This week we’re reviewing the records of The Jazz Butcher, Cate Le Bon and Mitski.
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The second edition of our new Album of the Week format – in which we present the three most exciting record releases of the week every Friday – features the releases of Cate Le Bon, The Jazz Butcher and Mitski. The reviews come from RS authors and editors who have dealt extensively with the respective albums.
Check out the second issue of Albums of the Week here:
Welsh musician Cate Le Bon has released her second album Pompeii in isolation added. about that feeling the loneliness even more to verdeep, locked the Artist Everyone exits. The graceful brittleness of the album probably results from that. vibrate in content dhe global pandemic and the colliding Eco-Trauma of climate change, even if it is not always immediately obvious.
Pat Fish, head of the anti-rockistfriendly-sarcastic, independentbrilliant and political indie-pop band The Jazz Butcher, has with “The highest In The Land” built his own memorial. At the age of 63, Fish died unexpectedly of a heart attack in early October 2021. His death leaves so the melancholy level of the album increases. Maybe the chords in pop songs sound like “Sea Madness” that’s why comforting.
On the one hand, the Japanese-American musician remains Mitski on their sixth album because they continue to be true catchiness and avant-garde, art and mainstream merge. On the other hand, the new record “Laurel Hell” some oxygen behind perfect facades. Tried musically Mitski old hats through. Some she sews around, others fit the same.