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), theres a sound here for everyone.
Westside Bound Pt.
4 is a joyous homecoming to the Chicago neighborhood where he grew up.
Carti is mostly talking nonsense throughout, but no one comes to this music for clear narratives.
Were here for creaky vocals, twitchy production, and general mayhem.
This is the breakout pop singer-songwriters take on the music she grew up around in southwestern Missouri.
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The title track off his second full-length pairs a deceptively tricky piano riff and solo with some devastating couplets.
Orion cries out from the black, the melancholy season is upon us.
But Jennies talent shines brightest on the featureless adrenaline boost of Like Jennie.
J.C.
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But Semones is too wily of a musician to let that ride for the entire song.
Few artists could pull off such hairpin pivots, but for Semones, this is business as usual.
Im going to do this the way I want to do it, she sings.
A.S.
Fun Times, Marie Davidson
You wanna know how I get away with everything?
Marie Davidson teased on her stellar 2018 single Work It.
I work all the fucking time.
Shes still honing her craft years later.
Shed rather spend it dancing.
The daughter comes home, of course, but Whitters leaves her fate more open-ended.
Still somewhere in between, she sings in the bridge with a smirk.
Youre inside that mask of yours / Take it off and let it show.
But the blaring guitars and Warped Tourready Yeah-yeahee-yeah!
hook that open Teethsucker (Yea3x) make a convincing case on their own.
Gone is the glitchy anxiety of his 2019 album,i,i.
And I know that we may go and change someday, Vernon sings.
I couldnt rightly say / Thats for parting days.
Hed rather stay in the moment, and it sounds serene.
Good to have you back, sir, whereve you been?
asks Yorke, like hes been bartending for ghosts at the Overlook.
On Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World, though, the singer takes on life wide-eyed.
And he narrates it all over a radiant burst of synths with la-la-las in the background.
Really, hes still no optimist, but hes found freedom in some acceptance.
A.S.
Rabbitbrush 2, A.L.
West turns his pretty but rote acoustic yarn from 2023 into a thudding stomper of a sequel.
I have already added this to my things to see played live in 2025 list.
Unrequited love couldnt sound more satisfying.
From the opening lines, McRae knows what she wants.
Hey cute jeans / Take mine off me, she purrs.
What if we only talk / About what we want and cannot have?
A.S.
Switch Over, Horsegirl
Its great to have Horsegirl back.
but that makes decoding it half the fun.
This joyous drinking song begins with pep before slowing down and giving the musicians room to stretch out.
Thats the island as Benito hears it.
J.C.
