New every month: our new large music express playlist for streaming!
For each issue there is a newly curated playlist with the song recommendations of the ME editorial team. Here you can listen to the music that we tell you about in the magazine while you are reading.
For those readers who don’t want to do without our exclusive CD, it will continue to be available in the ME subscription (which, by the way, can be canceled at any time).
This time the June playlist features music from:
TORO Y MOI
Chaz Bear’s new record is a small, warm, sparkling masterpiece of crisp funk, Hendrix memory guitars, psychedelic streaks and the finest pop melodies. Best of all: Everything sounds airy and light like a spring day.
SAM VANCE-LAW
After his gay statement record and an NDW EP excursion, the Canadian Berliner-by-choice works on the biggest of all pop themes on the new album with tragi-comic text art: failed relationships, heartbreak, the pain of separation.
MODERATE
After a six-year break, the Berlin trio once again elicits a power beyond the straight bass drum from the electronic circuits. Sascha Ring sings with a fragile voice. And the emotionally charged soundscapes flow like the flow of time.
KELLY LEE OWENS
The Welsh singer doesn’t care about pop functionality and catchiness on her third record. With the noise experimentalist Lasse Marhaug she has created tracks that oscillate between ethereal meditations and – like “Sonic 8” – technoid wake-up calls.
SHARON VAN ETTEN
As always with the American songwriter, it’s about dissecting old and new wounds. In “Headspace” she strides through prog rock guitars and dream pop bells and finally finds a beautiful optimism in the twilight.
TOM SCHILLING & THE OTHER SIDE
The melancholy that characterizes many of his cinema roles is also reflected in Tom Schilling’s musical solo project The Other Side. German chanson about longing and crises of meaning. There’s also a piano and heavy e-guitars.
Enjoy listening!