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In the trailer to a documentary on the making of the album, Cave wonders aloud, "What happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic that you just change? You change from the known person to an unknown person? So that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you recognize the person that you were, but the person inside the skin is a different person?” And the song itself is every bit as devastating as that quote suggests, returning to a melancholy plea – “With my voice, I am calling you.” People throw the word gutted around on social media every time a celebrity dies. This is the lead track on “Skeleton Tree,” Cave’s latest album with the Bad Seeds and the first thing he's done since the death of his son, who fell from a cliff in Brighton earlier this year. MORE MUSIC: Get the Things to Do app | Latest concert announcements | Top concerts this week in Phoenix 6. This is actually the theme song to his Viceland show, “Traveling the Stars.” But it sounds more like the soundtrack to a film that parodies Walt Disney and Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” in the same inebriated breath. He may be hip-hop’s most endearing kook, which comes through loud and clear on this piano-driven track, produced by the brilliant-as-ever Alchemist, on which he sets the tone with a half-winked boast of “As a descendant of the stars, it’s only right that I become one.” I could tell you what he claims to have been doing when he did an interview with GQ, but it may be best to let him share that little detail. Action Bronson, “Descendant of the Stars” Crashing into the rock.” And rock it does, at times suggesting a more psychedelic strain of the post-“Tommy” Who. In an interview with Consequence of Sound, Edwards explained, “It is the love song, pure and unabashed.
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This is the second track 16 Horsepower frontman David Eugene Edwards has released from “Star Treatment,” his latest release with his new project, following 2014’s “Refractory Obdurate.” And it serves as a stunning reminder that “majestic” and “alt-country” are not mutually exclusive terms.

There’s a melancholy undercurrent to the old-school soul vibe as Rashad, who records for Top Dawg Entertainment like Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q, puts the struggles of life in perspective with “If I can pay my bills, I’m good.” So why the melancholy undercurrent? He gets to that, if cryptically, in lyrics that address the need to overcome his struggles with substance abuse for the sake of his child. And she instantly matches her bandmates’ intensity, setting the scene with “I can meditate all day but I still wanna kill myself / You guys really don’t understand what alone means.” And it only gets better when they hit those sudden stops and starts – like classic rockabilly played by punks – to underscore her vocal on “I got these New Age problems but they don’t exist / You can tell me I’m in trouble but I must insist the 8 Ball f-king lied to you.” 3. The approach is all forward momentum, a throbbing bass and drum groove topped by a soaring guitar lick that reaches out and grabs you by the throat before Chelsey Louise has even made it the mike. These local heroes have followed the promise of “Dramabot” with a raucous new single produced, like their previous effort, by Bob Hoag. And much like all those records I mentioned, it sounds amazing in the process. Like Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly,” “Drowning” is to 2016 what Sly & the Family Stone’s “Don’t Call Me N*****, Whitey” was to 1969 or Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” was to 1988 – a postcard from the frontlines in a nation at war with itself.

This song has such an instantly engaging sense of atmosphere, an ominous descending bass riff riding a haunting percussion loop that sounds like someone clanking on a tin cup topped by deeply soulful vocals, which set the tone with “We gon’ need some drugs for the situation.” And that situation is tied to the Black Lives Matter movement, Jenkins’ vocal slipping into a trembling falsetto to plead “I can’t breathe,” the very words a dying Eric Garner repeated 11 times while lying face down on the sidewalk during his arrest in New York. Other highlights of our monthly countdown range from Nick Cave coming to terms with the death of his son to the Pretenders trying out a new sound and several local releases, including Harper and the Moths, Paper Foxes and Citrus Cloud. Mick Jenkins barely edges out of a track by local rockers Fairy Bones on our September singles playlist by artfully incorporating the dying words of a Black man whose death is at the heart of many Black Lives Matter protests, Eric Garner.
