The records to listen to in May 2023

It is one of the most anticipated pop albums of the year in terms of commercial results, with record stores open at midnight. It contains, as we explained in the digital cover, some of Ed Sheeran’s leanest and most essential songs, combined with the original chiaroscuro production by Aaron Dessner of the National and lyrics focused on tough themes.

Where does the sincere homage end and where does the kitsch cast begin? It’s the question that hangs over every Lemon Twigs album. The brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario are champions in evoking styles and atmospheres of the 60s and 70s, always saving themselves thanks to talent, irony and panache. Judging by pieces like corner of my eye And Every day is the worst day of my life the new album seems more oriented towards an always retro, but electro-acoustic style.

If you don’t know the American Roomful of Teeth, rough magic it might change your mind about what a vocal group is and what it can do. The rigor of contemporary music ensemble performances is combined with a remarkable breadth of references and the free and imaginative character of the compositions, including Psychedelics by William Brittelle e The Isle by Caroline Shaw, inspired by Storm of Shakespeare. Collected with style and imagination.

Sixth solo album in twelve years for the rapper from Foggia who returns with Stupid love following the success of the collaborative album with CoCo, Bromancefrom 2021. We expect love rhymes, emotional beats, heartbreaking pieces like the rapper has accustomed us to.

We have included it among the promises of 2023 in ours Class of 2023 also because this could be the year of the return of Italian pop-punk. He wanted to reiterate all this by placing a featuring with the champions of the genre, the Finleys. We will hear about him.

The regaz present it like this: «They wanted the hits. They wanted stadium concerts. They wanted another life on vacation. They wanted another first place on radio. They wanted a Sanremo every two years. They wanted a summer catchphrase. But we are not a war machine. We are not a market asset. We are not cut out for success. We are five friends who at times got into fights, just to remember that it’s not a race to be happy. They wanted so many things that we are not that we almost forgot who we are. Five suckers who really love people. (…) And a record after six years, without singles, and with a string of friends, to remind us who we are, who we were, and who we will be». Here a conversation with Lodo Guenzi and Vasco Brondi.

«The jazzcore era is coming» wrote the band on their social networks presenting the new work, WadiruM. The album was preceded by two singles Run, Puppets with Danno of Il Colle der Fomento e On love and other dark matters with Ghemon. «There are ten songs that tell the story of three months of stages around Italy and two of harmonies in the cellar»

Pyrex’s funeral was honored on video and now the former Dark Polo is reborn Dylan with the songs Razors And Rigor mortis. His first album Love Is War opens a new chapter. The trapper on the record said: «I was reborn fresher than before».

After the success of Fury the Iezzi sisters have packaged a new album that is not really a new album: it is more of a greatest hits in which their most famous songs have been revisited and sung with the participation of many artists, from Elodie to Cosmo via Max Pezzali, Jovanotti and Ana Mena. The track is no longer dark.

“A perfect record for dancing in these dark times”, we headlined a month and a half ago when Alison Goldfrapp told us about the record. «In dark times the need to express ourselves even more freely grows, to dance to escape from ourselves, to escape from what is not good. It is a primordial and instinctive need that the club world translates into a happy bubble made up of lights, dances and euphoria. With The Love Invention I reconnect to this world».

Haitian-born Canadian producer Kaytranada and American rapper Aminé have joined forces for Kaytraminé, their first collaborative project. The two began with 4EVA together with Pharrell Williams, a jazz rap song that bodes well for the whole project (the cover is that of the single).

Fifteen songs written or recorded in the city of New York between 1994 and 2010. This is the common theme Resound NYC. Between unpublished works and rearrangements, the list of featurings is rich and varied: Gregory Porter, Temper Trap, Rick Wilson, Amethyst Kiah, Marisha Wallace, Margo Timmins, Damien Jurado, Rick Wilson, PT Banks, OUM, Sarah Willis, Danielle Ponder, Elija Ponder, Lady Blackbird.

