All right, great albums time, everyone. Thank you very much for clicking on this video.

Hopefully I give you some solid recommendations here on some records that I loved from the past month or so. And yeah, just don't want any of these albums to slip through the cracks on you if you just so happen to miss any of these reviews.

Everything linked down below so you can check out my opinions and the albums themselves. Without any further ado, let's get into it.

BAM! Starting with this self-titled debut record from Curió Curió.

These guys are a Brazilian-German duo who absolutely smashed it out of the park on this record, bringing together elements of psychedelic rock and jazz fusion and funk and disco and samba, as well. It's just a beautiful vintage fusion of Brazilian sounds coming together in a really well-engineered and produced display with incredible vocals too. Very fun songs, very infectious grooves, definitely one of the best Brazilian LPs I have heard this year.

Also digging on this new short little collab from Kenny Beats or Kenneth Blume III and Mr. Denzel Curry coming together for ii, their second collaboration together. This one is just as brief as the last one, but it's better produced. The songs are a little bit more, I think, thought out and just all-around tasteful nods to their biggest influences, and it sort of seems like they take some time to really kind of delve into some Dilla vibes and some MF Doom vibes. It's a really fun, short, punchy little project with a lot of color and a lot of personality.

Also digging on this new Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal project, DOOMED!. Mike basically pulls together his best crop of songs, in quite a long time, in a series of tracks that are essentially about breakups of all types, of all stripes, heartbreak, anguish, separations of all kinds.

It's a very emotional record, very personal record, very funny record in a lot of its brightest spots as well, because Mike does have an incredible sense of humor, a dry wit about him and his writing. And of course, Kenny Segal's production just really can't be beat as far as a lot of this heady, abstract, underground hip-hop stuff goes these days. So yes, these two nailed it on this one. Shout out to them.

And also enjoying this new Swaggerboyz project. Argentina stand up! This thing is trippy, it's fun, it's zany, it's strange, it's fried as hell, it's terminally online, it's very fun. It is some odd, and I would say very catchy, hip-hop and a bunch of other things coming together on this short and crazy little record.

I actually got to put it on, again, it's been a minute since I put this one on, but I have very fond memories of it and plan on singing its praises once again on my year-end list. But yeah, this Swaggerboyz project, definitely spin it before the summer runs out, because this thing for sure is going to sound best in warm weather.

We also have the new Phoebe Bridgers album, Lost Weekend. Incredible singer-songwriter record, her best LP yet, and heartbreaking songs, incredible instrumentation, really digging into some of the emo and indie folk texts, the original recipes, I'll say, for this record. And some tracks feel futuristic, strange, and ghostly, as well.

It's a very unique album, almost feels like a tale of two albums combined into one, with some of Phoebe's most cutting, cutting lyricism yet. Phoebe Bridgers is the truth, that's all I can say, in addition to everything I have already said about this album.

Also digging on this new Ty Segall record, as well, Chrome. Giggens gave this one a review on the channel, but that's not because I'm not enjoying it myself. Ty essentially gets the band back together on this one, and honestly, that makes this record more of a momentous occasion than I thought it would be going into it.

I mean, Ty has been putting out some kind of cleaner and more detailed recordings and records as of late because he's kind of been putting his own studio together and focusing on just kind of like working out tracks that I think have a higher grade of sonic quality. And while that has led to, I think, a certain level of fidelity and a certain appeal in terms of the approachability of the sound of his recent albums, there's been, I think, like an explosivity and a rawness that has been missing a little bit from those records. But I think getting the band back together on this LP, and getting some live tracks recorded, and some energetic performances put together, has really made all the difference.

Not only that, but some of the guitar layering and vocal layering on this thing is very dense. It's very bright. It's very strange.It feels almost kind of surreal as well as hard rocking at the same time. There is a kind of a very odd ball quality to the tracks on this record. And yet, and yet, the performances still hit really hard.This is really Ty kind of going back to some of those garage rock influences, but with a weird, and I'll say again, explosive little twist, which I am appreciating.

And I also want to give a quick shout out to this Four Tet side project that I reviewed well over a month ago at this point, but I think I forgot to mention it in the last Great Albums video. But if you're looking for some electronic music, that's very heady, that's very diverse in terms of its range of influences, this is definitely the best crop of tracks Kieran Hebden has pulled together in a minute.

I usually do at the end of these videos, shout out some shorter releases that have been sticking out to me. But I have just one to throw your way, this new EP from Abracadabra. It's got like a weirdo pop, post-punk kind of flair, but there's also something about it that feels a little Tom Tom Club too, at points.

I mean, I feel like the art here almost gives that away a little bit in terms of a point of inspiration, but yeah, it's like some post-punky, oddball pop music. Maybe the Wet Leg fans will appreciate it as well, I think, but I'm really digging what they're doing on this little record over here. It's very fun, it's very quirky, it's very dry but still funny at the same time, and the grooves are undeniable. I will leave it there. So shout out to Abracadabra.

And that's going to be it. Great albums, projects that I want to push your way, I think are worth your time, and that is going to be it.

Anthony Fantano, great albums.