Big Boi - Night Night
The boys will drop their jaws in awe, for here comes something new
Solange - Losing You
It's taken me a little while to come around to the younger of the Knowles sisters, but this week I fell head over heels for this here song. Much thanks to its nostalgic shimmer, and this beautiful evocative video:
Hugh Masekela - Bring Him Back Home
Well, it's all been said this week. What a brilliant guy. I remember when I first heard this song on the bootleg of the
Graceland African Concert, and it just struck me as so powerful; that just seeing someone take a walk with his wife in his hometown would be counted as a victory.
The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
Been watching the 5th season of
Misfits, and this wonderful song came on. Made me all gushy inside.
Portishead - Over
Beth Gibbons is one of my favourite singers of all time, and this is one of my favourite live albums of all times. Strangely enough, since it does nothing a live album is expected to do: it doesn't expand on the songs, it doesn't include any rarities or covers, it doesn't even fill the spaces in between songs with applause. It's just a perfect collection of compositions, with small but extremely powerful little tweaks of atmosphere. Like how the beat really
crashes into this one, how Beth's voice suddenly rise and reverberate towards the end, and how the strings build up on all sides – all components that build towards that final moment when the lone guitar notes ring out in a tense space where you sense, but not quite yet hear, an absolutely awestruck audience.
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