Hoo, boy, this may be my first legit STOP THE PRESSES moment here in the TMT newsroom.
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MoMA Ready Ocean Walker II
Styles: liquid d&b, old skool jungle, subway club
Others: Robert Hood, Goldie, Derrick May, Jeff Mills
Below is a video of a people rollerskating, while a person wearing a green shirt dances against the rotation of the rink. This person’s appreciation of others’ movement — passing by — is exactly how I stay listening to MoMA Ready’s newest mixtape, Ocean Walker II:
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Julia Holter makes me format all her tour dates and unveils new video for “Les Jeux To You,” TMT readers scramble to learn French
If I could take ONE ALBUM with me to a desert island…uh, well, actually, it’d probably consist of recorded instructions on how the fuck NOT to DIE on a goddamn desert island.
But, truly: if I could take seven or eight, Julia Holter’s stunning 2018 effort Aviary would be one of them.
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Tim Hecker returns to the arena with new album Anoyo, out this May on Kranky
Tim Hecker, who we last heard on 2018’s Konoyo, is back. If you found yourself approaching the end of that record and thought, “wow, I’d love to hear more stuff like this,” you are very much in luck.
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Laurel Halo shares new song “Sweetie” from her upcoming DJ-Kicks installment, announces tour
It’s not usually hard to predict what a DJ-Kicks release will sound like from your typical electronic music artist, but what about one from an eccentric innovator like Laurel Halo? Few people could’ve predicted what DJ Koze’s or Actress’s mixes were going to sound like, for instance, and what ultimately got released were highlights in a long-standing series that would otherwise risk monotony if such artists didn’t enter the fray and mix (*winking face emoji*) things up. So, yes, Halo’s installment, the 68th in the series, ought to be interesting.
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Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit
Styles: noise pop, character study, experimental, industrial, art rock
Others: Profligate, The Double, Hard Corps, Merchandise, Wetware, Container
“…now my heart is as green as weeds, grown to outlive their season.”
– Neko Case
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Grouper’s Liz Harris releases new album of stark sound assemblages as Nivhek
No jokes when it comes to Liz Harris news. That’s the Tiny Mix Tapes guarantee. The beloved and oneiric Astoria musician has just released a new album under the name Nivhek on her Yellow Electric label: After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house.
More about: Grouper, Liz Harris, Nivhek
Lil Data announces 4-disc anthology Folder Dot Zip on PC Music, shares video for single “Burnnn”
How much data could you fit on four compact discs, if you really tried?
Imagine a byte, alone in the digital landscape during that first moment of transfer. Quivering, the finding of its perfect place in the prismatic atrium. A predestined fate that it welcomes, determination rigorously calculated by mathematics near-spiritual. It simmers to a state of peace. Your neglected backup computer’s optical disc drive — one of the last in existence — awaits it warmly.
Cass McCombs Tip of The Sphere
Styles: rock, jam, folk, poetry
Others: The Dead, the dying, the wholly living
Dear Cass,
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Thelma Natasha Jacobs talks pathetic love songs, illness, and Lana Del Rey
Natasha Jacobs talks pathetic love songs, illness, and Lana Del Rey
The story behind Thelma’s The Only Thing is that it’s a return to music-making after its songwriter, Natasha Jacobs, was doubly diagnosed with both thyroid cancer and a rare joint disorder called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Forced to approach music-making from a new angle, Jacobs shifted her approach, resulting in a striking and unexpected difference between her new album and her much darker debut, 2017’s Thelma. The album shows hues of those maladies, but it isn’t so explicitly “about” them.
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