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After a humdrum start to the summer serenades, this weekend raised the roof as three top musicians dropped long-awaited albums in style.
Post Malone, Travis Scott and Carly Rae Jepsen dropped their latest work and are sure to be making appearances on summer party playlists until well past the end of the season of sweat.
The long-awaited Travis Scott album Utopia
arrived with fury and a feature film.
Not only did the lead single K-Pop feature two of the biggest artists right now - the Weeknd and Bad Bunny, Utopia was also released alongside a companion movie Circus Maximus directed by the American rapper.
The album features an all-star lineup of artists including Beyoncé, SZA, Bon Iver, Drake, Sampha, Young Thug, Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and Future.
Let’s just hope a line-up this good is able to collectively wipe our memory of the last time Travis Scott was in the headlines - the 2021 Astroworld crowd crush.
Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen dropped her seventh studio album The Loveliest Time, as a companion piece to her 2022 album The Loneliest Time.
The 13-track, 44-minute dance-pop album, features her new single Shy Boy. The musician worked with James Ford, John Hill, Patrik Berger, Rostam Batmanglij, Kyle Shearer and others to bring the album to life.
The musician has said the album was “sort of the completion to The Loneliest Time”, adding that the songs were inspired by “fantasies” about being able to “travel again and fall madly in love and live life like it’s an adventure.”
And last, but far from the least, bringing his fifth album Austin to the public is everyone’s favourite Malone.
The new album comes midway through his full-band tour and hears the American singer-songwriter get reflective.
Named after his real first name, the album takes a very different approach than Twelve Carat Toothache.
The 51-minute 17-track album roves between multiple genres and features Post playing guitar on every single song, and describing the outcome as the “most challenging and reward music” he had ever made.
Its lead singles Chemical, Mourning and Overdrive have already been making the rounds, as the musician embarks on his summer North American tour.
