Throwback Soul, Futuristic Synths
Plus an ambient collaboration between two of our favorite musicians and more
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.
We’ve got a quintet of albums this week that couldn’t be more different if we tried. There’s a gospel-soul family who’s taking it straight back to the early ’70s; a folk-pop singer-songwriter who draws from Arabic music and Radiohead; utopian synth music for mildly stoned sunlit walks through the park; an ambient collaboration from two of the most exciting experimental musicians working; and an indie-rap gauntlet thrown by the next rising star out of Billy Woods’ Backwoodz Studioz. Let’s get into it.
