It’s been just about a year since U.K. producer Zomby dropped his album Ultra on Hyperdub, but how much longer will we have to wait for him to once again rise from the dead? Well, hopefully you’re pretty good at identifying rhetorical questions, because the king of the jungle(-influenced dance music) is ALIIIIIIIVE! once again with a brand new EP: GASP! (AH!) on Big Dada.
As always, Zomby’s is carefully cultivating an air of mystery surrounding this thing. Here are the details:
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Arcade Fire Everything Now
Styles: indie rock, dance-rock
Others: Occupy Wall Street, www.tumblr.com, Abba
The despair of Everything Now is compelling, because it’s familiar. It’s the same despair that we feel every time we clock in for work or check our phones — it’s the despair of knowing on some level, perhaps subconsciously, that we’re somehow out of touch with what it means to be alive, to be happy, to be free. We live largely confined lives, spending our waking hours participating in culture, trying to make ends meet, and, to paraphrase Kanye West, checking Instagram comments to crowdsource our self-esteem.
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Sheer Mag Need to Feel Your Love
Styles: rock, DIY, guitar, punk, lofi
Others: Cheap Trick, A Giant Dog, Royal Trux, The Band, Steppenwolf, Thin Lizzy, Diarrhea Planet, Alabama Shakes, The Stooges,
Need to Feel Your Love, Sheer Mag’s first full-length, is perhaps this year’s most calculated and thoroughly effective summer album. By moving through a consistent array of riffs, hooks, and grooves, Sheer Mag augment their previously thin discography with little variance from the path.
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Danny L Harle “Arbitrarily pursuing the ‘new’ is nearly always a bad idea.”
“Arbitrarily pursuing the ‘new’ is nearly always a bad idea.”
Danny L Harle is one of the most celebrated artists on the PC Music label, based on a string of deadly singles and collaborations with everyone from Panda Bear and Tinashe to Carly Rae Jepsen and Charli XCX. His first single, “Broken Flowers,” was what he called an attempt at writing a “completely conventional song,” but the SHAPE-affiliated artist has since branched out stylistically.
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Bandcamp is joined by over 200 labels and artists in donating Friday’s profits to the Transgender Law Center
Remember on Monday, when we reported that Bandcamp will donate 100% of its share of this Friday’s profits to the Transgender Law Center? Neither do I! I don’t read this piece-of-shit website!
Ducktails announces new album, Jersey Devil, shares lead-off single “Map to the Stars”
Stop me if you think that you’ve read this one before: Matt Mondanile is releasing new Ducktails music! But wait…Mondanile must have emptied out his Ducktails archives by now. After all, he’s already put out two compilations of fine, artisanal unreleased material this year.
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Offa Rex The Queen of Hearts
Styles: folk
Others: Fairport Convention, Anne Briggs, Ewan MacColl
As I walked out one morn in May, I came to a triple-forking road. The first path led to the sooty mouth of mines and to smoke-belching factories; the second to a clearing where a bloodied knife rested in the flattened grass; the third to a field of flowers lit by the rays of afternoon and to the golden hayrick.
More about: Offa Rex, Olivia Chaney, The Decemberists
Lil B finally unveils legendary Black Ken mixtape, shares seven songs from it, officially brings the art of music to its satisfying conclusion
WHO IS CRYING RIGHT NOW!!!! WHO IS CRYING!!!! NEW LIL B!! MUSIC!!!!!!! - Lil B
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor announce new album Luciferian Towers
On September 22, Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release a new album, their third since reuniting in 2011 and seventh overall. Co-produced and engineered once again by Greg Norman at Montreal’s Hotel2Tango, Luciferian Towers was created during GY!BE’s collaboration with the Holy Body Tattoo dance company and “spurred by the commissioning of new compositions memorializing the 100th anniversary of the WWI Battle of Messines,” according to the press release.
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Shabazz Palaces Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
Styles: future afros, drop top
Others: Agharta
“For me, narratives emerge subsequent to the work,” sezzed emcee and producer Ishmael Butler.
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