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![]() These days, as a 46-year-old mother of three, her anger is both more righteous and more refined, Murphy wrote in The Irish Times, adding that her song Reckoning intriguingly runs the gamut of emotions, from vulnerability (You got away, while they claim Im a liar) to vindication (I hope you enjoy these drawings in your jail). Dealing the blow, None of it is particularly hummable, Rolling Stone found fault with Pretty Forks in the Road for not being as compelling as her earlier work. While a heartbroken young woman calling out her exs betrayal is the kind of rage we all unfortunately can relate to, Morissettes current life problems might be specific to her new role as a stressed-out mother, Grow explained: If Such Pretty Forks is to be taken as autobiography, shes now a middle-aged mother who suffers insomnia, recognizes her addictions, trips out on acid occasionally, and, after surviving some sort of nervous breakdown, has a firm grip on irony. This is the music of real, human women the kind thats dark, raw, painful, and truthful, observed When the Horn Blows. Its heartbreaking on one hand, but astonishingly beautiful on the other. In general, Burton likes to use his jazz quintet to ends that dont always fit a jazz quintets typical method, pulling indie rock and chamber music and occasional electronic soundscaping into the mix. Just want the music Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear Let us know at theplaylistnytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage. Alanis Morissette, Smiling Smiling was written for the stage adaptation of Alanis Morissettes Jagged Little Pill, and it sounds like it, with its theatrical crests and ominous, minor-key verses, but its also easy to imagine it becoming a powerful in-concert moment recalling some of Pinks most poignant, raw ballads (Morissette will be on tour this spring celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jagged and the May 1 release of her first album in eight years, which includes Smiling). On Broadway, the new song soundtracks one of the shows most spectacular scenes, a housewifes Groundhog Day of chores and drudgery shopping for food and opioids acted out in slow-motion reverse. Sung here by Morissette, its still an excruciating document of a life slipping beyond reach. CARYN GANZ Waxahatchee, Lilacs The little frictions of a continuing relationship crest and subside and continue to smolder in Lilacs from Saint Cloud, the forthcoming album by Waxahatchee due in late March. Its an unhurried folk-rock tune, with a ticking two-chord vamp for verses, that has Katie Crutchfield examining every lingering slight and potential ambivalence while sizing up her own obsessiveness. Instead of a happy ending, theres a tentative reckoning: If my bones are made of delicate sugarI wont end up anywhere good without you. JON PARELES Oliver Malcolm, Switched Up Everything stays off-kilter for the two and a half paranoid minutes of Switched Off by Oliver Malcolm, a 20-year-old one-man studio band who already has a string of production credits. The drums lurch toward the offbeats, some looped guitar picking tugs against that pulse and Malcolms voice is a rattled, quavery moan as he complains, Nowadays I just dont know who my friends are. A pitched-up snippet of the Gettysburg Address is not reassuring. PARELES Kyle featuring Rich the Kid and K Camp, Yes A pair of cheerful gimmicks animate Yes: a punchy surf-rock guitar line and a charming whistle motif that recalls Juelz Santanas There It Go (The Whistle Song). Kyle is perhaps the only rapper working who could pull these choices off hes chipper, melodic, soft-touch and a little wry. Rich the Kid and K Camp try to keep up, but its Kyles beach-blanket party. JON CARAMANICA The Avalanches featuring Blood Orange, We Will Always Love You The Avalanches slow down their usual manic sample-guzzling and ease back on irony in We Will Always Love You. Dev Hynes raps glumly about dreaming of another life but being too fearful to leave his house, Smokey Robinson croons about missing someone (Every day were apart seems like a week) and the Roches, of all people, provide the chorus. PARELES Music Band, Over and Over A jittery rock song that quickly finds its legs, like Tom Petty via TV on the Radio, from the Nashville trios April 3 album, Celebration. GANZ Cabane, Take Me Home (Part 2) Cabane is the project of a Belgian composer, Thomas Jean Henri, with indie-folk affinities; his guest vocalists include Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy). Take Me Home (Part 2) is an atmospheric wisp of a song, with glimmers of Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg. Shimmering vibraphone, dusty keyboard tones and fragile acoustic guitars circle behind Oldhams perfectly understated metaphysical confession: When the darkness came I made a pledge to stayBefore I slipped away so silently. PARELES Pat Metheny, From This Place Pat Metheny has always been a graceful pilot of lush harmonic skies, starting in the 1970s, when he worked with the keyboardist and arranger Lyle Mays, who died this month. On From This Place, his new album, Metheny passes through cycles and rhythms so fluidly, you hardly notice how elaborate an apparatus hes got running behind him: He is being supported by Joel McNeely and the Hollywood Studio Symphony, as well as his mutable multigenerational quartet. Finding some kind of humbly transcendent glory in the mythos of America has always been a goal of Methenys music, and on the Meshell Ndegeocello-penned title track, the songs author sings in sincere, resolute tones about the challenge of the moment: Here Ill stand with thee until hearts are truly freeUntil hearts and here Ndegeocello drops to a tired, still-steadfast speaking voice are truly free. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO George Burton, Finding The pianist George Burton has a shadow identity as a singer-songwriter, but he outsources the singing bit.
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