Lav's Music Corner

2021 is pretty close to ending and while I have one or two more records left to review in the coming week I also wanted to look back at the last few weeks and cover a few records I absolutely couldn't let go. While there are literally hundreds of albums I wish I could review there are only so many hours in the day, and as a result I'm setting for these 3. Music For Psychedelic Therapy  - Jon Hopkins I've always enjoyed Jon Hopkins music even if I haven't necessarily dished out tons of praise to any one of his projects individually. He has a great ability to conceptualize ideas and synthesize them into compelling electronic music and that's what pulled me into the whole psychedelic therapy idea. When I first head Sit Around The Fire  as a single I expected this record to be his most thematically dense yet and to represent some kind of journey of the mind or spirit through a combination of musical passages and various theologies. I would certainly call the music on th...

Best new tracks released this weekend: 5.  Good Ones  - Charli XCX With her new era Charli promised to leave experimental pop behind and pivot to more conventional pop concepts. On Good Ones  she delivers on that promise with a dancefloor bop full of early Gaga worship that rounds in just over 2 minutes. It's a simple, catchy electro pop cut with hit potential, all of which are major flashbacks to some of Charli's earliest projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjAuUXdSFaM 4  Sit Around The Fire  - Jon Hopkins (Feat. Ram Dass & East Forrest) This week electronic musician Jon Hopkins announced a new album entitled Music For Psychedelic Therapy  and it's safe to say the lead single delivered on that promise. The 8 minute lead single features an ambient like haze over which Hopkins places a meditative guide from Western spatiality guru Ram Dass. The results are a relaxing and sonically compelling experience that experimental music fans are sure to appre...