Icelandic alt rock outfit Of Monsters and Men recently unleashed their new single “Alligator”. The world has been waiting for a rock opus like this. It will give anyone the energy due to its heavy baseline riff. This new radical tune will give you goosebumps through the following week. “Shake it out / It’s just what I’m feeling,” roars lead vocalist and writer Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, “And now I take control / I’m fever dreaming.” This is not the “Little Talks” Of Monsters and Men, but a completely vibrant new sound that gives rock its glimmer it has been missing for a while. Fever Dream is out July 26.
Continuing with the rock is back theme; The Black Keys released “Go”, the follow up single to “Eagle Birds” off their upcoming Let’s Rock (which is not a coincidence to this play list at all) album. Both songs find the duo back to true form of what their earlier works encapsulated: blues-rock music. The guitar licks on “Go” make you feel like you are in front of a jukebox playing the oldies and letting loose on the weekend while playing pool in a dive bar. New album is out June 28.
Foals new song “In Degrees” is sung so fast by lead singer Yannis Philippakis, you almost forget him and his band are originally from England. He comes up for air at times over this rock track as he spits out, “I lose you in degrees/Don’t leave me on my knees”. Love lost mourn much one might ask? Yes but the song is as intense as it could get.
Missing new material from the Strokes? Well Cage The Elephant might have to settle your appetite for now. “Social Cues”, the band’s latest finds the garage rock band singing with desperation, “Hide me in the back room/Tell me when it’s over/Don’t know if I can play this bar much longer”. Is this foreshadowing that one of today’s rock bands are finished? Hope not because this rock-tinged song is an alt rock radio staple already. Album out now.
