Cults, Oberhofer, Puro Instinct--at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Abducted--New Cults

Starting in an echo chamber that our ears have learned to know as low-quality mp3s. "Abducted" multiplies open like a scene in a movie where the song plays first on the car radio before it plays in stereo. Lyrically repetitive and simple, yet emotionally genuine.

Cults - Abducted


Cults play Music Hall of Williamsburg tomorrow night for free. Their debut is out June 7.

Strangers

Summer reverb, we missed you.

Nearly identical in texture to Glasser's solo work, but lighter in melody. The child-ish vocal that samples throughout contributes to the airy, springtime ear sensations you're feeling.

John Talbot - Families (featuring Glasser)


Out May 9 on Young Turks.

In The Dark Places

PJ Harvey - In The Dark Places (play below) (buy)

A beautiful melody emphasized by simple high-hat taps. The dark lyrics and war stories of Let England Shake are balanced with piano and horns on standouts like "The Last Living Rose", but "In Dark Places" is the album's high point; where its landscape is drawn with textural guitar strums and spaced bass lines that Harvey moves through like a crow stepping through dark curtains.

All My Friends, Goodbye

"I was at a club not dancing, because I didn't dance. I was on ecstasy and I was peaking, and then the DJ played 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and I lost my marbles. But I also had a very important revelation, which was that the way I was feeling was actually me. It wasn't the drug. It was me." [Jess Harvell says:] In other words, he really needed to dance all along. It just took the right context and the right records to unlock that urge.

Reading Pitchfork's comprehensive look back and listening to all the records before we dance ourselves clean for the last time.




photos by yours truly.

Still Corners

Still Corners - Endless Summer (buy)