Turbo

Cory Wong & Dirty Loops

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Masterpiece

Big Thief

If your thing is songs titled with generic men’s names that are guaranteed to make you cry, then Big Thief has you covered. Their 2016 album Masterpiece is grimy and haunting. It speaks about the influence certain people can have over your life, even years after you’ve removed yourself from their presence. The album covers familial, romantic, and platonic relations with morose and sometimes self pitying sincerity. The lead singer Adrienne Mack croons lines like, “so I swallowed all of it, as I realized there was no one who could kiss away my shit” so casually that it takes a few listens to register them. While there’s a lot of doom and gloom to be found in this album, The Brooklyn based group understands how to vary its delivery. The album bounces between drudging ballads and uptempo tunes that fizzle and pop. There’s more than one way to deal with sadness and Big Thief is trying them all out. Check out this NPR interview with the band from a few years ago!

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Habaneros

Calimossa

A lil’ jazzy. A lil’ funky. This EP will help you get your groove on. I once found a playlist called “Songs that make you walk like Peter Parker in Spider Man 3.” This album should be “Songs that make you walk like Frank Lucas in American Gangster.” This album is calm, cool, and collected at all times. I believe you’ll enjoy vibing to the instrumental tracks on this EP just as much as you’ll enjoy rapping along to the hip hop. According to a spotlight article by off the cassette, Calimossa has family roots in Argentina, so the listener might pick up on some of his Latin influence as well. There’s something very satisfying about knowing the artist wrote, produced, and performed the entire album. Calimossa does it all here on Habaneros. 

Calimossa has just under 47k monthly listeners on Spotify - so tell all your hip hop friends you heard of them first! Since Habaneros, Calimossa has released an album (Honey Days) and a new 2021 single. Safe to say he’s here to stay.

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Flowers

TSHA

After just one listen, it's completely apparent why TSHA went with the title "Flowers" for her 2020 EP. Warm, fuzzy and exploding with happiness (that's what flowers do, right?). TSHA has exploded onto the UK music scene over the past year or two- and for good reason. Her production is rich and full of depth without being overbearing or too 'busy'. When vocals are added on tracks like "Change" they fit in neatly in between bass drum kicks and snare hits. They're effectively chopped up and looped without becoming repetitive. This type of alternative-electronic music that doesn't fit neatly into a genre is really easy to miss on but TSHA does the opposite of that with this homerun. 

TSHA cites Bonobo, Jon Hopkins and Four Tet as influences. Some of the most well respected in the world of electronic music. We're excited to see her reach similar heights as them. 

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The Bitter Truth

Evanescence

Let’s just get this out of the way, Amy Lee can hold a note like no other. If you remember the song “Bring Me To Life” off of Evanescence’s 2003 album Fallen, then you’re in the right place. You can’t recreate another Bring Me To Life, but Evanescence sure as hell put their best foot forward here in their brand new 2021 album The Bitter Truth. This is their first new album of original music in 9 years and it truly feels like they never left. Hit play on this album and let Amy Lee’s sweet voice lull you to sleep on their calmer, deeper tracks only to be abruptly awoken by the slamming of the drums, bass, and guitar emanating from the supporting members. The band has even re-invented themselves a bit starting to incorporate some new, unique sounds into their music such as clock ticking to complement their bad ass breakdowns. Welcome back, Evanescence.

Why listen to this album? If you’re not familiar with their 2003 album, Fallen, you may not know that the top 3 songs have 541, 321, and 158 million streams on Spotify respectively. Meaning, they were a pretty big deal (just about overnight) in the early 2000's. This album isn’t necessarily a comeback story, but a review by Kerrang highlights it really well…..“The last time Evanescence released a studio album, the idea of Donald Trump in The White House was just a low-hanging joke on The Simpsons. Bird flu was nothing anyone outside the immediate outbreak area should be too concerned about. A tour to support a record was a given, not a vague, movable wager.” Those were much different times and we all know how much an artist’s environment affects their art… therefore, The Bitter Truth is worth a listen whether or not you’ve heard of this band or not.

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