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(All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors.When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)This Is Lorelei: The Singer in My Band [Matador]If you're most familiar with This is Lorelei and Water from Your Eyes’ Nate Amos as a producer, no worries—for many years, so was he.
“I kind of landed on this songwriter thing in the most ass-backwards way,” he told the Fader recently.Regardless of how he ended up here, The Singer in My Band establishes the historically puckish Amos as a skillful bard with a knack for twang and earnest evaluation; his dad even has a banjo solo.
Populated with picaresque and peripatetic characters who dip in and out of frame, The Singer in My Band takes a keen eye to the literal and spiritual bric-a-brac you accumulate after enough trips around the sun.But the most interesting figure on display here is Amos himself, stepping sure-footedly into the unknown.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeSylvan Esso: Ow ∞ [Psychic Hotline]The myriad methods humanity has developed for pain management can make it easy to forget that hurting isn’t always a bad thing.
“If you're going to keep participating in the world, and in your life, you have to commit to being hurt,” Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath explains.“And if you aren't putting yourself in the way of potential hurt, you miss out on a lot of potential opportunities.” On her and Nick Sanborn’s new self-produced album Ow ∞, ...