Pictured L-R: Alice Longyu Gao (Ryan Decker), Eyedress (Ray Naoples), Pa Salieu (Gabriel Moses for The FADER)
Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can’t get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order.
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On the heels of dropping one of the best EPs of the year, Nathan Jenkins is shapeshifting once again, this time delivering pure carnivalesque delirium. As ash continues to falls from the sky, Alexandra Drewchin is the siren rhapsodizing a solemn trudge toward little death. The convergence of Hynes and Hye Jin feels like stumbling into some insomniac revelation. Idris Vicuña’s searing dreampop levels up on his new record Let’s Skip To The Wedding, particularly on the lush, head-spinning “X-Girl.” When Coventry’s hometown hero Pa Salieu puts on for his people, he does so relentlessly and with the vivacity of a thousand baseball bats. Until we’re allowed to travel again, living vicariously through Alice Longyu Gao and Fraxiom’s cartoonish mad dash through the chaotic streets of Harajuku feels like the next best option. Summer was a nice distraction, but the bitter chill of autumn calls for the valiant chanteys of Arab Strap. Taiwanese artist Scintii plus Danny L. Harle equates to something satiny and seraphic. Even in an acoustic set-up, the ease at which Ecco ascends continues to stupefy. On the lead single off her forthcoming record I saw first light, Anna McClellan paints the pursuit of a deeper understanding with wide-eyed desire.10 songs you need in your life this week
