The best music this winter
Music / / December 19, 2019
What we heard this winter
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9 clips and music videos, which are to be reviewed
1. Kanye West with a gospel choir
Kanye started the year with Sunday Service Project ( "Sunday Service") - a series of private concerts with gospel choir. This team Methodist Christians who distinguish improvisation and dance rhythms that something like we saw in the series "The Clinic".
Despite the fact that the performances are broadcast on the West very tiny audience, video from one Sunday Service still flowed in Instagram. Clip the top - just a compilation of excerpts from social networks, but even it can be seen that in Calabasas, California, there was something cool. Kanye is inclined to dance on a synthesizer, then gives way to a professional musiciansBy controlling the process, and all this to the accompaniment of church hymns.
Perhaps the campaign timed to coincide with the ninth album Kanye Yandhi, but rather just the rapper decided to do something interesting. Still, West - who believes what he reminded in his Twitter earlier in the year.
2. Billie Eilish - bury a friend
17-year-old Billy Aylish - one of the most prominent singers of modern times. Each of its single - bomb, and the output of the first full-length release in late March - one of the most anticipated musical events of 2019.
In 2015, Billy uploaded their first single, Ocean Eyes on SoundCloud, and he instantly gained tens of thousands of auditions. But the real fame came later: in 2017 the song Bored hit the soundtrack series "13 reasons why" and the singer became a signatory to one of the world's major label Interscope Records, released a mini-album and joined the list of Sound of 2018 from the BBC.
Billy Aylish performs dramatic and dark pop - too old for 17 years. That there is only horror clip bury a friend, where the singer fakes exorcism - of course, with a starring.
3. The Chemical Brothers - Got To Keep On
The author of the video - directed by Michel Gondry, who worked on the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Features paintings and veiled in a three-minute video, The Chemical Brothers: it begins as an ordinary dance video below upbeat song, but at some point people merge in vibrating white ball, and the viewer feels like going crazy hero Jim Carrey.
4. PUP - Kids
PUP - punk rock band from Toronto, each video is waiting like a holiday: for example, a clip Old Wounds simulates computer game with the band members, and in the video Sleep In The Head, which allegedly show the musicians at a young age, the main role is played by Finn Vulfhard of "very strange business."
In winter, the team came out two more clips, including video for Kids - the first single from the forthcoming full-length album Morbid Stuff. In the story of the group moves to 2059, where there is nothing left of this - people are eating dehydrated pizza, as in the movie "Back to the Future", and perform their own music virtual instruments. Get out of here at any cost seems like a good idea - even if it escapes into the grave.
5. Viagra Boys - Sports (performance at P3 Guld - 2019)
Viagra Boys - a group from Stockholm, performing music at the crossroads of blues and punk. Sports track from their debut full-length album entered the playlist best releases 2018 version Layfhakera. In the original clip frontman performs a song, walking on the tennis court.
This year Viagra Boys built this Court on the stage P3 Guld Stockholm Festival Award - 2019 presented the song live surrounded by tennis players. At the end of one of the girls breaks the racket of drums - a very beautiful spot.
6. Shortparis - «scary»
Shortparis - is rhythmic music in Russian, which goes beyond music alone. Their concerts often resemble performances - which is only one speech at the grocery store.
"It is terrible," too, not just video, and topical social manifesto. The video skinheads guys seize the school, migrant workers held hostage and perform ritual dances gym - here can be considered a reference to both the Beslan terrorist attack in 2004, and to the very recent developments in the Kerch college. All this under the drawl "stand in the dance - Major goes."
Hitrospletonnye texts and scandalous image for the benefit of the group are: concerts when some musicians to cancel, our non-obvious heroes protest call to "Evening Urgant". However, their music sounds much more convincing in the school scenery - compare for yourself.
7. Bicycles for Afghanistan - «Last Tram"
The clip begins with a duel between the four girls, each of them gets shot in the stomach. The only survivor is trying to crawl away from the crime scene, meeting the band, carefree singing songs about riding in a tram with a bag of wine.
Incidentally, the release Bicycles for Afghanistan «Foam Days" we have included compilation the best Russian-language album in 2018 - we recommend to listen to it, even if you do not like the clip.
8. "Thank you" - "We are sick"
This year's "Thank You" produces videoalmanah of concept album "Forever", published in Moscow in the autumn of 2017 the band. This is the second of seven video works.
"Forever" - a release that is not a pity pereslushivat year and a half. The group sings about soul-searching, struggle with internal censor and growing up, experimenting with Stoner and shifts to music poems by Nikolai Gumilyov.
"We are sick" - the next clip in the collection with poorly readable story: the audience waiting for the sacrifice, escape through the forest jungle, and the mixture of pagan motifs with complete psychedelic.
9. "GS" - "nice man" (speech at the "Evening Urgant")
regular Pets Layfhakera and one of the most unusual representatives of the Moscow alternative scene. Their music is compared it with the songs of Joan Aguzarovoj, then with the work of the group of Peter Mamonov's "Sounds of Moo", but identify the "GS" by other artists - an idea doomed to failure.
Atonal losses Evgeny Gorbunov, staccato voice of Katie Shilonosovoy, intertwining minute solo guitar at the end of a song - and all this on the First Channel. Speech at the "Evening Urgant" always Challenge for musicians sometimes that perfectly goes live, simply does not sound in a TV studio. "GS" is a test seems to have passed.
Tell us about the music you listen to this winter. What is remembered and what you want to forget as a bad dream?
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