In all fairness, DAWN (fka Dawn Richard) was SUPPOSED to reveal the details of her hotly anticipated forthcoming album to the world TOMORROW. (As a press mogul, I’m totally “in-the-know,” and I assure y’all that was the original plan).
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Robert Sotelo Botanical
Styles: DIY synth pop, minimal songs, digital folk music
Others: John Cale, Powerdove, Banny Grove, Brian Eno, Colleen, Jib Kidder, Bernice, Ai Aso, Sandro Perri,
Los Angeles-based label Nicey Music has been making space in the underground for a special kind of work over the past couple of years.
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Merzbow celebrates 40th anniversary with new album MONOAkuma on Room40
In the (somewhat likely) event that you haven’t been ALIVE since 1979, you (also pretty likely) didn’t know that 2019 marks — in the ever-artful words of Room40 label boss Lawrence English — “the 40th anniversary of the commencement of Merzbow.”
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Insomniac Focus A survey of third-act Drew McDowall (Coil)
A survey of third-act Drew McDowall (Coil)
Drew McDowall’s work extends well before Coil’s 1998 album Time Machines, but his major releases from that work to now is more than enough to explore. Coil fans, I know you’re set. It’s partly you who I had in mind when I welched on my assignment for his latest solo album, The Third Helix. You likely have alerts on this guy, and no amount of critical descriptors (“harrowing,” “cavernous,” “dreamscape,” “hallucinatory,” “bleak,” “trance-inducing,” etc.) are going to make any difference to you.
More about: Coil, Compound Eye, Drew McDowall, Psychic Ills, Uniform
Jerusalem in My Heart Daqa’iq Tudaiq
Styles: melismatic, multimedia, microtonal
Others: Mahdyar Aghajani, Fairouz w/ PTSD, Fatima al-Qadiri
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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Japamyu
Styles: J-pop, sour bubblegum
Others: PC Music, Pizzicato 5, vocaloids, Charli XCX, Momus
KyAry paMyu PamYu is KAMPY. Or at least we can read her through that lens.
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Carly Rae Jepsen confirms new album in 2019, shares video for new song “Party For One”
There are two things I’m sure of: (1) life is cruel, and (2) we need Carly Rae Jepsen. Following our own desperate plea for less of the former and more of the latter, Carly Rae Jepsen has released a new video for a song called “Party For One.” Co-written by Jepsen and produced by Captain Cuts and HIGHTOWER, the song is confirmed to be off Jepsen’s long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s life-altering E•MO•TION.
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♫♪ Thought Gang (David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti) - “A Real Indication”
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Favorite Rap Mixtapes of October 2018 From Illingsworth & Bambu to MihTy & Gangsta Boo
From Illingsworth & Bambu to MihTy & Gangsta Boo
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: Bambu, BeatKing, D Savage, Gangsta Boo, Illingsworth, Jeremih, Kodie Shane, Lil B, MihTy, Shy Glizzy, Ty Dolla $ign
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Room40’s Lawrence English invades LA with new city-wide sound installation Seirá
Just when you thought it was safe to wander the streets of downtown Los Angeles alone at dusk without being aurally assaulted by the ominous drones of a dramatically re-purposed civil defense system: Room40 label boss and ever-restless sonic adventurer Lawrence English has announced that he’s about to unleash an enormous new sound installation upon the city of angels this week.
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