He’s no longer the trolling provocateur he was a decade ago when he emerged with Odd Future, but he’s still intransigent and high-concept. Tyler, the Creator, ‘Call Me if You Get Lost’Ī life of luxury can’t mollify Tyler, the Creator. (Read our interview with Esperanza Spalding. But the songs are equally effective off-label they encompass meditations, serpentine jazz compositions, calm or turbulent improvisations, open-ended questions and sly bits of advice, the work of a graceful, perpetually questing mind. “Songwrights Apothecary Lab” was the bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding’s pandemic project she consulted neuroscientists, music therapists and ethnomusicologists to devise music for healing, and an online user’s guide prescribes the purpose of each song. Esperanza Spalding, ‘Songwrights Apothecary Lab’ (Read our review of “ Sour ” and watch her “ Diary of a Song.
Olivia Rodrigo, now 18, fixates on a breakup with an adolescent’s obsessiveness on “Sour,” building on the audience she found as a cast member in Disney’s “High School Musical.” With Taylor Swift as a role model for craftsmanship, her songs are as neatly detailed as they are wounded, and the production whipsaws through styles - calm piano ballad, ethereal choir harmonies, fierce distorted guitars - to match every mood swing.
And then, just to keep things unsettled, come passages filled with tenderness and wonderment, only to plunge back into the fray.
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The virtuosic British band Black Midi bristles in every direction: with jagged, skewed funk riffs with pointed dissonances with passages of Minimalistic, ominous suspense with lyrics full of bitter disillusion. She played all the instruments herself, scaling her sound up to arena size and chiming like U2, even as she refuses herself any excuses or forgiveness. “Beat myself until I’m bloody/And I’ll give you a ringside seat,” Julien Baker sings in one of the brave, ruthlessly self-indicting songs that fill “Little Oblivions,” an album about the toll of one person’s addictions on everyone around her.
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