My favorite new music from January and February
Angel Du$t, How Much Art, Power Snatch, GUV, Morgan Nagler and more
Happy Friday. I haven’t done this in a while (should I do it every week? Seems excessive), this being a round-up of all the new music I’ve been listening to and liking or in some cases absolutely fucking loving to the point that it renews my will live. Music can do this and regardless of how may times I try, a new purchase of whatever the fuck (let’s say, hypothetically, eel loafers from The Row) cannot, and ultimately that’s why I write this kind of Substack instead of that kind. (Will probably still get the loafers though).
For example, this video of Fred Again with The Streets and Underworld doing “Born Slippy” actually added five years to my life (or replaced the five years I previously eroded with Mitsubishis, and according to the top comment on the YouTube of Underworld’s Boiler Room set, I’m not the only one who dreams of the days of pulling my Vicks Vapo Rub out of my red mini Adidas backpack after grinding the floor to dust at the function).
Let’s get into the music:
I’ve been very into picking up whatever Angel Du$t has been putting down for the last few years (“Love Slam” still goes very hard on the gym playlist) but seeing them live a few weekends ago in Boston at the great Something In The Way festival actually felt like microdosing the Limitless drug. This Baltimore band is really checking every box and ringing all my bells right now. They look cool as hell (special shouts to the Pippi Long Stocking guitarist - only a man that tall and broad chested can pull off that hairstyle), their music is tuneful . There’s a visceral quality to the music that is incandescent - it’s like violently alive in a way that presses the defibrillators onto your phone-sick weary doom-scrolled-to-death heart and brings you back vibrating into the real world. Their new album COLD 2 THE TOUCH came out last week and if it doesn’t make you want to run through a wall then you must reading this from the afterlife.
