The Summer slowdown is in effect.
This past New Music Friday was the first one that I can remember this year where there wasn't anything that excited me. No new albums. No new singles. Nada.
The Kanye effect is similarly slowing down. Instead of being on three of the top five tracks as he has been the past few weeks, Kanye represents the top 3 with Kid Cudi on the title track off their KIDS SEE GHOSTS while other KSG and Ye tracks are starting to begin their descent down the Mixtape.
What's not slowing is the upward movement for Late Bloomer's "Sleeve," (6) a rockin' romp reminiscent of The Replacements as interpreted by the Goo Goo Dolls when they started to discover songcraft (around their third full-length album). Vic Mensa's collabo with G-Eazy, "Reverse," (5) moves in to the top five this week, taking one of those Kanye vacancies. Courtney Barnett, one of my favorite artists of the past five years, is approaching the top 3 with "Charity," (4) one of several standouts off her latest album, Tell Me How You Really Feel.
I don't see much on this Friday's new releases that excites me at face value, so here's hoping some random singles come around and provide some of that new tunes feeling I've been missing in July.
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