Here in North America, the days quietly shorten and rust. It’s (unofficially) autumn, and Phil Elverum is a restless bird on the move; scattering as he arcs over the land the intensely personal — and yet, publicly arresting — artifacts of his recent emotional/musicological excavation.
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Lee Noble nobly announces new tape release, The Hell of You Come In, to the delight of all ye young sirs/maidens
I don’t know what the reason is for the society-wide, apparent allergy to compact discs, but I predict that in less than a decade, people will be re-clamoring for CD-RW drives as an inexorable rebellion to the CD’s undeserved shunning (and because the vinyl hip-ly purchased nowadays will sound like shit by then due to lack of care).
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Alex Cameron Forced Witness
Styles: “I understand songs to be short stories.”
Others: the life of Bunny Munro, Hemingway as male impersonator, competitive yacht rock
[in which the listener bears Forced Witness to the accelerating Descent of Man in the internet age]
[in resemblance to this Witness and in regard to its lineage, we survey stories of the personae of postmodern masculinity:]
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Mount Eerie
Murmrr Theatre; Brooklyn, NY
“I’m sorry to do this to you all. Thanks for coming. It’s complicated.”
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Danish producers Why Be and Backtearer share new collaborative mixtape on Janus
BOING…
BOING…
Can you hear that? The bells are chiming. The thurible swings back and forth. The mass is back in session. There must be a new holy new mixtape out now on Berlin’s venerable Janus label. And this time, the celebrants are the pair of stellar Danish producers Why Be and Beacktearer.
More about: Backtearer, Chino Amboi, Why Be
Femminielli Noir Échec & Mat
Styles: hypotaxis
Others: Charles Baudelaire, Bernardino Femminielli, Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, N-Prolenta, John Wiese
“Often, to amuse themselves the men of the crew
Lay hold of the albatross, vast birds of the seas-
Who follow, sluggish companions of the voyage,
The ship gliding on the bitter gulfs.
Hardly have they placed them on the planks,
Than these kings of the azure, clumsy and shameful,
Let, piteously, their great wings in white,
Like oars, drag at their sides.
This winged traveler, how he is awkward and weak!
He, lately so handsome, how comic he is and uncomely!
Someone bothers his beak with a short pipe,
More about: Bernardino Femminielli, Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, John Wiese, N-Prolenta
Lil Uzi Vert Luv Is Rage 2
Styles: rap, a push to the edge
Others: Playboi Carti, Lil Yachty, XXXTentacion
Someone had to take the year; why not Lil Uzi Vert? After an impossibly quick rise to prominence in 2016, Uzi’s become the de facto big-budget feature for any artist looking to boost a prospective single or romance the legion of rap fans activated by the emergence of SoundCloud as the genre’s proving ground. In this way, Uzi stifles his competition by making himself an indispensable part of their successes.
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♫♪ More Eaze - “fleabag in D”
More Eaze’s Marcus Maurice adds a pantomimium flourish to Phinery’s ten tape strong August batch launch with his compulsively jaunty “fleabag in D.”
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Yves Tumor signs to Warp and surprise-releases new album Experiencing The Deposit Of Faith; can I get an “Amen?”
Dude. Mondays can be rough shits, can’t they?…Especially when you take that first sip of freshly brewed drip coffee in the morning only to realize that you accidentally ground-up a bunch of Cocoa Puffs instead of coffee beans (again).
Luckily, Turin-based, Tennessee-born musician Sean Bowie — a.k.a. Yves Tumor — a.k.a. the world’s “grooviest” ambient artist — has your groggy ass covered this afternoon with with not one but TWO exciting announcements guaran-damn-teed to get your blood pumping and your pupils dilating.
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Traxman envisions new Tekvision LP on TEKLIFE (can probably see into the future as well)
It’s essentially a kung-fu movie archetype: the arrogant, young fighter arrives on the scene thinking that he (well, typically “he”) has all of the answers and that he can kick anyone’s ass basically by virtue of an inherent gift. Not long after, some elder and experienced mastah appears in order to humble the brash individual by means of a very physical reality check.
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