This week’s albums come from: Johnny Marr, Thurston Moore and Casper.
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The fifth edition of our Albums of the Week format – in which we present the three most exciting record releases of the week every Friday – features the releases of Johnny Marr, Thurston Moore and Casper. The reviews come from RS authors and editors who have dealt extensively with the respective albums.
Check out issue 5 of Albums of the Week here:
Divided into four “parts”, Johnny Marr’s fourth solo work is as successful as it appears complex. The beauty of the melodies is often only revealed after repeated listening. “Fever Dreams” also proves to be a very appropriate title, the dark passages predominate here without spreading despair, just with dramaturgy based on enough life experience.
“Screen Time” could just as easily be called “Dream Time” because the album is the most beautiful and poetic Thurston Moore has heard in a long time. The music on the record is never lulling, nor does it encourage unnecessary and exaggerated emotional outbursts. It is perfectly balanced and yet enormously complex.
Emo rapper Casper appears on his new record to the moral authority. A contemporary diagnostician who digs even deeper into the style box. A split impression remains: here are brilliant moments, there are overloaded ones preaching. You can’t really separate them. This is how fans get the whole Casper, den all-rounder.