Styles: melodic hardcore, pop punk, acoustic
Others: Turnstile, Trapped Under Ice, The Adventures of Pete & Pete
“The world is so much bigger than you know,” Justice Tripp promises on “No Fair,” the opener to Angel Du$t’s highly anticipated Pretty Buff. Such a proclamation appears to be the mission statement for the poppy melodic hardcore supegroup as of late, be it in their decision to tour with head-scratchingly dissimilar artists like Wicca Phase Springs Eternal and Bugg, or in their jarring approach to Pretty Buff’s sound.
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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
23 incredible releases from the last three months
Open wide! As we head deeper into 2019, decade-end lists will start vomiting across our fractured media landscape, and they’ll all be frustratingly, beautifully incomplete. Incredible music is always slipping through the cracks for various reasons, and unfortunately “timing” is one of them. Like how it went for, say, Some Rap Songs for TMT last year and Bish Bosch (RIP!) for nearly everyone in 2012, some of our favorite 2019 releases will be sacrificed due to timing.
More about: ana roxanne, Angel Marcloid, Ariana Grande, Chronophage, Crystallmess, Curved Light, DJ Healer, Grouper, Helado Negro, J. B. Glazer, JAB, Jay Mitta, Joragon, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Nivhek, Noel Meek, Nonlocal Forecast, Octo Octa, Patrick Shiroishi, Sebastian Maria, Sharon Van Etten, Solange, The Caretaker, Triad God, Xiu Xiu, Yugen Blakrok
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
I’m gonna drop a patented TMT hot take here: too many album anniversaries pass by without absurd reissue box sets, deluxe editions, or retrospectives. Where’s my 10th anniversary reissue of Discovery’s LP? What about a 40th anniversary edition of the indisputable second best Talking Heads record, Fear of Music? Why hasn’t anyone filled the gaping void in the market where a 10-disc box set of outtakes from Madonna’s I’m Breathless sessions should be?
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In 2016, Rafael Lubner noted with surgical accuracy that Benjy Keating (a.k.a.
Well, if this bit of news doesn’t get you off your feet, hootin’ and hollerin’ wherever you are, then what will?! Sarah Davachi, the stalwart composer whose catalog dives deep into analog synth, modern classical, and minimalism, is officially back!
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Styles: fresh and clean
Others: smooth
Styles: post-punk OG in 1993, minor arcana, In the garden
Others: Simple Minds, Xmal Deutschland, The Associates, Annie Lennox fronting This Mortal Coil
What is an album review anyway? I just finished watching a famous video reviewer discussing the artist’s process in excruciating detail. I don’t think I could ever do that. Would anyone even care to spend 15 minutes reading the fastidious breakdown of a 36-minute album? Either way, the chance that this was going to be an average review was small from the start. I picked Dreaming The Dark to review because I was seeing Tamaryn live on the day the album was being released, and I had hoped for a little serendipity to help me out.
More about: Tamaryn
The producer talks minimalism, terror, and speculative sonic environments ahead of new album “Imperial Flood”
Logos’s music moves.
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Scott Walker, one of the biggest inspirations on TMT, has died at 76. From Walker’s label, 4AD:
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker. Scott was 76 years old and is survived by his daughter, Lee, his granddaughter, Emmi-Lee, and his partner Beverly.
For half a century, the genius of the man born Noel Scott Engel has enriched the lives of thousands, first as one third of The Walker Brothers, and later as a solo artist, producer and composer of uncompromising originality.
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Styles: the coming ecological catastrophe, dance
Others: Pierre Shaeffer, Matthew Herbert, Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Matmos’s music is strange, and it has always been so. Here is a list of the strange ways that they have made music:
• Matmos: Matmos starts out, right off the bat, by recording the nervous system of a crayfish. I don’t know how to do that. I’m not even completely sure what a crayfish is.
• Quasi-Objects: A record made entirely out of everyday objects, if among your everyday objects you include a whoopie cushion and a banjo.
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