Chanel Beads balances the real and unreal on Your Day Will Come
Shane Lavers’ second album with the same title renders standard pop songwriting into arcane, intoxicating configurations.
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Harmony Tividad lives in the moment on Lifetime
Following the unserious hyperpop of her solo debut, the former Girlpool vocalist course-corrects with a warm and focused second album, housing her introspective musings inside sensitive, California-tinted folk-pop ballads.
5 songs you need to hear this week
This week’s best new songs roundup features Sam and Louise Sullivan’s wonky pop music, PJ Harvey’s celestial transmission, and The Tubs’ wild guitar fantasy.
Bob Dylan’s dream, riddle, and prayer
Blonde on Blonde recently turned sixty years old. To this day, nothing in Dylan’s catalog holds a candle to its eleven-minute finale of sheet-metal memory and magazine-husbands, “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.”
Black Country, New Road’s show at Storm King changed my life
On the summer solstice, surrounded by wrought iron sculptures and maple trees and British art-rock, I think I might have finally “lived in the moment.”