative project The Smile

  • Glittering French nu-disco from L'Impératrice 2021 highlight Tako Tsubo

  • Serotonin-boosting synth jams to welcome in the new year from Let’s Eat Grandma and San Gellaitry

  • Alien electro-R&B from Rachel Chinouriri’s excellent EP Four° In Winter

  • A moody alt-R&B pop gem from Holy Mattress Money and Cami Walsh

  • Funky psychedelic groove from Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s 2018 Sex & Food

  • A scintillating sonic collage from my favorite living bassist and favorite living organizer of sound

  • Two alternative rock masterpieces in dialogue with one another about love, youth and vulnerability

  • A chamber pop prelude to Father John Misty’s forthcoming Chloë and the Next 20th Century, due out on April 8, 2022 on Sub Pop and Bella Union

  • The singular beauty of Cleo Sol’s voice and lyrical perspective

  • A late-career highlight from Toni Braxton that recalls the chords and melody of the prior Cleo Sol cut

  • Vibe-y psychedelic rock from producer, songwriter and singer Kurtis Wells

  • A cut from The Weeknd’s new Dawn FM—reviewed this week—that recalls the delicate grandeur of Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature.”

  • The dreamy bedroom pop stylings of duo j. pastel

  • The moody soulfulness of Charlotte Day Wilson

  • The Chayla Hope Choice Find of the Week™: glitchy electro-chamber pop from musical polymath Owen Pallett

  • Saturnine Argentine rock from Charly García, featuring the perfect amount of gated reverb

  • Two recent reggae-inflected releases from Colemine Records

  • A new reggaeton dream pop anthem from Cannons

  • Soulful, swaggering piano rock from singer-songwriter Brian Bacon

  • The continue hip hop brilliance of Earl Sweatshirt

  • Melodic new jazz lamentations from saxophonist and composer extraordinaire Immanuel Wilkins

  • Motown-channeling funk from experimental bass god MonoNeon

  • Golden instrumental organ soul from the always-excellent Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

Teddy Eisenberg
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