3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Aesop Rock, Swans, and Matt Berninger
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This week we’re highlighting new music from Aesop Rock, Swans, and Matt Berninger.
Aesop Rock – Black Hole Superette
Aesop Rock returns with Black Hole Superette, a surreal, self-produced odyssey that dives into the invisible forces and fleeting moments shaping daily life. The album plays like a lucid dream with dense, layered verses that are packed with little mini dictionaries of imagery and insight. Whether unpacking the quiet absurdities of modern existence or bending language into new forms, Aesop delivers one of his most technically refined and emotionally resonant works yet. With contributions from Lupe Fiasco, Armand Hammer, Open Mike Eagle, Homeboy Sandman, and Hanni El Khatib, Black Hole Superette buzzes with kinetic energy and curious detail, further cementing Aesop Rock’s role as hip-hop’s most inventive linguist.
Standout Songs: ‘Secret Knock,’ ‘Checkers,’ ‘So Be It,’ ‘Send Help,’ ‘John Something,’ ‘Bird School,’ ‘Charlie Horse,’ and ‘The Red Phone.’
8.6
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Swans – Birthing
Swans return with Birthing, their seventeenth studio album and a monument to the end of an era. Sprawling, relentless, and transcendent, the 115-minute opus marks frontman Michael Gira’s final foray into the immersive “all-consuming sound worlds” that have defined the band’s post-2010 rebirth. Developed across a year of live improvisation and meticulously sculpted in Berlin studios, Birthing fuses Swans’ ritualistic intensity with flickers of a more austere future. Gira, backed by longtime collaborators and guests like Jennifer Gira, Lucy Kruger, and Laura Carbone, presides over this sonic invocation with grim grace. Accompanied by the bonus concert film Swans Live 2024 (Rope) and a documentary on Gira’s solo tour, the release feels like a ceremonial closing chapter.
Standout Songs: ‘The Healers,’ ‘I Am a Tower,’ ‘Red Yellow,’ and ‘(Rope) Away.’
7.9
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Matt Berninger – Get Sunk
Matt Berninger’s Get Sunk is a quietly devastating and deeply human second solo album—an elegy for identity, purpose, and the search for meaning in life’s murky middle. Emerging from a years-long creative fog following Serpentine Prison, Berninger crafts songs that drift between memory and self-examination, backed by a subtle but star-studded cast dubbed the “Saturday Musicians.” With production from longtime collaborator Sean O’Brien, Get Sunk moves with surprising versatility—from the haunting slow burn of ‘Nowhere Special’ to the starkly tender ‘Junk’ and the existential ache of closer ‘Times of Difficulty.’ Berninger’s baritone remains the axis around which these meditations turn, revealing an artist still unraveling what it means to keep going, to ask for help, and to find beauty in both the descent and the recovery.
Standout Songs: ‘Indian Ocean,’ ‘Bonnet of Pins,’ and ‘Breaking Into Acting.’
7.4
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