Tom Krell has an advanced degree in philosophy, and his new How to Dress Well album is called The Anteroom. This is the closest Krell’s come to using a GRE-level vocab word in conjunction with his once-wispy R&B project. (The “What Is This Heart?” cut “Pour Cyril” has a whiff of grad student dweeb humor to it too, with the pun.) Will this minor elevation in diction signal an unexpected shift in sound? A return to the vaporous obscurantism of Krell’s early work after a couple of albums that have spent more and more effort on musical and emotional clarity??
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Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt
Styles: outer space
Others: the first seven Spiritualized albums
“More than one person has said I’ve been writing the same song all my life,” Jason Pierce recently told The New York Times. Though proffered as self-criticism, this remark serves more as a testament to the astonishing consistency of Pierce’s songwriting through Spiritualized’s nearly 30-year run.
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RIP: Mac Miller
“Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.”
– Mac Miller
Mac Miller died today at his home, according to The Blast and TMZ. The Pittsburgh rapper was 26.
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Kelly Moran signs to Warp Records with her funky piano in tow, announces new album Ultraviolet
For more than a decade now, we’ve all been watching poor, lonely Hauschka do the “prepared piano” thing seemingly in isolation. So thank the lord that Kelly Moran is around to keep him company (and to make the prepared piano landscape a little more variable for us listeners!).
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) The world’s most famous pandrogyne sheds some wisdom
The world’s most famous pandrogyne sheds some wisdom
As one of the key originators of industrial music, organizer of the occult art collective Temple ov Psychick Youth, and participant in the ambitious body-altering pandrogyne project, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has embodied the artistic process for over four decades. Observing and critiquing culture from the vantage point of a disruptor, P-Orridge draws from the teachings of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, whom s/he counted as friends.
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1988: Tracy Chapman - “Fast Car”
Ahh: September into Autumn. Stiff now from climax overload. What were we ever earring for? Was there anyone to expect us but us? Write a fucking fantasy about it. Rip away at your candy-ass, Sour Patch Kids, my-dad-died-when-I-was-in-High-School soul typing every letter on the page.
This isn’t for you. The “royal we” is incommunicable from this Earth. Fill in those cracks of your mind. Nothing can repair us in existence. We are here too. We’re all in this together; since 1988: you an’ me, kid. We are. Forever.
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Julia Holter returns with new album Aviary, shares video for first single
“LIKE” this post AS SOON AS IT’S CONVENIENT FOR YOU, because Julia Holter is back with more choon for your headtops. Titled Aviary, the (new) album features 15 (new) tracks and serves as her first (new) record since 2015’s Have You In My Wilderness (our 11th favorite album of that year).
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Various Artists: Wold Music Muggy Vol.1
Styles: sample pack, ↩∞↩∞↩∞↩∞↩, ˈsemēˌkōlən
Others: Hype Williams, Kim Gordon, Woodsist
The newest World Music (allegedly a Dean Blunt label) release is a compilation titled Muggy Vol.1. It’s a solid study in modern production, PG-rated bedroom jams, beat-tape mentality, and brandished feminism.
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WHOA WHOA WHOA! Yves Tumor surprise-releases new album Safe in the Hands of Love on Warp
DAWN confirms new album for early 2019, shares video for first track “Jealousy”
*nostalgic sigh* It seems like only five months exactly since I let you in on a little secret involving DAWN (aka Dawn Richard) and a certain 2019 album in the works over at her camp. Well, a lot can change in 41.66% of a year, but sometimes things stay the same, instead. What I’m trying to say is that DAWN has officially confirmed a new album will be out in “early 2019” through Local Action/Our Dawn Entertainment. So I guess I’ll see you in another five months!
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