Brooklyn-based transcendental black metal quartet Liturgy are back with their first new release since 2015’s The Ark Work. The eight-minute “God of Love,” which it is TMT’s honor to premiere here, is an absolutely searing return to form that sees the band dishing out some of their most hard-hitting and emotional music to date.
More about: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Liturgy
Lower Dens Jana Hunter talks lyrical directness, coercing his godson, and new album “The Competition”
Jana Hunter talks lyrical directness, coercing his godson, and new album “The Competition”
Returning from a three-year absence, Lower Dens have outdone themselves again with their new album The Competition, out Friday, September 6 on Ribbon. Its 11 infectious, sophisti-pop songs are a thing of wistful yet grounded interior grandeur. They’re sturdy enough to serve as endearing meditations on this essential/impossible human feat of juggling both our suffering with exuberance and our succinct expression with ecstatic abandon.
More about: Jana Hunter, Lower Dens
Lil B drops 50-track mixtape, The Hunchback Of BasedGod
Reunited and it feels so good! To no one’s surprise, Lil B, Caillou’s favorite rapper, has released another mixtape, this time one-upping his last tape (28 Wit a Ladder) by 8 tracks to reach Ultra BasedGod status of an even 50 cuts.
More about: Clams Casino, Lil B
Loscil Equivalents
Styles: ambient, drone, minimalism
Others: Stars of The Lid, Christina Vantzou, Eluvium, Deadbeat, Pop Ambient, Dedekind Cut
Steadily active since 2001, Vancouver musician (and VG sound director) Scott Morgan’s Loscil project has given us one immaculate ambient album after another. Although it still sounds amazing (“Emma” in particular remains a potent, solace-instilling slice of brain raki), First Narrows and its skittering dub have since nearly folded into a templated sort of bed/study music role. But so has Eno’s ambient work. Both artists make albums that are somewhat utilitarian in a fashion that befits their chosen genre.
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Khruangbin Hasta El Cielo
Styles: dub
Others: Scientist, Lee “Scratch” Perry
No topic is ever exhausted. There is always another voice, another way to voice. An iteration might literally arrive on the wispy tail of a reverberation or inspirationally from the ghosts riding that same trail. We wonder, what was its origin? And from where? And/or. In the space of that dash, in one more laterally elliptical, Hasta El Cielo stretches out as/in an unending echo.
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Kanye West reportedly releasing new album Jesus Is King next month
THIS JUST IN: Everybody’s favorite “On Sight” rapper is reportedly releasing a new album next month, and it’s NOT the much-delayed Yandhi.
According to a tweeted image by the “Black Skinhead” rapper’s wife, Kim “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” Kardashians-West, the “I Am A God” rapper appears to have a new project coming called Jesus Is King, and it’s out September 27.
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Favorite Rap Mixtapes of August 2019 From hip-hop’s “Sung Tongs” to a magical blend tape to something coughed up by the Matrix’s SoundCloud
From hip-hop’s “Sung Tongs” to a magical blend tape to something coughed up by the Matrix’s SoundCloud
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: AM, Casino, Channel Tres, DJ Prince, Elucid, NAPPYNAPPA, Tisakorean, YVNCC
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Klein announces new album Lifetime, performance at London’s Serpentine Galleries, shares track “Claim It”
Hypermagic audio allstar Klein has returned with a new album called Lifetime // and a performance of the same name.
The album hits on September 6 through ijn inc. // That night, she’ll be delivering “a multisensory performance” at London’s Serpentine Galleries, and later at Poland’s Unsound festival.
The record is an intimate experience, like “giving someone your diary,” according to Klein. // The performance explores “the fragility of one’s culture through memory and loss using this performance as a tool of preservation.”
More about: Klein
Ziúr announces new album of “intersectional support,”ATØ on Planet Mu
Despite her reticence to use the phrase, Ziúr spoke fondly of “safe spaces” (or “bubbles”) in a recent interview, so maybe it’s no surprise that the Berlin-based producer would use her second full-length on Planet Mu to celebrate WORLDWIDE inclusion.
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“Kamala Harris rap:” JPEGMAFIA announces new album by enlisting gallery of kinda famous musicians to take a dump on it
Of all the rap tropes Peggy “JPEGMAFIA” Peggyson has devicefully inverted over the years, egoism has paid off maybe the most. After all, who doesn’t want to enlist a bunch of famous dudes to talk trash about your album like it’s the worst thing they’ve ever heard? Wait, is this a DIY band dominatrix thing? That’s actually a cool idea.
“The fake Death Grips shit was working but now what-what are we on, what, what is????” -Kenny Beats
More about: JPEGMAFIA
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