Listen to some of the best new recordings here. Classical Music: 2021 was a year of reawakening for the art form.Jazz Albums: Even the big-statement albums this year had a feeling of intense closeness.Pop Albums: Recordings with big feelings and room for catharsis made the most powerful connections.Best Songs: A posthumous political statement and a superstar’s 10-minute redo are among the 66 best tracks of 2021.We’re just stopping touring, and stopping producing albums.”įrom Lil Nas X to Mozart to Esperanza Spalding here is what we loved listening to this year. “We don’t have any problems in the band,” Janove Ottesen, the group’s singer and principal composer, said in a Skype interview from Stavanger on Friday. After a run of European festivals and nine valedictory performances in Stavanger, where it is based, Kaizers Orchestra is packing it in - or at least taking an open-ended break. And while most groups’ debuts are introductions meant to build new audiences, the Kaizers’ Met performance - its only American date - is also its farewell. The group, a Norwegian alternative-rock sextet whose music is an idiosyncratic amalgam of Scandinavian and Eastern European folk influences filtered through high-energy blues and metal, has had big musical ambitions: its last three albums were installments of “Violeta, Violeta,” a complex rock-opera that involves a dysfunctional family, Satan, vodka and a hefty dose of magical realism (a mother and daughter who can communicate only in dreams, for example).īut though it has a huge following in Scandinavia and devoted audiences elsewhere in Europe, the group is virtually unknown in the United States, probably because it performs only in Norwegian. As high-profile debuts go, the circumstances could hardly be odder for Kaizers Orchestra’s first American performance, on Thursday evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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