The passionate return of alt-J
The softness of the title
Matilda
has magnetized more than one;
it seems that the trio from Leeds want to put the cover back.
With
U & Me
, the group's first single since the release of
Relaxer
, their third album
in 2017
, the atmosphere is both euphoric and honest.
Joe Newman sings a love story through instant memories.
On February 11, 2022, alt-J will deliver
The Dream
, his latest opus, seized with intrigue, beauty and humanity.
All the right ingredients that keep the three Englishmen on the path to success.
JG
Pumped Up Kicks
is ten years old!
Impossible to forget the heady chorus of
Pumped Up Kicks
, Foster The People's most popular song.
Prelude to
Torches
, their first album, the Californian group is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.
Torches X
will be released on November 12.
The edition will include the original album and ten bonus tracks, including
Chin Music For The Unsusspecting Hero
, which circulated on networks without ever being officially released on streaming platforms.
A compendium of indie that takes us back a decade.
JG
King Hannah under the pedal (fuzz)
King Hannah is a duo from Liverpool, which is likely to be talked about in the coming months.
After two successful EPs, the group is preparing a new album for 2022. In the meantime,
A Well Made Women
is a perfect introduction to their abrasive rock.
Carried by a trip-hop rhythm and a threatening riff, the song shines from the start with its minimalism.
A slow combustion kicks in and the track electrifies, as waves of guitar fuzz come and go.
This excellent single would not have been disowned by the Portishead of the 1990s. There is no doubt that King Hannah will be able to write his own story for the 2020s.
MY
Wiki always knows everything
More than a week before the release of
Half God
, Wiki's new album.
In less than ten years, the man who became known with his group Ratking has established himself as one of the best rappers in the New York underground.
Patrick Morales of his real name, has already released a shovelful of singles so far, but
Can't Do This Alone
, unveiled this week, is arguably the most successful.
The most accessible too, since it is for the moment the only single to contain the tandem simple drums and sample of soul, in the right lineage of the hip-hop history of New York.
The result is magnified by this clip which sees Wiki and its accomplice Navy Blue wandering through the streets of the Big Apple.
MY
When Coldplay meets BTS
It was the most anticipated collaboration of the week.
Coldplay and the seven boys who make up BTS have teamed up to come up with a “feel good” hymn to love.
My Universe
is a perfect mix of the London band's electro pop rock and Korean boy band hip-hop.
The track interweaves the voices of Chris Martin in English and members of BTS who sing in Korean.
While the track will appear on
Coldplay's
upcoming
Music of the Spheres
album
, scheduled for October 15, no release date for the clip has yet been announced.
VC
Christophe Honoré's
new
Melody
Fans of the Gainsbourg-Berkin couple know the song.
Fifty years after the release of
Melody Nelson's Ballad
, director Christophe Honoré takes over the song to give it new life through the story of a protester injured during a clash with the police .
If the relevance of the theme is questionable, the images of the young man and the melancholy of the air go together rather well, despite a choppy editing and an exaggerated dramatization.
Nothing amazing, not even the choice to replace the frail Melody with a male protagonist, but above all the opportunity to taste again the sweetness of this two-voice lament.
LF
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