Listen: Charli XCX, “Speed Drive”
Christine and the Queens: “To be honest”
On “To be honest,” Christine and the Queens scales a mountain of self-actualization, shedding earthly anxieties—heartbreak, gender dysphoria—as he ascends toward the pearly gates of enlightenment. Uplifted by swirling synths and angelic coos, he heralds a Franglais party in the clouds where vulnerabilities can be belted out and no shadow self goes without a toast. Lofty as it all sounds, “To be honest” is Chris’ easiest-to-love song in years; at its beatific apex, it practically glows from within. –Owen Myers
Listen: Christine and the Queens, “To be honest”
easyFun: ELECTRIC / ACOUSTIC EP
As PC Music prepared to close its books, longtime label affiliate and Charli XCX collaborator easyFun (aka Finn Keane) released this stereo pair of solo EPs showcasing his exuberantly overlapping takes on dance-pop, EDM, and pop-punk. His playfully outsized tracks indulge googly-eyed humor in full knowledge that it’s all been done before: The respective EPs open with electric and acoustic versions of music-production anthem “Audio” (“All I Ever Got”), but only the ACOUSTIC version sounds suspiciously like it’s about to play you “Wonderwall” (lol). –Anna Gaca
ELECTRIC EP: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
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Fever Ray: Radical Romantics
Trace the path of Karin Dreijer’s glinting scalpel as they dissect the many mutations of love. On Radical Romantics, the Swedish pop provocateur’s third album as Fever Ray, Dreijer digs around in the viscera of relationships, whether they be sexual, estranged, or familial. The thrust and surrender of Dreijer’s voice on “Shiver” mimics the thrill of desire as a squirming synth phrase boomerangs around them. Their silvery whisper on “New Utensils” gives a primal instruction: “Pull up a skirt/Grind the beasts.” On the menacing “Even It Out,” Dreijer takes a PTA meeting into their own hands, threatening a boy who once tormented their kid in school. Like the muck of emotions, these different strains of devotion are liable to bleed into each other without warning—sharp electronics stab into a trembling vocal, brutal lyrics spur a slick pop hook.
Dreijer—along with a cadre of co-producers including their brother Olof, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and batida beatmaker Nídia—injects Radical Romantics with textures that are as sticky as sex, and as crackly as stockings snagging on dry skin. Their register bounds between ecstatic highs and a subterranean timbre, with their most sumptuous delivery slinking through “Kandy.” The song deals with lust in its slumbering state: “Can you bring me back?” Dreijer sings, their voice coated in a downy, fungal film. Their attention to detail feels both clinical and human, as if Dreijer has discovered the exact vibrational frequency of a forlorn voice, and decided to paint it rather than punch in the formula. –Madison Bloom
Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!
The exclamation marks punctuating That! Feels Good! telegraph its spirit with lightning precision: Jessie Ware’s fifth album offers an enthusiastic celebration of pleasure. Deliberately avoiding the glassy surfaces that coated her previous work, Ware and producers James Ford and Stuart Price opt for an unabashed revival of the glory days of disco, eschewing electronic pulses for full-bodied arrangements that skew close to Chic’s classic thump. Although Ware sometimes sings with an obvious smirk—the litany of double entendres on “Shake the Bottle” flirts with camp—That! Feels Good! is the furthest thing from ironic pastiche. Its bright, bustling hedonism lives by the words Ware sings on “Free Yourself”: “If it feels so good, then don’t you stop.” –Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus
A little over a decade since getting her start with a DIY trip-hop tape, Kali Uchis has blossomed into a consummate Latin torch diva. Red Moon in Venus, the Colombian-American singer’s third album of sultry, bad-bitch anthems and emotive reflections on growth, sees her vamp, whistle-tone, and murmur sour-sweet nothings into a lover’s ear. This bilingual, slow-burning ode to self-empowerment offers a guide to healing a broken heart while staying pretty, perfumed, and a little petty. Uchis isn’t afraid to be cocky about it, either: Musing on her ex’s new boo, she sing-raps, “At the end of the day, she’d eat my pussy if I let her.” –E.R. Pulgar
Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
Kelela: Raven
Raven is an uneasy sound bath of an album where soothing, ambient club tunes mask bitter realizations that standing in your truth is often lonely and destabilizing. But Kelela doesn’t wallow in despair. It’s an open invitation to everyone who seeks refuge in the bumping bass and kinetic energy of grinding bodies, who are reeling from implosive friendship breakups and dodging calls from parents back home: Take off your shoes, hang up your coat, and vibe. –Heven Haile
Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Kylie Minogue: “Padam Padam”
“We don’t need to use our words,” Kylie Minogue reminds us near the end of “Padam Padam.” The Australian pop lifer has long been an expert at the non- or barely-verbal: the la la la of “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” the yeah yeah yeah of “All the Lovers.” And she just knew this heartless year called for more hearty onomatopoeia. Pumped up by producer Lostboy’s thumping bass and engorged whooshes, Kylie didn’t just give the gays and girlies a new pop standard, she gave us a secret code. We hear it and we know. Padam. –Jesse Dorris
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