Kiwi Lenderman and Copycat Extraordinaires
Plus: fretless guitar and funky drum machine jams from an Orthodox priest in coastal Greece.
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.
For this week’s edition, we once again find ourselves globetrotting. We hear from the patron saint of Mexican alt-pop (who’s now exploring norteño), some young country-grunge storytellers from New Zealand, and an Orthodox priest in Greece making distorted religious music. Stateside, we check in with a duo of TikTok-famous song analyzers crafting their own referential originals, and a Michigan rapper with the grind to get paid, laid, and be soothed in the brain. Let’s freaking go.
