Bitte Orca by The Dirty Projectors
The follow-up to 2007’s critically acclaimed and Domino debut "Rise Above". Their fifth release is a big rock album by design. Its idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated on "Knotty Pine" for the 2009 compilation "Dark Was The Night". In many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation’s answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy.
Flowers by Joan Of Arc
Despite being written over the course of a year in four different sessions with four different lineups, the songs on "Flowers" sound more cohesive than those on last year’s "Boo Human". This experience encapsulates the spirit of Joan Of Arc – a mentality that embraces contradictions and tears apart common musical structures, only to rebuild them without a blueprint. They continue to create an obscure combination of familiar, obvious ideas while sticking with the notion that "if it feels good, do it."
Concrete Class by The Lonely H
Their third full-length howls through roadhouse walls and soothes that long walk of shame the next morning. Twelve glowing tracks of tires humming through the Southwest while Skynyrd scratches through the nearest AM radio station. Written at bar stools and scrawled on diner napkins, "Concrete Class" seethes with a lust for America’s highways and laughs with the trials that ensue.
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