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You and Your Friends
he newest album comes three years after the success of their debut record, Being So Normal. The 12-track release was produced by John Congleton (who’s worked with household indie bands, St. Vincent and Best Coast) to streamline the band’s “chewed bubblegum pop” sound with relatable lyrics about mundane situations. “You and Your Friends is a collection of songs about me, people that the band and I care about, and some of the old friends we’ve had over the years,” the band said in a statement. Like most sophomore albums, the band discusses falling in love, nostalgia, breakups, but this time with satirical lyrics and metaphors accompanied by soft vocals.
In the Aeroplane over the Sea
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a personal album but not in the way you expect. It's not biography. It's a record of images, associations, and threads; no single word describes it so well as the beautiful and overused "kaleidoscope." It has the cracked logic of a dream, beginning with "King of Carrot Flowers Part 1".
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane's magnum opus, "A Love Supreme" is a spiritually-themed suite of four interelated movements, making it in an abstract way more akin to a symphony than a traditional jazz album. Considered by many to be not only Coltrane's finest album, but the greatest jazz album of all time, this is a record that must be listened to repeatedly, which is something that will be no chore because once you've heard it, you won't just want to listen to it over and over again for the rest of your life, you'll have to - because unless you are completely without a soul, this is music.