Styles: spinners, hotep-horcrux, anti-gospel, #SUMMERmixtape
Others: #gold, Free Willy, Prurient, Asceticists 2006, my wheelchair mans selling AA batteries off a tray on 125th
Scratching at your face, yah. Just scratches, tho. Kill people moving up. Outside > SHOOOOOFFFFFFF:
CVS, Rite Aid, or Duane Reade is your pharmacy. This is where you pick up the physical of DJ Escrow’s Universal Soulja Vol.1. In liquid or gas. Off the shelf. And you’re elevated.
More about: Babyfather, DJ Escrow
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This year’s shitshow can’t be completely undone, but we are not beyond repair.
Styles: noise, industrial, spoken
Others: Suicide
Good thing it’s Tuesday and not MONDAY, cuz you’re gonna need all your wits about you in order to parse what I’m about to tell you, dear readers:
More about: Hype Williams
Consider your summer of radio jams and corporate-sponsored streaming playlists officially over, because the fine folks at PTP (f.k.a. Purple Tape Pedigree) have snagged the latest and greatest collaboration in the world of spoken word/field recording fusion, and it’s just the thing to ring in your post-summer highs. That’s right: it’s an LP from sound artist Jon Davies, a.k.a. Kepla, and music writer/media theorist/curator/TMT contributor DeForrest Brown Jr.
More about: DeForrest Brown Jr., Kepla
Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_IbIMUbh-k
Others: 22 Savage, Playboi Carti, Ugly God
Issa Album is post-everything. It’s post-fame: stylistically, 21 Savage was something of a blank slate with regards to the approach he might affect for a major-label debut; the album is marked in equal measure with the fingerprints of A&Rs and moments of indulgence in the styles and influences of artists that 21 Savage can now call his contemporaries (can you imagine “FaceTime” existing in a world where 21’s bizarre flirtations with Drake never occurred?).
More about: 21 Savage
“I want you to be in love with me forever.”
It’s less about the way you make things and more all the extra. I ain’t need extra-extra, extra.
“If you were to just look at me like you look at me now and when you’re happy, tho… in eternity.”
That’s never how it works.
“So what then *snot bubbles* where do, like…”
Accept your abandonment. Even in death, and all over mortality.
“Look at me, now, in this moment, baeee *quivers lip*”
I’m going to go to a motel.
“And all this?”
More about: Reef Frequent
Styles: Shibuya-kei, electro-acoustic, chamber pop, math rock
Others: Air, Jim O’Rourke, Haruomi Hosono, The Sea & Cake, Julia Holter, Thundercat
So, the world is lucky enough to have a new Cornelius album, and it is plush af. It’s also overflowing with ear-perking, fancy-tickling intrigue. Please do enjoy the fruits of Keigo Oyamada’s labor. Don’t call it a comeback, or a waftback, or a return to form or a formless return. But you wouldn’t ever do that, you beautiful, discerning aesthete, you! You’re gonna leave plenty of room for these waves to lap your outstretched toes and perhaps be a little bit better for it.
More about: Cornelius
In case you’ve been living under a rock (that doesn’t have WiFi), freedom-loving American people everywhere are currently pissed the fuck off at the fuck-censoring fucks at the FCC after they introduced a fucking bill back in fucking May that would roll-back existing net neutrality rules.
Styles: fantasy dispersed, sound songs, free-folk
Others: Animal Collective
The slow disintegration of what made Animal Collective such an invigorating and unexpected figurehead of 21st-century music has been one of the bigger letdowns of the past several years. I’m less confident that Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Geologist, and Deakin have much chemistry left in them as a group that also extends its welcoming hand to us, their smeared approximation of pop music only fleetingly tapping into the restless curiosity and peculiar simplicity at the heart of all their greatest work.
More about: Animal Collective, Avey Tare, Deakin, Panda Bear
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