Lav's Music Corner

5.  shake my bones  - Matana Roberts Though this is a much shorter offering than the expansive single Matana led this era off with, the track is no less exciting. She continues to have a style of jazz deeply influenced by world music but firmly rooted in her fundamentals as a composer and the result is individual moments that absolutely soar over the familiar but impressively performed undercurrent of sounds throughout. It's quite a bit of excitement crammed into just 4 minutes.  Listen 4.  WUACV  - Tkay Maidza Tkay's newest short, thumping banger does feel a good bit like her past two as well as tracks in her past like Syrup . But that feels less like familiarity and more like experience on this song which wastes no time getting into some of its most lethal refrains. Could the lyrics be better, certainly, but that isn't really what you put on a song like this for in the first place.  Listen 3.  Mad-Dauber Wasp  - Matmos After releasing an album l...

5.  the slab  - Slowdive The often-teased third single from Slowdive's new album opens with an arrangement of glittery jangly guitars that fans of shoegaze acts molded in their original image will be familiar with. While the instrumental of the song is wonderfully cloudy I will say I think the vocals could be improved. "Impact" often isn't the point of the singing on a shoegaze song and yet on this track is takes a while for them to have any real presence in the song either.  Listen 4.  Wait For Me  - Stillblue I haven't talked about Stillblue since last years Flora  EP but that hasn't stopped the band from continuing to export their melancholic indie folk. Even now on a single which has a newfound and quite definitive jangle to it, the haze of sweet guitar tones and romantic desperation in the lyrics give the song a distinctly somber presentation. In a week dominated by good new indie folk songs they couldn't be left out. Listen 3.  Summer Windows ...