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The Album Leaf & Nicole Miglis, ‘Turns’
The Album Leaf is Jimmy LaValle’s longtime instrumental project, but its next album, scheduled for October, embraces guest vocals. Nicole Miglis, of Hundred Waters, promises support and reassurance in “Turns,” but there’s a condition: “I believe in you — if you believe in me,” she sings, adding, “I’ll be there to catch you/We can take turns.” The track accompanies Miglis with metronomic beats, glimmering electronics and a patiently repeating ascending scale, even as she wonders, “Can we break this cycle?”
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Tara Clerkin Trio, ‘Lazy Daisy’
Some of Britain’s most atmospheric, open-ended music has emerged from Bristol, England, the home of Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead. Tara Clerkin Trio, a Bristol group named after its singer and lyricist, joins that heritage with a penchant for loops, spaces and silences in its studio constructions. An unhurried bass vamp, subtle syncopated percussion and occasional guitar strums carry “Lazy Daisy” from the trio’s new album, “Somewhere Good” — a song that hints at drudgery and alienated labor, impassively observed. “Broke your back dragging your dreams/down the same old street,” Clerkin sings. “No surprise to see you cry.”
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Leenalchi, ‘Here Comes That Crow’
The centuries-old Korean tradition of pansori — epic stories in now-archaic Korean, performed by a singer and a drummer — gets a newer, funkier beat in the music of Leenalchi. It’s the latest history-warping group created by the composer Jang Young Gyu, who also led SsingSsing and has written scores for major Korean films. The lyrics to the title track of Leenalchi’s first U.S. release, “Here Comes That Crow,” are a fragment of a pansori saga. Between high and low riffs from two basses — Jang plays one of them — and hovering synthesizer tones, three enthusiastic singers share rhythmic, venerable poetry.
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What’s on the Charts
Riley Green, ‘Think as You Drunk’
The country singer and songwriter Riley Green has three songs in the Hot 100. “Change My Mind” from his 2024 album, “Don’t Mind if I Do,” is at No. 24, while two songs from his next album, slated for September, are at No. 70 (“My Way”) and No. 91 (“Think as You Drunk”). In the country-rock “Change My Mind,” he not-so-reluctantly invites a seduction; in “My Way,” a wistful ballad with a serpentine guitar line, he pines for a second chance with an ex. His newest — and most fun — single is “Think as You Drunk.” It borrows a Toby Keith tune (“As Good as I Was”) to set a different barroom scene. With garbled syntax, the narrator is protesting a cutoff that’s probably way too late: “I know I can’t stand or sit/But if I was hammered could I dance like this?” A woozy fiddle and some splashy piano stoke the honky-tonk spirit, and a sampled vocal from Keith reclaims his song at the end.
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What’s New in Instrumental Music
Charles Lloyd, ‘Jai Ganga’
In 2009, the saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd visited India to perform with his skeletal trio, Sangam: just Lloyd, the Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain and the American jazz drummer Eric Harland. Indian musicians sat in and joined Sangam for recording sessions in Mumbai that will be released July 24 as “Sangam & Friends.” But this advance track is just the trio at its most buoyant and percussive. Lloyd delivers the traditional melody and some cartwheeling extensions, while the drummers generate crackling, sputtering, exuberant variations on rhythms that connect Mumbai to New Orleans.
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