Yes, even with a title like Cheeky for a Reason. The message: you can stick your chillwave, your extreme-noise hip hop and your operas about Elizabethan alchemists up your blogsphere. The View are popular for a reason. The new album title is ironic, though, because this is more of a grown-up View. With its wistful undertow and sombre guitars, The Clock is miles from the tinny rasp and slurred Dundee patois of early singles such as Wasted Little DJs.
Free of drums, guitar and bluster, Tacky Tattoo's sad-ballad poise is a defining closing statement and a fine showcase for Kyle Falconer's bruised, sandpapery vocal. It just needs to get you through another winter and another lonely season. I think it might just do that. Despite their former trendiness, or perhaps because of it, this is a markedly uncool album.
Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love.
Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists. A series of routine punky-pop exercises is occasionally salvaged by their spirit and winning way with melody Read Review.
Cat Power Covers. The Weeknd Dawn FM. Admittedly, The Weeknd is light years away from the sounds of Trilogy and a lot closer to the sounds of After Hours and Starboy, but one thing is for sure: this album is much closer to excellence than his last offerings Beats Per Minute. Bonobo Fragments. Spector Now Or Whenever. There are some real gems throughout, amongst some forgettable tracks. Overall, the record seems to lack some cohesion Vinyl Chapters.
With his fantastic fifth studio album, The Weeknd definitely sets the tone and bar high as we usher in a new year with plenty of new music on the horizon Albumism. With Dawn FM The Weeknd has demonstrated a vision that the vast majority of his peers would be incapable of, and has executed it with finesse and a slippery, enigmatic charm musicOMH. The down-tempo warmth, tasteful orchestrations and immaculate production are still a winning combination. Print edition only Uncut.
A richly downcast experience, his deft arrangements recalling the powerful, orchestrated cloudbursts of Curtis Mayfield's solo debut. Print edition only Mojo. Bonobo cranks up the club beats in his latest foray into wistful, cathartic electronica The Skinny.
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