Styles: balmy R&B, new york city, the 2000s
Others: Prince
Ever since abandoning the tranquil, indie pop tendencies of Coastal Grooves and Cupid Deluxe, Devonte Hynes has become unafraid of taking risks. The nocturnal expanses of Freetown Sound were (and still are) a full-bodied testament to that fact. While Blood Orange may have originated within the confines of bedroom music, the calling of shared histories and experiences, drawing from Hynes’s diasporic beginnings, have come into focus.
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The label talks club anxiety and the role of the DJ + shares exclusive mix
When listening to a JEROME mix, no one knows if it will become a joyous revelation, or a cacophonic murder, or a horseback ride out into the Western Plains, or a deep-dive into a sunken ship caught in the same maelstrom that took so many merchants, explorers, doctors, artists, scientists, prisoners, and others down to the depths. And oftentimes you don’t know who the artists are, either, or the author of the music.
Styles: electronica, rock, dinner party epochal
Others: Andy Stott, Bon Iver, Thom Yorke
The first time I heard Double Negative’s single “Dancing and Blood,” I thought “Wow, this sounds a lot like my Eustachian tube dysfunction…” It was a curmudgeonly stumble of subdued club dynamics, a pounding heartbeat progressively submerged in shrouds of distortion and static/white noise. It seemed aggressively minimal — all about the pauses, the exits, the valves, and the vents. Was this another veteran band deciding to throw a loud party on the precipice of political/climate oblivion?
More about: Low
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Styles: free improvisation, post-minimalism, noise rock
Others: Supersilent, Swans, Mogwai
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1. so, this thing just starts moving mid-jog with muted but persistent piano jabs and a steady cymbal rhythm, and I dig that
2. this is unmistakably a Necks album
3. I don’t know why, but tuplets always get me, especially when metered pulses repeatedly decrease and increase in tempo; I could dig this all day
4. normally, live drum beats distract me, but here I don’t mind that this sounds like rock music
5. as foreboding as these pointillistic piano rattles are, I think I could be attacked by a sidewinder halfway through this and I wouldn’t even mind
More about: The Necks
Never has there been conceived a more fitting pairing than that of the sizzling nostalgia of the vinyl format with the warm comforts of the unparalleled, magical fantasy universes of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli’s classic films. And yet, this perfect fusion has gone largely untested until now.
More about: Joe Hisaishi
Styles: vocoder
Others: Jürg Frey, Alison Knowles, Wendy Carlos, Tom Johnson, Alvin Lucier, Billy Klüver
Vocoders are conventionally categorized as a type of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, transmission over long distances, simple voice transformation, and more. A portmanteau of “voice” and “encoder,” the technology converts an acoustic signal into a coded form, the complexities and processes of which are articulated by composer Jack Callahan (die Reihe) in his new piece and 12-inch record Vocoder.
More about: die Reihe, Jack Callahan
Finally!
Following up her excellent 2016 mix tape Telefone — one of the year’s best releases — with two years of exactly zero new music, Noname is at last set to release some new material.
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Hail and well met, weirdos! Hark and hear the good news I bring thee! Richard Dawson’s band Hen Ogledd has announced a new album full of wicked delights and deviant magicks. Mogic arrives November 16 on Weird World Records.
Behold, weary traveller, the first video for the song “Problem Child” is here now! Settle thee down on a stump with your iPhone or smartpad device and feast yourself on these psychedelic fantasies.
More about: Hen Ogledd, Richard Dawson
Oh. Hello. You might remember Vancouver-based singer/composer Ian William Craig from such previous internet encounters as every other goddamn DAY for the last five years or so on Tiny Mix Tapes. Yeah? Ringing any (fabulously tintinnabulous) bells?
I sure hope so. Because it’ll make it a lot easier when I tell you that THAT SAME DUDE is back again with yet another new album of warm, hypnotic tape loops and dusky, soothing vocal melodies for our collective cult-ish veneration.
More about: Ian William Craig
The Students of Decay proprietor talks new label Soda Gong and new solo project Etelin
Since 2005, Alex Cobb has mined the depths of drone, noise, ambient, and modern composition on his venerable label Students of Decay. Originally begun as a means of releasing his own work (both under his name and as Taiga Remains), Cobb’s imprint has unleashed some of the best work from the likes of Natural Snow Buildings, Billy Gomberg, Anne Guthrie, En, Mark Banning, and Secret Pyramid, to name a few.
More about: Alex Cobb, Etelin, Taiga Remains
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