Fluxblog

Miley Cyrus featuring Model/Actriz “Different Religion” Miley Cyrus isn’t consistent, and that her charm.

No.006 “u1ch.ing2m.ao4y.en4ch.ao3z” The only thing I know about No.006 is that it’s apparently a Chinese woman named Huang Hanqiu, but I’m not even certain about that.

FKJ featuring Eryn Allen Kane “I Want U” Years ago my friend Sean T.

daisy* “Sunbleach” The glitchy hook of “Sunbleach” is so melodic and mesmerizing that it took me several listens to notice that the lyrics are just the artist introducing herself and telling you how to spell her name, including the * after the y.

Erykah Badu & The Alchemist “Love Me Not” “Love Me Not” is a song that is in large part about waxing your bush and ends with a skit in which Erykah Badu endures a particularly painful waxing appointment, but there’s a lot more going on in the song besides…

Chinese American Bear “Dance Dance Dance (跳舞跳舞跳舞)” This song could have stayed in ESG/Liquid Liquid post-punk funk minimalism mode and I would’ve been happy.

After Louise “Crybaby” I don’t love directly comparing new artists to artists who’ve been around a while.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Level 5” I’ve noticed that when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard make their most radical genre shifts, like their album-length forays into metal and electronic music, they stick closer to their recurring lyrical obses…

Jungle “Where Are You Now“ Jungle default to making music that sounds like paradise.

Charli XCX “Camera” The aesthetic premise of Music, Fashion, Film is basically “pop-punk, but aesthetically interesting.”

Sam and Louise Sullivan “Love & Devotion” “Love and Devotion” is a lovely, laid back, and agreeable song about being in love, but it’s written from a somewhat contrarian point of view.

Beabadoobee “Switchblade” A lot of Gen Z approximations of Gen X rock sounds rather flat to my ears – all the expected signifiers of various alt sub-genres cut and pasted in, but not much depth or dynamics.

Kelela “Point Blank” “Point Blank” is a breakup song in medias res, and listening to the lyrics can feel like overhearing an argument in passing and trying to sort out the details on the fly.

CFCF featuring Touching Ice & TECHG1RLS “Let’s Kill Ourselves” Don’t let the title freak you out.

Ratboys “Light Night Mountains All That” There’s no proper chorus in “Light Night Mountains All That,” but there is a hooky refrain: “You didn’t care, you didn’t care, you didn’t care.”

Madonna “Danceteria” Madonna has spent much of the past 20 years artistically lost at sea, attempting to navigate a unique set of circumstances – trying to stay vital and relevant in the pop market in her 50s and 60s, attempting to live up to her own past…

Earthgirl “Lovesick Lobotomy” Limerence is a relatively new word.

Squarepusher “K10 Terminus” I’ve been thinking about how so many of the people we’ve been calling “electronic” producers and artists since the 90s really should’ve been classified as composers from the start.

The Field “Another Day” “Another Day” is an anomaly in The Field’s catalog: A track with a fully intelligible vocal part; the closest thing to a proper pop song in Axel Willner’s body of work.

No Joy “Big Life Big Leaf” “Big Life Big Leaf” is a song that’s largely concerned with aging, death, and inevitable natural cycles, but it’s not a downer.

Olivia Rodrigo “Expectations” “Expectations” is the result of a songwriting dream team at the height of their powers: an A+ melody from pop topline queen Amy Allen, a typically bold structure and meticulous arrangement by Dan Nigro, and the lyrical POV and

Tomora “Ring the Alarm” Tomora is a collaboration between the Norwegian indie pop singer Aurora and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers.

Interpol “This Mirror Weighs A Ton” Interpol is a band that works within very narrow aesthetic constraints, so the most exciting thing they can do 25 years into their career is move to the outer boundaries of their style.

Boards of Canada “Father and Son” This is my best attempt to summarize the themes of Boards of Canada’s fifth full-length album Inferno after less than a week of obsessive listening: It’s broadly about how most people can sense the existence of some sort…