Carrie Brownstein, meanwhile, emerged like a New Wave superheroine, amplified by producer Annie Clark of St. Vincent, a fellow guitar goddess who gave the music a chrome-plated, synth-powered sheen. Gunn's vocals are ethereal as are the harp flourishes that sew the song together (a nod to her longtime muse Florence Welch) but this time, it all bulldozes towards a bone-rattling chorus of biblical proportions. From the emergence of longtime Bowie collaborator Gail Ann Dorsey on the opening track, “You Had Your Soul With You,” the album continually subs out Berninger’s gruff baritone for female vocalists like Sharon Van Etten, Lisa Hannigan, and Kate Stables.
The LP may have marked the end of an era. But it was both a fitting capstone and an auspicious new chapter.Plus, get a limited-edition tote FREE. The shift yields some of the band’s strongest work to date.From ‘Lover’ to ‘Cuz I Love You,’ ‘Death Race to Love,’ and beyond, here are the records that defined the yearDrummer Janet Weiss’ sidelining and departure was the sad footnote to this set. ... Van Etten this time favoured synths and distorted guitars to muse on new motherhood, love and a complicated nostalgia for her youth. Subscribe now for more from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture.The National’s eighth album, like all National albums, takes a little while to reveal itself as, also like all National albums, a melancholic exercise in beauty and restraint centered on the mundane pleasures and devastations of middle-aged life in America. By Martine Ehrenclou. Every day my inbox overflows with music.
Since 1999 Muse have scored 22 hits on the UK's Official Singles Chart Top 40, four of which went Top 10. The band sounds as assured as ever, but it’s the addition of new voices — lead singer Matt Berninger seems happy to cede the spotlight — that shows they’re more than capable of evolution.
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Yet it saw one of America’s greatest rock bands remaking itself in thrilling ways. All Rights Reserved.In the heat of August, PVRIS dropped “Hallucinations,” the triumphant statement of an established electro-rock group realizing its pop instincts while maintaining the vicious edge that earned them a fervent fanbase throughout the 2010s.
Corin Tucker still brought the noise, paraphrasing Yeats on the title track in a bloodcurdling howl for a nation (and maybe a rock group, too). 10 Best Muse Songs.
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This is still PVRIS, after all, just bigger and better than you've ever heard them. to DaBaby's 'Baby on Baby.' Tweet. The space rock giants' greatest offerings. Frontwoman Lynn Gunn recently made the move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, sure, but don't expect sunshine.