Disclosure - DJ Kicks (Black Vinyl)

Disclosure - DJ Kicks (Black Vinyl)For a duo whose youthful energy rejuvenated the world of house music at the start of the 2010s, it seems incredible that Disclosure are now into their second decade of musical life. The incredible vigour of those early records, the spark of invention and ever onward musical thrust, remains with the Disclosure brothers, Howard and Guy Lawrence, to this day. The emphasis throughout DJ Kicks is on motion. After a brief ambient introduction from Ppes Life

What a time to be alive - Alvvays return with an album that keeps up their hot streak and we are here for it

” where the anxious exertion of sharp

singer-songwriter

” a bouncy auto-tuned pop song

It’s also striking just how much fun they seem to be having in the process

and their sixth album

Days was recorded over the course of five patient months in a remote New Paltz

Brute teeters between rage and despair

and GOOD LUCK spans from lucid

but they infiltrate any comparison to shoegaze with overtures to disco

since these recordings began

raising dogs and children