To start with, as always, our “making of” from the print product advertised here:
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“I bet you look fantastic on the dance floor”, with all due respect – these are sentences that you haven’t heard in a really long time. And it is doubtful that this was really only due to Corona and the closed clubs. No, even in the early days of the great Arctic Monkeys hit “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” in 2006, most of us – at least from us here – were rather happy if someone didn’t ask if everything was okay while dancing or you might need help.
But the band around Alex Turner doesn’t seem that pushy anymore anyway. Arctic Monkeys 2022 is one of those rare pop phenomena, elegant proof that early success doesn’t have to define a band’s sound. Our title heroine Björk knows more than just a song about it. Finally, the most prominent Icelandic pop singer completed her seven-year album trilogy this month. A trilogy that softens popular attributions and perceptions of their music like stale bread in milk. Our chief reporter André Boße received one of the rare Björk audiences and by no means only spoke to her about music…
PS: Oh, and to paraphrase Arctic Monkeys… I bet you all look fantastic with this new booklet in your hands? Already won!
The Musikexpress 11/2022 – the topics at a glance:
Bjork – Back to the Beat
The oomph is back: With the help of an Indonesian gabber specialist, Björk has produced tracks for ecstatic forest parties. This is joined by complex art-pop songs about the three dimensions of love and a heartfelt duet with her daughter, in memory of the deceased mother. FOSSORA is the name of the new album: die Graberin. Above all, Björk found one thing: her strength.
Arctic Monkeys – everything stays different
From Sheffield to Hollywood: With their new album, the Arctic Monkeys create the atmosphere of a story on the edge of a fictional film production. One imagines one is on a set in Los Angeles, where Alex Turner, as an observer of the scenery, is constantly making notes. In his early songs he reported on his northern English scene like a report, but now he creates his worlds in his imagination. In one of his rare interviews, the singer and songwriter of one of today’s most important bands explains how it works and why he does it.
Jessie Reyez – Something is growing here
Canadian-born pop hope Jessie Reyez has seen the depths of the music industry. With her second album YESSIE she is now ready for the highs. Knowing that life is anything but easy.
The nerves – everything right, everything wrong
Actually everything as always: the nerves make a new album, and everyone thinks it’s good. The Corona break interrupted the organic growth of the trio. Elsewhere, too, a new gloom hovers over the raucous consensus band of the past decade that may have something to do with something fundamental slipping away – and the new album offers foreshadowing of what that might be.
Acid House – Can You Feel It?
At the end of the 1980s, young Londoners were suffering from Thatcher, the recession and a regimented nightlife. Acid house becomes the much-needed splash of color: house tracks and pills trigger a movement that starts in clubs and, when it gets too crowded there, moves to the fields. This is where the rave culture was born. The photographer Dave Swindells documented it, his book ACID HOUSE – AS IT HAPPENED shows a youth culture that dances back the joy of life. We show his most beautiful photos and try to clarify how this “Second Summer of Love” came about – and why acid is currently experiencing a revival.
ME Heroes: Queens Of The Stone Age – The Desert Is Alive
With the mighty music of Queens Of The Stone Age, Josh Homme managed to turn the dusty underground sound of the desert into a spectacle for the masses. The band’s albums are untouchable masterpieces of desert and stoner rock. As an artist, Josh Homme demands musical openness. As a person he is reactionary, libertarian. genius or asshole? A heroic story sewn to the edge.
Also in the issue:
- Self-timer: Frankie Cosmos
- Topic interview: BBNO$ on viral careers
- Record cabinet: Carl Cox
- 9 facts about music appearances on “Wetten dass…?”
- Radar: Mulay, Betterov, Skullcrusher, PVA & Pip Millett
- Alvvays
- CD insert for subscribers with Dienerven, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The 1975, Phoenix, Sorry & Fehlfarben
- Digital Playlist featuring Dienerve, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The 1975, Phoenix, Sorry, Fehlfarben, Björk, Loyle Carner, Dillon, Frankie Cosmos, Betterov, Alvvays, Dry Cleaning, Arctic Monkeys & Okay Kaya
>>> to the music express playlist for everyone!
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The new music express – available from October 13, 2022 at kiosks and from home as an e-paper
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