Have you seen us here at TMT raving about Delroy Edwards and want to dive in, but are one of those folks who can’t go for — or won’t tolerate — an album over 18 tracks long?
Well, then the news is good for you friend, because Delroy Edwards has teamed with Mickey van Seenus to both form the duo Earth To Mickey and release Brace & Bit, an EP that’s only…
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More about: DELROY EDWARDS, Mickey van Seenus
Bon Iver announces new album, share tracks “Jelmore,” “Faith”
Bon Iver has a new album coming out and a weird relationship with commas.
Said album is titled i, i, and it’s releasing August 30; two new songs and videos have been shared along with the album’s announcement. They are “Jelmore” and “Faith.”
More about: Bon Iver
Anatolian Weapons To the Mother of Gods
Styles: electroorganic, psychedelia, LSD, not your regular folk, Greek™
Others: Can, Embryo’s Ni Hau, Lizard King
In William Gibson’s The Peripheral, an omniscient character, a post-human Pythia, recollects about the future from a past not their own: “Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.”
More about: Anatolian Weapons
Jenny Hval explores intimacy and pop on new album The Practice of Love, shares single “Ashes to Ashes”
If Blood Bitch was a “complete 180°” from Jenny Hval’s previous album, Apocalypse, girl, then what should we consider a new release that promises major-scale pop songs underscored by thematic love and intimacy in the occasional self-described “greeting card” sense of the concept?
More about: Félicia Atkinson, Jenny Hval, Laura Jean, Vivian Wang
GO EAT YOURSELF: Pharmakon announces new autocannibalist album Devour
If you’ve been waiting for this, then you’ve probably just been waiting for permission. Permission to gnaw that node, chew that tendon, taste that tibia. Well, it’s here, folks, and it’s being delivered (by Margaret Chardiet, of course) on a pulverizing platter of sonic aggression and the auditory equivalent of blood and guts. Mmm-mmm good!
More about: Pharmakon
Blood Orange announces Angel’s Pulse mixtape
So, I was just doing my daily ritual, browsing around the blogosphere (which is just a cute little word I came up with, nbd), when suddenly I thought, Where are all the bloody mixtapes?! I mean, it’s 2019! Why are we still talking about albums like it’s 1959 or something? I crave release strategies for the 21st century! Put out more mixtapes so this site’s accidental click-throughs from Google spike the way they did when Lil Wayne was dropping music like middle-school-me dropping my 2002 Sony Walkman out of my cargo shorts’ pockets!
More about: Blood Orange
Holly Herndon PROTO
Styles: proto-[signifier], anachro-glossolalia, anti-syncretic chant
Others: Oneohtrix Point Never, Laurel Halo, Wendy Carlos, Jlin, ADR
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In time… it caught its breath… started writing its own history. It went like this:
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Chapter One: Birth
More about: Holly Herndon
2019: Second Quarter Favorites 25 incredible releases from the last three months
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
25 incredible releases from the last three months
Music is just about dead. It’s been in a downtrend for years now, continually re-testing the strength of one of its last major levels of support. But the more you consolidate above support, the more likely it’ll break to the downside for further lows, which is when music fans will start panic selling their music and looking for different markets to pour their money into.
More about: Aldous Harding, Andrew Tasselmyer, Beat Detectives, billy woods, Carly Rae Jepsen, CHAI, City & i.o, DJ Nate, Ellen Arkbro, Entro Senestre, Erika de Casier, Helm, Holly Herndon, Kenny Segal, M. Geddes Gengras, MahiToThePeople, Mukqs, Organ Tapes, Patrick Spatz, Puto Tito, Quelle Chris, Sarah Davachi, Tami T, Tree, Weyes Blood, Wizard Apprentice, Your Old Droog
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
Favorite Rap Mixtapes of June 2019 From Octavian & Valee to Blackfist & 70th Street Carlos
From Octavian & Valee to Blackfist & 70th Street Carlos
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: 70th Street Carlos, Bambu, Blackfist, Heaven Razah, Isaac Thursday, Jon Waltz, Key!, Octavian, Pi'erre Bourne, Valee
♫♪ Kanye West - “Brothers”
Reality is upon us: Kanye West’s newest song, “Brothers,” premiered today on the BET anthology series Tales. Produced by Irv Gotti and Seven (Murder Inc), the track flips “Violent Crimes” and “Heard ‘Em Say” for some chop-up-the soul, set-on-his-goals-era Kanye, with Charlie Wilson once again assisting on vocals. Best lyric: “As soon as I cut the grass low / It’s easier to see the assholes.”
More about: Kanye West
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