Experimental Elders Freaking It
Plus little brother post-punk, rap laments of the grind, and more
Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records that you need to hear. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
This week’s batch of albums feels particularly inspiring. It’s a lot of great music (obviously), made by musicians you can’t help rooting for. We’ve got to give it up for the teenage rockers going full analog, the public school teacher rapping in his scant free time, the unsung players in their fifties and sixties who’ve kept it weird all these years, the singer melding Egyptian classical with the rave avant-garde, and a musical hero mourning a loss alongside some fiddlin’ friends. Let’s get into the goods.
