This is the third Nelly Furtado track I’ve featured on this blog, and not coincidentally it’s the third time Furtado has appeared on a Random Weekend.
Those three tracks also represent the only three tracks I’ve ever heard from Furtado’s 2006 album, Loose.
Of course this raises the question of why exactly Loose is in my record collection to begin with.
Beck recently released a new track, harkening back to his days as a playful pop-funk mixmaster. That comes on the heels of his Grammy win for Best Album for Morning Phase, a somber and elegant meditation on mortality and lost love.
Let’s face it. The man can do pretty much anything. Even Kanye became a fan after initially threatening to protest Beck’s win over Beyoncé
I haven’t checked in with the multi-talented Kurt Schneider in awhile, but recently his latest one-take pop song cover found its way to my inbox.
In this clip, Kurt directs Macy Kate and Ben Kheng as they lip-sync their own version of Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’ while traversing two floors of a Singapore hotel. It’s most impressive how the three of them pop in and out of the frame through some fancy footwork.
While this year’s new releases have been a bit underwhelming, I did manage to discover one album I really love — a record released in mid-2014 that has picked up steam this summer due to its infectious lead single.
That album is WALK THE MOON’s Talking is Hard, a modern pop juggernaut packed with 12 inventive, hummable gems. The one you’ve no doubt heard is ‘Shut Up and Dance’ but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Kacey Musgraves’ sophomore release, Pageant Material, didn’t disappoint me the way the other albums featured this week did, but it doesn’t quite live up to her excellent debut.
Musgraves has been hailed as country’s biggest blend of artistic talent and commercial appeal since Miranda Lambert, so expectations for this album were high. And she smartly side-stepped them, delivering a more low-key, traditional album rather than aiming for some sort of statement record.
Meet Me In Montauk 