![]() Until you can catch a live show-the definitive Juan Wauters experience requires in-person attendance-this is the next best thing. Friends like Mac DeMarco, Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, and Tall Juan make guest appearances, while recorded clips of speech and film dialogue gesture obliquely towards topics like justice, resilience, hardship, and community. Leaning into psych pop and the occasional weird synth interlude, the album immortalizes facets of daily life with a Spanish-language lockdown diary (“Locura”), a personalized theme song, and a conversation recorded at a Greenpoint doughnut shop. This spring’s Real Life Situations takes the same warm, curious approach to the singular circumstances of 2020-2021, constructing a loose scrapbook of life before and during the pandemic in New York. ![]() In 2019, Uruguayan American singer-songwriter and Queens resident Juan Wauters released a pair of albums, La Onda de Juan Pablo and Introducing Juan Pablo, documenting his international travels through songs, field recordings, and snatches of spoken word. Listen: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal Juan Wauters: Real Life Situations Album opener “February” demonstrates both qualities: Its resonant bass feels like it could shake down the walls of Jericho, yet John FM sings so earnestly that it sounds as if his voice could break at any moment. ![]() This music is big enough to fill a club, intimate enough to leave you reeling. –Amy PhillipsĬombining R&B, hip-hop, and classic techno, John FM’s American Spirit EP is far deeper than its 16-minute runtime suggests. Balfe references the Streets a couple of times, and the album sounds something like Mike Skinner engaged in a cathartic therapy session on the Fabric dancefloor. Balfe’s intricately detailed spoken-word ruminations on growing up in the underbelly of Dublin and his eternal bond with Curran are paired with sample-heavy electronic tracks informed by classic rave, early dubstep, and grime. Originally he intended it only to be heard by family and close friends, but songs this harrowing were destined to reach more ears. Irish poet David Balfe, aka For Those I Love, recorded his self-titled debut as a way to process the death of his best friend, fellow poet Paul Curran. Listen: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal For Those I Love: For Those I Love The drums during the doomy second half of “Bowels of Decrepitude” seem to lumber increasingly off-rhythm, as if trying to make the act of headbanging feel a little more dangerous. Liquidy guitar solos spill out from their hands, while the amelodic and often inhuman vocal delivery worms its way through the speakers from low in the mix. While some bands in the genre embrace the studio for pristine acts of technical prowess, Cerebral Rot embodies decay. Summarized in titles like “Drowned in Malodor” and “Vile Yolk of Contagion,” this instinct can also be heard in the very sound of their music. Seattle death metal band Cerebral Rot is trying to gross you out. 20 Buck Spin Cerebral Rot: Excretion of Mortality ![]()
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