The new albums by Beach House, Metronomy and Midnight Oil will be released this Friday (02/18/22).
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The fourth edition of our new Albums of the Week format – in which we present the three most exciting record releases of the week every Friday – focuses on the releases of Metronomy, Beach House and Midnight Oil. The reviews come from RS authors and editors who have dealt extensively with the respective albums.
Check out the fourth issue of Albums of the Week here:
On the seventh On the Metronomy album “Small World” Joseph Mount finds the lightness again. In recent years he had lost her a bit between the dance club and the sound workshop. Always casual but never sloppy in style, the band was always Mount’s idea of a band that he through his respective visions of synthpop, Britfolk and electro beats.
with “Once Twice Melody” put Victoria Legrand and Alex Scallythat francoamerican Duo Beach House, an opus magnum in front. The album became created as a narrative arc: 85 minutes, 18 songs, in four chapters, which they released as EPs in November published, can be found on the disc. Beach House now look at their music in a completely new way, cinematic and literary.
Since the early 1980s, the quintet Midnight Oil has been Australia’s guilty conscience, siding with Indigenous Australians and denouncing them environmental destruction at. One had reckoning that Midnight Oil’s ravishingly positive post-punk Aussie-rock energy wasn’t Completely Come back can. But she can.