@@@ Kacy Hill: Like a Woman (UMG, 2017) Apple Music’s favorite new artist. The tune opens up with piano chords, a synth bass, and Hill’s slightly thin but sultry voice. I really like the bass part but unfortunately the lyrics and Hill’s voice are not convincing to my ears. I don’t like the finger snaps (in almost all musical situations) and the song never really erupts into anything, she just keeps asking what makes you make me feel like a woman? She rides that hook into the ground.
@@@ The OBGMs: Torpedo (Black Box, 2017) A punk single I got to via a publicist email. Even punks have publicists yo!!! It’s not poppy per se and there is an interesting hook in the verse, but the guitars are toned down a bit and this lines up more with the Strokes more than the Bad Brains. I like the outro and they have good energy. This is post 9/11 America so you can’t make too much of a mess, it’s not allowed.
YTD recordings listened to: 338
Good music, not recommended for purchase: 193
Not good music: 130
Buys: 5
Honorable Mentions: 2
Possibles: Chris McGregor, Retox, Defeater, Jonwayne, Okkyung Lee, The Ballantynes, Slidhr, The Chewers, Toxic Holocaust, Susie Iberra/Roberto Rodriguez, Lenguas Largas, The Coral, T.O.M.B., Lozen, Erase Errata, Mastery, Leviathan, Hartley C. White, Weed, Cold Water, Janelle Monae, Luther Dickinson, Graeme Barrett, Fast Asleep, Goldlink, Cavanaugh, Gentleman Surfer, Satoko Fuji, Moken, Juan Atkins, Drone, Lantern, Twin Peaks, Djelimady Tounkara, The Oh Sees, Denny Zeitlin, MILF, Unfun, De La Soul, Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes, Magrudergrind, A Tribe Called Quest, Noname, Gouge Away, Anna Hogberg, Klara Lewis, Aethenor, Krullur, The Lowest Form, Hard Proof, James Brandon Lewis, Yotoco, Jungle Fire, Sandoz, Power Trip, Reverend Payton, J.I.D., Oddisee, Forro in the Dark, RAM, Oumou Sangare, Fiver, Dona Onete, Succumb Succumb
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