A new wave of male indie artists,such as Car Seat Headrest, Palace Winter, or Kevin Morby,Alex G and Whitney are not afraid to point to their sensitive sideAs pop’s foremost females furiously demolish all in their path – think Beyoncé, walloping the windows of parked cars with a baseball bat on Hold Up, and Rihanna,gunning down her boyfriend in a strip club on Needed Me – pure melancholy hangs over their male counterparts. Sorrow seeps from songs by Yung Lean and Zayn Malik, Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool is a sea of sadness and torment, and Views reaffirms Drake’s status as rap’s main unhappy lad and James Blake spends the 17 tracks of The Colour in Anything locked in a loop of loneliness and isolation. A new Frank Ocean album is on its way and I’d wager it won’t be packed with upbeat bangers about sunshine and lollipops. early outline for album bio pic.twitter.com/h7S5tV1ROtContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com