Nia Archives Has the Range
Plus Four Tet’s un-Googleable new album, Syd’s grown-woman swagger, and a high-wire act of underground rap
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we review 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.
Two Must Hears and delightful lines like this (see below) await you in this week’s Five Albums. “Who but Kieran Hebden could take the swampy low-end and antisocial swagger of early dubstep and marry it so convincingly to Pure Moods bells and mallets?” I don’t have an answer for that, but I’m still mulling it.
