DAMN, Peggy. Frankly, we could just end the post there with a video embed for posterity, because JPEGMAFIA’s output speaks for itself ‘round these parts as of late. Veteran landed on our list of 50 Favorite Releases last year, with “Baby I’m Bleeding” finding a home on our 50 Favorite Songs mixes.
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I’ve always said, “Why limit yourself to a single selection of five fingers and a palm when you could simply double-fist the year of 2019?” I say this because I assume this is the question Big Thief asked themselves when they decided one year-defining album wasn’t enough for them in 2019 — like an unquenchable college student unaware of their tolerance limit, they wanted more. Hence Two Hands, the record to complete the set, out October 11 on 4AD.
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Hesitation is the trick to clowning around. It’s the confidence in taking the next step in twisting exactly the unexpected into genuine. Find symbols that aren’t in any way symbolic. Looking over your shoulder into the darkness around the corner. A shadow, hazy approaches and it’s a fucking roach in the candle-light your wife lit a minute ago, or so. And the roach is looking at you. Or it’s a waterbug. Suddenly it’s in your mustache. Across your fingernails. Backflips mid-air onto the table, gives you an opposable two-thumbs up. So you thinking, “Yo, roach!” *point to roach w/ gun-fingers*
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Styles: waiting for the bus, smoking a Newport on the stoop
Others: Gil Scott-Heron, Ariel Pink, Standing on the Corner
The sun is filtering lightly through the curtain, but you don’t want to wake up. The sheets have long been flung off the side of the bed. You’re groggy. What time is it? Hell, what day is it? There’s something playing on the radio. Can’t really make out what it is. Ah, well. Time to eat. There’s a really nice smell of waffles coming from the neighbors. Damn, forgot to buy groceries. Better go out. Shower, shower. The flow of water cascades off your skin, begging reinvigoration. It wants you to be well. We all do.
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We pay tribute to the Silver Jews and Purple Mountains artist
“People ask people to watch their scotch
People send people up to the moon
When they come back, well there isn’t much
People be careful not to crest too soon”
– Silver Jews, “People”
More about: David Berman, Purple Mountains, Silver Jews
FYI: the storming of Area 51 next month is absolutely expected lift the veil on aliens and alien technology, so there’s certainly a limited amount of time before the allure of the Universe is ruined and people remember Carl Sagan as a well-intentioned, but ultimately know-nothing dude who did much to popularize the turtleneck.
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Styles: shh
Others: ahh
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RED TEXT = Félicia Atkinson quotes from Tiny Mix Tapes interview
ORANGE TEXT = Félicia Atkinson quotes from A Closer Listen interview
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Recital have announced their latest slate of LP releases for September, among them rare documents of long buried and forgotten sounds from radical creators.
More about: Adriano Spatola, F. Tiziano, Geoffrey Hendricks, Julien Blaine, Paul Vangelisti
“Irony, like any other thing, is a critical tool […] it’s been most important when people are selling a lot of bullshit, and no one’s calling it bullshit.”
– David Berman
From Drag City:
We couldn’t be more sorry to tell you this. David Berman passed away earlier today. A great friend and one of the most inspiring individuals we’ve ever known is gone. Rest easy, David.
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