There's lots of great new music out this week! Here's a list for you to impress your local record store clerk on Tuesday.
Vampire Weekend's much anticipated third album
Modern Vampires of the City hits stores tomorrow, a week later than expected due to delays in printing. A more mature effort than their previous releases,
Modern Vampires maintains some of the band's world pop influences and jubilant hand clap sound, but with more subdued, thoughtful composition that seems to come from a place informed by a cohesive yet constantly changing world view. The band incorporates retro organ and strings on "Don't Lie", while Ezra Koenig does his best impersonation of a 50's crooner on "Diane Young." Listening to Vampire Weekend's first album since 2010 is exactly like the feeling of meeting up with an old college buddy after three years and still having fun getting into trouble like the old days, even though everything's changed.
Small Black is a Brooklyn-based four-piece. Their stellar sophomore LP, out tomorrow on Jagjaguar, is lush with synths and heavy with reverb. This is an album you can put on and lose yourself in a wash of chill wave, or listen more intently to the lyrics of each song and reflect on the limitations of human emotion and connectivity.
Limits of Desire was released in collaboration with a group exhibition at 7 Dunham Gallery in Brooklyn curated by Lindsay Aveilhe and featuring 17 artists working in a variety of media on the same theme. Like Small Black's other albums
Limits of Desire is self produced, but listeners who are familiar with
No Chain, may be surprised by the appearance of more live elements like drums and trumpets and fewer pop flourishes.
Keep your ears out for new music by
Cotton Jones and
Savages, also out May 14.
xo-
juliet
Small Black is a Brooklyn-based four-piece. Their stellar sophomore LP, out tomorrow on Jagjaguar, is lush with synths and heavy with reverb. This is an album you can put on and lose yourself in a wash of chill wave, or listen more intently to the lyrics of each song and reflect on the limitations of human emotion and connectivity. Limits of Desire was released in collaboration with a group exhibition at 7 Dunham Gallery in Brooklyn curated by Lindsay Aveilhe and featuring 17 artists working in a variety of media on the same theme. Like Small Black's other albums Limits of Desire is self produced, but listeners who are familiar with No Chain, may be surprised by the appearance of more live elements like drums and trumpets and fewer pop flourishes.
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