Vecka 14-15

John Andrews & The Yawns, sång nr 9

Här är den nya listan. Några känner ni igen från tidigare Poplistor, t.ex. de tre första nedan,

liksom Besnard Lakes och inte minst sång nr 10 med Mount Eerie. Just sång nr 10 är

ju värd att nämna lite mer om, dels för att Mount Eerie är totalsegraren på den första

Poplistan 2009 och dels för att denna sång (från albumet A Crow Looked At Me) liksom

Nick Caves hela album i höstas handlar om döden på ett mycket nära och personligt sätt.

Jag tvekade först inför om jag skulle ta med den på denna Poplista, men jag bestämde

ändå att alla borde höra och känna till denna skiva.

1. Real Estate (US) The New Jersey band captured the way that a few square miles can feel like the whole world, but also intensify feelings of isolation. Their softly woven guitars had never sounded more wistful, the perfect accompaniment to singer Martin Courtney’s ruminations of the divide between post-adolescent uncertainty and watching his life codify into an adulthood that millennials like him were never meant to achieve. Pitchfork

2. The Temples (UK) The Kettering quartet is back three years after the critically acclaimed Sun Structures. “Roman Godlike Man” takes us on a trip of psych infused rock possibly inspired by The Kinks. therevue.ca

3. First Aid Kit (SWE) have shared a new single called “You Are The Problem Here” in honor of International Women’s Day. The song is louder and harder-hitting than the Swedish folk-rockers’ usual fare, an angry condemnation of men who commit rape and sexual assault.  Stereogum

4. VENN (UK/GER) While the top end of European post punk is inhabited by mainstream, doom by numbers acts such as Editors or White Lies, bands such as VENN are given the space to go down a more creative route. In Runes, they’ve produced a thrilling debut which shapeshifts throughout. Over nine tracks, they use early 80s moody modernism as a template, but veer into other areas; at times they act much like a techno artist would, using monotony and layers of sound to paint the picture. thelinesofbestfit

5. Depeche Mode (UK) Spirit is Depeche Mode’s most pointedly topical album, but the synth giants still write universal, stadium-sized music. These songs make you feel like singing in response to today’s headlines. Pitchfork

6. R Stevie Moore, Jason Faulkner (US) At first glance the pairing of R. Stevie Moore (right), the Nashville born/New Jersey-residing DIY legend who over the past several decades has released literally hundreds of cassettes and Jason Falkner (left), the always brilliant, sometimes cranky, LA pop auteur behind Three O'Clock, Jellyfish and The Grays (with Jon Brion), a couple of great solo records.   stereophile.com/

7. Glow Kit (DK) Dannet i 2007 som følge af et soundtrack til zombie-film. Inspiration: Jay Reatard, The Zombies, The New Pornographers, Blur, The Beat, Bryan Adams, Professor Longhair  Facebook.

8. Besnard Lakes (CAN) Montreal psych quintet the Besnard Lakes are gearing up to The Besnard Lakes Are The Divine Wind EP early next year, which extends from last year’s A Coliseum Complex Museum sessions. An early taste of the two-track project comes in the mid-tempo, rhythmic gallop of “Laura Lee.” Warped atmospherics, thick layers of guitar, and intricate percussion swell underneath Olga Goreas’ hallowed vocals before beautiful harmonies come in and the energy picks up for a deftly layered crescendo. If “Laura Lee” is any indication, the forthcoming EP will be a quick clinic in hazy psychedelia. Listen.  Stereogum

9. John Andrews & The Yawns (US) I was a big fan of Quilt drummer John Andrews’ solo debut Bit By The Fang back in 2015, calling it “a brightly shining (if blurry) example of psychedelic saloon pop, replete with wobbly hallucinatory piano, sun-damaged jangle, and head-trip song titles.” Now Andrews and his backing band the Yawns are back with “Drivers,” the first single from an album called Bad Posture. The album was recorded at the former Pennsylvania resident’s new home, a farm house in Barrington, New Hampshire atop a hill Andrews dubbed Mt. Misery — thus the recordings boast a backwoods ambient quality befitting Woods, a group Andrews has played with in the past. Stereogum

10. Mount Eerie (US) On July 9, 2016, Geneviève Castrée — Phil Elverum’s wife, artist/musician, the mother to their daughter, and his 13-year companion — died from pancreatic cancer. A Crow Looked At Me is Phil’s open-letter tribute to her, an 11-song album that details loss and grief wearily and pensively, but with a clarity of mind. Tinymixtapes

Ni har som vanligt två veckor på er att lyssna och era poäng ska lämnas in senast

söndag 16 april. Här är länken.