Think of all those Twin Peaks fans last night, expecting campy scenes and cute banter between familiar faces, hoping for meme-able quotes about coffee, cherry pie, and owls. Instead, for the relaunch of Twin Peaks, we were treated to new characters, new locations, horrifying mutilation, and a whole lot of The Red Room. It was incredibly dark. It was unnervingly quiet.
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Elysia Crampton releases new album Spots y Escupitajo, TMT struggles to relay that information to you in as pure a form as possible
Elysia Crampton has a new album out!
Did you know?!
Maybe you did. Maybe you didn’t. For a person like me, there’s no way of telling. Your experience is inextricably separate from mine. Why can’t we know one another. You and me. I wish to reach you. I write to you, to tell you. Know that Elysia Crampton, formerly E+E (as “we” journalists like to make note of), has a new album out. It’s called Spots y Escupitajo.
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Felicia Atkinson Hand In Hand
Styles: noise of things, poetry of things, bass
Others: Delia Derbyshire, Robert Ashley, Joan La Barbara, Douglas Kahn, Francis Ponge
“Unlike the ashes that make their home with hot coals, snails prefer moist earth. Go on: they advance while gluing themselves to it with their entire bodies. They carry it, they eat it, they shit it. They go through it, it goes through them. It’s the best kind of interpenetration, as between tones, one passive and one active. The passive bathes and nourishes the active, which overturns the other while it eats. (There is more to be said about snails. First of all their immaculate clamminess. Their sangfroid. Their stretchiness.)”
– Francis Ponge
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RVNG Intl. release limited-edition Peaceful Protest compilation benefiting LGBTQ Center, share Kate NV excerpt
RVNG Intl. has released a 3x cassette compilation featuring compositions from some of their favorite artists to benefit the LGBTQ Center of Durham, North Carolina called Peaceful Protest.
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Burial releases surprise EP Subtemple on Hyperdub
If you’re reading this, it’s too late: Burial and Hyperdub announced a new EP in the wee hours of the morning, and it’s already sold out. Titled Subtemple, the two-track release follows last year’s 12-inch called “Young Death / Nightmarket,” which was also intended to be a surprise but was accidentally sold early in Toronto’s Sonic Boom record store. So, still a surprise, but mostly for the artist and label.
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Perfume Genius No Shape
Styles: romance, pastiche
Others: Jenny Hval, serpentwithfeet, Weyes Blood, Kate Bush, Sade, Prince, Cocteau Twins
Something is happening, isn’t it? Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas has a longstanding love of David Lynch. If the content varies, heart-tones resonate between them: weird breaks within conventional structures, a sense of play amidst extreme disquiet, the psychic battle of self-destruction and self-preservation, a dream logic as the undercurrent for telegraphed surprises, and an earnest, if heightened and campy, belief in love’s fantasy. A vision of light.
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“To me, music shouldn’t be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you’re sitting in a room, writing songs, it’s a completely different process. It’s a completely different place. It’s a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”
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Forest Swords Compassion
Styles: syncretic dub, dust, fernfoot and free
Others: Ennio Morricone, Susan Sontag, Lindow Man
We’re all good people here, right? We would all upright an overturned tortoise on the side of the road, but would you succor blind Bartimaeus? When the orphans of Jerusalem ask for bread, would you break it unto them? When your promised enemy collapses in the heat, would you carry water to his lips? Are you content, tuned into the jeremiad of nightly news?
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You know how things are going these days. Society seems to be anticipating automation as the widespread usurper of many traditionally human-powered jobs — which, in my case, fortunately just means that I won’t have to encounter those judging eyes every time I request “no mustard” on my fast food sandwiches (Seriously, do these cashiers belong to some new religious denomination that uses “Heinz” instead of water for its zealous daily baptisms?)
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Oneohtrix Point Never scores Robert Pattinson thriller Good Time; listen to his track with Iggy Pop
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