WHO: X
WHAT: Smoke & Fiction
WHY: Let’s round up the week with more X, shall we? It’s easy to point at bands that are still going and overstaying their welcome, but X certainly isn’t that. On Smoke & Fiction, the band shows they can still create inspiring and relevant music even at the end of their career. This album not only sounds like X, strutting and shimmying past rockabilly and punk rock, but it also sounds great: crisp and vibrant and full of life. It’s a shame seeing bands go when their creative juices are still so rich, but it’s always best to go out on top.
Listen to it here.
