Dean Blunt, international man of mystery/recent A$AP Rocky collaborator/human being, has shared a compilation from his label World Music. It’s titled Muggy Vol. 1 and features nine short tracks of sludgy blues-inflected psych cuts and exploratory rock interludes, all draped in Bluntian aesthetics (crude instrumentation, amorphous structures, claustrophobic synths, incongruous sampling, etc.).
More about: Dean Blunt
Styles: honestly all over the place
Others: Pinact, Deftones, Jesu but if Jesu was signed to Epitaph
The only thing that interests me about the “incel” euphemism (for a networked misogyny) is its homonymic relationship to the loaded affix “cell.” Invested with its powers of horror by Department of Homeland Security rhetorics affixing the racialized modifiers of “terrorist (cell)” and “sleeper (cell)” as corrosively contiguous conductors of their respective syntagms, the “-cel[l]” of “incel” activates its fictionalized radicalism by way of its negotiation through the racialized and gendered affective economy of terror.
More about: Chastity
Styles: guitar pop, bedroom pop, dry sounds, string quartets, piano, some drums, maybe a Roland?, could be a Casio
Others: Jim O’Rourke, Harry Nilsson, C S Yeh, Courtney Barnett, They Might Be Giants
I first came across Andrea Schiavelli (a.k.a. Eyes of Love) a year ago with the release of Good Time Now, a split album with Lily Konigsberg (Palberta, Lily and Horn Horse). Schiavelli’s contributions to that album struck me as playful, almost ironic.
More about: Andrea Shiavelli, Eyes Of Love
Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt are a dangerous duo. Word is, the last group of people to see them perform
More about: Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
Styles: instrumental, post-rock, folk
Others: Grouper, Roy Montgomery, Bill Orcutt, Colin Stetson, Mac DeMarco, Mount Eerie
Then as now, Dave Pajo has always displayed a quietly distinct grace, with sonic ingredients on the bleeding edge of spare/blank. Originally released as a single (with his perfect cover of The Misfits’ “Last Caress” on the B-side), “Vivea” betrayed a still, delicate, patient, and infinitely tender soul, smoothly poured into the skeleton of sad folk progression. The lack of vocals also rendered the material more essential, even in the full swing of that trend in the mid 90s-mid 00s.
More about: Papa M
It’s finally here: the quintessential collab of 2018 that will once and for all bring peace to the bitter conflicts between the warriors of both the avant-garde and radio pop factions of contemporary pop culture. We’ve had dreams — nay, premonitions — foretelling us of this hallowed union, of the divine movie director Brady Corbet and his new film Vox Lux starring the sacred apostles Natalie Portman and Jude Law, which will braid together the dual powers of Scott Walker and Sia as they provide the film’s righteous score and soundtrack.
More about: Scott Walker, Sia
Styles: neo-hoodooism, collectible, black liberation technology
Others: billy woods, Haj of Dumhi, Kenny Segal, s.al
The name Nostrum Grocers has been floating around forever it seems. Its surface meaning, painting ELUCID and milo as makers/sellers of mystical medicines and/or social schemes, might strike a chord with both longtime followers and casual listeners. But I for one can’t shake the feeling that it also sounds and looks a hell of a lot like Nostrand Grocers, as in grocery stores located along Brooklyn’s Nostrand Avenue, of which there are many.
More about: Elucid, milo, Nostrum Grocers
The Long Island hip-hop duo talks Stones Throw debut “Adventureland”
Things tend to take time. MC Grandmilly and producer Shozae, both from the Uniondale/Hemsptead area of Long Island, NY, have been working on music together since 2012 or 2013, but Adventureland, due August 24 on Stones Throw, will be their first physical album release. I first saw Grandmilly on stage in 2012, among SpaceGhostPurrp’s Raider Klan massive, but I didn’t see Grandmilly perform live until May 2018, with Shozae.
More about: Grandmilly, Grandmilly & Shozae, Shozae
Styles: gentle rain, simple affections, happy chance
Others: Community, Music For Private Ensemble, Ground of Being
Saturday (A Version)
Wisconsin is experiencing a “heat wave,” twenty eight degrees
After weeks of double-digit below zero temperatures,
it’s finally warm enough that inside actually feels shut off from nature’s cruel expanse
It’s Saturday
Cars skid by my bedroom window, through slush and rusty metal ice;
heat vent drips acid techno;
roommate shifts a broken beat in a finicky recliner
(in counterpoint with pages of Atonement flipping in his fingers);
outside, sirens pierce through thawing air and dissipate in triplet
It’s Saturday…
More about: Christina Stanley, Dennis Tyfus, Eric Schmid, Graham Lambkin, Jackson Graham, Lia Mazzari, Madalyn Merkey, Mark Harwood, Matthew Sullivan, Michael Pollard, Patrick Shiroishi, Peter Friel, Sean McCann, Simple Affections, Tom James Scott, Will Gottsegen, Zach Schwartz
Quick! Clap your hands if you believe in Colorado-based singer-songwriter Josephine Foster! (I’ll wait.)
POOOF!
More about: Josephine Foster
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