Music for Moving Into the Madness
A kaleidoscopic songwriter, a chaotic pop star, a buoyant rap-punk duo, and more.
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 pair of puckish baddies guided by their genre-hopping impulses, two distorted guitar albums that go in unexpected directions (one towards rap, one towards prog), and a celebrated electronic deconstructionist whose new album takes you UNDER the club. It’s a nice lesson in getting weird—the word “kooky” comes up in two separate reviews—and a reminder to go forth, unafraid, into whatever wonky thing you’re feeling today.
