![]() ![]() It’s a tidy thesis statement for an expansive album: He doesn’t know how he makes it through, but he’s delighted that he does. “These nights, I don’t know how I survive,” Ben Gibbard repeats on the first track, howling over a distorted gnarl of guitar. 16 Records/Columbia) - HornĭEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Twenty-five years into its career, the band brings its incisive, anguished writing to a particularly 2022 brand of existential angst on its 10th album, “Asphalt Meadows.” The songs spool and spiral, commenting on the slow-motion dread of a warming planet, the ache and anger of pandemic politics and the desperation of lockdown. On “The Hardest Part,” her debut album, she draws pedal steel, banjo, fiddle and harmonica from a robust country tool kit on songs that foreground her struggles with addiction and noxious romance. Her early efforts, aligned with hip-hop and R&B, didn’t stick, and she has since retreated to her Nashville roots. NOAH CYRUS When she began her music career at age 16, Noah Cyrus - already caught in spillover from her sister Miley’s spotlight - hunted for her sound in full public view. 16 Audio Eagle/Nonesuch/Warner Records) - Horn Written and recorded with the Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, “The Trouble With Fever” balances alt-rock edge with decadent orchestral pop flourishes. ![]() But, hardly content to be a throwback act, Branch has new music in the pipeline, too. MICHELLE BRANCH With Y2K nostalgia thriving, Michelle Branch - whose pop-rock anthems “Everywhere” and “All You Wanted” made her a teen star in 2001 - released an updated version of her debut, “The Spirit Room,” last year. 16 YG Entertainment/Interscope) - Ben Sisario “Pink Venom,” the first single from its second album, “Born Pink,” has traditional Korean instruments, old-school rap, boomy EDM beats and boasts about their stuff going “straight to your dome like whoa, whoa, whoa.” A world tour this fall includes a handful of American dates. BLACKPINK Perhaps the biggest girl group in K-pop, Blackpink is also the genre’s most playfully eclectic. ![]()
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