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Daryll-Ann, eefje de visser, floating points, Leon Bridges, Nilüfer Yanya, tindersticks, wilco

Eefje de Visser, Daryll-Ann, Tindersticks, Floating Points

Ruben Van Dijk |

Album of the Week

With Bitterzoet (2020), the genesis of Eefje de Visser the Popstar was complete, but after a whopper of a tour - complete with light show and choreography - she still picked up the acoustic guitar. For the first time in years. Instead of pop in the now, she suddenly looked for a timeless kind of intimacy - à la Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac and Weyes Blood. That doesn't change the fact that Heimwee continues to groove, wave, flicker and sparkle. This is still an album that makes itself big and then embraces you intimately. The melancholy is, as is often the case with Eefje, in the theme. She is getting older, has a family, has doubts, sees time passing by. Enough to ponder and then quietly dance away. CD / LP
  For the first time since Promises (2021), his masterpiece with Pharaoh Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra has Floating Points completes an entire album. It's not like he's taking it easy. Cascade had to get back on the dance floor, be progressive and remind us of the youth of the man from Manchester, who grew up with J Dilla, Autechre and Factory Records. CD / LP
Tindersticks kept their fans on their toes in recent years. No Treasure But Hope went back to basics, Distractions turned everything upside down. The new album Soft Tissue is now tasked with finding the golden mean. With horns and a not insignificant contribution from singer Gina Foster, it sounds warm, lively and just familiar enough. While the band worries about the future, they hold their own well. CD / LP
For a band that hasn't made music together for twenty years, Daryll-Ann sounds on Spring as if they only had a May holiday in between. The individual band members haven't been sitting still and know how to find each other again. Rippling folk, catchy alt-country and the occasional nice bit of noise - and just the right amount of everything. We know why we loved them again. CD / LP

Nilüfer Yanya also sometimes wonders: who am I? The English singer has been impossible to pigeonhole for three albums. Is it soul? R&B? Pop? Indie rock? My Method Actor offers no answers, but shows all the more that it doesn't matter. What you hear is rock solid. That is partly thanks to Wilma Archer, who also produced the genre-crossing work of Sudan Archives and Jessie Ware. CD / LP
Of course, there's more that came out this week: Snow Patrol 's first album in six years: The Forest Is The Path ( CD / LP ); London Grammar confirms on The Greatest Love that it could continue for another forty years ( CD / LP ); and Porches puts grunge, flat electronics and piano ballads through the blender on Shirt '90s ( CD / LP ).

Pre-orders

At his peaceful fourth, soul singer Leon Bridges is just Leon (October 4). CD / LP
For the first time Wilco ventures into Hot Sun Cool Shroud (November 29) seriously to the art of the EP - with success. CD / LP
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