GGET FAMILIAR: Week of April 22, 2019
COMING SOON: AJR
Release Title: NEOTHEATER (LP)
Release Date: Friday, April 26, 2019
What To Expect: According to their Spotify profile, “AJR feature the talents of the Met brothers, Adam (vocals/bass), Jack (vocals/guitar), and Ryan (guitar/piano/vocals), who grew up in New York and got their start busking around the city.” The electronic-influenced indie-pop power trio lean on their tight familial bonds and abundance of talent to pump out smash hits that help them gain popularity by the second.
The band has come a long way from their humble beginnings of first recording in their at-home studio built in their parents’ living room to racking up over 390,000,000 streams alone on their song “Weak” and having a Rivers Cuomo- assisted tune in 2017’s “Sober Up.” It’s been an incredible rise to the top that couldn’t have happened to three nicer guys, with the group even lending their song “Burn The House Down” to the March For Our Lives campaign last year to help effect change on their own terms. As Ilana Kaplan wrote in Rolling Stone, “The energetic track, meant to reflect the current American political climate, has been adopted by [the campaign], appearing in the announcement video for the organization’s ongoing Road to Change tour.”
These three brothers will continue to dominate the airwaves when their next album NEOTHEATER hits shelves this Friday.
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LOCAL LEGENDS: Soduh
Release Title: TOP CROC (LP)
Release Date: Saturday, April 27, 2019
What To Expect: You have to earn your keep in Baltimore, and the city’s residents can sniff out a phony in no time. For the last few years, Baltimore’s buzzing hip-hop scene has been consistently pumping out gritty, grimy hits that reflect the blue-collar mentality of Charm City. At the forefront of this new wave of young, hungry MCs is Soduh, AKA The Alligator.
His snarled lyrics and smoothly-delivered flows paint a hyper-realistic picture of a city that’s still struggling to cope with its demons. Despite all the issues facing his hometown, Soduh still sees a light at the end of the tunnel for East Baltimore. He uses his platform to speak truth to the things he sees on a daily basis and to showcase the city’s vibrant culture, “from the way we walk, talk, the chicken boxes we eat, to the beautiful neighborhoods where the most ugliest things happen in” (Noisey). His next project, TOP CROC, is dropping this Saturday. Expect an album of trapped-out songs that touch on the trials and tribulations of daily life in Baltimore, and expect the city’s Top Croc to make his presence felt all summer 2019.
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WILD CARD: Yeek
Release Title: “Too Fast” (Single)
Release Date: Friday, April 26, 2019
What To Expect: South Florida’s own Yeek lets it be known that he isn’t here for standing in place on the opening of his insanely catchy single “Shake,” proclaiming:
“Let’s shake (hey!) Let’s take a ride (yo!) I’m not (hey!) Made out of time (yo!)”
Writing for Pigeons & Planes, Graham Corrigan said, “[Yeek] is an artist born from [the] DIY SoundCloud culture who's been writing, producing, and mixing a unique collection of heartfelt indie-rock songs for years,” and the musician’s sincere songwriting and willingness to be vulnerable allows his music to connect deeply with his fans.
He makes music that resonates with any millennial still trying to figure out this whole thing called life. Like on the mellowed-out “I’m Not Ready,” where he effortlessly details the hilarity that ensues at his local stop of the phenomena that is Emo Nite, while simultaneously talking through his thoughts of not feeling ready for the commitments that come with a serious relationship. The duality of his songs shows a maturity rarely seen by someone his age, and his many talents should take him far.
He took to Instagram last week to announce his next work, a song titled “Too Fast,” will be dropping this Friday with a video to match.
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- Matt Singer
