Bbymutha Is Coming For Everybody
Plus: a Venezuelan band processes the moment, a Gen Z songwriter leaves virality behind, a beloved post-punk band mines the historical archives, and more.
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we discuss a handful of new records catching our attention. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s happening now. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
In this week’s installment, we’ve got a rap album by a woman ready to call everybody out, a TikTok star who shed virality in favor of cozy singer-songwriter jams, a band of Venezuelan superstars longing for their home but reveling in the now, and more.
