STACK #207 Jan 2022

FEATURE MUSIC

The War on Drugs I Don‘t Live Here Anymore IN REVIEW

received for the 64th Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year (for debut single Drivers License ) 2: Rodrigo‘s ranking in the list of youngest musicians to be nominated within the four biggest general categories in the same Grammys ceremony (after Billie Eilish, who was 17 years old at the time of the 2020 Grammys; Rodrigo will be 18 at this year‘s ceremony) 3: Number of Spotify streaming records Drivers License broke in the first week of its release: two times for “daily streams for a non-holiday song” plus “first song in history to hit 80 million

“Consistently paced and meticulously produced, lead singer Adam Granduciel is never afraid to let a song meander to the close, to ebb and flow and allow the listener to become grounded in the song. It‘s Bob Dylan slow dancing with Mumford and Sons‘ later records, Springsteen singing Don Henley, a record for lazy summer nights where the humidity is high and the lights are low.” (Warner) JP

streams in 7 days” (Universal) Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage IN REVIEW

Tash Sultana Terra Firma IN CONVERSATION “I‘m not genre-based; I like everything. When I‘m writing – not particularly a song, but a piece of music for a record or EP – what I will do is brainstorm all of the sounds that I really love, and all of the effects and instruments that I really love, and that helps me build a soundscape. So I‘ll write things like, modulated Rhodes, tape delay, space echo, guitar doubling, or harmonised pitching. Horn section, string ensemble, legato, pizzicato. I‘ll write Middle Eastern strings, or Indian percussion. And I will try to execute those things across the record.” (Sony) ZKR Rag ‘ n ‘ Bone Man Life by Misadventure IN REVIEW “Warning: Avoid listening to Life By Misadventure in public places where bursting into tears may cause embarrassment... This set of songs was recorded like a live album in order

“Carnage‘s amorphous song structures and illustrative orchestration demonstrate glorious technicolour in full flight. Cave‘s menacing growl conjures voodoo magic; often his macabre, poetic delivery is the stuff of toddler nightmares. Ask Uncle Nick to

Ed Sheeran = IN NUMBERS 5: Number of #1 albums (on both UK and AUS charts) Ed Sheeran has

tell your kiddies a bedtime story at your own peril. By the time [ White Elephant‘s ] The Flaming Lips-level celebratory chorus kicks in – “A time

is coming/ A time is nigh/ For the kingdom/ In the sky…” (a recurring motif) – it sounds as jubilant as a carousel horse galloping to freedom.” (Goliath/AWAL) BC

released, as well as the total number of albums he has released 2: Number of tracks on = for

which Ed‘s older brother, Matthew Sheeran, arranged the strings ( First Times and The Joker and the Queen ) 1: Number of tracks on which Laurie Anderson – avant-garde artist, musician, and widow of the late Lou Reed – played viola ( First Times ) 23: Number of official charts around the world on which = reached #1 (Warner) Olivia Rodrigo Sour IN NUMBERS 6: Number of nominations Olivia Rodrigo

to tap into raw emotion, and his crestfallen timbre – delivering repeated, doleful phrases such as ‘I don‘t wanna fall in love again,‘ and ‘Don‘t that make you feel alone‘ – devastates; just when you think he‘s maxed-out on emotional heft, Rag‘n‘Bone Man unearths a hidden heartstring to pluck.” (Sony) BC

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