Muna’s Must Hear Album Makes the Dire World a Little More Manageable
Plus: “Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock duo.”
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.
Some of our album picks this week seem cosmically in conversation with each other: a mutant wall of electronic noise imagining a radically queer future; a brain-breaking techno treatise that, too, imagines a radical queer future; and a heartbreakingly perfect, big-time pop album that situates its existential worries in a (you guessed it!) radically queer—twist—present. Sometimes the stars just align! We’ve also got an almost-but-not-quite there album from a new TDE upstart, and the new one from New Zealand's favorite folk songwriter, so go forth and get listening.
