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Bon Iver Was Never Just Sad

1 week ago | hearingthings.co | Ryan Dombal

“I don’t know if I’ve ever been this happy, which is really awesome,” Justin Vernon said. “If I was bumming out and making some breakup record now, how boring would that be?” It sounds like something the Bon Iver leader may have uttered during his recent interviews for Sable, Fable, which is being billed as a blissful mental and musical about-face after a career of sad-sack songs. But the quote is from 15 years ago.
The Good Kind of Y2K Revivalism

1 week ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer. It’s Tax Day, which means many of us are staring down a hefty bill and trying not to freak out about how to pay it.
I Learned to Listen From My Dad

1 week ago | hearingthings.co | Jill Mapes |Jillian Mapes

If I tell you my earliest memory, you’ll understand the sort of man my dad is. I was 5 years old, in the living room of the ranch-style house my parents rented at the time, and Peter Gabriel’s 1992 song “Kiss That Frog” was playing loudly on the stereo.
Stereolab Make Their Groovy Return

2 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush

Even as the world burns down around us, a glimmer of late-’90s utopianism appears in the air: just a couple weeks after Chicago post-rock giants Tortoise announced their return to new music, the world’s greatest space-rock lounge act has now done the same. Yes, on May 23, Stereolab will release their first new album in 15 years, which comes with a title that might has well have been spit out of a Stereolab album name generator: Instant Holograms on Metal Film.
What Is Fuck-a-Brick Music?

2 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear each week. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
Jane Remover Takes Their Place as Hyperpop’s Vengeful Superhero on ‘Revengeseekerz’

2 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Ryan Dombal

Just a few years ago, Jane Remover was an introvert recording alone in their childhood bedroom, trying to sing quietly enough so that their family wouldn’t hear them. Back then, the teenager from suburban New Jersey was a hyperpop prodigy who used digital wizardry to crack open their emo heart. “Go to college, have a shit time,” they predicted on a fuzzed-out early song called “Seventeen.
How Will Smith and LL Cool J Work Through Being Older Rappers

2 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Dylan Green

Though hip-hop is 52 years old now, its fans are still getting used to the idea of an Old Rapper. There was a time when, if you hadn’t gotten your big break by 30, people expected you to wrap it up and clock in at UPS. But today, you don’t have to look far to find examples of elder stars. Golden-age pioneers like Big Daddy Kane (56) and Missy Elliott (53) have settled into the nostalgia circuit, while millennial icons like 50 Cent (49), Nelly (50), and Bow Wow (38) are starting to join them.
Perfume Genius Explains His Credit Card Statement

3 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Jill Mapes |Jillian Mapes

Credit History is an interview series where we ask our favorite artists to comb through their credit card statements and tell us about what they bought, from the necessary to the frivolous to the outlandish. Mike Hadreas has been working through something in therapy, and maybe—just maybe—he’s made a breakthrough.
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar on the Lyrics That Changed His Life

3 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Ryan Dombal

I need to know about the horse’s ass. On the title track from Destroyer’s new album, Dan’s Boogie, bandleader Dan Bejar waxes quizzical over a cascading backdrop that sounds like Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham crashing into a cocktail jazz trio. It’s as strange as it is rollicking, a prime example of why this Canadian outfit has become an irregular indie-rock institution across nearly three decades.
Guitar Lives!

3 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush

As music journalists, we try to stay on top of new releases, but there are so many of them that sometimes stuff that’s quite worthy of critical attention falls through the cracks. Chuck Roth’s Watergh0st Songs, which came out in January, was one of those albums for me. It’s about as up-my-alley as it could possibly be: a singer-songwriter record that’s also an experimental guitar record, which gives short shrift to neither side of that premise in its explorations of the other.