INSTANT KARMA
Diamonds & Pearls
15 tracks of the month’s best new music
1 BIRDS OF MAYA Please Come In
Eight years after their last album, Jason Killinger, Mike Polizze and Ben Leaphart’s power trio are back with Valdez. The LP was tracked in 2014, but its fuzzy stoner-rock grooves, as heard here on the lengthy closer, are deliciously fresh.
2 FAYE WEBSTER I Know I’m Funny haha
The title track from the Georgia singer-songwriter’s fourth album hits hard despite its muted pedalsteel textures and languorous pace. As with Kurt Vile, there’s a whole world of evocative subtlety going on beneath the hazy surface.
Faye Webster
POONEH GHANA; EBRU YILDIZ; MELISSA PAYNE; SARITA McNEIL