Five Songs You Should Hear This Week: 6/21/17
The Kaleidoscope EP won't be where Coldplay turns it all around and returns to the quality of their first 4 albums I'd the Chainsmokers feature is any indication. But this song proves thay they're not as one sided as the indie heads would like you to believe. It's not full on Rush Of Blood To The Head but for the first time in a while Coldplay takes a step back from the pop charts and delivers a genuinely well crafted song.
QOTSA has one of their most impressive outings ever in 2013 with Like Clockwork but they're seemingly returning to a late 2000's radio rock band form with this new single. It's not ambitious, or explosive, or game changing. It's just rock and it should please long time fans.
If you weren't big on "Everything Now" and the move towards full on disco this may not be for you. But if you liked Reflektor and thought with some improvement "Everything Now" could have been great, then "Creature Comfort" is for you. The beat is groovier and dancier and everything comes off smoother. The lyrics have notably improved from the last single and Creature Comfort means things are looking up for Arcade Fire fans.
PSB stunned in 2015 with their unique sounding and genre busting The Race For Space. Fans have been waiting in anticipation for music that blew us away in the same way their last album did. People Will Always Need Coal blends original music creatively and dynamically with the heavy sampling the very same as they always have. Until we can see how this will be impacted in the grander scheme of an album it's hard to gauge the artistic manor of the song, but even as a single it works on every level.
This one is surprising. Shortly after the release of Humanz, Damon Albarn is back at it with a song that sounds more Gorillaz than anything on Humanz. It's got 2D, it's dancy and groovy and everything you could want from a featureless Gorillaz tune, taking the place of what many people expected and hoped would be on Humanz.
