Best Songs of 2. 01. So Far. Read the Post. Harry Styles Sign of the TimesRead the Post. Arcade Fire Everything Now4. Arcade Fire Everything Now4. Arcade Fire Everything NowArcade Fires last album, Reflektor, wasnt for me. The once saviors of indie rock were trying to make their fans dance the songs were supposed to be groovy, but werent very groovy at all. Luckily, while the bands comeback single Everything Now furthers that soundit helps that it was co produced with Daft Punks Thomas Bangalter and Pulps Steve Mackey it isnt just a dance song. Its practically an ABBA song. Its there in that almost aggravatingly chipper piano melody, those swelling strings and rat a tat rhythm, the insistent chants of everything now The lyrics are fantastically sarcastic and dreary, playing off the instrumentation to sound fun even when though Win Butler is going through something. He sounds wistful as ever as he opines how our cornucopia of modern pleasures have made life more routine, instead of expanding its possibilities. Every inch of space in your head Is filled up with the things that you read, he sings. I guess youve got everything now. Theres a little flute solo that sounds like Herbie Hancocks Watermelon Man, as well as a big, canned chorus of na na nas at the end. The video, in which the band wears grey jumpsuits and performs around a idyllic hamlet stuck in the middle of the desert, reinforces the concept, as does their repeated refrain of Infinite Content, which describes all those entertainment options. Everything should be so nice but its not. We should be living in the future but it kind of sucks. This could be a super fatuous idea for Arcade Fire to beat us over the head with. Who wants to listen to a bunch of rich Canadians caterwaul about how weve lost the feelingBut it works, in spite of that kneejerk avulsion. I want it, Butler sings as the chorus repeats the title on end. I need it. Whenever that piano kicks in, it sounds like a beaming smile as the world dissolves into meaningless sludge. Does anything else feel more appropriate for 2. The dog days of summer are here, so shouldnt astronauts hurtling through space get to enjoy some Earthly delights Today, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch some. Article Index By Author. All articles listed on this page are available to read online. Click on the title to read the article. Click on the Issue to view the Table. Torrent Hurts Happiness Deluxe' title='Torrent Hurts Happiness Deluxe' />Jeremy Gordon. Read the Post. Mura Masa ft. Charli XCX 1 Night4. Torrent Hurts Happiness Deluxe' title='Torrent Hurts Happiness Deluxe' />Mura Masa ft. Charli XCX 1 Night4. Mura Masa ft. Charli XCX 1 NightThe young British producer Mura Masas 1 Night begins like a painfully acute post tropical house dance pop collaboration, with Charli XCX cooing over a drip drop marimba pattern. Diccionario De Simbolos Cirlot Pdf. It builds up to what feels like the inevitable drop, but then something novel happens Mura Masa sucks all the air out of the song, before gently unleashing a refrain built just out of Charlis oh oh vocals. The effect is like submerging yourself underwater for just a second and then bobbing back up for a leisurely float. The slightly askew take on a conventional mutation of EDM recalls Jamie xxs most appealing solo work, while also briefly removing Charli from the clutches of PC Music and giving her a song thats, well, exceedingly pleasant to listen to. Jordan Sargent. Read the Post. Palm Walkie Talkie4. Palm Walkie Talkie4. Palm Walkie TalkieAt a time when the genre loosely defined as indie rockcouldnt seem more plain, Philadelphia via Hudson quartet. Palm do something thats as hard to describe as it is dizzyingly, blisteringly new. On their 2. 01. 5 debut. Trading Basics, the group stacked strident guitar lines atop droning, psychedelic vocals to build a refreshing collage somewhere between. Panda Bear and New Dark Age era Polvo with just a touch of chorus and delay. The first single from their upcoming. Shadow Expert EP with Carpark later this month, Walkie Talkie is a racing take on all of what made their debut so memorable. With rolling drums and jagged stabs of stereoscopic guitar, the track defies reference, soaring into absolute chaos with what could only be called a chorus in the vaguest, most abstract sense. How can a single so harsh and structureless really sound this blissful Thats a secret the mysterious four piece dont seem too eager to reveal. Rob Arcand. Read the Post. Actress CYN4. Actress CYN4. Actress CYNAs. Actress, Darren Cunningham makes throbbing techno for the end of days. His brand of dark and moody dance music is noticeably barren, clashing thin, textural samples with hushed synth elements that were always more interesting for the strange polyrhythmic patterns they produce than the stomping, made for dance maximalism made by other DJs. Its experimental, but never far from its Detroit or London origins, and on CYN, the artist achieves something distinctly deconstructed. Flipping adusty live clip of New York rapper. Ramellzee into a dark, downtempo piece, the track relies more on abrasive bass than the looped kick of. AZDs other material. As it slowly introduces glassy harmonics in the mids and highs, CYN juggles a certain push and pull paradox central to every great Actress track. Is it dance music Is it the soundtrack to Peter Bergs Rihanna led. Battleship pocalypse that never wasWho knows, but it sounds so fucking right when it hits you. Rob Arcand. Read the Post. French Montana Unforgettable ft. Swae Lee. 45. French Montana Unforgettable ft. Swae Lee. 45. French Montana Unforgettable ft. Swae Lee. Swae Lee is generally the commanding presence on Rae Sremmurd songs, but hes rarely sounded better than he does on French Montanas Unforgettable. The song started as a Swae solo demo featuring the Nigerian vocalist Wizkid before making its way into Frenchs hands. The star here is clear, though. You have to make it 7. Unforgettable before you even hear Frenchs voiceinstead, the song is driven by Swae, who hangs like lingering smoke over a glistening dancehall inspired Mike Will Made It beat, sounding like a shining new voice in R B over the course of his verse length chorus. French, to his immense credit, manages not to screw it up. Jordan Sargent. Read the Post. Sylvan Esso Die Young4. Sylvan Esso Die Young4. Sylvan Esso Die YoungSylvan Essos new album What Now is an optimistic and sweet take on new electronica, though you wouldnt know it listening to the single Die Young. The first verse begins with openly morbid imagery Was gonna leave early, so swiftly Maybe in a fire or crash off a ravine People would weep, How tragic, so early. With synths that hit like a gong and an offbeat bass rhythm that pulls and releases tension throughout, Die Young is an ode to the angst and existentialism on the other side of being in love. Geena Kloeppel. Read the Post. SOB x RBE, Lane Changing4. SOB x RBE, Lane Changing4. SOB x RBE, Lane ChangingSOB x RBE are a Bay Area quartet that boast a musical chemistry that sounds like the logical result of an adolescences worth of inside jokes Da. Boii,Yhung T. O., Lul G, and Slimmy B told The Fader that the roots of the group were at their local Boys and Girls Club. The loose relationship to the beat in their raps in the tradition of their hometown hero and champion E 4. Nh. T Boyz. T. O. Cali hook technician Ty Dolla ign or The Weeknd, depending on the mood. Lane Changing is not yet their biggest hitAnti and Different, posted last year, were the loosies that got them on labels radar, racking up millions of streamsbut its their most singular achievement thus far. Its a breathless volley of taunts and shoutouts the raps duel with a ribboning vocal sample and a frenetic beat to make Mannie Fresh proud.