DJ Healer Lost Lovesongs / Lostsongs Vol. 2

[Planet Uterus; 2019]

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Rating: 4.5/5

Styles: broken hearts / hearts break / break beats
Others: reunion

From Lost to Loosing: Lost Lovesongs

How to describe the mystery of the doorway, the threshold, the dawn that sleeplessly arrives? How to describe the mystery of the exit that is somehow both an entrance and their blurring togetherness? How to describe the downcast euphoria of those tracks — whether by the trinity of The Prince of Denmark, Traumprinz and DJ Metatron, or by The Prime Minister of Doom, or by this latest divine name, DJ Healer — that carry this mystery within them, that shine with a light that comes from farther than their sound?

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Avey Tare calmly announces new album Cows On Hourglass Pond, quietly shares video, doesn’t shriek or anything

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Avey Tare calmly announces new album Cows On Hourglass Pond, quietly shares video, doesn't shriek or anything
Photo: Abby Portner

Remember Avey Tare’s 2017 album Eucalyptus?

Well FORGET THAT SHIT. There’s a NEW one coming out.

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Eli Keszler announces three-song EP Empire on Shelter Press, drums up some tour dates

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Eli Keszler announces three-song EP Empire on Shelter Press, drums up some tour dates
Photo: Brendan Burdzinski

Avant-garde drummer, percussionist, amelerionist, violaskapa-ist, vibracelesta-ist (vibracellist? I mean, are these instruments even real?!) and generally trailblazing sound artist Eli Keszler has announced a new EP called Empire, out February 14 via Shelter Press. The brief three-song release follows Keszler’s ninth studio album Stadium, which was unveiled last October and made us collectively shit our pants, eventually landing at #11 of our favorite 50 music releases list.

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Acronym & Kali Malone The Torrid Eye

[Stilla Ton; 2019]

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Rating: 4/5

Styles: deep, electronic, just intonation, rhythmically-driven, mellow modular
Others: Caterina Barbieri, Andy Stott, Dopplereffekt

Dissociatively immersed. As in minimal, looped tones played into a room of poised bodies, who, over time, begin to breathe in perfect time and, on an aggregate inhale, potentially, collectively, and almost imperceptibly rise into the air. As in dance music, where, ideally, in underlit rooms, we respond to rhythms by animating our bodies in whatever we like. To move together as an activated, asymmetrical, ever-changing mass. To dance together toward an absence of thought in the absence of light.

More about: Acronym, Kali Malone

Can’t tell if you’re dreaming? This video premiere from Benjamin Finger, James Plotkin, and Mia Zabelka can help!

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Can't tell if you're dreaming? This video premiere from Benjamin Finger, James Plotkin, and Mia Zabelka can help!
The always-dreamy Benjamin Finger (Photo: Eva Jacobsen)

Is there anything more nauseatingly frightening than suddenly realizing: “shit, I’m in a dream!”? As a child, no nightmare was worse than the kind that gradually shifted from “this isn’t lucid whatsoever!” to “oh shit, this is VERY freaking lucid!”

More about: Benjamin Finger, James Plotkin, Mia Zabelka

Deerhunter Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

[4AD; 2019]

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Rating: 2.5/5

Styles: “I hate indie rock and never liked the term. I don’t consider myself a participant in indie rock”
Others: Why is there nothing rather than something?

“[N]obody even fucking cares. But at the same time, I’d rather it be that way.”
– Bradford Cox

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RIP: Jonas Mekas

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RIP: Jonas Mekas
Photo: Sabine Maierhofer

“There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.”
– Jonas Mekas

Lithuanian-born filmmaker Jonas Mekas has died. He was 96. From Anthology Film Archives:

It’s with enormous sadness and a great sense of loss that we share the news of the passing of Anthology’s founder, Jonas Mekas. He died peacefully at home, with family at his side.

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Mana, who’s possibly from heaven and actually from Italy, announces debut LP on Hyperdub

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Mana, who's possibly from heaven and actually from Italy, announces debut LP on Hyperdub

I don’t know what Hyperdub is doing these days. The label founded by Steve Goodman — a.k.a. Kode9 — started as one of the premier imprints for non-bastardized dubstep; but in the years since the mid-00s, we’ve seen a gradual acceptance and subsequent propagation of electronic music that’s way more eccentric than what Burial, Joker, and Zomby were initially pumping out for its easy and ultra-cool danceability (e.g.

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Stephen Malkmus announces new electronic solo album Groove Denied, lives inside a computer now

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Stephen Malkmus announces new electronic solo album Groove Denied, lives inside a computer now
Photo: Robbie Augspurger

When you talk Stephen Malkmus, there’s only one thing that comes to mind:

Shredding tasty guitar licks!


Oh yeah, there he is, STEPHEN.

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S. Araw Trio XIII Activated Clown

[NNA Tapes ; 2019]

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Rating: 4/5

Styles: Improvisation, MIDI
Others: Sun Araw, S. Araw Trio XI-XII, S. Araw Band

In group musical improvisation, there’s something like a tide. The ebb and flow of cohesion, or harmony. There are epiphanic moments, and there are dissonances. Maybe the mark of experience or wisdom in improvised music is moving both the high and low tide toward its best expression, a psychic mitigation of swooping difference and similarity — to make dissonance epiphany, to make harmony dissonant.

More about: S. ARAW TRIO XIII, Sun Araw

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