STACK #182 Dec 2019

MUSIC NEWS

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EYES ON THE HORIZON COMING UP IN 2020 JANUARY 10 Georgia, Seeking Thrills (Domino) Kesha, High Road (RCA) Beach Slang, The Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City (Dew Process) 17 Gabrielle Aplin, Dear Happy (Never Fade) Halsey, Manic (EMI) Little Big Town, Nightfall (Capitol Nashville) Pet Shop Boys, Hotspot (Kobalt)

Wanna know what’s in the pipeline for 2020? Here’s a wee guide to the titles heading our way early next year.

31 Louis Tomlinson, Walls (Sony)

T he soundtracks for two of the most lauded recent events of the small and silver screens – HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl and the worldwide smash film Joker – were composed by Icelandic cellist (and multi-instrumentalist) Hildur Guðnadóttir. Guðnadóttir's approach to creation is unorthodox: for Chernobyl , she recorded environmental sounds in the disused Lithuanian power plant at which the series was filmed, later digitally twisting the waveforms she captured into eerie instrumentals. For Joker , much of the music was created before filming – so Joaquin Phoenix’s dramatic, snaking dances in the public bathroom and on the Bronx steps were filmed while the actor wore an earpiece, matching his movements to Hildur’s score (rather than the Dune Rats, Hurry Up And Wait (Dine Alone) Meghan Trainor, Treat Myself (Sony) FEBRUARY 7 Green Day, Father Of All… (Warner) La Roux, S upervision (Supercolour Records) Asgeir, Bury The Moon (Pod/Inertia) 14 Tame Impala, The Slow Rush (Island) 21 The 1975, Notes On A Conditional Form (Sony) Banoffee, Look At Us Now Dad (Dot Dash) Agnes Obel, Myopia (Deutsche Grammophon/ABC) Spinning Coin, Hyacinth (Domino) 28 Jeremy Neale, We Were Trying To Make It Out (Dot Dash/Remote Control)

Algiers, There Is No Year (Matador/Remote Control) Bombay Bicycle Club, Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (Caroline) Pinegrove, Marigold (Rough Trade/Remote Control) G. Love & Special Sauce, The Juice (Thirty Tigers/Caroline) 24 Sarah Mary Chadwick, Please Daddy (Rice Is Nice) Black Lips, Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart (Fire)

MARCH 14 LAUV, ~how I’m feeling~ (LAUV)

HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR other way around, as is usual). Immediate, creepingly immersive, and rich with the sweep

of full orchestral arrangements, these two soundtracks are astonishing feats of modern production from a superb new talent. ZKR

The original soundtracks for Chernobyl and Joker , both by Hildur Guðnadóttir, are out now via Deutsche Grammophon and Warner respectively.

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