Let's Get Gloorped
Psychedelic horrorcore, cavernous cello, and the wildest drums you’ll hear all year
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 from across genres 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.
How’s everybody feeling this week? Is the weather nice where you are? Have you checked out the Hearing Things Discord yet? We’re having fun chatting about new music and old favorites in there. Do you have seasonal allergies? Is the onset of spring making you feel a little nuts? No? Maybe we’re projecting.
Among other things, there’s a current of feral energy running through a lot of this week’s music: maximalist live-performed IDM that can’t sit still for more than half a second, a rap album crawling with enough cartoonishly depraved imagery for a modern-day Heironymous Bosch triptych, a solo cello suite that’ll make your hairs stand on end, and more. Hang on tight.
