Ny poplista med spännande musik. Hela tre svenska akter, t.ex. den häftiga REIN. Se bilden.
Och så säger vi R.I. P. till Toots Hibbert, en av reggaens största, som dog i veckan och som samtidigt
har premiär på Poplistan.
1Rein (SWE) I många av de artiklar som skrivits om
electrodrottningen Rein har det berättat om hur hennes
pappa, italodisco-stjärnan Paul
Rein, tog med
henne på Kraftwerk-konsert i unga år. Än mer upprepad är
historien om när hon för första gången fick se favoritbandet Nitzer Ebb. Även detaljen att de brittiska EBM-legendarerna då,
med Kourtney Klein i sättningen, för första gången hade en kvinnlig
trummis.Nitzer Ebb är fortfarande en viktig referens när Rein nu, snart fem år
in i karriären, släpper första fullängdaren Reincarnated. Albumets tredje singel ”Bodyhammer”
är precis vad titeln antyder. En hommage till japanska kultrullen ”Tetsuo II:
Body Hammer” och en blytung bodystänkare på adrenalinnivå med husgudarnas
landmärke That Total Age (1987). Gaffa
2 Secret Machines (US) One of rock music’s former
Next Big Things returns with a propulsive, stream-lined album that has the
modest charm of fan service. If the concept of “krautrock, but with choruses” is
no longer novel in 2020, it’s at least fresh on Awake in the Brain Chamber—even as their vision of
planetarium-ready rock receded almost entirely from the public imagination, Now
Here is Nowhere maintained its cult appeal in large part because there really
hasn’t been anything remotely like it since. Pitchfork
3
Tricky, Marta (UK) After a string of misfires, the UK musician’s 14th
album translates unimaginable loss into some of his most darkly moving music in
years. Fall to Pieces, which contains some of the most darkly moving music that Tricky has
produced since that debut album, was produced in the shadow of tragedy.
Tricky’s daughter Mazy died in 2019 as he was beginning work on a new record.
Here, on his 14th studio album, he translates that unimaginable loss into
moments of nauseatingly raw emotion. “Hate This Pain,” one of the first songs
Tricky worked on after his daughter’s death, channels the sickening depth of
his loss into music of visceral simplicity. Pitchfork
4 Jim Bob ( US) His press release says these are brand new songs
written by a man who can’t escape being compared to Jim Bob from Carter The
Unstoppable Sex Machine… That’s because he is fuckin’ Jim Bob from Carter The
Unstoppable Sex Machine! Jo’s Got Papercuts starts with a classic chug and
crescends into a top as fuck chorus filled with pianos and cutting lyrics; “And
every day she’s doing her best to say sober, but people keep fucking her over”
Great stuff! Louderthanwar
5 Toots
& The Maytals (JAM) show off their pride for their native Jamaica in the
new animated music
video for “Got to Be Tough,” the group’s latest single. “Got to be tough when things get rough/You got to be tough and this is a
warning/You got to be smart, living in this time/It’s not so easy to carry on.”
Rolling Stone
OBS! Just I detta nu meddelas det att Toots har
avlidit. R.I.P.
6 Blues Pills (SWE)
Retro Swedish
soul-rockers Blues Pills continue to swing on third album, Holy Moly! Sometimes, it’s not about where you are, but where
you’re at. Even if, in the case of Swedish retro-rockers Blues
Pills, where you are is already rather covetable. To record the
follow-up to 2016’s magnificent Lady In Gold – an album which took them to
Number One in Germany – Elin Larsson and her be-flared band headed to Närke,
far out in the Swedish countryside, where they could freak out in (relative)
peace, in their own analogue studio, with no distractions, recorded by
guitarist Zack Anderson. But as idyllic as this sounds, on Holy Moly!, Blues
Pills are actually miles and decades away from where it was created. This is
actually the super-swinging sound of 1960s California, a sunny delight that
invokes the golden age of psychedelia, the Playboy Mansion party from Once Upon
A Time In Hollywood. Kerrang
7 Girls in Synthetis (UK) For anyone whose
been following their feverish rise since conception, the arrival of Girls in
Synthesis debut full-length album Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future, is
something to get excited about.
