The grieving process involving the death of loved ones varies from person to person, from loved one to loved one. It’s this variability that makes it so hard to disentangle, so difficult to understand from an outside perspective. So to call Phil Elverum’s grief over the passing of his then wife Genevieve distinct or special would be an obvious understatement.
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Courtney Barnett The Melburnian indie rocker talks songwriting on the road, art shows, and the energy surrounding her new album “Tell Me How You Really Feel”
The Melburnian indie rocker talks songwriting on the road, art shows, and the energy surrounding her new album “Tell Me How You Really Feel”
Going into this interview, I knew Courtney Barnett was notorious for her laconicism. Despite her reputation for her stream-of-consciousness, effusive lyrical talents, the Melburnian indie rocker is famously shy and soft spoken in person. For some musicians, acting so aloof would come off as supercilious, as if an interview were insultingly beneath them. But as it so happens, Barnett is far too relaxed for such indignations.
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Thom Yorke to play all those Thom Yorke songs on solo tour of North America
Are you a red-blooded, god-fearing, football-loving American who enjoys Radiohead, but just wishes Thom Yorke had a more prominent role in the band? Then you’ll be tickled pink to find out that Thom Yorke is totally ditching those other Radiodudes in England to sneak over to this side of the pond for some solo tour dates!
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Caterina Barbieri Born Again In The Voltage
Styles: drone, minimalism
Others: raga, Terry Riley, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Eleh, Sarah Davachi
There are perceptions among some Western listeners that drone music is inherently restrictive, who consider art based in stasis as somehow lacking in progression, driven by a desire to have music “go somewhere.” Caterina Barbieri’s newest album, Born Again In The Voltage, works against this assumption on both practical and conceptual levels. The four pieces presented here are dynamic, exciting compositions using sustained tones as a starting point for explorations of rhythm, harmony, and timbre.
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♫♪ Kanye West - “XTCY”
You got sick thoughts? Kanye’s got more of them. His new song “XTCY” dropped unexpectedly late last night by DJ Clark Kent (God’s favorite DJ/sneaker guy), who shared a WeTransfer download link via social media. The first couple lines relate to the above photo, which is from Kylie Jenner’s 21st birthday party. Check the box that best approximates your reaction:
☐ scoff/eye roll
☐ laughter
☐ hrmph
☐ orange justice
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Orange Milk grab an icy, refreshing new Co La album from the pack, Sensory Dub Example, hand you a fresh taste
I don’t know what kind of beverage you get when you mix Baltimore’s Co La with the ever-magnificent Orange Milk — probably some kind of sludgy float that is at once as opaque as it is intellectually stimulating — but I’m willing to risk whatever level of toxicity involved for just a taste of the former’s sweet new record, Sensory Dub Example, which is out through the latter on September 14. Drink up, drinkers of the world!
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GAIKA Basic Volume
Styles: dancehall, industrial
Others: Dean Blunt, Lotic, Chino Amobi
This is what Batman would sing, alone, to himself, in his Batcave on a night where no Bat-Signal signals, if he could sing, which he can’t.
This is what the white man’s world doesn’t want to know. Of the black body within a country that doesn’t recognize it. Of the black body being scanned and feared and exploited and shot and killed. Of the mouth that tells it it can’t be British.
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Puce Mary announces new album The Drought, her first for PAN, and her sixth for poisonous arachnids
Even in the ever-flexible world of the industrial avant-garde, the times they are a-changing: Puce Mary (heretofore an invariable mainstay of the Posh Isolation label), is anticipating a change of scenery with the announcement of a new album on PAN, and she’s also looking forward to turning the agression INWARD after years of being the artistic equivalent of a woman hurling demon/feral cats at passersby.
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♫♪ DJ Khaled - “No Brainer” ( ft. Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, Quavo)
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