Dance Pop for the Perpetually Offline
Plus complicated thoughts on the new Big Thief album, three Nashville session guitarists going ambient-cool, 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.
This week we’ve got three Must Hear albums—a pop songwriter hankering for raves past, a UK veteran imagining rave’s future, and a duo of dystopian rappers getting surprisingly tender. Plus: three extremely wavy guitarists reframing ambient for a big tent, and Big Thief enters their jam-band era.
