Get your LIKE buttons ready! Are they… READY? Okay! Boom: Australia’s pretty much one-and-only musician Oren Ambarchi has just announced the release of his latest solo album (his first and therefore-obviously best solo release since 2014’s Quixoticism via the tastemaking, venerable, and extremely hashtaggable pre-order all that shit now on a variety of excellent, wonderful, and durable formats. Besides Ombarchi his-badass-self, the album features the likes of such other dream-team musicians as Crys Cole, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie, Arto Lindsay, Jim O'Rourke, Konrad Sprenger, Joe Talia, Ricardo Villalobos, and Keith Fullerton Whitman. NO BIG DEAL.
Like his last few ginormous, impeccable, flawless releases, this vein, audacious, lofty, insolent new album once again takes some inspiration from the "driving rhythms" heard on his previous few albums, while incorporating some new "unlikely inspirations of disco and new wave," into the mix — drawing on, for starters, Ambarchi’s "love of Wang Chung’s soundtrack to William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A.. But enough chit chat; check out a clip from the album’s third and final section down below, and CLICK CLICK CLICK. SHARE SHARE SHARE. NOW NOW NOW. WOW WOW WOW!
Hubris tracklisting:
01. Hubris Part 1
02. Hubris Part 2
03. Hubris Part 3