The band’s emphasis on Greg Ahee’s dissonant guitar lines, and their play with different levels of loudness, results in songs that prize forward motion.The album fuses existentially oriented lyrics with ferocious guitars and frantic percussion that sustain a sense of anxiety.The album has the feel of a B-sides collection culled together as a cash-in on the rapper’s death.The Best Albums of 2020 (So Far)On her third album, the British singer-songwriter settles into a sense of immediacy.Goulding has tended toward painting co-dependence and submissiveness as causes for celebration. Daniel is a diehard Oakland Athletics fan, and will one day follow Metallica on tour.Good review. Danzig should at least did the song "Burning Love" on this album. Anyone would pale in comparison to the King so it’s best to avoid the automatic association, and his apparent connection to the songs absolutely helps.Replicating that sound had to be a conscious choice; it just doesn’t happen by itself anymore. Here, the Beths approach a relationship from a pained angle: “Love in memory is a plague that consumed me,” Stokes sings matter-of-factly. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. But the album gives the impression that Antonoff wasn’t sure how to engage fully with Maguire and Strayer’s exemplary skills with traditional acoustic instruments.A dark vision of the individual’s role in society is given voice by frontman Joe Casey on “Bridge & Crown”: “Everybody knows/We’re holding on to little dreams/To drive our bodies down the line/Until there’s nothing left.” The band’s catalog is strewn with such musings about life as a fulfillment of a disappointing fate, and they’ve perfected that obsession here. Songs like “Dying to Believe” and “Out of Sight” keep this energy going, with drummer Tristan Deck and bassist Benjamin Sinclair maintaining a brisk rhythm section as Stokes and Jonathan Pearce’s guitars shimmer, groove, and ignite in equal measure.The album’s closer, “Just Shy of Sure,” is lush and mellow, tinged with more sadness than its laidback demeanor might suggest.
But rather than rearranging the song to suit his voice, he just flattens off the note.
The special effects-heavy clip finds the singer climbing inside a dusty upright piano and into a moss-covered fantasy world, tinkling the ivories of an overflowing grand piano at the edge of a CGI waterfall.
She sings in first person, and the details she’s chosen to share are autobiographical, albeit presenting only her perspective.
The uptempo numbers, though, don’t fare as well. The songs here are a far cry from the seductive rockabilly of “I’m the One” or the haunted balladry of “Sistinas,” which nodded to Elvis while conjuring a world of Danzig’s own eerie invention.Review: Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande Drop “Rain on Me” Single and VideoThe album’s twinkling denouement, “Sour Flower,” depicts the metamorphosis that can occur after overcoming a breakup.
Album Review: Glenn Danzig – Danzig Sings Elvis June 8, 2020. That the album later includes a song with the title “Tights on My Boat,” though, lessens the mystique or possibility for interpretation or engagement.Review: Billie Eilish’s “My Future” Is an Unexpectedly Upbeat Tribute to IsolationThe purpose behind the album is unmistakably sincere, but the singer isn’t able to make the songs much his own.The album anticipates questions surrounding the singer’s genre bona fides and leans into each contradiction.Eilish gets even more animated in the music video for “My Future.” The clip, directed by Australian artist Andrew Onorato, is bathed in cool blue tones before a rainstorm gives way to a more colorful palette, matching the song’s shift in mood and tempo.
“Lonely Blue Boy” hardly has it at all and is likewise one of the most cohesive songs on the album. The languid verses of the album’s midtempo title track are set against a backdrop of sun-soaked harmonies, as Stokes describes a crumbling relationship: “If I don’t see your face tonight, well, I guess I’ll be fine.” The song’s chorus is more melancholic, with Stokes delivering lines like “I think I love you/And I think I loved you the whole time” with a wistful nostalgia.The album refines the singer’s sound, slowing tempos and removing sonic affectations to reveal a core of amorous pop anthems.Reportedly shot according to CDC-recommended Covid-19 safety guidelines and overseen by a medical expert, the video for “Cardigan” was directed by Swift, who also reportedly did her own hair, makeup, and styling.
He has even written songs for Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.