On Tuesday Paper Club, Scotland’s Brògeal show you all the bands they can be. The way the quintet encounters sound is the way they encounter thirst. “And when you get fed up of the stout, move on to the wine!/ Join the Tuesday Paper Club, there’s solace in the news/ If that don’t quite cut it, there’s solace in the booze!” goes one boisterous line on the title track.
What’s the greatest rap crew of all time? There are a bunch of valid answers to that question. One of the leading candidates would have to be the Wu-Tang Clan, who just finished a triumphant farewell tour. Now, Wu-Tang mastermind RZA has turned his attention to one of the other greatest rap crews in history, the Juice Crew.
Lily Allen is a huge influence on the current generation of conversational, gleefully messy pop stars, but she hasn’t released any music of her own in a while. No Shame, her most recent album, came out back in 2018. But Allen has remained culturally present in different ways: Publishing a memoir, hosting a podcast, selling a vibrator, acting in big productions on London’s West End, defending the entire idea of nepo babies. Now, she’s finally ready to return with a new album.
It’s only been a week since we learned Haim were releasing a deluxe version of this year’s long-awaited I quit. Upon announcing the expanded LP, they shared one of three bonus tracks, a new Bon Iver collab called “Tie You Down.” The full deluxe is out today, which means we get two more new Haim songs.
The last time I saw Rancid, my favorite band of all time, I’m pretty sure Lars Fredricksen was wearing a Motörhead shirt. This was not a surprise. He wears Motörhead shirts all the time. He wore a Motörhead shirt on the back cover of Rancid’s 1994 classic Let’s Go, too, and that was his first album as a member of the band. Rancid bassist Matt Freeman has a side project, Charger, that’s pretty much entirely dedicated to sounding like Motörhead. If you’re putting together a Motörhead tribute record, you obviously need a contribution from Rancid. The producers of the new compilation Killed By Deaf obviously understand that, and they’ve got Rancid covering a relatively obscure Motörhead song.
The Maryland rapper and producer redveil is only 21, but he started off young, and he’s already racked up an impressive discography. Earlier this year, redveil released a couple of singles, “square one” and the Smino collab “brown sugar.” Today, redveil has another new single called “mini me,” and it takes him in a different aesthetic direction.
Tell me something. Answer truthfully. When you see the name Anna von Hausswolff, do you think “ecstatic, jazz-influenced nine-minute live-band dance odyssey”? I am asking this because I must admit that this description never once popped into my head. It didn’t even occur to me. You could give me one million tries to describe Anna von Hausswolff’s general vibe, and I wouldn’t land on that phrase once. Today, however, we get to hear Anna von Hausswolff’s ecstatic, jazz-influenced nine-minute live-band dance odyssey, and it’s fucking awesome.
On Halloween we’ll be graced by the 42nd Guided By Voices LP, which boasts the evocative title Thick, Rich And Delicious. The singles so far have also been well-named: “(You Can’t Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda” and “Phantasmagoric Upstarts.” This week we get a more simplistic phrase, “Lucy’s World,” but dang the song is good — one of my favorite GBV tracks in recent memory. Hear it below.
Early next year, Sunniva Lindgård, the Norwegian producer who records under the name Sassy 009, will release Dreamer+, which is apparently her first proper album after various mixtapes, EPs, and assorted remixes. It looks like it’s going to be a big deal. We’ve already heard the extremely sick lead single “Butterflies,” which was one of our favorite songs of the week. Now, Sassy 009 has a new single, and she’s got Blood Orange on this one.