• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Travel
  • Sports
  • Law/Justice
  • Celebrities
  • Film/TV/Stream
  • Republicans
  • Madonna
  • Books
  • Men
  • Trans Rights
  • Tech/Science
  • Royals
  • Monkeypox
  • Cruise review, Apollo Theatre: As fresh and relevant as It’s A Sin
  • Lee Pace confirms he tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Matthew Foley
  • Strippers bid to unionize in Los Angeles

NEW MUSIC: Beth Ditto, Lorde, Cathedrals, Keep Shelly In Athens

Michael Fitzgerald June 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

Beth Ditto - Fake Sugar

This week in New Music: A sort of grown up Beth Ditto (above) is back with her first solo album, Lorde contemplates life on Melodrama, Cathedrals are all about the gooey electro pop and Keep Shelly In Athens are more laid back for album number three.


Beth Ditto – Fake Sugar

Beth Ditto - Fake Sugar_2Although former the Gossip member Beth Ditto’s Fake Sugar notches up influences that seem to take in everything rock and pop released in the 1970s and 1980s, her first solo album is a true breath of fresh air.

Between the rock swagger there are occasional ballads of all things on Fake Sugar.

While pop-rock songs like “Savoir Faire” are somewhat vapid and Ditto is perhaps not sure if she want to be Katy Perry or Pussy Riot, stormers like “Oo La La” make up for any shortcomings.

video
play-rounded-fill
Link
typorama 6 copy


Lorde – Melodrama

LordeNew Zealand’s Lorde aka Ella Yelich-O’Connor took on the persona as the thinking person’s Taylor Swift when her 2013 album Pure Heroine emerged as if from nowhere.

Which is at best very unfair to Swift especially as Yelich-O’Connor seems to have taken the almost-comparison on board for her second album Melodrama.

While Pure Heroine was all about the star struck ingenue on the outskirts looking in, Melodrama is about the shit storm that came in the album’s wake.

Gone are the hip-hopish influences to be replaced with genius pop in all it’s glory. Opening track “Green Light” is massive pop with echo chorus and all, “Liability” is a perfectly assembled ballad and closing track “Perfect Places” sums up Lorde’s experiences. Everything in between is also expertly plotted but with great feeling.

video
play-rounded-fill
Link
typorama 6 copy


Cathedrals – “With You”

Cathedrals - “With You”Electro pop duo Cathedrals are back with their latest track “With You.”

Like Lorde’s Melodrama, “With You” is as perfect as pop can get. A romantic, dreamy number, the duo are concerned with “the sense of comfort and peace you find when somebody ‘feels like home’ to you.”

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/328053242″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]


Keep Shelly In Athens – “Leave In Silence”

keep-shelly-in-athens1And in a good week for female-fronted electro pop, we finish up with “Leave In Silence” by Greek act Keep Shelly In Athens.

Armed with a new singer for album number three Philokalia, the lead track has a touch of 90s-era downtempo releases from the likes of Air and Moby.

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/327694368″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

Topics: Music, towleroad More Posts About: Beth Ditto, Cathedrals, Entertainment, Keep Shelly In Athens, Lorde

Related Posts
  • Beth Ditto, Escaped Bible Belt, ‘got to make music… being openly queer, being fat and being femme,’ Felt Duty To Help Teens Come Out
  • Gay Volcanic Wedding; Lena Waithe; Ricky Martin; Special; Willow Smith; Marvel Pride; The Last of Us; Chelsea Manning: HOT LINKS
  • Report: Popular Video Game Valorant Rumored to be Adding LGBTQ Pride Items in June
  • Lee Pace confirms he tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Matthew Foley

    Lee Pace confirms he tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Matthew Foley

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Lee Pace has revealed he’s married his longtime partner Matthew Foley. The ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ star not only confirmed he and the Thom Browne Vice President of Communications had tied the …Read More »
  • Strippers bid to unionize in Los Angeles

    Strippers bid to unionize in Los Angeles

    Published by AFP Strippers are not typically members of a union, but dancers at a club in Los Angeles are moving to change that Los Angeles (AFP) – Performers at a Los Angeles strip club took …Read More »
  • Giuliani testifies in Georgia criminal probe into 2020 U.S. election

