Three For Thursday
Three songs that won't leave my orbit from the last week
Three For Thursday is a weekly column where I talk about three songs that have been introduced to my ears in the past week and won’t leave my conscience. They can be newly or recently released or new to me songs.
“Big Box Black Dress” by Riggings.
‘It’s Amelia doing Bowie goes Berlin!’ I exclaimed to my friends + the artist herself when I first heard the single from her new mixtape The Subject Was Faggots out today. It sounds cheap as hell — pretty sure those are Garageband drums and just some keyboard patched sax — but I wouldn’t want it any other way. Amelia is one of my favorite musicians here in the Triangle, and one of the few I have been able to befriend living here. She has been doing this a long time under a few different monikers, but Riggings is here to stay. An exciting follow up to last year’s Egg and a peak of what may be to come on her 33rd trip around the sun.
“Gethsemane” by Car Seat Headrest.
I cannot lie that I wasn’t really looking forward to new music from Will Toledo and his conspirators, but this 11-minute epic has proven me wrong. Though the album cover for The Scholars isn’t my cup of tea, I am certainly here for this rock opera they’ve cooked up. Sure, it’s no “Destroyed By Hippie Powers” or anything from Monomania, but to me seems like a bit of a course correction after the Making a Door Less Open detour.
“Ends Meet” by Panda Bear.
Who knew that divorce could sound fun? It sounds peaceful and equally like a goddamn beach party when it comes to Sinister Grift and this choice cut from Panda Bear’s latest. Within this album, he’s joined by every member of Animal Collective, Cindy Lee, and his new love Rivka Ravede from Spirit of the Beehive(!?) Whatever he’s doing, keep these vacation vibes going — this is certainly my favorite AnCo adjacent moment since “Brother Sport” took over everyone’s subconscious in the late ‘00s. As they protagonist refrains in this song, “what else can I do?”