Lost Club Classics
Protest rock, bedroom pop, and the rowdiest 2000s-era dancefloor heaters you’ve never heard
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.
Welcome back to reality from what we hope was a chill and restorative holiday weekend, or a crazy hard-partying one—whatever vibe suits you. This week, we’re recommending a Spanish bedroom-pop wizard who conjures flamenco, merengue, and freak-folk with equally dreamy curiosity; a classic rock icon’s fiery protests against the Trump administration; and a compilation of ferocious Dutch club music that will take you back to the era of Levi’s 510s and glow sticks used as headbands, with none of the shitty Sparks aftertaste. Let’s do this.
