Records to listen to in August 2024

After Atumlast year's three-year rock opera, Billy Corgan's band returns with 10 tracks to be listened to “as a single 45-minute opera”. It's the first with Kiki Wong on guitar.

With the second single DanceMonkey broke pretty much every record that could be broken. It was 2019. Now the Australian Tones and I is back with her second album in which she “explores personal growth and the search for peace”. “The brightest songs have the saddest stories”, she says. Because you can dance even with a broken heart.

This month rounds out the list of collaborations Orville Peck has gathered for his new album. The masked country star has worked with names ranging from Willie Nelson to Kylie Minogue, and this time it's time to find out what he's been up to with Beck, Margo Price, Mickey Guyton Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, Debbii Dawson, Teddy Swims and more. For a summer of rodeo.

It is the last album in every sense of the band of Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebrake who will say goodbye to their audience with a tour. The album is announced as a “lap of honor” that opens with Big Black Xa reflection on their journey.

A tribute to the African-American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) on the centenary of his birth, which Meshell Ndegeocello has been working on for some time. It is presented as “a musical experience, a mass, a celebration, a testimony and a call to arms”.

It's not for everyone to announce the new album with a duet with Bruce Springsteen. Joe Ely did it, the song came out in May and is called Odds of the Blues. The album collects songs inspired by the life on the road of this cult rocker who has been around for over half a century.

After the work Iphigenia written with Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding collaborates with another great old man of music, the Brazilian Milton Nascimento, who she has known and collaborated with for about fifteen years. In the repertoire, reinterpretations of pieces by Nascimento, originals written by Spalding, covers of A Day in the Life of the Beatles and Earth Song by Michael Jackson. Two songs have already been released: Outubro And A wind passed with Paul Simon.

It's the former Rolling Stones bassist's first album since 2015, a collection of original songs including the title track (not the Beatles') and a few covers, from Bob Dylan (Thunder on the Mountain) to John Prine (Ain't Hurtin' Nobody). But the biggest influence, Wyman says, is JJ Cale with his laid-back groove. “The friends I've played it to say it sounds like me and that makes me happy. I've never tried to be someone else.”

New album (their 26th, apparently), new style. No hard guitars, no psychedelic madness and not even prog echoes. This time the band takes a different path, a style like the old Rolling Stones, but with a southern twist. Those who have listened to it have also mentioned Primal Scream. For now, they have listened to Hog Calling Contest And The Risk.

There is no summer without the rhythm of J Balvin. And so the Colombian reggaetonero has decided to up the ante and instead of just one single for this August he places an entire album. Naturally inside a billion featuring, from Bad Gyal to Chenco Corleone, from Saiko to Luar La L. It's already hot.

A year later Austinreleased last year and also in the summer, Post Malone returns with his sixth studio album. Anticipated by I Had Some Help with Morgan Wallen and Pour Me a Drink with Blake Shelton, F-1 Trillion fits into an American trend that is very popular now. The New York musician, in fact, has turned to country.

Third album for the British singer-songwriter of Filipino origin. This Is How Tomorrow Movesproduced by Rick Rubin, was preceded by the single Take a Biteall melodic guitars under the delicate voice of the singer-songwriter. Writing songs is a way, she says, to “vomit emotions.” We can't wait to hear them all.

After nailing the first single, Nasty, Tinashe takes advantage of her momentum and releases the second album of her announced trilogy that began last year with BB/ANG3L. The former Stunners tries the big leap.

Judging from the first excerpts, Starburst And favouritethe fourth album by the Irish could be the one that marks the turning point towards an even broader and more popular form of pop-rock. «We've always had this sense of idealism and romanticism. Each album moves further and further away from looking at this through the lens of Ireland: in Dogrel was direct, the second album is about that separation, while the third is about Irishness in the diaspora. Now let's try to understand where and what else there is to be romantic about.” Grian Chatten says he is “fascinated by this theme: falling in love at the end of the world. The album is about protecting that little flame. The closer you get to the catastrophe, the more precious it becomes.”

A collection of songs that wouldn't fit into an album, the least concept of all concepts. This is how Motorpsycho presented this album, which is the other side of Yay! released last year. “But more than anything else, it's a collection of pieces that we're happy with.” There's also the cover of All My Life (I Love You) by Skip Spence.

It has yet to be released, but we can already tell you that it will be one of the best-selling albums of this season in the United States. You don't need a crystal ball, just look at the results of the singles Expressed And Please, Please, Please. Sabrina is the new phenomenon of American pop, not global. Very blonde, Taylor Swift's protégé, she has managed to carve out her own space over the years, taking everything. This album will be her consecration.

It is the story of the last flight of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who died in 1937. Anderson is accompanied by the Filharmonie Brno as well as Anohni, Rob Moose, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota and others. The lyrics are inspired by “her pilot's diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband and my idea of ​​what a woman flying around the world might think.” The play premiered in 2000. A taste: Road to Mandalay.

It's the album recorded by the former Yes singer with the band he recruited to take '70s repertoire around America. “It was like being back in the '70s, when I suggested ideas to the guys and they, being musicians, developed them,” Anderson said in this interview.

“I hope the album has the same effect on listeners as it did on me,” Nick Cave said. “It explodes out of the speaker and I’m swept away. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyfully infectious. There’s never a master plan when we make a record. Records are more of a reflection of the emotional state of the writers and the musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, we sound happy.”

Primordial energy, spiritual liberation ceremonies, the hero's journey. These are some of the elements with which the British composer has described Ritualhis next 41-minute electronic symphony consisting of eight sections. Again in his words, Ritual is the kinetic counterpart of his latest work, Music for Psychedelic Therapyan album designed to accompany the curatorial psychedelic experiences born during the pandemic.

Before The bomb (it's not the jargon of an overexcited music journalist, it's the title), then Don't Change they previewed the new album from the instrumental quartet that is trying to make surf and garage rock cool again, this time with a little more '80s flair. “We are all fans of the pop culture of that decade. It's the era that we collectively want to live in, but in the present, for the nightlife, the music, the fashion.”

The Dream Syndicate leader's first solo album in 15 years will be accompanied on the same day by the publication of his autobiography I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True. The album and book were written at the same time, so it’s expected to be a very personal work. Guests include Mike Mills (REM) and Vicki Peterson (Bangles).

After the breakup in 2012, Luchè and Nto put aside their differences and reform Co'Sang. In the golden age of rap in Naples (see Geolier) the founders of the genre return to set the record straight. And what a dynasty it is.

The leader of Sigur Rós arrives at his fourth album. An album «written for a video game in a time of global turmoil and man-made turmoil» in which a «fantastic, exaggerated, utopian world» is imagined. All in Jónsi style.

After announcing it on Twitter, A$AP has limited all communication about what is supposed to be his fourth studio album. Rumor has it that it could feature Rihanna and Morrissey. From Testing A lot of time has passed since 2018, is it really time for a comeback?