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Today at 5PM we'll be continuing our weekly livestream, where we can all hang, chat, and listen to these records together live. All that action will be going down in our Discord, so make sure to join the only email with an afterparty.
This week on the HiFi ↓
12 tracks you should know this week:
✝ ✝ ✝ (Crosses) - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. (LP)
“What a comeback from Crosses. As a fan of both Deftones and The Cure, it’s pretty special to see Robert Smith featured toward the end – especially since I recently discovered Deftones’ cover of ‘If Only Tonight We Could Sleep?’ The track ‘Big Youth’ also sticks out.” -Jai, Content
poptropicaslutz! - Wind Back
“new poptropicazultz album is the magnum opus of hyperpunk. this track is like if panic! at the disco listened to 100 gecs” -Payton, Intern
Shallowhalo - Decision of a Flower
“Shallowhalo might be my fave band coming out of the much talked about dime square / downtown/ indie sleaze landscape” -Mo, Marketing
Strange Ranger - Pure Music (LP)
“i know this album came out in july but really feels autumnal to me” -Mika, Marketing
⮑Harrison - Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees (LP)
“Feeling Mika on the Autumnal album drop! Here’s mine on repeat right now” -Nabila, Community Care
ELIZA - Lava/Treacle (Live at RAK)
“you know ELIZA is amazing when her live version is even better than the studio. everything about this track feels like soul food.” -Corey, Intern
Troye Sivan - Silly
“really love troy’s new album”
⮑Caroline Polacheck - Dang
“also living for Caroline Polachek’s new single” -bojeung via discord
Afriqua - OBJCT FNTSY
-Mia, Socials
Cosmic Gate - The Truth 2.0
-braindeaddev via discord
IDLES, LCD Soundsystem - Dancer
-mike5701 via discord
⮑"huge day to be my dad” -Sophia, Marketing
Hudson Mohawke, Nikki Nair - Long Ago
-allcreux via discord
this track is like if panic! at the disco listened to 100 gecs.
Scene-scapes ↓
Cosmic Americana
by Sophia
“You can call it rock and roll – or you can call it country music. I just don’t like the label country-rock,” claimed Gram Parsons in his final interview. Before his death at the age of 26, Parsons released the solo album “GP” and was a member of The Byrds, The International Submarine Band and The Flying Burrito Brothers. However, arguably the defining album in the Cosmic American scope was his post-mortem record “Return of the Grievous Angel”. A synthesis of country, folk, rock, blues, gospel, and beyond: Cosmic Americana was the conciliator between the hippies and the outlaws. While it’s sonically imprinted in the 1960s/70s, the genre has never left the zeitgeist, fed by label compilations and refreshed by the current country renaissance. The lucidity of traditional country lyrics imbued with “cosmic” – cutting edge, transmuted instrumentation traces the scene. Put on your Nudie Suit and check out some of the best steelers, pickers and cowboys:
Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel
Link Wray - Black River Swamp
Billy Swan - Don’t Be Cruel
Townes Van Zandt - Hunger Child Blues
Robert Lester Folsom - See You Later, I’m Gone
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Seeds And Stems (Again)
Dougie Poole - Vaping on the Job
Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down
Put on your Nudie Suit and check out some of the best steelers, pickers and cowboys.
Curated Playlist ↓
1tbsp is the latest project of electronic music shapeshifter Maxwell Byrne, AKA Golden Vessel – this week he presents a jittery and eclectic selection of dance cuts you might find at his Halloween set later this month.
