Ten Songs You Should Hear This Week: 6/14/17
In support of the #endhiv Sia dropped "Free Me" a power ballad that doesn't hit quite as hard as som of her other songs but goes full in on the vocal strain as Sia lets out powerful and passionate touching lyrics. A can't miss for fans that will likely be swept under the pop radar.
9. Manchester Orchestra - The Gold
Manchester Orchestra has some ground to recover after the dissipointing Cope and Hope, but let's not forget the bands great trilogy of albums their career opened up with. They don't storm back but crawl back into a familiar form. The song is enough to satisfy after a three year drought but an attempt at an album is going to have to pack a little more punch to recover their reputation.
8. Torres - Skim
Torres is nothing if not interesting, and the cover, snappy production choices and lyrics of the song represent this in full. Don't expect this to be a perfect song but it demands to be listened to.
7. Royal Blood - I Only Lie When I Love You
Royal Bloods second album is shaping up to be a lot like their first, considering their eponymous debut was one of the best albums of 2014 maybe thats not a bad thing. They've delivered another quintessentially Royal Blood track and found all the more success doing it.
6. Vince Staples - Rain Come Down
Unfortunately "Rain Come Down" faulters in the same place "Big Fish" did and where "Bagbak" succeeded so well. Vince's always impressive and full frontal verses and flow come off as excellent, they're just bridged by a boring and uninspired trap chorus that adds nothing. Summertime '06 is full of great hooks and one can only hope Big Fish Theory follows that up well, it's just not looking like it so far.
5. Wolf Alice - Yuk Foo
Wolf Alice aren't a band known to hold things back, but the agression hits a new height here. "Yuk Foo" is a just over two minute wild ride through powerful vocals and instrumentals fighting each other for control. It's certainly not for everyone but those that are pleased should be very pleased.
4. Ride - Lannoy Point
Shoegaze is back in 2017. And Ride has countered their contemporaries Slowdive with a handful of quality singles, but this one is the icing on the cake. Ride works together a great combination of the layered chaos of their early shoegaze years and a new found control to craft a beautiful and catchy song that makes an old band sound brand new again.
3. Fleet Foxes - If You Need To, Keep Time On Me
Once again Fleet Foxes deliver on what they've always done best. Indie-Folk ballads with personal lyrics and dense instrumentation, there's no reason to think Fleet Foxes third album Crack Up won't be an indie success and an improvement upon their last effort Helplessness Blues.
2. The Killers - The Man
The Brandon Flowers fronted, Vegas band return and strike a perfect chord between old and new doing it. Calling back to their synth funk roots on their landmark debut Hot Fuss "The Man" blends together eras of Killers music perfectly and should leave everyone excited for the album they have coming later this year.
1. Japanese Breakfast - Boyish
I had no idea this was in the Japanese Breakfast wheelhouse. A blissful indie pop instrumental backs her powerful lead vocals as she channels Beach House expertly in a track that left me stunned and suprised. This isn't something just anyone can do and I think Japanese Breakfast proves to be special if they can continue making tracks like this.
