2018-09-20 Entertainment Weekly

Josephfires away on lead

single “Levitate,” melding old-

school hip-hop with futurism.

“Don’t feed me to the vultures/

I am a vulture who feeds on pain.”

—Marissa R. Moss

LOOK NOW

10.12

For his first album with the

Imposters since 2008, Elvis

Costello has lined up some

impressive collaborators,

including legendary songwriters

Burt Bacharach and Carole

King. Of course, Costello and

his impeccable band of musi-

cians—keyboardist Steve Nieve,

bassist Davey Faragher, and

drummer Pete Thomas—

are no slouches themselves.

Judging by the high caliber

of songs that have preceded

the album—the slinky-

to-insistent, piano-driven

rocker “Unwanted Number”

and the high-kicking and

sly “Under Lime”—fans have

plenty toLookforward to

from the always sharp Rock &

Roll Hall of Famer.—Sarah Rodman

THE ATLAS UNDERGROUND

10.12

Tom Morello and his Marshall-

stackrifs have recently been

pummeling audiences via Proph-

ets of Rage, the rap-rock super-

group he formed with his Rage

Against the Machine bandmates

(sans Zack de la Rocha), Public

Enemy’s Chuck D, and Cypress

Hill’sB-Real. The guitarist’s not

done throwing curveballs, how-

ever: OnThe Atlas Underground,

his latest solo efort, Morello

shepherds DJs (Steve Aoki), rap-

pers (Killer Mike, RZA), and rock-

ers (Gary Clark Jr.) on a gnarly,

sonic adventure. Even when a

guest steals the shine (Vic

Mensa on “We Don’t Need You”),

guitar licks always set the table.

Still, it’s Morello and his cohorts’

shared fearlessness fueling this

free-for-all.—Dan Hyman

A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS

NOVEMBER

titled—I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, gave theMan-

chester alt-pop band something they’d never achieved before inAmerica: a No. 1 album.

Two years later, the group is set to release itsmuch-anticipatedfollow-up,A Brief

Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The new record will touch on darker themes than pre-

vious efforts, as lead singer Matty Healy recently revealed he spent time in rehab in late

2017 for heroin addiction—a battle that will surface on the yet-to-be-released track

“It’s Not Living if It’s Not With You.” If the first three singles are anyindication, though,

A Brief Inquiry will also push the band into new sonic territory, as they experiment with

everythingfrom trop-house to throbbing, classic guitar-inspiredriffs, all while main-

taining their signature ’80s synthsound. There’s allegedly more tocome, too, as the

1975 have already teased their fourthalbum,Notes on a Conditional Form.—Ilana Kaplan

Way Back]”), and celestial synths

(“Night-Time Walkers”) make

for one of the year’s most intri-

cate, head-spinning listens.

—Dan Hyman

TRENCH

10.5

From complex, ominous videos

to recurring colors—yellow, spe-

cifically—Twenty One Pilots

(the Ohio-bred duo of Tyler

Joseph and Josh Dun) have been

building the narrative for their

forthcoming fifth LP,Trench,

with maximum impact in mind.

Expect Joseph and Dun to con-

tinue being masters of vacillat-

ing between complex synths

and threadbare melodies full of

intoxicating space, doubling

down on a palpable sense of

unease with the world around

them. “This culture is a poacher

of overexposure/Not today,”

Ross MacDonald, George Daniel, Matty Healy, and Adam Hann

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