Shostakovich’s 5th Played Backwards in a Concrete Silo
A BPM-crushing jungle experiment by a canny Instagram curator, a rap album bridging the revolutionary and the corner boy, 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’s picks expand perception in some way, whether through the inveterate rapper contemplating a life in Brooklyn inspired by Sheek Louch as much as Bobby Seale, the Kentucky collective pulling together experimental sounds you could nonetheless play at a dinner party, or the Mexican producers pulling a genre built on pre-Hispanic instrumentation through a 2020s club wormhole. Continue on for your listening (and brain-altering) pleasure!
