♫♪  Hasufel - LORD OF CARRION

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Like a candle flickering in that deep, cold dungeon hole, horizontal — dim but luminescent as a lightning bug, limp. A candle that’s moving more than just by a chill breeze: pacing. Smoke rising out from the gnarled, crusted lip, gently caressing the charred moss. Incantations gurgling in throws of grim doom, shadowed upon noir kept outlines of Helmut nodding. Roots and chains entombing a lockedness with nature. Attune with Earth’s center. The center of this rot. LORD OF CARRION arises from an unlit cauldron bubbling acid, antifreeze, and chili peppers.

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Animal Collective to enjoy their roots and have some fun-fun-fun-fun performing Sung Tongs in full at “Pitchfork’s 21st” concert

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Animal Collective to enjoy their roots and have some fun-fun-fun-fun performing Sung Tongs in full at "Pitchfork's 21st" concert
Congratulations! YOU just won a rabbit!

Welp. Pitchfork reached drinking age this year, and accordingly, the Most Trusted Voice in Music is celebrating with a good-old-fashioned rager at which none other than Animal Collective have been wrangled to perform their 2004 music blog-cred-establishing smash Sung Tongs from start to finish. Yeah. Holy shit.

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Beck Colors

[Capitol; 2017]

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Rating: 1.5/5

Styles: pop
Others: Maroon 5, Coldplay, Phil Collins, Ed Sheeran, Black Eyed Peas, Sting

Beck Hansen is an artist who has spent over two decades sculpting his brand by drawing a core identity through endless pastiche, reference, and re-interrogation. As such, it seems unlikely that he would emerge on his 12th full-length with a sound so alien and intentions so indiscernible that he challenges his own chameleonic legacy. The change of tide at work on Colors is unlike the previous shifts that have come to define his career. It’s no transformation; it’s a break.

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Sufjan Stevens announces tiny mix tape The Greatest Gift, shares Chocolate Grinder-ready “Wallowa Lake Monster”

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Sufjan Stevens announces tiny mix tape The Greatest Gift, shares Chocolate Grinder-ready "Wallowa Lake Monster"

The expanded universe around Sufjan Stevens’ excellent — some might even say seventh best album of 2015 — Carrie & Lowell continues to grow. After translating that album’s intimate melancholy into an electric (in multiple senses of the word) live show with this year’s appropriately titled Carrie & Lowell Live, Stevens has now announced The Greatest Gift.

More about: 900X, Doveman, Helado Negro, James McAlister, Roberto C. Lange, Sufjan Stevens, Thomas Bartlett

Mana Creature

[Hyperdub; 2017]

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Rating: 3.5/5

Styles: synth, abstract
Others: Vaghe Stelle, One Circle, “bass music”

Daniele Mana’s debut speaks with silence. Like his One Circle collaborator Lorenzo Senni, he cuts it with the stuttering build of trance lead or, like some of his new Hyperdub labelmates, with the tactile quake of sub bass. It lives as much in that silence as in those sharpened figures; his tracks feel variably like attempts to isolate and grab hold of an invisible tension. The sliding melody and siren-like flourishes of the opening “Fade” evokes the SOPHIE of Bipp/Elle, another artist with mastery over silence and sonic punctuation.

More about: Mana, Vaghe Stelle

Rabit announces new album Les Fleurs Du Mal via Halcyon Veil

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Rabit announces new album Les Fleurs Du Mal via Halcyon Veil

Next month, electronic composer and producer Rabit will release his sophomore album. It’s titled Les Fleurs Du Mal, which we of course all know is French for “The Fleurs Du Mal.”

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Prurient preps MASSIVE new album Rainbow Mirror on 4xCD and 7xLP

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Prurient preps MASSIVE new album Rainbow Mirror on 4xCD and 7xLP
Future release planned on 12xVHS and 38xGameboy Cartridge? (Photo: Sven Marquardt)

Today, loyal TMT heads, allow me to satisfy your Prurient interest with the thrilling news that Dominick Fernow (known coincidentally as Prurient) has a new album of titanic (but not quite James Cameron’s Titanic) proportions, sporting the tantalizingly evocative title of Rainbow Mirror.

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Miley Cyrus Younger Now

[RCA; 2017]

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Rating: 1.5/5

Styles: “You can tell the world you never was my girl/ You can burn my clothes up when I’m gone”
Others: Minitrue, Bret’s Blend® diet TROP-A-ROCKA, “Waiting on the World to Change”

“NOBODY’S PERFECT”

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Dean Blunt to debut an opera called Inna, music by Mica Levi

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Dean Blunt to debut an opera called Inna, music by Mica Levi

Grab your cocktail dress and the fattest blunt you can find, dear readers, because Dean Blunt is taking us out on a night at the opera. Earlier today, Hyperdub announced that the London artist has written and directed an opera called Inna.

More about: Dean Blunt, Mica Levi, Micachu

Burial continues flurry of shorter releases, previews first EP for NonPlus Records, Pre Dawn/Indoors

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Burial continues flurry of shorter releases, previews first EP for NonPlus Records, Pre Dawn/Indoors
So that's what Four Tet looks like!

It’s never any fun to advocate resignation, but…when 10 years come and go following the latest Burial LP, it just might be time to give up hope. Just like how it might be time to give up hope for a selfie of the man that doesn’t pre-date the term, and which is awkwardly used everywhere these days because it’s the only non-candid photo we’ve got of the contentedly private musician.

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