Five Albums to Take You Away
Plus a singer-songwriter who bravely asks, “Is that dog that’s drowning in your new painting supposed to look like me?”
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend a handful of 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.
The power to transport: that’s the accidental theme among this week’s picks. The destinations? The underground clubs of current-day Lisbon. Inside the pack of cigarettes on the cover of Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man. Some dude in North Carolina’s shower (it looks pretty clean, at least). Back to the halcyon years of 106 & Park. Back to when you really fucking went for it.
