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These years of the Covid-19 outbreak have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt. And the artists will find a way to keep making content no matter what. Come hell or high water, or another terrifying variant of the virus, we will get quality content. Also, they have demonstrated how important touring can be in deciding whether or not to release an album.
Demonstrating superhuman flexibility, bands have had to adapt at a time when performing live is still a risky affair. Some have chosen to keep their records in the hopes of better days to come, while others have approached their COVID-era releases with a "now or never" attitude. As listeners, we appreciate every note recorded in these challenging times, each one a tiny miracle.
2022 can either be a paradise where events and concerts may take place without any disruptions. Everyone from Mitski to Rosala is retrieving records from their vaults, awaiting a live audience. According to many promises and teases made in the closing months and moments of 2021, Musicians such as FKA twigs, the Weeknd, and Earl Sweatshirt, are now preparing projects that they began working on during the early gap of the pandemic.
The Weeknd is ringing in 2022 with Dawn FM. It will include musicians Tyler, the Creator, Quincy Jones, Lil Wayne, Oneohtrix Point Never. Also, it will include his neighbor friend Jim Carrey. Dawn will be a follow-up to his '80s-villain image he established on the 2020s After Hours.
If the quarantine was not already gloomy enough, Dawn will have an existential theme to it. Not just that though, the Weeknd has stated that the album is about the listener being dead and stuck in purgatory. The listener is waiting for the end of a tunnel that might never come.
FKA twigs have now been teasing a new project she worked on in lockdown with distant artists, especially Spanish Producer El Guincho. So, it is no surprise that at the start of the season, the Capricorn Sun singer began hyping a mixtape rumored to be called Capri Sun. Beginning with the release of the Weeknd-featuring single which was "Tears in the Club”. Wigs previewed the follow-up to 2019's Magdalene as "very profound, heartfelt, and honest," but with "hopefully more golden teardrop than blue."
She teased this on her fan Discord in September. The album came out in mid-January 2022. So it was just at the start of this year. Either way, it is now available on all the popular music streaming group platforms for you to enjoy.
Hikaru Utada embraces the energetic, joyous singing and dancing of the early 2000. The album was inspired by disco and soul-pop, with their eighth studio album, Bad Mode. Indeed, they were a pioneering presence for over three decades, identifying Aaliyah as an inspiration, which is visible in Bad Mode's music.
Bad Mode sounds like a release from the mid-1990s, around the time Utada's debut album, First Love. The album First Love made a momentous success. The New York native grew up at a thrilling period in pop songs when drama queens dominated the chart with flashy, big-budget albums. But what is surprising regarding Bad Mode is that, despite sounding like an album from the late 1990s or early 2000s, it does not feel outdated; in fact, it sounds remarkably modern and delightful.
We are at it again. Donda, Kanye's tenth studio album, released less than 6 months ago. Yet, the rapper originally famous as Kanye West is already working on a sequel. Kanye debuted a handful of songs, probably from Donda 2, before an audience at Miami's LoanDepot Stadium on Thursday evening, in keeping with Donda tradition.
Alicia Keys, Jack Harlow, Migos, Marilyn Manson, and others took the stage too. Kanye said the album would be available exclusively in protest of streaming platforms. Kanye West has made sixteen tracks from his upcoming record and Donda follow-up Donda 2 is available exclusively on West's Donda Stem Player, as promised.
Kanye’s protest against streaming platforms is valid. There have been multiple scandals around Spotify’s revenue-sharing system. How some artists used “bots” to bump up their numbers. Nothing has happened so far, and neither has Spotify said anything.
Mitski glided into tropes on her breakout of the last album, 2018's Be the Cowboy: the "icy, repressed woman," the dutiful housewife, and the Hollywood superstar. In a statement, the indie-pop musician stated that she purposely stripped away the personalities for her follow-up, Laurel Hell, so she could "[sit] in a grey space."
"I wanted love songs about partnerships that aren't major conflicts to be won or lost," she says. Singles like "Working for the Knife," which challenges the trappings of trying to make a career in art. Also, "The Only Heartbreaker," an explosive synth-pop track in which she admits to being the one who takes responsibility in a partnership, are brutally incisive.
The artist Big Thief loves to take the most insignificant emotions. It turns them into massive rock songs and psychologically jarring country ballads. With each new record, the Adrianne Lenker-fronted band refines their style, most recently with 2019's Two Hands.
However, they are currently working on their most ambitious project yet, a 20-track album titled "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You". They have already issued seven singles off the album. For instance, "Time Escaping" and "Little Things," have more unraveling and spasmodic grooves than ever before.
Earl Sweatshirt stated in a statement that he was busy working on "The People Could Fly", an album titled after a collection of Black American folk stories he used to observe with his mother. But lockdown forced him to shift gears and "lean into the chaos," resulting in the ten tunes that make up his next album, Sick!
Earl's partners Armand Hammer and Bruiser Brigade, and producers such as Black Noi$e, Alchemist, and Navy Blue will be helping him with his jazzy experiments.
The album covers a wide range of topics, including loss, online dating, experiencing life with your terms, and the consciousness that arises with losing oneself in a digital world. Rather than criticizing the age of social media, the London singer's fourth album is about finding happiness no matter where you are. "Who knows what the future holds?" says the ecstatic final track, "Future Holds." It makes no difference if I got you."
Alt-J would like nothing more than to break up a cold one. The fourth album from the Leeds-born, England band begins with the spraying noise of a Cola can before unfolding into 'Bane,' a stunning and sweeping homage to the transitory pleasure of sipping their favorite "ice-cold black fuel."
The song, however, serves as a playful flex beneath rich vocal harmonies and layered percussion. On 'The Dream,' their most transparent record yet, it is the first time we witness the group in which we have a lead singer and guitarists Joe Newman, pianist Unger, and drummer Thom Green freely veer in whatever direction they like.
Alexander's first album in this new period, including the dance single "Starstruck," a collaboration with EDM duo Galantis, and "Crave," a sensuous club track with a music video featuring Alexander as one blue elf creature. In a statement, he stated of a follow-up to 2018's Palo Santo, " Stuck in the same four walls, I wanted to have as much pleasure as possible in the music”
Night call came out in late January 2022 and has just over half an hour of music ready to reach your ears. As is the team with all of the albums coming out this year, the pandemic has a role to play.
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