10 best songs and clips of the week

The choice of "jellyfish": rowers about light, James Blake about cars - as well as a female manifesto against violence

Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs and watch new clips to select the best from them - and explain what they are notable for. This time is the return of Boris Grebenshchikov and James Blake, as well as the best people of modern techno, indie rock and neoclassicics. And now you can subscribe to the playlists in Apple Music and Yandex.Musik !

BG "Dark, like night"

The new album of Boris Grebenshchikov will be released in mid -February and will be signed by his own name. The plate “Time N” is called - as almost the first song in the repertoire of BG, which cannot live without obscene vocabulary. Judging by the new thing that appeared last week, “dark as night”, Grebenshchikov again wrote gloomy and sonorous songs about discord in the heads and feelings of compatriots - that is, he did what no one can do better.

James Blake "If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead"

The return of a delicate British, who greatly influenced the sound of modern pop music-in the range from Beyonca to the Naadi group. Moreover, he also returns to his own roots: most of all this trembling angular song, where the melody is collected from fragments of Fonham, resembles Blake's early things when he preferred constructivist operations over his voice. And good.

Migos "Stir Fry"

The MigOS group from Georgia-the American state, which in recent years in conveyor mode supplies the new hip-hop stars and is largely responsible for the heyday of the trapp genre (this is when there are a lot of percussion, exclaiming interjections and general dancer). Last year, Migos, who popularized the so -called triplets , became superstars thanks to the Bad & Boujee Hit - and now the success of the new album of Culture II. Yes, it sounds like the rest of the fashionable rap; The distinctive properties of the song “Stir Fry” are as follows: it was produced by Farrell Williams, and the clip was a real movie with references to Asian militants.

Listen to the album of Migos "Culture II" entirely: Apple Music ,Google Play , Yandex.Musicism

NILS FRAM "MOMENTUM"

Of course, we agree with Alexei Aigi in his assessment of “neoclassicians”, but among the people who are ranked to this movement, there are worthy writers. German Niels Fram, a specialist in all kinds of keyboard instruments, does not expose the beauty of his music, is distinguished by a delicate approach to sound and builds compositions like buildings: they have the same combination of monumentality and grace as in the best samples of modern architecture.

Listen to the new album of Nils Fram "All Melody" whole: Apple Music , Google Play

"Malbek" "Plaks"

For the past couple of months, the Malbek group regularly finds it in the upper places of the Russian Apple Music charts - it's time to get acquainted if you are not yet. The duet of two young people from Kutuzovsky Prospekt performs the beautiful languid songs of the inhabitants of a large city, burdened with thoughts and feelings, and actively cooperates with a good singer Suzann. In the “Plugs” (this is the title thing of the last album “Malbek”, released in the fall), however, she does not sing - but she virtually curses obscenities, playing the role of the girlfriend of the protagonist.

Attention! Before the song in the video, they swear a lot.

DJ Koze "Seeing Aliens"

The German Stefan Kozalla is one of the most popular modern electronic workers, and the profile of his music is easiest to understand from the list of his friends: Caribou and Apparat were recorded on the previous plate with him, on the future (it will be released in May), Justin Vernon from Bon Iver, Royshn Murfi and Jose Gonzalez. In other words, a goat brilliantly knows how to combine intelligent softness with a disco scope, a melody with dance clarity, thought with a sad; And this thing is a great example of this: it goes eight minutes, but it does not have time to bore at all.

Alice Glass "Cease and Desist"

Last year, Alice Glass, the former Crystal Castles vocalist, accused her Itan Kata group in sexual and physical violence (he denies everything). “Cease and Desist”-a song-rush, a song- a manifesto , a song-crick: two minutes of hard noise pop music with a refrain “You must fight”.

Daniel Shayk "Compass1"

Daniil Shaykhinurov (aka Daniel Shayk) - one of the most interesting multi -martens of young Russian music: he used to be responsible for the sound in the OQJAV group, made an elastic secular disko in the La Vtornik group; He is half the group of "we", which has been able to in a terrible situation last week. The best way to support the musician is to listen to his new album “Petencing” (the name seems to be a commentary on the state of “we”, but this is inaccurate): it is a little chaotic, but very inventive alternative R direction with a bunch of witty finds; In this song, for example, the tenacious pop-dumping is great to combine with a confessional-exciting ramp in the spirit of Husky .

Listen to the album "parting" entirely: " VKontakte "

Django Django "Tac Tac Toe"

A peppy and very British guitar song for those who miss the heyday of the retroum of the mid-2000s. The Londoners Django Django, of course, have a smaller aplomb than the heroes of those years, but this is for the better - now he would not be very out of place. Both the clip and the song came out a couple of months ago, but they illustrate the new album of the Marble Skies group clearly - although the slow songs are also good there.

Listen to the new Django Django album "Marble Skies" whole: Apple Music , Google Play

Hop Along "How Simple"

A very good new song is a very good, albeit not very noticeable group of Philadelphia: a semi-acoustic indie rock of the kind that remains almost unchanged since the beginning of the 1990s-and still manages to get directly into the heart.

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Alexander Gorbachev