How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
Shuffle Sundays #38 • Big Red Machine, Ty Segall, Bring Me The Horizon, Placebo, Ambar Lucid, Bruno Militelli, & more!
Hello and welcome to Shuffle Sundays, a weekly newsletter with music recommendations to help you find your next obsession.
This week we’re listening to a collaborative project with stellar guest appearances, checking out the new music video from one of my favorite bands, feeling inspired by incredible macro photographs, checking out some new music released this past week, and more. Enjoy the read!
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💽 » Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
indie-folk, alternative • 15 songs • 65 minutes
Big Red Machine is a band that serves as a side project from musicians Aaron Dessner (The National) and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). But what started as a collaborative experiment in the debut album Big Red Machine (2018), grew into something much bigger that none of them could have anticipated. How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? (2021) is not only a more extensive work in terms of duration but also a much more expansive one, since it features no less than 11 artists along with the tracklist. The lineup goes from huge names like Taylor Swift, who had both Dessner and Vernon collaborating in her pair of recent albums folklore and evermore, to some artists that were new to me and equally great, like Anaïs Mitchell. The best thing about the album though is that, with so many people involved and so many ways that everything could have gone wrong, the tracklist actually feels pretty tight and cohesive, instead of sounding just like a random collection of songs.
Listen on Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube
📺 » Ty Segall - Harmonizer
Harmonizer, the 13th studio album (!!!!!!!) of Ty Segal, has been on my list of possible content to share since it came out on August 3rd. So while I don’t feature the whole record, I thought I’d recommend the title-track Harmonizer, which serves as the perfect introduction to the rest of the work, a delicious mix of indie, garage, and psychedelic rock.
📺 » Bring Me The Horizon - DiE4u
Bring Me The Horizon has slowly become one of my favorite bands in the last few years, not only for their always interesting genre-bending music but especially for all the anticipation that they create before each release, leaving us fans with absolutely no idea to which music direction they will follow next. Unfortunately, this new single gets much closer to their pop efforts than the more aggressive ones, but no matter what, DiE4u is still an incredibly well-produced and catchy song, and I’m all for it! Can’t wait to continue to be surprised by the rest of the upcoming EP.
🔀 » Shuffle News
• The seminal English rock band Placebo is back with the single Beautiful James, and is sounding as good as ever! Listen here;
• American singer Ambar Lucid just released a delicious cover of Billie Eilish’s Billie Bossa Nova (I know, I can’t stop talking about her), for Spotify’s Singles series. Listen to her rendition here.
⚡️ » Visual Inspiration
Bruno Militelli is a Brazilian Photographer specialized in macro photography, with a fascinating work that beautifully transitions between abstraction and figuration. Check out his website or Instagram for more. Here are some favorites:
🎶 » New Music
This week’s new albums I'm particularly interested in checking out:
Also, new singles from James Blake, Scalene, Caetano Veloso, Foster The Peope, and many more. If you’re curious to hear some of these songs and more, make sure to follow my 2021 playlist on Spotify, updated weekly with new releases:
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