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 a Must Hear collection of hallucinatory electro-jazz, a genre-hopping rap album with a tender heart, a pitch-perfect psych-pop record that channels the swinging ’60s and slacker ’90s at once, a former praise singer channeling her disillusionment into rich chamber-folk, and a heavy-hitting dub collaboration that sounds like it was recorded on Mars. Blasting off in 3, 2, 1...
