Rising songstress Clairo looks to move on from her bedroom pop sound with her sophomore record Sling. With the help of super-producer Jack Antonoff, she achieves just that with a record that stylistically is almost nothing like Immunity.
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Home Video (2021) – Lucy Dacus
Home Video is a nostalgic ode to Lucy Dacus’ youth. Like anything nostalgic, there are hits and misses and this record is no different.
ALPHA (2021) – Charlotte Day Wilson
Charlotte Day Wilson approaches the daunting hurdle of a debut studio album with level headedness and a precise idea of what she wants her first major project to be. Though not the most innovative at points for Wilson personally, ALPHA builds upon the Toronto singer-songwriter’s 2016 EP CDW and 2018 EP Stone Woman, and is an apt representation for the larger music world of the unique sound that her fans have been raving about for years.
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (2021) – Tyler, The Creator
Not exactly continuing down the path of IGOR, nor a full return to the abrasive sound of Tyler, The Creator’s early work, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST is a marriage of Tyler’s vintage energy and matured musical palette with a European island destination wedding.
Jish’s June Album Rotation
Welcome to Jish’s Monthly Album Rotation. Four albums I’ve been listening to the previous month and my reviews of them. Some new, some old, some good, some bad. A mix of genres with some albums coming with tons of hype, and some that not as many people have heard of. Here is June 2021.
Blue Weekend (2021) – Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice’s third record is a masterful piece of rock that delivers in a variety of styles. Blue Weekend covers booming alt-rock, mesmerizing shoegaze, fierce punk, mellow indie pop, and sensational dream pop. It’s a record that delivers hit after hit on heartbreak, fame, and friendship.
Jubilee (2021) – Japanese Breakfast
As the name suggests, Jubilee is a celebration for Japanese Breakfast—a celebration of joy and love. Japanese Breakfast’s third record is a sweet, complex, and skillfully produced piece of alt-pop. The record has an overarching retro synth-pop sound, but each track is differentiated by specific production and instrumentation elements that keep the record from being stale.
Blue: 50 Years Old
For 50 years, Blue has offered heart-wrenching, eye-watering, ex-longing love songs. Love songs that are painfully sad. Love songs that are happily sad. The deepness of Blue hasn’t faded a single shade since Joni Mitchell released her magnum opus half a decade ago.
When Smoke Rises (2021) – Mustafa
Singer-songwriter-poet Mustafa’s debut studio album is a beautiful concept album on grief and life in the Regent Park community of Toronto. His wisdom that’s beyond his tender 25 years is exhibited finely in the culmination of years of experiences and craft that is When Smoke Rises.
Punisher—One Year Later
One year later, Phoebe Bridgers’ 2020 sophomore album Punisher is still as viscerally relatable as it was a year ago. The soundtrack to many anxious millennials’ global pandemic Year One, it can also be the soundtrack to a much brighter Year Two.
The Utility Spot 