They forgot to invite me to the Grammys yet again. I’ve spent the last week moping about it. While I was moping, I listened to these tracks. Artists featured this week include Justice, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Pissed Jeans, Heems, Dolium and Nicki Minaj.
THE BEST:
‘One Night/All
Night’ – Justice ft. Tame Impala
Why did
no-one tell me Justice had new music out??? This track has been out of for two
weeks and I only discovered it because I heard it on the radio. THE FUCKING
RADIO. That’s how boomers discover their music. I may as well end the blog now,
because I am so out of touch. Anyhow - this track is a banger.
‘Again’ –
Ghost Funk Orchestra
This song blindsided me by just how good it is. Ghost Funk Orchestra is the New York brainchild
of composer/multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum and their latest single ‘Again’
is ghostly, funky and orchestral in that order. It opens with ethereal reverb-soaked
singing over delicate arpeggiated guitar, teases you with some groovy bass and vibraphone,
and then ambushes you with some James Bond horns and intense powerhouse vocals.
At this point in time, it only has 3.8k views, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the
track blew up. An upcoming album A Trip To The Moon on the 23rd
February.
‘Sixty Two
Thousand Dollars In Debt’ – Pissed Jeans
Pissed Jeans,
eh? Sounds like something Nordstrom would come out with. Unsurprisingly, they’re
a punk band. And their new single ‘Sixty Two Thousand Dollars In Debt’ is all about
being sixty two thousand dollars in debt. Their guitar tone is fittingly filthy
and there’s a nice fucked-up guitar solo in the middle. And the song’s lyrics
about escaping the spiral of debt are hilariously bleak, ending with the protagonist
jubilantly declaring ‘I’ll pay it down every day! I’ll pay it down! So
someday I’ll be $61,000 dollars in debt! That’ll be the day I’ll never forget!’.
‘Sri Lanka’
– Heems ft. Your Old Droog
Das Racist member
Heems and Brooklyn rapper Your Old Droog team up to deliver some seriously
playful rhymes like ‘Shorty think she could do better than me? She on dust/
I turn that bird to an ex like Elon Musk’ and ‘I’m like Hugh Jackman/ I’m
huge jacked man’ all in the first minute. Droog’s flow is ridiculous, while
Heems’ lexical density is unmatched.
‘Bald Doll’
– Dolium
To mark the 20th
anniversary of Sister 9 Recordings, lo-fi scuzz-rock band Dolium have released
two singles ‘Bald Doll’ and ‘Veronica Ann’. With it’s blown-out guitar and
spidery bassline, this track is my personal favourite of the two. But ‘Veronica
Ann’ is equally nuts and worth a gander.
THE WORST:
‘Big Foot’
– Nicki Minaj
This diss
track aimed at Megan Thee Stallion may well be the most bizarre diss track I’ve
ever heard. Opening with ‘Your flow is such a bore’, she then proceeds to
deliver the entire track in the most clownishly wacky delivery possible. The
sound quality is awful and she spends half of it whispering. It sounds like she
recorded it on her phone with her kid asleep in the next room. Never has a diss
track tried to do too much and too little at the same time.