Ten Songs You Should Hear This Week RETURNS: Wednesday, October 11th, 2017
We're back. And what a shitty week to be back. Some real digging had to be done to assemble 10 tracks I can genuinely reccomend to you this week, but I've done it nonetheless so let's get started.
10. "The City" YG Hootie (Ft. Kendrick Lamar)
YG Hootie shows his lack of experience as an MC all over this track. Barely stumbling through offbeat meaningless bars the song actually turns out pretty good for what it is. Kendrick is quality as always but nothing special for his status. The chorus really brings it home, it's simple and catchy, which is really what makes this one worth returning to. YG Hootie by himself doesn't seem like an appealing proospect and his next track may not even make enough noise to come across my glance, but this song is just good enough.
9. "Blue Pill" Metro Boomin (Ft. Travis Scott)
8. "Pills" St. Vincent
My how we've fallen Anne Clark. St. Vincent is not even one album cycle removed from one of her catchiest and best outings with her 2014 Self-Titled. And here we are with a third single that is simply eh. Jack Antanoff producing has done exactly what everyone was afraid it would do, made Anne boring. The instrumentals don't have anywhere near the punch they once did but the biggest problem is the chorus. The substanceless rambling embodies the idea of "fake woke" and thankfully doesn't quite ruin the quality of the rest of the song. It just comes off as okay.
7. "Wally Era" Camoflouge Monk (Ft. Conway & Your Old Droog)
Camoflouge Monk broke through with a single earlier in the year that found him toe to toe with Your Old Droog and Westide Gunn. Now he gets back onto a track with Droog just a few months later. While it's safe to say Droog out raps Monk it's certainly not a landslide and you know what you're getting when you bring in such a talented MC. Once the bars start they don't stop and the whole track develops lime after like as Monks verse slides perfectly into Droogs. The beat is sufficient and the lyrics are quality, but the performances make the song click.
6. "Weekend Woman" Weezer
Weezer was VERY on in 1994, and since then it's been a flickering switch of good Weezer and bad Weezer. After the fantastic White Album last year fans were surprised and disappointed to see them return so quickly in such an awful manner. Feels Like Summer is a bad song, and there's no way around it but with each single since Rivers and company further reassure us that Weezer may know what they are doing after all. The song doesn't break barriers or challenge listeners, it's just a pleasant experience.
5. "I'll Be Your Pilot" Belle & Sebastian
Belle & Sebastian are debuting 3 EPs over the next few months which makes you wonder, why? Whatever the reasoning new B@S music is coming in waves and our first preview to wave on is an enjoyable one. It lacks the energy that made the best tracks off of Girls In Peace Time Want To Dance so engaging but it's blissful and wavy and sweet and they sell this aesthetic very well.
4. "Holy Mountain" Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher is one of those names you see way more often for something he's said than something he's sang and on the same weekend his Oasis partner and brother released his debut solo album Noel puts out the long awaited lead single to his bands upcoming 3rd album. Music's most iconic sibling rivalry shouldn't stand in the way of your enjoyment of this track. It's Noel more bombastic and exciting than we've heard him in years and it should be an immediate indication to mark your calendars for November 24th.
3. "Mount Napoleon" Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts
Song number 3 from the collaboration between Daniele Luppi and Parquet Courts is just as exciting and thrilling as the last two. The composer proves he has a lot of chemistry with Parquet Courts upbeat tempo and sporadic performance. As they often do on Parquet Courts songs the vocals simultaneously pull everything together and rip it all apart into a chaotic blend that makes their sound unique to the modern music landscape.
2. "2STINGS" WESTSIDEDOOM
YG Hootie shows his lack of experience as an MC all over this track. Barely stumbling through offbeat meaningless bars the song actually turns out pretty good for what it is. Kendrick is quality as always but nothing special for his status. The chorus really brings it home, it's simple and catchy, which is really what makes this one worth returning to. YG Hootie by himself doesn't seem like an appealing proospect and his next track may not even make enough noise to come across my glance, but this song is just good enough.
Blue Pill is exactly what it is. Metro Boomin produces just like he always does distant, base heavy, and trap flavored. Travis Scott delivers his trap side as potent as ever and ultimately the track comes off as pleasant but not essential. Years from now it'll be easy to remember hearing Metro's signature on songs like Pt. 2 and Bad & Boujee, but nobody will remember Blue Pill.
My how we've fallen Anne Clark. St. Vincent is not even one album cycle removed from one of her catchiest and best outings with her 2014 Self-Titled. And here we are with a third single that is simply eh. Jack Antanoff producing has done exactly what everyone was afraid it would do, made Anne boring. The instrumentals don't have anywhere near the punch they once did but the biggest problem is the chorus. The substanceless rambling embodies the idea of "fake woke" and thankfully doesn't quite ruin the quality of the rest of the song. It just comes off as okay.
Camoflouge Monk broke through with a single earlier in the year that found him toe to toe with Your Old Droog and Westide Gunn. Now he gets back onto a track with Droog just a few months later. While it's safe to say Droog out raps Monk it's certainly not a landslide and you know what you're getting when you bring in such a talented MC. Once the bars start they don't stop and the whole track develops lime after like as Monks verse slides perfectly into Droogs. The beat is sufficient and the lyrics are quality, but the performances make the song click.
Weezer was VERY on in 1994, and since then it's been a flickering switch of good Weezer and bad Weezer. After the fantastic White Album last year fans were surprised and disappointed to see them return so quickly in such an awful manner. Feels Like Summer is a bad song, and there's no way around it but with each single since Rivers and company further reassure us that Weezer may know what they are doing after all. The song doesn't break barriers or challenge listeners, it's just a pleasant experience.
Belle & Sebastian are debuting 3 EPs over the next few months which makes you wonder, why? Whatever the reasoning new B@S music is coming in waves and our first preview to wave on is an enjoyable one. It lacks the energy that made the best tracks off of Girls In Peace Time Want To Dance so engaging but it's blissful and wavy and sweet and they sell this aesthetic very well.
Noel Gallagher is one of those names you see way more often for something he's said than something he's sang and on the same weekend his Oasis partner and brother released his debut solo album Noel puts out the long awaited lead single to his bands upcoming 3rd album. Music's most iconic sibling rivalry shouldn't stand in the way of your enjoyment of this track. It's Noel more bombastic and exciting than we've heard him in years and it should be an immediate indication to mark your calendars for November 24th.
Song number 3 from the collaboration between Daniele Luppi and Parquet Courts is just as exciting and thrilling as the last two. The composer proves he has a lot of chemistry with Parquet Courts upbeat tempo and sporadic performance. As they often do on Parquet Courts songs the vocals simultaneously pull everything together and rip it all apart into a chaotic blend that makes their sound unique to the modern music landscape.
Westside Gunn and MF DOOM are back at it with another track. They both deliver with quality verses as cutthroat as ever and split the track right down the middle. But somehow neither of the MCs take center stage. The Alchemist shines through on production with a phenomenal beat that DOOM was born to rap over. It creates a tense and hurried atmosphere that plays perfectly into the villain persona and DOOM's iconic delivery is as potent as ever. Amidst a weird month where he was dropped from Adult Swims singles program and doesn't really seem to care to know why he's dropped yet another time that needs to be remembered.
1."Milk" The 1975
2 minutes and 12 seconds is all Matty Healy and company need to make this passionate, fun, anthemic track stick. They play perfectly to their strengths and make up beat and boppy passion music you can't help but dance to at the same time you're shouting along. After a shaky first single they come back a few months later with a perfect conceptualization of their appeal in a tight 2 minute track that should satisfy fans and critics alike.
