Screenshot of Ivan Jandl in the trailer for The Search by There Stands the Glass.
Top Ten Albums (released in May, excluding 5/28 titles)
1. Sons of Kemet- Black to the Future
Reclamation.
2. St. Vincent- Daddy’s Home
Shine on you crazy diamond.
3. Cake Pop- Cake Pop 2
Greasy art-kid stuff.
4. Alan Jackson- Where Have You Gone
Hardcore honkytonk and sentimental slow dances.
5. Georgia Anne Muldrow- Vweto III
Ancient to the future.
6. Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall- The Marfa Tapes
Bleary singalongs.
7. Young M.A.- Off the Yak
Still thirsty.
8. Carlos Niño- More Energy Fields, Current
Ethereal electricity.
9. Blob Castle- Music for Art Show
10. Fatima Al Qadiri- Medieval Femme
It’s a new age for New Age.
Top Ten Songs (released in May, excluding 5/28 titles)
1. Olivia Rodrigo- "Brutal"
“I can’t even parallel park!”
2. Saweetie- "Fast (Motion)"
Commotion.
3. Tony Allen featuring Danny Brown- "Deer in Headlights"
Dream pairing.
4. Coi Leray- "Bout Me"
What you know?
5. Rhonda Vincent- “What Ain’t to Be Just Might Happen”
Risk management.
6. Grupo Firme and Lenin Ramírez- "En Tu Perra Vida"
Wobbly.
7. Tigran Hamasyan- "Revisiting the Film"
Instant replay.
8. Lana Del Rey- "Blue Banisters"
Splintered.
9. Frank Sinatra- "All or Nothing at All"
Frankie goes to the disco.
10. Lil Baby and Kirk Franklin- "We Win"
Gospel truth.
Top Ten Movies (viewed for the first time in May, in lieu of live music)
1. The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Anthony Quinn and Ann Magnani reckon with fascism.
2. Julius Caesar (1953)
“The nature of an insurrection.”
3. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg/The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
4. Odd Man Out (1947)
The implosion of a terror cell.
5. Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Inhibition paralysis.
6. Paisan (1946)
Hallucinatory sketches of war.
7. The Audition (2007)
Opera documentary with a tragic postscript.
8. The Search (1948)
Montgomery Clift in post-war Berlin.
9. Abba: The Movie (1977)
S-O-S.
10. I Care a Lot (2020)
Capitalist degeneracy.
April’s recap and links to previous monthly surveys are here.