Week of October 17, 2021

Playlist Update
Written By Teddy Eisenberg
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Listening selections for the week of October 17, 2021—featuring the latest from W. H. Lung, Black Country, New Road, Martha Skye Murphy and more—best enjoyed with Pour Coffee Co.’s Ethiopia Hunkute for a robustly pleasant and well-balanced flavor ending in peach.

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Highlights include:

  • Angular, sparkling synth rock from Manchester-based three-piece W. H. Lung

  • The sounds of Arcade Fire translated through a vaudeville post punk odyssey from Black Country, New Road’s just announced Ants From Up There, out February 4 via Ninja Tune

  • An ethereally evocative sonic collage from Martha Skye Murphy

  • The latest in hazy alt-country vibes from Ohio’s Andrew Gabbard

  • An impeccably arranged and reorded new cut from Eric D. Johnson’s indie-folk act Fruit Bats, announcing Sometimes A Cloud Is Just A Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits And Lost Songs (2001–2021), a career-spanning 20th anniversary compilation that arrives in January

  • Deeply groovy new house from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

  • A resplendent serotonin-boosting continuation of that same groove from Fred again..

  • Polyrhythmic musical molasses from The Kount, Moods, and the one and only loop daddy himself, Marc Rebillet

  • Flames thrown in a new freestyle from grime-influenced MC Kojey Radical

  • A tender highlight from James Blake’s decidedly uneven Friends That Break Your Heart

  • Wayne Snow and Oscar Jermone joining forces for a deliciously soulful sonic concoction

  • The Chayla Hope Choice Find of the Week: the infectious closing track from Remi Wolf’s debut Juno

  • Blissful gothic dream rock from East Yorkshire’s Priestgate

  • Jangle rock perfected on Ducks Ltd.’s new Modern Fiction

  • Sunflower Bean’s celebratory and defiant new single

  • The rollicking opening cut from Glowing Moses’ latest offering Event Horizon

  • Icy, paranoid post-punk from Melbourne-based screensaver

  • Tuba-moored R&B from Joy Crookes’ new Skin

  • Hypnotic Afro-Cuban percussion from Gabriele Poso’s latest

  • R&B-inflected trumpet future jazz from Theo Croker’s new BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST

  • A transfixing electro-rock collaboration between KUNZITE and Ratatat

  • A Krautrock influenced meditation from TENGGER’s Spiritual 2

  • Captivating psychedelia from Mexico City-based Petite Amie

  • The colossal opening cut from the Shivas’ excellent new Feels So Good // Feels So Bad

  • An echoey throwback from the Temper Trap that sports a melody still stuck in my head 12 years later

Teddy Eisenberg
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