Selective Listening | Iron & Wine and Fiona Apple, Nick Cave and Corridor

Every week, our music journalists add songs to the playlist of The Press on Spotify. Here are three recent titles that are in our selection.

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All in Good TimeIron & Wine and Fiona Apple

Iron & Wine – Sam Beam’s musical project – will release a new album (Light Verse, April 26) after a seven-year hiatus. And to be sure to attract our attention – which he already had – the one-man band shares the microphone with Fiona Apple on the second extract from his record, a folk-country piece released in recent days. The one who usually remains discreet between the releases of her always excellent albums shares more than the chorus with Sam Beam on All in Good Timewhich reminds us of the beauty and strength of her unique tremolo voice… Quickly, let’s dive back into her discography!

Wild GoldNick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The wandering ghost of the room Jubilee Street – that we knew on the album Push the Sky Away, released in 2013 – is back in this new song. He is still looking for a girl to love… who died in 1993, we learn. This twisted, sad story, written and sung by Nick Cave in voice, is the first extract from the new album coming at the end of August from his group, the Bad Seeds. Heavy drums, guitars, majestic choirs that rise above the music, as the Australian shouts “ I’m a wild God, baby, well, here we go “. There you have it: preacher Nick Cave is back in rock mode… and it feels great!

My moneyCorridor

We think of electro, and even dance, at the opening of the new piece by the Montreal group Corridor. Clean guitars, synth, robotic voice: the rock scents heard on previous offerings give way here to the new wave typical of the 1980s. Nice choice and a very good rendering. The quartet is performing this Saturday, March 9 at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Mexico City, and is part of the Quebec delegation at SXSW next week, with three concerts planned in Austin, Texas. His fourth album, Mimi, will be released on April 26 and already the rumor is good. Yes, we haven’t stopped hearing the sound of Corridor in 2024 (excuse us).