We’ve got a lot for you to check out this week!
- For Pitchfork, Katherine St. Asaph discusses Kindness’s “deceptively invisible skill” at work on the new album Something Like a War.
- Also for Pitchfork, Hannah Jocelyn considers whether Sam Fender lives up to the hype (including Springsteen comparisons) on Hypersonic Missiles.
- For Dummy Magazine, Pedro João Santos reviewed the 2019 Neopop Festival, with its goal of “keeping techno safe.”
- Santos has also continued writing for Rimas e Baltidas (in Portuguese), reviewing Missy Elliott’s Iconology and Rapsody’s Eve and reflecting on the 18th anniversary of Aaliyah’s death.
- And for Público, Santos reviewed the movie Booksmart (again in Portuguese).
- For In Review Online‘s Foreign Correspondent column, Ryo Miyauchi and Joshua Minsoo Kim contributed short reviews of Kiki Vivi Lily’s debut, Vivid, and Tqaseem Mgamat El Haram 2016-2019, by 1127 (Egyptian producer Amr El-Alamy), respectively.
- Finally, Tim de Reuse is releasing his first album as Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack, Gay Joke, next Thursday the 19th. But the advance single, “I Do Not Light Up,” is already available on YouTube!