Muna - Dancing on the Wall - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Muna is magic. What other band could have stamped the forsaken year of 2021 with spangles and pom-poms - made you sing (and maybe even believe) that InchLife's so fun, life's so fun,Inch during what may well have been the most uneasy stretch of your life? InchSilk Chiffon,Inch Muna's instant-classic cult smash, featuring the band's new tag head Phoebe Bridgers, hit the gray skies of the pandemic's year-and-a-half mark like a double rainbow. Pitchfork called it a Inchswirl of stomach butterflies,Inch NPR a Inchqueerworm,Inch Rolling Stone Inchone of the year's sweetest melodies, radiating the kind of pure pop bliss so many bands go for but almost never get this right.Inch For Naomi McPherson, Muna's guitarist and producer, it was a Inchsong for kids to have their first gay kiss to.Inch And several thousand unhinged Twitter and TikTok memes bloomed. Katie Gavin, Muna's lead singer and songwriter, wrote InchSilk ChiffonInch right after finishing the band's 2019 album, Saves the World. That was an LP whose lead single began InchSo I heard the bad news/ Nobody likes me and I'm gonna die alone in my bedroom/ Looking at strangers on my telephone,Inch and which ended with a hypnotic, self-searching confession about failure and consolation. Since the beginning of their career, Muna has embraced pain as a bedrock of longing, a center of radical truth, a part of growing up, and an inherent factor of marginalized experience - the band's members belong to queer and minority communities, and play for these fellow-travelers above all. But in InchSilk Chiffon,Inch there was just longing, and it was blissfully requited at that. InchIt's kind of a smooth-brain song,Inch Gavin says. InchSaves the World was therapy on a record, and I was starting to see changes in my life, more moments of joy. It's a big deal that someone like me could write that smooth!Inch What makes the confetti-gun r

In 2006, Danger Mouse is King Midas of the music world. He has an uncanny knack for creating jagged, dense, frenzied beats and odd, eerie, vivid soundscapes that never compromise the music's natural flow. Meanwhile, rapper and singer Cee-Lo, a veteran of Atlanta's Dirty South scene, has never been one to be constrained by hip-hop conventions, and is a willing partner in adventure. The result is an intrepid psychedelic blend of pop, hip-hop, soul, and rock that consistently challenges and delights. It's no wonder that InchCrazy,Inch with it's modest riff, irresistible hook, and disarming opening line (InchI remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mindInch) became a worldwide Internet sensation a full six months before the official of St. Elsewhere. But that relatively simple soul-pop gem is the tamest track on this wide-ranging, often dark and introspective collaboration. (In fact, the duo considers Gnarls Barkley to be a wholly new creation, as opposed to a collaboration of existing artists.) InchEverybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves,Inch Cee-Lo croons on InchWho Cares?Inch He and Danger Mouse try very hard not to be their old selves as they creatively and confidently break down boundaries, but the brilliant cores of their musical personae-Cee-Lo's eccentric spiritual soul man and Danger's bold sonic explorer-remain. -Marc Greilsamer

JID - InchGod Does Like UglyInch. From the mind of Grammy-nominated rapper and performer, JID, his new studio album is a testament to prioritizing lyricism and artistry above all else. In a year where hip hop is championing the genre's most compelling storytellers, JID carries the torch for Southeast Atlanta, it's stories and people coming this summer. EXPLICIT