Styles: pop, noise, podcast
Others: “Mountains of Serotonin,” Joanna Newsom, Airport
The self is always in fashion. If the Enlightenment is a lie, then so is the resultant individuation of everyday life; maybe fantasies and anxieties about individuality reproduce themselves, always deepened in significance by the appearance of complete novelty. As a thing obscured from view, a thing that visibly doesn’t want to be seen, the self is extremely avant-garde.
More about: Airport, Miranda Pharis
I’m sure I don’t need to explain this to TMT’s incomparably highly-educated and generously board-minded legions of followers…but I’ll scrub up my monocle, clear my throat, and do it anyways:
More about: Ducktails, James Ferraro, Typhonian Highlife
Styles: broken radio, fax machine, dial-up internet, CD skip, Napster noise
Others: what Girl Talk should have done, but who instead got naked on stage & made money
Apologies to anyone who’s had to interact with me in the past few years. I’m something different at this point.
More about: Splice Girls
Having grown up in Lausanna, Switzerland as a product of “mixed African and European heritage,” noise/electronic/sound-collage artist Bonaventure (a.k.a. Soraya Lutangu) knows firsthand that all the real-est, raw-est, juiciest parts of life on this shit rock called Earth are NEVER just one-way-or-the-other. Quite the opposite, in fact: the coolest and most interesting shit always seems to come to us as thrillingly mangled, bewilderingly fucked-up concoctions of sweetness and pain…sorrow and exuberance…love and hate.
More about: Bonaventure
Styles: art therapy, murderous refrain, Geographical Info
Others: Metal Clergy, The Winners, Midnite Society
It shouldn’t have come to this. When Roc Marciano dropped his official solo debut, Marcberg, in 2010 — first as an EP, then a few months later as a full LP — the work shouldn’t have been so widely, disgustingly unappreciated that I, at the age of 25, felt compelled to take up music blogging/journalism/criticism/whatever-you-call-this. This review of Rosebudd’s Revenge shouldn’t have to be a EUREKA! for you to get the message. And here we are.
“It is what it is, fuck what it could’ve been”
More about: Roc Marciano
Dedekind Cut was probably the single greatest producer to release an album packaged with a yoga mat in 2016. Yoga mat notwithstanding, DC’s album $uccessor and preparatory EP American Zen signified a pretty auspicious entry into the world of ambient electronica for the producer formerly known as Lee Bannon.
More about: Alex Zhang Hungtai, Dedekind Cut, Dirty Beaches, Lee Bannon
Styles: New York London Paris Munich
Others: Madonna, George Michael, Charli XCX
ARE YOU WASTING MY TIME? ARE YOU JUST BEING KIND?
More about: A. G. Cook, ABRA, Charli XCX, CupcakKe, Danny L Harle, Easy FX, easyFun, John Hill, Life Sim, MØ, PC Music, Raye, SOPHIE, Starrah, Uffie
For each year's first three quarters, we celebrate by sharing a list of our favorite music releases. Unlike our year-end lists, these quarter features are casually compiled, with an aim to spotlight the underdogs and the lesser-heard among the more popular picks. More from this series
From LAMPGOD & Lambkin to Charli XCX & Xiu Xiu
Three months in, and we haven’t destroyed ourselves! To celebrate this achievement, we’re once again sharing our favorite releases from the last few months. A lot of it is pretty heavy, focusing on grief (Mount Eerie), cruelty (Lawrence English), and self-loathing (Xiu Xiu), with other fun stuff like ritual guitar abuse (Skullflower) and the glowing horror of reanimation (Rashad Becker).
More about: Amnesia Scanner, Camedor, Charli XCX, Cybervision Simulcast, Dale Cornish, Dedekind Cut, Demdike Stare, Graham Lambkin, HIRS, Hyro, Jon Mueller, LAMPGOD, Lawrence English, Mount Eerie, Pinkcourtesyphone, Quelle Chris, Rashad Becker, Riddlore, Skullflower, Sun Araw, The Necks, Treece, We'll See, Xiu Xiu
For each year's first three quarters, we celebrate by sharing a list of our favorite music releases. Unlike our year-end lists, these quarter features are casually compiled, with an aim to spotlight the underdogs and the lesser-heard among the more popular picks. More from this series
From Slug Christ & Lil Durk to Truman Snow & CHXPO
With a cascade of releases spewing from the likes of DatPiff, LiveMixtapes, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud, it can be difficult to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. In this column, we aim to immerse ourselves in this hyper-prolific world and share our favorite releases each month. The focus will primarily be on rap mixtapes — loosely defined here as free (or sometimes free-to-stream) digital releases — but we’ll keep things loose enough to branch out if/when we feel it necessary.
More about: Caleb Giles, CHXPO, Devin the Dude, Lil Durk, Lil Uzi Vert, Slug Christ, The Noise Above, Truman Snow, ۞ pvps ۞
BEEEEEEEEEEP
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More about: Bill Nace, Borbetomagus, Edley O'Dowd, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Graham Lambkin, Hijokaidan, Jason Lescalleet, MV Carbon, Nate Wooley, Twig Harper, Yoshi Wada
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