The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is Chappell Roan’s debut album. It follows the story of Roan, an alternate persona for the singer born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, acting as an outlet for her fantasies as a queer girl.
Electra Heart is the second album by Marina and the Diamonds. Marina told The Sun that Electra Heart is a collection that, “personifies love and what you go through when your heart gets broken.”
Mild High Club’s second studio album, Skiptracing, is the follow up to their 2015 release, Timeline. Skiptracing is based around the idea of a private investigator who’s on a mission to retrace the “steps of the sound and the spirit of American music.”
Full of bright, brash, and loud orchestral scores and witty lyrics, Aim and Ignite was a different sort of pop when it debuted in 2009, and in hindsight perhaps heralded the rise of indie pop as a more mainstream genre in the early 2010s. Lyrically following the troubles associated with being in your early twenties, the album largely deals with things like relationships, or leaving home for the first time – and sometimes more often than not served with a small side of existential crises.
I Monster's third album, released in 2009, sees the band in their usual mood - playful psychedelic electronic new wave pop. A sixteen track affair: from the yearning but not-so-innocent-pop bop of 'A Sucker For Your Sound', through the dark twilight psych-dub of 'She's Giving Me The I', to the end of a lifetime sci-fi psychedelic bounce of 'A Pod Is Waiting'.
The album focuses on paranormal concepts and the occult. Additionally, it serves as a love letter to the 80s, both by way of emulating its aesthetics and by navigating the economic insecurities (“Reaganomics”, “I Earn My Life”) and technological advancements (“Cabinet Man”) of the decade.
