The Waterboys enlisted a hearty cast of contributors for their new concept album, Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, which, per its title, was inspired by the legendary late actor. Fiona Apple features on one song, a ballad titled “Letter From an Unknown Girlfriend,” while Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Taylor Goldsmith, and others appear throughout the album’s whopping 25-song tracklist. Speaking of Dennis Hopper in press materials, the Waterboys’ leader Mike Scott said: “The arc of his life was the story of our times.”
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Barker: Stochastic Drift [Smalltown Supersound]
Barker beckoned his second album, the beguiling Stochastic Drift, out of a period of “significant and unpredictable events,” including the pandemic that left the British producer “unemployed and stuck at home for an indefinite amount of time,” he has said. A principle of uncertainty guides these songs through a network of playful melodies and nervous ambient explorations, producing a record as suited to a daydream as a dancefloor.
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Craig Finn: Always Been [Tamarac]
