STACK #207 Jan 2022

MUSIC FEATURE

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and they bring up something that happened in the past – like how crazy we were and how lost we were – and I get this feeling in my stomach.” (Sony) ZKR Prince Welcome 2 America IN REVIEW “ Hot Summer boasts punchy percussion and a rhyming couplet that only Prince himself could convincingly deliver (“Just wait and see… Shoo-bee-doo-bee”), [and] during the Soul Asylum cover ( Stand Up And B Strong ), Prince‘s guitar solo further cements his virtuoso status... The musicianship on display throughout is

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6: Number of years between the release of Senjutsu and the band‘s previous album, 2015‘s #1-charting Book of Souls (the longest ever gap between two Iron Maiden albums) 23: Number of countries in which Senjutsu peaked at #1 Adele 30 IN REVIEW “The eagle has landed – and by ‘eagle‘, we mean the sublime triumph that is English musician Adele‘s fourth album, 30 . Inspired by divorce, motherhood, and the unblinking eye of the ever-present media, 30 is a supremely stirring

R Ü FUS DU SOL Surrender

IN CONVERSATION – JAMES HUNT ON PERFORMINGTRACKS FROM SURRENDER LIVE AT GOVERNOR‘S BALL “It was a really, really sick feeling being back up there [on stage]. It feels

breathtaking... We‘ll never really know whether Prince intended this shelved album for release, but, let‘s face it, even his works in progress reign supreme.” (Warner) BC

very surreal, it feels a bit dreamlike, ‘cos you forget what that feeling is like. You forget the experience of seeing thousands of people bouncing up and down. Especially after the year and a half we‘ve had, the gravity carried, with people being in a space together. I‘m just grateful to be able to do what we love again.” (Warner) ZKR Iron Maiden Senjutsu IN NUMBERS 17: Number of albums Iron Maiden have released, the first being their self-titled debut in 1980, and their 17th being Senjutsu 17: Number of Iron Maiden albums whose cover art has featured band mascot Eddie the Head (on Senjutsu , he appears as a samurai holding a katana)

achievement from the star with the cheeky accent and the

Luke Hemmings When Facing the Things We Turn Away From IN REVIEW

magnificent pipes.” (Sony) ZKR

Amy Shark Cry Forever IN CONVERSATION – ON HER PAST INFORMING HER SONGWRITING “Sometimes it‘s a curse, but I can really teleport myself to situations and conversations and experiences that I‘ve had like it happened yesterday. All it takes is for me to go home back to the Gold Coast, and I‘ll run into someone I haven‘t seen for ages,

“With his first steps into solo work, 5SOS lead singer Luke Hemmings offers a soothing reflection on heartbreak and healing, his voice melting

over harmonies while reaching to articulate his faults and trepidations. It‘s

impossible not to draw comparisons to the current,

blossoming crop of alt-pop: floating guitars at the forefront, rolling drums, and gentle nods to Fleetwood Mac throughout, from tambourine to lilting guitar.

It‘s music that belongs on a dark bar‘s jukebox at 2AM, when the drinks start to go to your head and you just want to sway to the beat.” (Sony) JP

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