![]() "Are you polite or political? Are you correct or cynical?" Belgian duo Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ask a lot of questions you might not expect on their debut album. Grab Once Twice Melody on vinyl and cassette.Ĭharlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer Don't be daunted just take their hand and let them whisk you away, through the looking glass, out the window, into the stars. The whole of Once Twice Melody ebbs and flows over the course of a nearly hour-and-a-half ride, and it's a trip worth taking all the way to the end. Likewise, the music soars through the space dust, shining with flashes of baroque folk, electropop, celestial prog, and Cocteau Twins and Broadcast style dreampop. It's an expansion/refinement of the ethereal sound of 2018's 7, with Legrand's once throaty, emotive vocal style giving way to a gentler, more tranquil and airy delivery. ![]() Once Twice Melody is by far - and by design - Beach House's most sprawling record to date, but it's also their most cohesive, fully realized record since Bloom. But with their eighth album they've created a galaxy. Their records are swelling Feels Generators, powered as much by mood and vibe as songcraft. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally have always been expert world builders. They also pepper the album with sugar-sweet, nostalgia-inducing, '90s-style R&B samples that offset all the brashness, and even the three members of BBCC show off a soft side when they flex their pipes on tracks like "BMW" and "Stick Around." On one hand, BBCC feel like the British Beastie Boys, and on the other, Disrespectful feels like the catchiest '90s Eurodance album of 2022. Over an array of UK garage and house beats, the trio deliver punky shout-rapping that seems like its main goal is living up to this album title. UK trio Bad Boy Chiller Crew's antics always seem to come up before their actual music does (they first gained attention for videos that The Guardian's Damien Morris referred to as "a head-on collision between Jackass and People Just Do Nothing," to give you an idea), but with Disrespectful, they've written an album that's undeniable even if you don't know anything else about them. While Warm Chris doesn't grab you by the lapels the way Designer did, it's an album whose many charms creep up on you and before you realize, you're totally under her spell once again. ![]() This is new territory for everyone it seems. Sleaford Mods' Jason Williams turns up on the Nico-esque closing track, "Leathery Whip," not to unleash his usual spiel but to offer tender backing vocals. "Cut it up, put it in my hand," she sings on the bright, airy opener "Ennui." "You’ve become my joy you understand." On "Fever," she sings "I had stars coming all around me / And you let me in where a mother’d invested." Despite the new vocal stylings, Aldous made the album with her now regular troupe of collaborators, including producer John Parish, and multi instrumentalist H. Whoever is the subject of these songs also appears to be head-over-heels in love. ![]() It's more pastoral, almost faery folk at times, more subtle. Warm Chris is an equally beguiling record, just different. She sounds smaller, somehow more delicate, almost like a different person than the one who made 2019's wonderful Designer. There are new voices heard on Aldous Harding's Warm Chris, her fourth album and third for 4AD, all eminating from her. ![]()
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