Vecka 38-39

När jag för några dagar sedan gjort en ny preliminär poplista, så visade sig att de tio sångerna var från liknande genrer, mest fluffig pop och många singer-songwriters. Inget fel i det, men det blev lite för lika, så jag ändrade om en del och fick till en mer spännande och utmanande mix.

1. Ursut (SWE)  Listan börjar med en rivstart. Hardcorepunk från detta malmöband. This album is killer: 10 songs of crusty, metallic, d-beat glory that wallop you in the face and leave you asking for more! In typical, crust punk fashion, Köp Dig Lycklig contains multiple vocals, metallic guitars and minimalized drumming, which makes its lyrical delivery of capitalism, neo-liberalism, power structures and social stigma all the more pulverizing. Slugmag.com

2. Wilco (US) Wilco's 10th album is a largely acoustic affair laden with sweet melodies, autumnal production, and childhood memories that stop just short of nostalgic. Pitchfork

3. Teenage Fanclub (SCO) Skotska powerpoparna får en ny chans med ett spår från nya albumet Here.

4. Preoccupations (US) Nytt album med bandet som tidigare hette Vietcong. There’s the bridge on “Stimulation” where the music dies down and Flegel sings, “There’s nothing you can do because / We’re all dumb inside / All dead inside / All gonna die.” Put it this way, Flegel’s vocals take after Syd Barrett, but his lyrics adopt the annoying nihilism of Roger Waters, but even more exaggerated. Post-punkies do love their death and decay, don’t they? Prettymuchamazing.com

5. Jamie T (US) With each release, though, the singer-rapper-guitarist-producer-songwriter grows more impressive. Trick takes a little from all three and re-establishes Jamie T as a one-man genre, even when he’s paying loud homage to influences such as the Clash and Blur. Police Tapes ends with Treays viciously spitting: “I never felt so low” repeatedly over a meaty hunk of PiL-ish metallic dub-rock.The Guardian

6. Madness (UK) After a three-year hiatus, Madness are back with a new single, Mr Apples. Telegraph.co.uk

7. Drive-by-truckers (US) "Filthy and Fried," the first official single from the group's forthcoming studio album American Band. An aggressive, politically-charged collection of songs, American Band spends a portion of its time addressing gun violence and race relations. But "Filthy and Fried" – written by Mike Cooley – is a soft-spoken personal tale that traces changing gender roles, youth and parenthood. Rollingstone.com

8. The Head & The Heart (US)  reinforce their sunny pop tendencies on “Signs of Light,” all but leaving their Seattle folk roots behind, in sounds if not themes. The band’s third album retains the ace harmonies and has a bunch of good songs, but too many coats of glossy production make them sound, for the first time, like too many other bands. Nothing that can’t be remedied with a little sandpaper and turpentine. Washingtonpost.com

9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (UK)  One More Time With Feeling, a film about both his new album and the death of his teenage son Arthur in 2015, Nick Cave gently counsels against linking the contents of the former too closely with the latter. He points out that most of the lyrics were written prior to his son’s death, that he was too stricken to write anything worthwhile in the aftermath. The Guardian.com

10. King Creosote (SCO)   Det är lätt att beskriva Kenny Anderson så att han verkar trevlig men halvintressant, en gör-det-själv-entreprenör från den östskotska vischan som gillar tokroliga artistnamn och ger ut skivor så småskaligt och ofta att man behöver bo granne med honom för att ha full koll.”Astronaut meets appleman” är inte lika sammanhållen, den spretar lite hit och dit mellan säckpipor och stråkar, bebisbabbel och en gnutta elektronik. Men åtminstone hälften av låtarna håller hela vägen och rösten i sig är nog för att lyfta resten. DN.se

Två veckors lyssnande som vanligt. Söndag den 2 oktober ska ni senast lämna era röster. Här är länken.