9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: 2hollis, Armand Hammer, and More

O exportador underground-to-mainstream 2hollis traduziu com sucesso a energia desgastada do pós-ira em uma carreira pop de verdade. Pirouette encara seu perfil em ascensão de frente, ampliando em todos os departamentos possíveis.

It’s longer, the files are more complicated, the lore is headier, and the sonic profile itself is vast: Emo, pop rock, twee revival, ambient, and choral music all slot into a larger umbrella of pop-EDM.

O elemento que une tudo é o carismático Hollis, que amadurece em faixas sensuais e táteis como “Skin” (“Only once I’m under your skin will I feel close enough to you”) e “Sex” (need I elaborate?).

Though the album is largely self-produced, Mk.gee notches a writing and production credit on “Human After All.”.

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Armand Hammer: Snakes and Ladders [Backwoodz].

Armand Hammer, the duo of Elucid and Backwoodz founder billy woods, make their music sound like it is being recited just a foot away from you. That quality is omnipresent on Mercy follow-up Snakes and Ladders.

Sufocado com medo político, econômico e tecnológico, o álbum transborda histórias íntimas e imperfeições apetitosas—pianos sem teclas, pântanos, amd chamadas de condado, mas também risadas efervescentes e Tropical Punch.

The production plants you right in the center of it all, within miniature universes where cars rush by, blunted minor chords slink, and haunted melodies loop and reverse.

Krill: Secret Language [Exploding in Sound].

Uma década se passou desde que recebemos o último álbum de originais do U2, e eles claramente tiveram tempo em mente. O impulso para Carnaval de Luz surgiu depois que o baterista Larry Mullen Jr.

injured his neck, bringing into focus the four-person rock ecosystem the band has sustained since the late 1970s. After sessions with Brian Eno and Jacknife Lee materialized into the EPs Days of Ash and Easter Lily, Carnaval De Luz closed the loop on their creative return.

It comes complete with a duet featuring the final verse Dolly Parton ever recorded.

Fucked Up’s second album of the year—well, third, depending on your semantic approach to double albums—doubles as the continuation of their Zodiac Cycle and triples as the final installment of their Grass Can Move Stones trilogy.

Fans of franchises, concept albums, neoclassical storytelling, and epic hardcore riven with tangents and tributaries will find plenty to tangle with here. Damien Abraham and his veteran accomplices, including Zodiac series regular Tuka Mohammed, ride into a battle of the earworms with guests including Thurston Moore, Black Flag’s Keith Morris, and the Dolly Mixture’s Debsey Wykes.

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Snoh Aalegra: Legendary Love [Stem].

The romance that gives Snoh Aalegra’s new album its title is more than just legend. The Iranian Swedish singer tracked the LP over the course of a two-and-a-half year partnership that she says “brought me back to the era of music I fell in love with growing up.” That means warm, silky production inspired by 1980s and ’90s R&B, with assists from Nile Rodgers and Raphael Saadiq.

Aesop Rock e Blockhead: Montanha do Problema [Rhymesayers].

When the rapper Aesop Rock and producer Blockhead were growing up, you couldn’t turn on a TV in the tristate area without being inundated with commercials for pristine ski trips to the Poconos.

Neither skied nor had equipment, but the promise of a proper ski lodge party always rang as both enticing and empty: like, “must be nice.” Trouble Mountain, the duo’s first joint album since 2021, takes that fantasy and runs away with it, reimagining the Poconos retreat they saw on primetime as a place where, as Aesop says, “You might meet your future spouse or you might have to fight some local ski gangs.” ’Tis the season.

Anna Butterss / John Raymond / Ben Lumsdaine: Sem Início [Northern Spy]

All roads lead to Indiana University for the trio of Anna Butterss, Ben Lumsdaine, and John Raymond. Butterss is a chameleonic stylist who plays as nicely off their jazz contemporaries (and SML bandmates) as alternative rockers like Phoebe Bridgers and Neko Case.

More than a decade after their campus improvisation series Call and Response, the trio revived its interweaving chemistries for this studio session, as spontaneous as it is grounded.