Playing today:
Lorde, “Virgin”
Rufus Wainwright, “Unfollow the Rules”
The Divine Comedy, “Swallows and Amazons: The Original Piano Demos”
Dan Bern and the Remote Ramblers, “Shining”
Ben Folds, “Rockin’ the Suburbs”
Dan Mangan, “Robots vs. Indie Queens”
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Been a minute since I heard a Lorde album, and missed the last one entirely I think because it was never released on CD (or not at the time, at least). This one is very good - what I’d expect, maybe, from the continuation of Lorde but it’s okay to have a predictable sound if you’re good.
You can carry over the same thought to the Rufus CD as well.
The Divine Comedy disc is a little oddity, demos for a musical that itself never had a cast album.
The other two are EPs. The Dan Bern EP is a full-band set that was recorded in Fall 2020 with all parties remote (obviously). An old favorite on there in “Butterflies,” a song from the 1990s which gets its first studio recording here. A timely song about George Floyd.
The Mangan thing is a sampler of songs from his great release, “Nice, Nice, Very Nice.”
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