Bounce queen Large Freedia is staying true to her New Orleans roots by bringing her rousing spirit straight to the pews. Named after her native Baptist church, Urgent Onward fuses her high-energy bounce beats with gospel music to reignite her spiritual religion and need to carry communities collectively. With refrains like, “We don’t want a preacher simply to go to church,” and, “Drive the enemy out/Shake that submarine, Large Freedia makes use of her album to unfold party-starting messages of affection, acceptance, and perseverance slightly than exclude followers primarily based on their religion.
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Anamanaguchi: Anyway [Polyvinyl]
All the things you realize about Anamanaguchi has shifted on Anyway, their third album and follow-up to 2019’s [USA]. The texture-good band turned from chiptune pop towards full-on fuzz rock, writing in a lounge–turned–observe house and recording reside to tape at Tarbox Highway Studios, the place Dave Fridmann produced the LP. Although Anamanaguchi’s music has lengthy summoned visions of late-night online game console events and back-of-the-bus GameBoy classes, the New York quartet now sounds nearer to Ovlov or Angel Du$t taking part in a sweaty dive bar. But, as a lot as Anyway is a pivot, it’s nonetheless received the center of Anamanaguchi’s longtime sound, as heard on singles “Buckwild” or “Rage (Kitchen Sink).”
