From the Reigns girls to Nick Cave: everything happening in music in the month of August | Israel today

It's really been a long time since the network knew a new music section.

There used to be unreasonable amounts of such on the Internet, but most of them benefited in favor of opinion columns on "Hatunami", got off the shelf or left the press and moved to high-tech.

In short, there is a new music recommendations section, with good things that have come out, are about to come out or those that are going to fall into the trap of coming to Israel in August, let's say.

It will be hot.

Regardless of section, it's a temperature fact.

Reigns Girls - "Cork Puller"

A lot of time has passed since Rains Girls, one of the best and most prominent rock bands in the fine indie wave of the previous decade, released new material.

Bringing out new materials, it turns out, is not an easy task.

No less than ten years have passed since Roy Freilich, Guy Goldstein and their friends released their second album, which included, among other things, "Slow Gear" - a guitar anthem of the kind that is no longer made here.

Since then, Freilich has embarked on an electronic-disco solo career that has moved away from the dive of the mother band, but in recent times Raines has started to make sounds of a comeback at random shows around Tel Aviv.

This week they released Corkscrew, a comeback single that perfectly fits their catalog of work to date.

Or in simple words - the Rains girls released a catchy, fun and very Rainy song, including the excellent lyrics we've come to expect from Roi Freilich.

Welcome back, friends.

missing you

Now bring an album.

De St

By the way of comebacks, also the rapper Mike Skinner (or The Streets as he was known two decades ago until 2009), went into musical retirement and has not released a proper album under the name The Streets for a long time.

Many remember him as one of the most interesting and original names in British hip-hop, especially "Computers and Blues", his heartbreaking and beautiful 2011 breakup album.

Where other rappers were busy with swag and bling and other terms that sound very unnatural from the mouth or the keyboard of the writer of these lines, Skinner dealt honestly and wounded with disappointments and heartbreak and was considered one of the special voices in his field during his years of activity.

He also returned last week (if you don't count the mixtape he released two years ago under the optimistic name "None of Us Gets Out of This Alive") with an EP called "Brexit at Tiffany's" (a play on words between Brexit and Truman Capote's book "Breakfast at Tiffany's") and under the name under which he became famous, The Streets.

It has alarm, melodic, British politics and yes, also heartbreak.

This seems to be a popular theme these days.

In fact, in the title track of this short (very - three songs) album, Skinner compares a breakup to Britain's exit from the European Union.

Broken Blaze -

Another comeback?

Kind of.

Because it's not really that Broken Blaze, the beloved project of Danger Mouse and The Shins' James Mercer, has disappeared somewhere.

Here and there they released new songs in 2018 and 2019.

Last week they released "Saturdays", a new song from an equally new album, which is to be called "Into the Blue" and is scheduled to be released on October 7th.

It is a somewhat psychedelic-Beatles rock song, if you put it close to your ear you can hear "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Like others on the list today, this is also about what music writers liked (well, and still like, it turns out) to call "first swallow" from a first album in 8 years, when the last of the broken bells, "After the Disco" was released once, in 2014.

If the rest of the album will sound like this, and like the previous and thoughtful single they released in June "We're Not in Orbit Yet..." then what do you say?

There is something to look forward to.

Deserted lemons

Sharon Holtzman has been cultivating a career as a songwriter that everyone knows for quite a few years now.

Whether it's in his work as part of a prototype band ("Woman Woman"), writing for other people ("I have nothing to say to you" composed for Iggy Waxman) and his solo career ("What I Want", remembered by many as the theme song of the series "Medorim" ).

Now he's back (not that he really disappeared, but it's already become a running gag of the section), and together with Ariel Abizov (who plays with Erez Lev Ari and in the past with the late Meir Banai) he is releasing the EP "Arak Limons" of the band this season for that

There are five songs here, on this short album, which combines old and new Israeli rock, dealing with personal wounds ("Yur Otham Be Kehal", the really beautiful), human suffering in a light and rhythmic distortion shell ("The Human Existence"), political criticism, military operations (" shots") and love ("Schnitzel A. Schnitzel B.") because how can you not suffer a little from it.

Ye Ye Yeh - "

Before anyone can bemoan the lack of female representation in the section, let's pull up "Burnings," the new song from the likes of Hey Ye Yeh, fronted by the undisputed queen of indie rock of the early 2000s Karen O.

Interestingly and completely coincidentally (if you ignore for a moment the work that is thought behind this debut section), this is also a comeback single - when you take into account that this scavenging, noisy and wonderful group released an album for the last time no less than nine years ago, in the form of "Mosquito".

The new song, "Burnings", combines the different styles of this ever-evolving line-up, and contains an extremely addictive and danceable hook.

It comes after the previous single "Spitting off the Edge of the World", in which the New York band teamed up with the great musician Perfume Genius, in a song that will also be part of the "Cool It Down" record that will be released on September 30.

Those who can't wait until then, will be able to quench their thirst with the charming and nostalgic "Meet Me in the Bathroom" docu, which goes back to the wave of rock revival bands of the early 2000s in New York - from the Strokes, through Interpol to, well, was Yah Yahzah

Nick Cave

On August 23, after a series of embarrassing postponements due to the pandemic, the one who likes to be called the "Prince of Darkness" will take the stage at the Live Park in Rishon Lezion.

In practice - whether he is in a dark, mournful, amorous, religious or anarchist mode, Nick Cave is one of the few artists in rock history who have maintained their status and the quality of their work for most of the years of their career.

Those who attended his last concert in Israel at the end of 2017 still speak of it in terms of a religious ceremony.

Now he's back here with a slightly different tour: less of a display of faith, grief and worship, and more guitars, distortion with flashes of ballads.

New meets old, but in the end it's the same Nick Cave - a musician whose concert is a must for anyone who considers himself a music lover, even if rock isn't exactly his forte.

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