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MUSIC FEATURE visit stack.com.au E T A D O T R A E Y E H THE A+ CUTS OF T o the very biggest and This month we’re delving back int sure to include any gems best titles of 2022 so far, making around – and you could you may have missed first time as to boot! glean a few Father’s Day gift ide Words Zoë Radas FEB The year started out with the heftiest one-two punch possible for the tailend of your summer: Korn reminded us what metal had been missing: “[Requiem] emphasises the two pillars on which the band’s enduring clout rests: their mastery of dynamics, and the nasal necromancy of Jonathan Davis’s voice,” STACK‘s Zoë Radas wrote. Then came Slash’s latest belter with Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, 4 – the recording of which, Slash told us in a hilarious interview, was an “orgasmic experience.” STACK‘s Bryget Chrisfield declared her joy at Slash’s guitar wizardry, praising his “scuttling-tarantulalevel phalange dexterity.” It wasn’t long before the homegrown heavy 12 AUGUST 2022 st214_089-088_CoverFeature-PROOFED-AF.indd 1 hitters leapt into the charts, in the form of two groups: one legendarily brilliant, the other settling into their freshly-established iconic status. The first is, of course, Midnight Oil, with their immediately thrilling Resist. “Forty years after the classic 10 to 1,” STACK‘s Jeff Jenkins wrote, “Midnight Oil are still delivering songs for the head and the heart, ‘standing up to those who sell fear’, making the listener think and dance. It’s a potent mix, and no one does it as eloquently or as powerfully as Midnight Oil.” Right on, brother! The second Aussie band who flung fresh wares in late February was Gang of Youths, led with typically triumphant abandon by frontman Dave Le’aupepe. “Exposing raw nerves to the world and holding tight to your hand through the seemingly impossible recovery, [Gang of Youths] make every moment feel like a personal conversation between friends who are processing the pain together,” STACK‘s Jacqui Picone wrote. “angel in realtime. is a masterpiece of fear, grief, forgiveness, identity, family, and above all: love.” MAR On to March, when Papa Emeritus IV (Tobias Forge) presented us with an album “bathed in the thurible-smoke of history and glinting with the reflected horror of present day” (so Zoë wrote): Impera presented a freshly inspired epoch for Swedish melodic metal barons Ghost, which ripped up JB’s vinyl chart like a machete through butter. Later on that month, our ears were gifted two jewels in the calmer jbhifi.com.au 26/7/2022 10:58 am
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