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Always Ascending
Franz Ferdinand
On the fifth full-length release for the Scottish indie rock band band, Alex Kapranos hasn’t lost his swagger or dashing vocal delivery, however it isn’t a groundbreaking album. That should be of little consequence to the legion of fans who have come to love their particular brand of indie-pop panache and enegetic punch. There are enough dance tracks, experimentation, and optimism to keep Franz Ferdinand fun and relevant a decade and a half into their career, in an album that has been described as a “restatement of their core art school pop principles”.
Give it a spin if you like:
The Strokes, Phoenix, Interpol
American Utopia
David Byrne
The first solo release for the Talking Heads frontman in 14 years is part of a larger project called Reasons to Be Cheerful. American Utopia takes snippets from day-to-day life, magnifies them and lays them out for us to rethink how we see the world. The song Every Day Is A Miracle looks at the world through the eyes of a chicken. “Now the chicken imagines a heaven / Full of roosters and plenty of corn / And God is a very old rooster / And eggs are like Jesus, his son.” One of the foremost artists of our time is back to his bonkers brilliance.
Give it a spin if you like:
Peter Gabriel, Peter Murphy, David Bowie
Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
Moby
Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt is Moby’s 15th album, one layered with levels of trip-hop, gospel choirs, delicate instrumentation, whispered verses of poetry and song titles such as A Dark Cloud is Coming and Welcome to Hard Times. The album is desribed as “a glowing tapestry exploring spirituality, individuality and the brokenness of humanity, and finds him returning to his orchestral, soul, trip-hop and gospel roots”. And deleivered as only Moby can.
Give it a spin if you like:
Beck, Underworld, Tricky
Like it Live ?
Katy Perry by Rony-Alwin
Katy Perry
LIVE IN HONG KONG
Witness: The Tour is the fourth concert tour by Katy Perry, in support of her fifth studio album, Witness (2017). The show has been described as a «non-stop blur of explosive lights, video, huge puppets, dancers, giant basketball goals, confetti and robot Venus flytraps», so if that sounds like your speed be sure to find yourself in the audience.
30 / 03 /2018
ASIAWORLD-EXPO ARENA
HONG KONG
