STACK #133 Nov 2016

MUSIC

ED’s JAMS

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BEACH HOUSE THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS

I t’s hard to imagine a more suitable title for this album. Beach House fans (greeted by the news of a surprise album) are definitely thanking their lucky stars for this musical gift. Less than two months since the release of Depression Cherry , Beach House surprised everyone with another nine songs, a complete album. Thank Your Lucky Stars sounds beautifully familiar - the crystalline pop melodies, subdued shoegaze textures and vocal performances are unmistakable, but the overall mood is slightly different, perhaps darker, quieter, haunted. On its own the LP is a welcome addition to Beach House’s impeccable catalogue, and as a companion to Depression Cherry it’s a melancholic progression to twilight from the previous record’s vibrant light of day. (Sub Pop/Mistletone) Simon Winkler

JOANNA NEWSOM DIVERS

L ike a stimulative tonic, Joanna Newsom’s fourth full-length album Divers prompts both soft introspection and wild fancies; it looks for answers to love’s questions in all manner of hidey- holes and vistas without ever wandering so far that Newsom gets lost – an enormous feat, considering the turf she traverses. While medieval clavichords are softened by jangling Americana guitar and gentle rimshots in Leaving The City , Goose Eggs sees tom-booming drums fling themselves forward

instruments are all doing their own discrete things, they frolick together; Newsom and her arrangers are able to arouse them into living characters like creatures in a Miyazaki film or Peter And The Wolf , and they’re all playing this ring-a-rosy with the artist’s voice. Newsom’s vocals are, of course, full of contrary temper: quietly intricate vowels skitter around her goal notes, and all the while she utilises her fearless cache of vibrato, cutesy curls and Joni Mitchell caws. She has drawn on all of her previous releases to deliver this record,

like a Tori Amos hit. Piano accordion, flute, piccolo, various woodwind, violins, tiny electronic elements and the artist’s own harp curl together in this astonishingly dynamic collection, and while these

which expressively and sensitively explores the caverns hiding life’s little profundities. (Remote Control) Zoë Radas

STACK Picks Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne, The Things I Say, Sapokanikan

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