he title Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future, in itself is
loaded with postmodern suggestion. An echo, something which usually follows,
instead reverberating back. It is the perfect title. The influences are
apparent – the restless agit-prop of anarcho-punk and the nervous twitch of
many of post-punk’s finest. But it takes that foundation to make something
fresh, blasting backwards from a vortex of the future in a manner which feels
perfect for the current era. Louder than war
8 Heavy Feather (SWE) is a rock quartet
from Sweden. The album we have at hand is their debut effort, “Debris and Rubble” – an album that promises a raw and heavy riff-based
rock. Just by looking at the font style they used for their name on the album
artwork, you'll know they're old school. The album also has a bluesy
shade and some share of country sound, and those two elements are both present
in “Waited
All My Life”. The solo of this song is so
reminiscent of EAGLES’ “Midnight Flyer”. Metal-Temple’
9 Working
Mens Club (UK) Talking about
the track, Syd from the band said: “Valleys is probably the most honest song on the record and I guess sets a
premise for the rest of the album, growing up in a small town and trying to
escape. It was one of the last songs we finished, we couldn’t quite get the
right string sound despite layering up about 4 synths up then Ross brought in
his fixed LE string synth and it sounded perfect for the song.Heavenlyrecordings
10 Ulver (NOR) has gone through so many evolutions
that it hardly seems worth it to relitigate what genre they were at what point.
Lately, the group has found something of a niche within the realm of dark
synthpop, and their latest record, Flowers of Evil, sees the band grasping for a
natural conclusion to this exploration that seamlessly blends with the group’s
long past black metal days. Though pervasive, dark synths are the sound of the
record, there are also moments of levity that pierce through the darkness like
a ray of light through storm clouds. Both “Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers”
and “Apocalypse 1993” utilize bouncier synth sounds and engaging vocal
techniques to bring in a not insignificant bit of pop. Musicmxdwn
!. REIN 40 Tuffa syntar. Nästan 5:a, men lite tjatig.
SvaraRadera2. Secret Machines 4p Inte lika krautiga nuförtiden, men liknar istället Wire nu.
3. Tricky 5p När man vet vad som hände med Trickys dotter, så är det inte svårt att förstå hans jobbiga situation. Stark.
4. Jim Bob 4p New Wave a la 70-talet. Fint.
5. Tools & The Maytals 4p Dog under tiden jag förberedde listan. Ingen dålig slutpunkt för denne reggaelegendar.
6. Blue Pills 5p Överraskande bra. Bluesigt och svängigt. Vilken pipa tjejen som sjunger har.
7. Girls in Synthetis 5p Postpunk. Spretigt a la Gang of Four. Värt att följa detta gäng.
8. Heavy Feathers 4p Helt vanlig rock, men de gör det bra.
9. Working Mens Club 4p. Stunsigt, bra sång.
10. Ulver 4p
1. Rein 4p
SvaraRadera2. Secret Machines 4p
3. Tricky, Marta 3p (Jag vill egentligen inte sätta någon poäng alls här, det känns inte som det riktigt går med tanke på ämnet.)
4. Jim Bob 4p
5. Toots and the Maytals 3p
6. Blues Pills 3p
7. Girls in Synthesis 2p
8. Heavy Feather 2p
9. Working Men's Club 2p
10. Ulver 2p
SvaraRadera1. Rein 5p, så otroligt uppfriskande röjigt, till och med barnen gillade den
2. Secret Machines 4p
3. Tricky, Marta 4p
4. Jim Bob 4p
5. Toots and the Maytals 3p
6. Blues Pills 4p
7. Girls in Synthesis 2p
8. Heavy Feather 3p
9. Working Men's Club 2p
10. Ulver 2p
1. Rein 3p
SvaraRadera2. Secret Machines 4p
3. Tricky, Marta 2p
4. Jim Bob 3p
5. Toots and the Maytals 3p
6. Blues Pills 5p
7. Girls in Synthesis 2p
8. Heavy Feather 3p
9. Working Men's Club 2p
10. Ulver 4p