The duo composed by the Russell brothers was one of the revelations of made in UK electronics. Their rhythms mix breakbeat, trance, rave and 90s, with brilliant samples and a unique atmosphere. Their first album collects unreleased songs and songs already released in these first years of their career such as Good Lies, So U Kno, Calling Out.

After a six-year hiatus, the Jonas brothers returned in 2019 to prove to everyone that they were no longer the Disney kids. Now it’s the turn of The Album, according to them the disc that represents them the most: produced by Jon Bellion, the tracks have a 70s sound, sometimes funk, with declared inspirations to Bee Gees, Eagles, Earth Wind & Fire. The boys have grown up.

It is not a traditional collection of songs, but a 33-minute acoustic suite inspired by the Psalms of David and divided into seven movements. “It’s a discussion with myself about believing it or not,” said Paul Simon.

Is titled Gag Orderwhich we could translate as «obligation to remain silent», Kesha’s new album that returns three years after High Road. It was anticipated by two songs, Eat the acid And End Line, accompanied by an artwork depicting Kesha suffocated by a plastic bag. Reference to her affair with Dr. Luke, legally still not concluded. Forget the idea you have of her: the new record, produced by Rick Rubin, is dark, experimental, introspective. «An artist doesn’t exist to make others happy. An artist gives voice to emotions. The positive ones and inevitably the negative ones».

“I didn’t want to create a new sound or reinvent myself. The songs I wanted to write were emotional songs, about love and loss,” said Lewis Capaldi. The birth of the “difficult second album” is told in the documentary How I’m Feeling Now.

It’s not easy (but it never was, starting with that crazy idea of ​​making a record for every American state) to follow all of Sufjan Stevens’ releases. Between his solo project and various collaborative albums, Stevens has always been one of the most prolific and eclectic artists on the scene. The disc is the soundtrack of reflections, a ballet by Justin Peck commissioned by the Houston Ballet and written for two pianos and eleven dancers. The work is performed on the piano by Timo Andres and Conor Hanick.

«This is a very important record for the band», say Yes, with whom Joe Davison has been singing for about ten years, with a voice very similar to that of Jon Anderson. «We have maintained continuity in the approach that we have established on The Quest, but we didn’t repeat ourselves. Like Yes did in the 70s from album to album, we are growing and moving forward. They’ve already heard each other Cut from the Stars And All Connected.

A Better Life And Right Now are the first two excerpts from the new album by Graham Nash, 81 years old, with a glorious history behind him, back on tour at the end of the year. “It’s my most personal record,” Nash said.

With a title borrowed from Truffaut, Night effect is presented as a record in which “moments of euphoria and harmony alternate with moments of stalemate and second thoughts” with “a story and a common thread from beginning to end”.

Fourth album later Superbeat, Punk And Okay for the Roman singer-songwriter, who is thus preparing for his first concert at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome scheduled for June 9th. In the album, on which the artist worked for more than a year and a half, the collaboration with thasup stands out, in the tracklist together with Noyz Narcos and Fulminacci. “I hope it helps you fight all the fights you’re having,” he wrote on his Instagram profile.

A disc of originals after the two albums dedicated to Morricone. “We had a great desire to make our own music. The result is a series of musical journeys in which we have channeled all the artistic and human experiences lived up to now. As in Verne’s travels, imaginary and extraordinary, we explored distant places where we had never been but we also happened to return without realizing it to more familiar shores to discover them with new eyes».

After the critical acclaim of Collapsed in Sunbeamshis debut album of 2021, the London artist returns with My Soft Machine. We talked about it with her last January, discovering her «super happy» (also for her relationship with the artist Ashnikko) after a very dark period. “We don’t want to see life as it is. We want to see life as it is perceived inside this soft machine». soft machineprecisely.

American born in 2005, he came out with Romantic Homiciderecorded with his iPhone, and is considered one of the artists destined to emerge in 2023. Petals to Thorns is his first EP. In concert in June in Milan and Florence.

Anticipated by the video with Cate Blanchett of the title track and by Veronica Lakethe album is defined by Ron and Russell Mael as “as bold and uncompromising as what we did in our heyday and at any other point in our careers”.