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
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Quivers started life in Tasmania but is now based in Melbourne, bringing a classic indie pop combination of bright melodies and melancholic lyrics. Photo by Jason Boltex.
Andrew Khedoori: “I love a band where every member sings, and in perfect harmony. I m a sucker for the Beach Boys and Teenage Fanclub, bands like that. And now have fallen for Quivers, who started life in Tasmania, but they ve since moved to Melbourne. We re talking two guys and two girls coming together in the name of great pop, playing on that classic combination of bright, happy melodies and lyrics with a melancholic tinge as well. That classic combination really emanated from the Beach Boys way back when, but has just held true when done well, for years and years and years.
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Laura Jane Lowther, AKA
Kučka is a homegrown artist who got her start making GarageBand beats from her bedroom right here in Perth. She’s since spent her time collaborating with some of the biggest names in the music industry worldwide including A$AP Rocky, Flume and the late, great SOPHIE.
It s been years in the making but her debut album
Wrestling is finally due, dropping tomorrow via Melbourne-based label
Soothsayer. Wrestling is a deeply personal record about growing up, coming out and moving countries, executed with the signature cutting edge production of an artist at the top of their game.
Published Apr 29, 2021
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Whoever said Heavy is the head that wears the crown should consider the burden imposed on the heir to the throne. KUČKA might know a thing or two about that. For the past few years, the UK-born, Australia-based producer also known as Laura Jane Lowther has collaborated with some of the biggest names out there from Vince Staples to Flume, all the while tinkering with songs that now form
Wrestling, a proper debut album that might soon cement her pop star status.
What could have been a vanity project one more overstuffed pop album engineered to maximize streams is in fact a thrilling ensemble of electronic songs that borrow the sheen of R&B and pop music while cultivating its weirdness. Evoking 90s-era Björk, KUČKA uses this album to test the form and the structures of what a song can be, from the refined clarity of the confidential ballad Patience to the bubbly excitement of the oblique banger Sky Brown.