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By Wednesday
The anger, sadness, and sick humor of a fresh breakup all exist in Bleeds. MJ Lenderman and Karly Hartzman find themselves in an uncommon predicament— it’s complicated, ever-changing, almost comical. The album is direct in its storytelling, yet the emotions behind the songs are inconsistent and complicated. Sometimes the pain manifests in burning hot anger like on “Wasp,” and sometimes it’s approached with a smirk like on “Phish Pepsi.”
No matter how it’s communicated, it results in an album that is oozing with humanity in every lyric. Whether Hartzman is screaming into your ear or delivering a gut punching lament, Bleeds has a core charm and authenticity that ties each song together.
By FKA twigs
Few artists are able to embody their art as wholly as FKA twigs. In a way, she feels a bit like a living piece of art; someone who has “fully customized their character” so to speak. Nowhere is this more apparent than on her fourth album, EUSEUXA, where she crafts a sensual and otherworldly soundscape unlike anything released this year. EUSEXUA is a hot rave on a Saturday night, the brush of a shoulder on a dance floor; it personifies intimacy and euphoric connection through electronic music. Through her avant-garde sound and utterly hypnotizing performance style, twigs is able to build a whole world around this one word.
By Momma
Welcome to My Blue Sky is one of the most honest albums of the year. Momma lays it all out on the table, giving the listener an intensely vulnerable look into the not so squeaky-clean pasts of its two founding members. Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten own up to their history of cheating through a series of addictive indie-rock hits that encapsulate the painful reality of betraying your partner; songs so catchy that, sometimes, you might forget what you’re singing along to.
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