Patrick Clarke
, May 27th, 2021 23:56
From exuberant pop to all-out brutality, via everything in-between, here are tQ s favourite albums and tracks of May 2021
I received my first dose of Pfizer vaccine yesterday, having heard from a friend of a friend of a relative of my partner that an old function hall in Woodford had some spares for walk-ins. When I got home I checked my emails and saw that I was invited to a gig. Typically, after a year and a half of waiting for such an opportunity, I m busy that day, but nevertheless if I were to stretch for a sign, it s fitting that it was the first day in weeks that the rain clouds that have been clinging over London for the last month finally went away, leaving a balmy blue sky in their place. Not to labour the point too much, but it feels like things might be getting better.
Danijela Bočev
, May 27th, 2021 09:45
Temporarily reduced to a three-piece, London s Black Midi are back with an audacious leap of a record
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” As one of the many iterations of this idea exclaims, once again we are bridging the obsolete and the not yet. Situated somewhere between an end-of-days neoliberal dystopia and some uncharted post-scarcity digital utopia, we enter a suspended state of post-normalcy and (environ)mental global weirding. Hopeless civilisational monsters need no further introduction. But a different monster trapped in liminal space starts making noise to fill the void, becoming hopeful it can build the bridge to a new time.
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By: Eric Renner Brown
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Spain ImpalaAussie psych-rockers Tame Impala perform at Barcelona s Primavera Sound in 2016. The band will headline both weekends of the Spanish festival in 2022.
After two years offline, Primavera Sound will return to Barcelona in 2022 with an expanded two-weekend format in delayed celebration of its 20th anniversary.
First, the basics: The esteemed Spanish festival is now slated for the first two weekends in June – June 2-4 and June 9-11 – when it will be held at its traditional venue of Parc del Fòrum. On the intervening dates, June 5-8, more than 150 concerts will be held throughout Barcelona under the Primavera a la Ciutat moniker and, on June 12, Primavera will conclude with it s Brunch On The Beach party.