Styles: uninterrupted space, neo-guitar, marble countertop
Others: Vini Reilly, Jon Hassell, Torn Hawk, 91.5 Classical KUSC
Anxiety is inescapable. We live in a time when it is so deeply woven into the fabric of our society, so crucial to the operation of our grand social-industrial machine, that even the concept of peace or contentment can only ever exist as a corollary to the queasy, constant sense of unrest we all feel today.
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Frank Ocean has just shared a new song called “Chanel,” which you can find streaming below. It’s his first new track since last year’s incredible one-two punch of Endless and Blonde. The song was premiered on his Beats 1 radio show, titled “blonded RADIO.”
Find the tracks below, and try your best to follow along with the lyrics.
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Identity diffusion & inventive inconsistency in Future’s two new albums
“Ride on, King Jesus. No man can a-hinder me.” &c.
“I was but young when I begun. No man can a-hinder me.” &c.
– “Ride on, King Jesus,” trad. spiritual
“[The] elements which participate in the naming of the genre say nothing about the musical features, but maybe say everything about the pragmatics of the music.”
– Gabriele Marino
“Shit gettin’ too specific / 10 black whips, I’m too consistent.”
– Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn, “POA”
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Charli XCX has just dropped her new mixtape, Number 1 Angel, featuring 10 major hits from today’s hottest artists. WOW!
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☆*。★ﾟ*♪ヾ(☆ゝз・)ノ
More about: A. G. Cook, ABRA, Charli XCX, CupcakKe, Danny L Harle, easyFun, John Hill, MØ, Raye, SOPHIE, Starrah, Uffie
Styles: free improv
Others: The Necks
Unfold, Australian trio The Necks’ 19th release, is a challenging but eerily beautiful free-improv record doubling up as a critique of the album-form. Each of the four pieces — among the shortest the band have ever released — is the length of a side of vinyl, maintaining a constant state of tension without exploding into noise or virtuoso soloing. Since none of the tracks are given numbers, the album allows you to develop your own listening strategy.
More about: Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton, The Necks, Tony Buck
On May 5, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy will be releasing a new album titled Best Troubador, which consists entirely of Merle Haggard covers. It makes sense, considering Billy’s folky roots and his veneration of the country master, with whose music he has had an intimate relationship for over 25 years, so much so that his first public performance was a Haggard cover.
The covers included on Best Troubador are personal favorites of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and will span Haggard’s entire career, stretching from his third album (1967) to his forty-seventh (2011).
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Lookin’ luxe and tastin’ plush, Charli XCX returns on Friday with a new mixtape. Made in collaboration with A. G. Cook (some random dude with glasses), the Number 1 Angel tape features collaborations with MØ, Cupcakke, RAYE, Starrah, Uffie, and ABRA, as well as production from the likes of Danny L. Harle, SOPHIE, and John Hill.
More about: A. G. Cook, ABRA, Charli XCX, CupcakKe, Danny L Harle, easyFun, John Hill, MØ, Raye, SOPHIE, Starrah, Uffie
“I like when shit happens that I can’t control. If I had to think of every single fucking thing, then I’d be so bored.”
I‘m not sure when I first heard the music of William Basinski. I’m guessing it’s well over 15 years ago, but I honestly don’t remember. It’s a fitting confession to make for music that, to me at least, feels so absolutely free of time. William’s music floats not just in time, but between time, finding its way into and through our lives in ways that so much music does not. It exists across us, and within us, recurring at times and places we least expect it. That is indeed the beauty of his music.
More about: Lawrence English, William Basinski
Styles: dissonance, open fourths, musique concrète, maybe rock,
Others: Parquet Courts, Pile, 50 y/o Kurt Cobain, Naomi Punk, like uh The Velvet Underground, and ummm Swans I guess?
Los Angeles is getting warm again. With small foreshadowing glimpses of Southern California’s spring-summer continuum wafting in, a certain sweaty, raw sound feels in vogue, if only for a beat or two. New York avant-rock band PC Worship enter with the sticky, drowsy, detached Buried Wish. It’s hot and careless, and it runs on diesel. Motivation drips off of Buried Wish like the strength to run in a dream: you keep falling to and through the ground, maybe your teeth are falling out too, I dunno.
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“Low key plays a big part of it. I like soundtracking environments.”
The current crop of New Age and ambient projects emerging from the Bandcamp ether are mostly background noise, filler music for empty workdays or zone-out sessions at home. Tripp, ephemeral, forgettable…
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