New Music Reviews (5/24) KEXP
Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP s rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from
Mdou Moctar,
Afrique Victime (Matador)
This Agadez, Niger-based guitarist’s sixth studio album is a powerful blend of traditional Tuareg music and fiery psych-rock, combining acoustic and electric guitars (including lots of incendiary, sky-scraping solos) with call-and-response vocals, hypnotic melodies and lyrics blending the political and the personal. DY
Paul Jacobs Stirs Up a Psychedelic Melting Pot with Pink Dogs on the Green Grass
Published May 05, 2021
8Paul Jacobs, Montreal s garage-psych one-man-band (and drummer of arty post-punks Pottery), delivers just the right amount of dopamine on
Pink Dogs on the Green Grass, kickstarting what will hopefully be an optimistic summer. In terms of production, it s one of the prolific singer-songwriter s clearest-sounding batches of recordings, adding acoustic drums and open-chord folk to his trippy rock sound.
Capping off at 13 songs,
Pink Dogs on the Green Grass is a mix of everything at points sounding like early Deerhunter meets the off-kilter bongos of Paul Simon s