Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Popīarnett may often get the “slacker rock’ label fixed on her, but the connotation there, as unintentional as I’m sure it usually is, is that her songs are easy or lazy. Check out the song “All In,” a slow-burning swank the grows in intensity and volume with every passing second.- Corbin ReiffĤ6. Lead singer Molly Sides can wail with the best of them, while Whitney Petty shreds guitar like an absolute demon. The group hails from the storied cradle of incredible rock music, Seattle – they even got Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready to lend his significant chops to one of the best songs on their self-titled album, a raucous track titled “Velvet Noose” – and with their debut, self-titled mark, have already notched one of the best new rock albums to come out of the city in years. If Thunderpussy haven’t been on your immediate radar quite yet, that’s fine, but you should seriously should take notice now. Thunderpussy, Thunderpussy Stardog Records/Republic Records Even in this well-established genre, Say Sue Me sound undeniably fresh and inspired.- Philip CosoresĤ7. It helps that this album can deftly oscillate between celebratory and melancholy, using familiar indie jangle to showcase remarkably sturdy songwriting. South Korea’s Say Sue Me may be the latest in a long line of C86 upstarts, but it’s a form that more than 30 years after emerging still finds room for young songwriters to explore yearning and loneliness. Say Sue Me, Where We Were Together Damnably Her latest is no different, but stick around for the phrases that over balmy forgiveness, despite it all.- Caitlin WhiteĤ8. A fantastic storyteller, Carlile is more often than not relaying a tale of heartbreak. For over a decade her poignant, gutwrenching pen has flooded the genre of country/folk/Americana with songs that bend these ancient forms to fit her own will. Brandi Carlile, By The Way I Forgive You Elektra Recordsīrandi Carlile is the kind of songwriter who makes you want to hold a song up to the light, and see what powers its inner workings the self-titled track on her latest effort carries the torch for a 2007 breakout stunner, “The Story,” both of which can devastate you with a single listen. Sometimes it works like on “Over And Over And Over,” “Respect Commander,” and “Why Walk A Dog.” Sometimes he misses the mark a little, like on “Ice Station Zebra” or the superfluous “Abulia And Akrasia.” That being said, it’s never disinteresting, and a massive upgrade over his last, yawn-inducing record Lazaretto.- Corbin ReiffĤ9. Instead, he enlisted some of the best touring hip-hop instrumentalists in the game, whipped on an Eddie Van Halen-series Wolfgang guitar and scoped out some of the more eclectic sounds gracing the airwaves in the 21st century. In 2018, Jack White could have easily dialed up the fuzz pedals, plastic guitars, and vintage amplifiers and made a record that gamely played to fans greatest expectations of what he should be doing. Jack White, Boarding House Reach Third Man Records In service of that mindset, here are the best albums of 2018 so far, may they afford you some small amount of courage or respite in a world that can feel increasingly chaotic.ĥ0. Most people who listen to music obsessively are using it to prop themselves up, to create a world that’s a little bit different than the one outside their headphones, to remind themselves not only of who they really are deep down, but also, who they want to be. Music has never been able to fix what’s wrong with the world, but sometimes it feels like it can fix what’s wrong with us, at least for that moment, for that day. Though it’s sometimes easy to get down about what’s happening on a global scale in the world around us, the minutia of an artist, an album, or a song can be a saving grace in our day-to-day lives.
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