Olivia Block preps new album 132 Ranks for Room40, shares excerpt

Olivia Block preps new album 132 Ranks for Room40, shares excerpt
Photo: Alex Inglizian (courtesy of ESS)

So, earlier today, the salesman at the hi-fi shop leans toward me and says:

Daniel Bachman The American Primitive guitarist talks music in the Trump era, drones, and his new album “The Morning Star”

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Daniel Bachman emerged as a guitar wonderkid at the beginning of this decade, quietly asserting himself as the heir to John Fahey’s throne with his prolific and deeply traditional approach to American Primitive music. While others who rode the wave of the instrumental guitar resurgence turned their six-string dexterity to modern interpretations of the style, Bachman has steadfastly mined the limitations of what ghosts can be summoned from his acoustic instruments.

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Midwife Prayer Hands

[Antiquated Future; 2018]

Rating: 3.5/5

Styles: dream pop, slowcore
Others: Grouper, Clear Horizon

Midwife’s Madeline Johnston births songs from sound. Born watchful of being born, Prayer Hands — her second release following 2017’s Like Author, Like Daughter — sounds wary of bearing birthed into a life that must consume it, into a world where life is absent except in the prayer of birth’s passage. A birth that is not the correlate of death, because if you can’t live forever, how can you live for now — ?

Aphex Twin announces new Collapse EP in his typically totally straightforward manner, shares new song and video

Aphex Twin announces new Collapse EP in his typically totally straightforward manner, shares new song and video

Great SCOTT!

The heroic and charismatic Richard D. James is o-fish-ally back from the future with a new EP entitled Collapse and a new video by Weirdcore for the track “T69 Collapse.”

The thing is out September 14 via Warp.

I’d like to tell you more, but the press release LITERALLY looks like this:


Jeff Witscher Approximately 1​,​000 Beers

[Salon; 2018]

Rating: 4.5/5

Styles: country
Others: Reinald Wrangler, text to speech voices

We at tmt have necer reviewed an album by jeff wotscher made udner the name jeff iwtchers. A bti abserd a bit absrud. P00001111000. For hebhas rrleased mah. A pretty oenny. Pooly Pocket ln a seing. A hang lands right on my shoulder like a bird And saueeezes it a friend.

Merzbow + HEXA Achromatic

[Dais; 2018]

Styles: noise
Others: Merzxiu, Keiji Haino, Kevin Drumm, Wolf Eyes, Prurient

Zora Jones & Sinjin Hawke The duo discuss collaboration, the relatability of the human form, and their Planet Mu debut

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The duo discuss collaboration, the relatability of the human form, and their Planet Mu debut

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For followers of what we might call the “experimental club” scene, Zora Jones and Sinjin Hawke need no introduction.

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♫♪  Laura Les - BIG SUMMER JAMS 2018

Rejoice! Laura Les (a.k.a. osno1) is back with a little frivolity in BIG SUMMER JAMS 2018 —type way. And if i just dont wanna name it anything with “beach” in the title wasn’t made for the heat on sandy shores of an ocean, BIG SUMMER JAMS 2018 replaced that feel with a pearl.

Jealous of the Birds The Moths of What I Want Will Eat Me in My Sleep

[Canvasback/ Atlantic; 2018]

Styles: confectionery indie, streaming bitter-sweet, metaphor guitar
Others: Soccer Mom, Hole, Courtney Barnett


♫♪  Valee - “Juice & Gin”

Alright, alright, I admit, I don’t really drink much gin & juice (or juice & gin) these days. But I definitely have before. I think I’ve even drunk them separately before, believe it or not. Like, at different times even.

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