Vecka 46-47

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1. Airbourne (AU)  have built their career on wrongfooting peoples’ expectations of them. With each new album comes a burning question: will they sound like AC/DC circa 1977 or AC/DC circa 1981? Or maybe they’ll just go completely crazy and shoot for AC/DC circa 1990?Cheap shot? Yep. Is anybody complaining? Nope, especially seeing as Angus Young and co themselves are currently MIA somewhere between Melbourne and Vancouver, up to god knows what. Ludersuound

2. Cigarettes After Sex (US) En riktigt nedsablande recension  från Pitchfork. Vad säger ni? Greg Gonzalez has a lovely voice and a convincingly atmospheric take on dream pop, neither of which is well served by his two-dimensional fantasies. It feels almost like a novelty these days for a dude to write an album entirely about being extremely horny. Men don’t make music about sex the way they used to. We are far past the epoch of Serge Gainsbourg writing pop songs that involved Jane Birkin or Brigitte Bardot mimicking the sounds of orgasm. People have more or less collectively agreed that rendering women as pure sex objects in music doesn’t need to happen so much anymore. Pitchfork

3. Jenny Hval (No)   (bild ovan)  Här är Pitchfork mer nöjda. The Norwegian artist brings her heady, personal text into the world of dance music to create an affecting, transcendental album that lives on the boundary of pop and the avant-garde. Inspired in part by Valie Export’s 1985 drama of the same name, The Practice of Love looks beyond traditional definitions of love; Hval seldom mentions romance, even of the conceptual sort. Pitchfork

4. Allah-Las (US) This means Allah-Las are even lonelier than the average garage-rock band, obsessively constructing jangly, seemingly simple mid-tempo pop songs in the studio like they're building grand pocket symphonies. The success of Allah-Las is that it doesn't seem like it was strained over; instead, it sounds like an effortlessly wistful batch of starry-eyed, minor-key beauties. Pitchfork 

5. Comet Gain (UK) Here comes the beat of the broken street… ‘respected and influential indie-pop veterans’ Comet Gain have been around since 1992.  Ged Babey can’t believe he has missed out on them, until now, when they release one of the most pissed-off and depressing works of genius this year. The Girl With The Melted Mind And Her Fear Of The Open Door is a beautiful title and an equally good piece of garage psych. Louderthanwar

6. Simon Joyner (US) One of the best-kept secrets of underground music, Omaha singer/songwriter Simon Joyner is your favorite musician's favorite musician. Consistently active and firmly independent since the early '90s,Throughout his discography, Joyner has consistently evoked Leonard Cohen's grim narratives, Dylan's flirtations with the surreal, and Townes Van Zandt's blue-collar storytelling. Combined with his own intricate lyrical perspectives, these influences are sharper on Pocket Moon. With Joyner, any album could be a great entry point, but Pocket Moon is easily one of his best. All Music

7. Lightning Dust (CAN) In 2007, Amber Webber and Joshua Wells of Black Mountain decided to try something new: render their band's old-school psychedelia into something less rugged and more soft-spoken, under the new name Lightning Dust. Twelve years and three albums later, Lightning Dust add a heartfelt and introspective album with Spectre, blending soft alt-rock with electronic ambience to explore deep-seated emotional concerns. Exclaim.ca

8. Therese Lithner (SWE)Umeå-via-Stockholm artist Therese Lithner made her debut as a solo artist in 2018 with her self-titled debut EP. The release, which included her debut single “Drown”, instantly made Therese one of the most promising new faces on the Swedish indie scene.The ‘Prints’ EP is a great introduction if you have not done so, at the very least, to find what all that merited fuss is indeed all about, as the EP does not disappoint. With elements of indie, electro, lo-fi and dream pop, that Therese Lithner above all delivers it all so well. withguitars.com

9. Avantgardet (SWE) Det mest fascinerande hur dessa fullblodskaraktärer vart de än drar fram lyckas göra fotbollsläktarfest av i grunden marginellt insmickrande socialrealism. Nationalteatern var möjligen ute efter något liknande men tog det såvitt det går bedöma härifrån inte lika långt.Det spelar ingen större roll vilken producent Nybro-klicken använt sig av på sin senaste levererade platta eller vilken sättning de råkar ha för stunden, som åhörare kan du alltid räkna med ett allomfattande röj det kan ta veckor att hämta sig ifrån.Avantgardet bänder och bökar, slirar och stökar, kommer emellanåt fel men träffar alltid rätt likafullt. SONIC

10. Vetiver (US)  (bild nedan) Up on High is much more than just a peck on the cheek. The undulating cadences promise more than simply embracing. But this is a more spiritual than a corporeal blossoming. Vetiver gets intimate by addressing one person at a time. This music is for dancing alone in one's mind rather than with a companion. We are each of us our own partner. We just have to remember all of the different selves we ever were that still exist in our current identity.George Harrison's solo work also seems to be an influence, especially on such tracks as "To Who Knows Where" with its Eastern inspirations via a slide guitar. PopMatters

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