STACK #162 April 2018

MUSIC

REVIEWS

COMING UP

Here are a few bundles of joy you can expect from the music stork next month.

Leon Bridges Good Thing

Parkway Drive Reverence The gobsmacking success of Ire, the fifth album from Byron Bay metalcore group Parkway Drive, prompted the five-piece into a wildly fruitful two years of expansive writing; they promise that their

“I’m not saying I can hold a candle to any soul musician from the ’50s and ’60s,” 26-year-old Texan Leon Bridges says, “but I want to carry the torch.” Judging by the tracks he's so far released from sophomore album Good Thing (full of sweet strings,

sixth album Reverence is both more adventurous and more personal than its predecessor. More than a couple of fans are undoubtedly jonesing their jeans off to hear what that might sound like, and they'll get to on May 4 , via Unified.

inquisitively creeping basslines, back- up hollers, noodling electric guitars and all the laid-back sauce you want), he's got a firm grip on that bright flame. Good Thing is coming out May 4, via Sony. Courtney Barnett

Missy Higgins Solastalgia The title of Missy Higgins' fifth studio album means "existential distress caused by environmental change, such as mining or climate change." The nine-time ARIA Award winner will interpret that theme through her singular songwriting skills and instantly recognisable pipes, on her first album of originals in six years. Solastalgia comes out April 27 , via EMI.

Tell Me How You Really Feel Musical poet Courtney Barnett set herself a high bar with 2015 debut Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit : it won the AMP, the J Award for Album Of the Year, four ARIAs, and found Barnett crowned APRA's Songwriter Of the Year. We are psyched for her follow- up Tell Me HowYou Really Feel , out May 18 via Milk! Records.

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