Roy Montgomery Suffuse

[Grapefruit; 2018]

Styles: drift, downer songs, existential melt
Others: Grouper, Dissolve, Circuit des Yeux, Flying Saucer Attack

Roy Montgomery’s music has a rarified aura that distinguishes him among the crowded field of fellow New Zealand experimentalists who came to prominence in the 1980s and 90s. His use of layering and yawning reverb approximates immensity while still sounding secluded and hushed. He is also one of the few guitarists of that milieu who has gracefully straddled the divide between melodic songwriting and pure atmospheric, evoking both distance and emotional intensity, as if his songs were just out of reach, barely being wrested from the ether.

Daniel Bachman The Morning Star

[Three Lobed; 2018]

Rating: 4/5

Styles: American Primitive, Noise
Others: Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, The Pelt

“The secret life of the world, hidden somewhere beyond the air, under the skin of existence.”
– Alexander Chee

Dean Blunt and Mica Levi share their opera titled Inna

Dean Blunt and Mica Levi share their opera titled Inna
Cause anything's possible. Oh anything is possible

Dean Blunt and Mica Levi are doing God’s work on this day of labor celebration. The two artists collaborated last year on an opera called Inna, which premiered October 2017 at the ICA London, and today they share the work via YouTube.

William Basinski and Lawrence English unveil collaborative album Selva Oscura, hit a new high standard for music and friendship

William Basinski and Lawrence English unveil collaborative album Selva Oscura, hit a new high standard for music and friendship
*Cue STANDING OVATION*

Do me a favor: head into that dusty old imaginarium you keep tucked away in the spare room at the back of the house and get ready for a whopper of a fantasy trifecta:

First, imagine you’re acclaimed sound artist William Basinski, and you’ve just been given the opportunity to collab with none other than Lawrence English (yeah, that Lawrence English).

Now imagine you’re acclaimed sound artist Lawrence English, and you’ve just been given the opportunity to collab with none other than William Basinski (yeah, that William Basinski).

Favorite Rap Mixtapes of August 2018 From Slauson Malone & ZMoney to Q Da Fool & YNW Melly

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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.

Marie Davidson joins Ninja Tune, unfastens your intellectual chastity belt with upcoming LP Working Class Woman

Marie Davidson joins Ninja Tune, unfastens your intellectual chastity belt with upcoming LP Working Class Woman
Photo: Etienne Saint Denis

“Sexual… Conceptual…”

Those are the first words you’ll hear when streaming the newest single from Marie Davidson, and what else would you expect? The French Canadian dance producer has always had an excellent, technocratic grasp on the… well, the sexual and the conceptual!

Eli Keszler announces European tour ahead of new album Stadium; stay calm, you hooligans!

Eli Keszler announces European tour ahead of new album Stadium; stay calm, you hooligans!

Gotta love those drummers and their perfect senses of timing:

Ahead of releasing his new album Stadium October 12 on Shelter Press, Eli Keszler is giving the general public fair warning about an international tour that he has planned more or less simultaneously.

felicita hej!

[PC Music; 2018]

Styles: impressionism, minimaliminalism, bubblegum bass
Others: the ambient tracks on Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides, Hounds of Love Side B, felicita’s

Lonelily the child drifts into sleep. Lonelily the mother cradles her.

Yves Tumor releases new single “Licking An Orchid Ft. James K,” announces fall dates w/ Blood Orange

Yves Tumor releases new single "Licking An Orchid Ft. James K," announces fall dates w/ Blood Orange
I'm so glad I'm not about to try to go to bed right now. (Photo: Jordan Hemingway)

From his perversely beautiful tune-age to his killer fashion sense, Turin-based, Tennessee-born Yves Tumor — a.k.a. Sean Bowie — has been kinda UNASSAILABLY AWESOME for a while now.

So it kinda goes without saying that, when he announces a small round of fall world tour dates — with the likes of Blood Orange, no less — peeps are already pretty much 100% $OLD.

Dorian Concept The Nature of Imitation

[Brainfeeder; 2018]

Styles: electronica, funk, dance
Others: Red Bull, Adult Swim

Because the dynamics are obvious but the climaxes aren’t, it’s safe to say Oliver Johnson’s approach to pacing and arrangement is more tantric than hedonic. With The Nature of Imitation, Johnson’s latest release under the Dorian Concept name, the Austrian producer’s cyberfunk noodling is dizzying and mandarin, yet the payoff is often subdued or withheld. “E13” shifts, stutters, and glitches between immaculately produced dance synth lines, waxing and waning without ever finding a zenith.

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