Sam Beam

When I began compiling these roundups a thousand years ago (or so it feels), I quickly realized that The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones were (and are) the four biggest names in the music-book game by a mile — nary a week goes by without a new title about at least one of them. But now, I see that I need to add a fifth musical icon to that list. Who? I’ll give you one hint: Their name starts and ends with T, and has an aylorswif in the middle. Congrats to her, I guess.

“Calming Night Partner,” the title track of Land of Talk’s forthcoming EP, is a tender song full of violence. Elizabeth Powell’s fuzzy, ’90s-inflected guitar strums quietly over a starry blanket of noise while they sing a series of terrifying questions: “Was it a knife fight? Was it a lifetime? Did she wear you down, wear you in, sacrificial?

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