The artists we really, really want new music from in 2021
Will the wait for a new Rihanna album finally be over?
While last year might have seen Taylor Swift give us not one but
two new albums, there are still plenty of artists who are holding out on us. Some have been teasing new material for a while, others have been more secretive about their projects, but all have one thing in common – we’d really, really love to hear what they’ve been up to at some point in 2021. Go on, please?
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty has been taken her sweet time with the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Anti’ and, while we appreciate her not rushing to release anything mediocre, the waiting game has become fun only for her. Every fan enquiry is met online with a sassy response, which makes us laugh and then do a really big sigh. Not even moving to London and partying in Brixton (pre-pandemic, obviously) has sped up the pace and pulled the focus back from her building her one-woman beauty and fashion
The West Michigan website LocalSpins.com annually asks a select group of musicians to choose their favorite albums and song releases of the year.As always, this roster of favorites covers a lot of ground in terms of musical styles and their 2020 picks include everything from Lianne La Havas and Tame Impala to Tigran Hamasyan and Fontaines D.C. to Michigan’s own Cameron Blake and Greta Van Fleet.DUTCHER SNEDEKER (Earth Radio, Blushing Monk)1. Tigran Hamasyan, "The Call Within" – This
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea Reissue Demos for every track, including “A Place Called Home,” “Good Fortune” and “This is Love, are available on the Demos release
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PJ Harvey shared an unreleased demo of “This Mess We’re In” from the upcoming vinyl reissue of her
Stories From The City, Stories From the Sea album, which originally released in 2000. The LP, along with a collection of unreleased demos,
Stories From The City, Stories From the Sea – Demos, arrives on CD, vinyl and digital
, Feb. 26 via UMe/Island.
The demos for every track written
There’s something to be said for those rules about first impressions. On first hearing
PJ Harvey, many moons ago in some smoke-filled loft at a debauched summer house party as the sun was lifting the twilight outside, a sense of awe entered the room as the fuzz of something of its time had us by its hooks. It was a little bit Tricky, a touch Portishead, had a smudge of grunge, a sniff of something sexy and something a bit androgynous; it gripped everyone in the room.
Fast forward a few years and after much critical acclaim – which built an ever-growing, discerning and somewhat obsessive fan base – the same girl, now a lady, wins the Mercury Music Prize and is thrown from her cult-rock pedestal into the wolf pit of the masses with, debatably, her most commercial album to date. Then – maybe it was a finger in the limelight, or maybe just a natural progression, or perhaps a result of exposure – 2004’s long-player
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