


Maybe we’ll even get some of those long-teased albums from our biggest stars, like Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, and Adele. As we quickly approach a full year of staying at home, we’ll still be looking to music for these experiences in 2021, and music will still be there to provide them - whether in the form of new releases by exciting up-and-comers or, uh, a Drake album. When big-ticket albums like Fiona Apple’s years-in-the-making Fetch the Bolt Cutters and Taylor Swift’s surprise quarantine albums folklore and evermore came out, it felt as if the whole world paused to listen in on the same night, translating the feeling of a listening party at a club or a festival set to online spaces for the age of social distancing (which you should still be doing, ahem).

Speaking of which, you can also check out the album art below.Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photos by YouTube and DNCC/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockĬollective experience was hard to come by in 2020, except when it came to music. From the photos below, it was a sight to behold. Even though the first show from this tour saw Monáe sidelined due to illness, and the second postponed, Kimbra still put on a valiant solo set in Melbourne on Saturday. Kimbra is currently touring around the country with Janelle Monáe. Mark Foster of Foster The People also features on the song’s chorus. “We loved it and dropped it straight into the mix”. “The next morning Matt had sent back an obnoxious detuned guitar part for the pre-chorus,” Kimbra says. While in the studio, producer Rich Costey sent a copy of the song to Bellamy to see what he thought.

Instead of making the track a throwback musically, I wanted it to feel like a nod to the past from a futurist perspective.” “I am always attracted to the meeting place of light and dark, sweet and sour - the juxtaposition of angular sounds and head-crushing distorted elements sitting alongside a breathy bubblegum vocal. “90s Music embraces so many things I like to explore musically,” Kimbra says.