    Giuliani testifies in Georgia criminal probe into 2020 U.S. election

    Published by Reuters By Maria Alejandra Cardona ATLANTA (Reuters) -Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer, testified before a special grand jury in Atlanta on Wednesday in a Georgia criminal probe examining attempts by the former …Read More »
  • U.S. prosecutors subpoena files given to Capitol attack committee -NYT

    U.S. prosecutors subpoena files given to Capitol attack committee -NYT

    Published by Reuters (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors examining the role of former President Donald Trump and allies in events ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have subpoenaed National Archives documents provided …Read More »
Previous Post: « Stonehenge, Downton Abbey, Facebook Pride, Hong Kong, Daniel Day Lewis, Versace: HOT LINKS
Next Post: ‘Don’t Give Up’ Joe Biden Urges LGBT Community: WATCH »

Primary Sidebar

Adjacent News

  • Biden signs $430 billion climate, healthcare and tax bill

    Biden signs $430 billion climate, healthcare and tax bill

  • Judge schedules Thursday hearing on motion to unseal Trump search warrant materials

    Judge schedules Thursday hearing on motion to unseal Trump search warrant materials

  • Dr. Oz Loses $5 Million Of GOP Campaign Funding In Pennsylvania As His Poll Numbers Continue To Plummet

    Dr. Oz Loses $5 Million Of GOP Campaign Funding In Pennsylvania As His Poll Numbers Continue To Plummet

Good Trash: Going to Read It Somewhere, Y’know

  • Gwyneth Paltrow is joining Shark Tank

    Gwyneth Paltrow is joining Shark Tank

  • ‘It’s Good To Be Loved!’ Ellen DeGeneres Celebrates Anniversary With Portia de Rossi After It’s Revealed She Won’t Be Invited To Ex Anne Heche’s Funeral

    ‘It’s Good To Be Loved!’ Ellen DeGeneres Celebrates Anniversary With Portia de Rossi After It’s Revealed She Won’t Be Invited To Ex Anne Heche’s Funeral

  • New Handwritten Notes & Letter Reveal Princess Diana Predicted She May Be Killed In A ‘Staged Car Accident’

    New Handwritten Notes & Letter Reveal Princess Diana Predicted She May Be Killed In A ‘Staged Car Accident’

RSS Partner Links

  • GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announces winners of its 14th Dorian TV Awards
  • See Luke Evans’ beach workout!
  • Coldplay's 'Humankind' Music Video Was Filmed at Their Mexico City Concerts - Watch!
  • “Rep. Liz Cheney lost her primary to a Donald Trump fanatic” links
  • People: The Cambridges still haven’t moved into Adelaide Cottage
  • Eiza Gonzalez Didn't Let a Foot Injury Stop Her From Attending the Day of Indulgence Party!
  • Jonah Hill Reveals He Will Not Promote His Films Anymore - Here's Why

Most Recent

  • Cruise review, Apollo Theatre: As fresh and relevant as It’s A Sin

    Cruise review, Apollo Theatre: As fresh and relevant as It’s A Sin

  • Lee Pace confirms he tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Matthew Foley

    Lee Pace confirms he tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Matthew Foley

  • Strippers bid to unionize in Los Angeles

    Strippers bid to unionize in Los Angeles

  • Giuliani testifies in Georgia criminal probe into 2020 U.S. election

    Giuliani testifies in Georgia criminal probe into 2020 U.S. election

  • U.S. prosecutors subpoena files given to Capitol attack committee -NYT

    U.S. prosecutors subpoena files given to Capitol attack committee -NYT

  • Florida prosecutor suspended by DeSantis over abortion stance sues to regain job

    Florida prosecutor suspended by DeSantis over abortion stance sues to regain job

  • Once hated by the left, FBI is now US conservatives’ evil demon

    Once hated by the left, FBI is now US conservatives’ evil demon

  • Proud Boy files to run for a Sacramento-area school board. The GOP isn’t supporting him

    Proud Boy files to run for a Sacramento-area school board. The GOP isn’t supporting him

Most Commented

Social

Twitter @tlrd | Facebook | Instagram @tlrd

Footer

Copyright © 2022 · Log in

×