criales-unzueta astrid sonne, great doubt from erika de casier’s glitchy r&b hooks to ml buch’s shoegaze-y guitar riffs and clarissa connelly’s experimental folk melodies, the danish alternative pop scene is having a moment. but the one album of that ilk i found myself returning to ...
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The Beatles – Abbey Road (1969) There are of course more experimental and, some might say, more interesting Beatles albums than this. But even if we disregard any sonic value in terms of production, Abbey Road in particular is (if nothing else) proof that 'straightforward' pop music can ...
Thematic albums, tied together by very specific moods or interconnected songs, aren’t new to pop; the kingpin of the form, Frank Sinatra, started making them 70 years ago. And thanks to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Who’s Tommy, and so many more, rock ...
Cale produced a primitive debut wherein, amid Ron Asheton’s wah-wah blurts, Iggy Stooge (né James Osterberg) snarled seminal punk classics such as “I Wanna Be Your Dog,”“No Fun,” and “1969,” bedrock examples of the weaponized boredom that would become a de rigueur punk posture....
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only a couple of years after the first 33rpm LPs were made,Oscar Petersonhonored the greatDuke Ellingtonwith a whole album of his music. There have since been thousands of tribute albums – more than 50 alone devoted toThe Beatles– and the best tribute albums find artists paying homage whil...
“It’s almost like a dream or fever dream,” Justice’s Xavier de Rosnay told us earlier this year about the French duo’s fourth album, “Hyperdrama.” And it plays like one, too, with the group (also consisting of Gaspard Augé) taking listeners beyond the galaxies with ...
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