Styles: batucada, tech-house, echolocation Others: the Amazon rainforest, Nosferatu
Menacing howls in the rainforest wind summon nocturnal creatures that surface under the moonlight, parading ritualistically to the solemn beat of beasts. The biological clockwork of the earth-bound and the sky-bound aligns — harmonizing claws and paws, maws and their gnashing jaws — to produce this organic rhythm, but their grand exhibition of synergistic affinity taunts the resentful feral inbetweeners of Aesopian fable: bats — neither of the earth nor the sky, but jealous of both.
1. O Vento Chama Seu Nome
2. No Meio Da Noite
3. Condenado Por Un Idioma Desconhecido
4. Algo Ou Alguém Entre As Árvores
5. O Som De Ossos
6. A Magia Do Rei II
7. Em Que O Rio Do Mar Se Torna
8. Vagalumes Piralampos (feat. Arto Lindsay)
Black Zone Myth Chant preps Feng Shen on Editions Gravats/Hospital Productions, premieres full albumBlack Zone Myth Chant preps Feng Shen on Editions Gravats/Hospital Productions, premieres full album
I think the gods are pissed. And who could blame them? We humans are a bunch of screwups, almost constantly getting ourselves into near irreversible trouble. On his last album as Black Zone Myth Chant, the impeccable 2015 release Mane Thecel Phares, Max P a.k.a. High Wolf focused on an earlier bunch of screwups: the biblical Israelites.
Styles: alt-country, indie rock, folk rock, sam elliot monologue-core Others: Silver Jews, Wilco, Bright Eyes, Big Thief
Authenticity can be an affectation like any other. The common presupposition goes that music with a more ostensibly traditional grounding is automatically more honest, that the presence of perceived “rootsy” elements (read: slide guitar) augurs a singular kind of artistic vision, one liberated from ponderous boardroom graphs and the specter of surplus-value.
Styles: hyper! Others: Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro
Follow the veins for buried treasures! A biology of musicianship approaching the behavior of bacteria; white blood cells that, when whispered awake, fight off infections like seagulls woven into sea-waves, dipping and dipping and dipping and morphing and morphing and morphing until a door opens in this free world, this costume party. A delta of welcomeness, hypertexts mapped as MP3s, claymation MechWarriors, pianos and hedgehogs and mallets and chihuahuas and an airborne noise tinkling in the nighttime of your organs. Plunge!
Given the label’s refreshing modesty, which frequently aligns with the breathable sounds emanating from a good portion of its concrète catalog, one could’ve easily expected Kye to drift away in quiet, dignified silence.
When you listen to any of John Kolodij’s releases under the High aura’d moniker, American Primitive mixes with scorched blues rippers, subtle drone freakouts, and dark ambient excursions. For fans both old and new, Kolodij’s latest LP, and first for Seattle’s Debacle, No River Long Enough Doesn’t Contain a Bend, is as accomplished a record as he’s ever released.
PC Music’s GFOTY preps the greatest greatest hits album GFOTYBUCKS, shares video for new song “Tongue”PC Music’s GFOTY preps the greatest greatest hits album GFOTYBUCKS, shares video for new song “Tongue”
Every day, GFOTY goes to work hoping to do two things: share smash hits with her fans and flirt with a bunch of hot guys. It was true when GFOTY’s “Friday Night” streamed in 2012, and it’s just as true today.
Back then, GFOTY was just Polly-Louisa Salmon from London. From a small internet storefront, she offered some of the world’s finest fresh-roasted whole bean smash hits. Her name, possibly inspired by Moby’s dick, evoked the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of early music listeners.
Vektroid has announced a new album titled Seed & Synthetic Earth. The nine-track release is described as “The Second Prelude,” which serves as a spiritual follow-up to 2016’s RE•SET, a.k.a. “The First Prelude.” Both releases act as preludes to the long-anticipated Vektroid album, No Earth.
Hanz announces synergized pair of cinematic EPs on Tri Angle Records; Plasty I due out in JanuaryHanz announces synergized pair of cinematic EPs on Tri Angle Records; Plasty I due out in January
Hey, nice: another release from Durham, North Carolina-based producer Brandon Juhans a.k.a. Hanz. The last time that we heard from him was a few years ago, when he was garnering name recognition courtesy of his first LP on the Brooklyn-based Tri Angle label.
