Eli Keszler announces new large-capacity, open-air album Stadium on Shelter Press, shares “Flying Floor For U.S. Airways”

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Eli Keszler announces new large-capacity, open-air album Stadium on Shelter Press, shares "Flying Floor For U.S. Airways"
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This just in: Avant-percussionist and visual artist Eli Keszler is BACK with some more R&R (rhythm & rhythm) with his newly-announced ninth solo album. Like all good records, it has a title (Stadium), a label (Shelter Press), and a release window (October 2018). Please look forward to enjoying it :)

Keszler explains the title of the album thusly: “After we moved into our East Village apartment, we found a guitar pick on the floor that read ‘Stadium.’ We looked at each other at the same time and had the same thought. It could have gone any number of ways.”

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The Field returns with new album album Infinite Moment (and you’ll never GUESS what the cover art looks like)

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The Field returns with new album album Infinite Moment (and you'll never GUESS what the cover art looks like)
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Jeez, I don’t know about y’all, but I can BARELY remember two years ago. I mean, let’s see: the Chicago Cubs were still lovable losers, Obama was still the US president, Bitcoin was still hip…kinda seems like a UNIVERSE or two away from where we are today.

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Aïsha Devi The “radical alchemist” and Danse Noire founder talks rave culture, DIY tattoos, and why whales beach themselves

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The “radical alchemist” and Danse Noire founder talks rave culture, DIY tattoos, and why whales beach themselves

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Aïsha Devi is the high priestess of cybernetic conscious music. Her most recent album, DNA Feelings (out now on Houndstooth), takes the listener deep into the realm of the “aetherave.” After gaining a profile releasing music as “Kate Wax,” the SHAPE alumna reverted to her birth name in 2015, “putting Kate Wax to rest for a consequent amount of eternity.”

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Chvrches Love is Dead

[Glassnote; 2018]

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Rating: 3/5

Styles: improper pop, body language, empathy
Others: Kylie Minogue, Scritti Politti, Mark Fisher

“A code which no one can explain but everyone understands.”

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Rabit announces new album Life After Death on Halcyon Veil

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Rabit announces new album Life After Death on Halcyon Veil
American flag: check. White picket fence: check. Uncompromising music producer: CHECK

When I was a little kid, there was this whole weird book series about a little vampire rabbit named “Bunnicula.” Never thought it’d matter to my worldview much after 2nd grade…but NOW I can see all too clearly that composer, DJ, and genre-exploding producer Rabit was subtly dropping hints to my then-eight-year-old-self about the triumphant October 5, 2018 release of his third album Life After Death on

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Pram Across the Meridian

[Domino; 2018]

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Rating: 3/5

Styles: revisionist exotica, space age pop on a bad trip
Others: Pascal Comelade, Riz Ortolani, Make Mine Mondo!

There’s an odd charm to the Japanese New Wave. Spanning through the 1960s and encompassing the works of Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, and Seijun Suzuki, the film movement took the lead of their European counterparts (Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, etc.) and further pushed their provocations both formally and thematically. Yet, interestingly, rather than using rock music as a signifier of youth rebellion, most Japanese New Wave films boasted jazzy scores.

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serpentwithfeet soil

[Secretly Canadian/Tri Angle; 2018]

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Rating: 5/5

Styles: pagan poetry, devotional music
Others: Nina Simone, Tracy Chapman, Björk, ANOHNI, Arca

In fifth grade, when I asked my tragically optimistic Catholic school teacher if I could share with our class a story I had written — a conveniently Tolkienesque epic about a unicorn with a magical teleporting necklace — could anybody hear me whisper? There was certainly a lot of muffled snickering and subsequent side-glances when I later chose a set of realistically drawn unicorn stickers as a prize for academic achievement. Of course, Catholic grade school social politics is not reverent.

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Dustin Wong to teach us Fluid World Building 101 With Shaman Bambu via new album on Hausu Mountain

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Dustin Wong to teach us Fluid World Building 101 With Shaman Bambu via new album on Hausu Mountain
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Dustin Wong has grown so FUCKIN’ bored with his usual methodology that he’s decided to SWITCH THINGS UP for the brand new album he just announced1. Yup: he’s throwin’ down some TOTALLY DIFFERENT SYNTHS AND ELECTRONICS, and he’s on a TOTALLY DIFFERENT LABEL, BABY (!!!).

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GAS Rausch

[Kompakt; 2018]

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Rating: 4/5

Styles: pop ambient, anomie
Others: William Basinski, Rachel Carson

“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)

a screaming comes across the forest: quiet whistles bellow deepening the fog, seep solitude sipping the narco-silence emanating from the leaves, dissipating, shudder open like shutters shut, slam croak and fidget, the body numbing up like white noise rising up the xylem of the spine, up through the canopy, up to the sky, reflection of strobing shadows, four-on-the-forest-floor.

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The Necks crane their necks and announce their necks album Body on Northern Spy

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The Necks crane their necks and announce their necks album Body on Northern Spy
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With over 20 albums and over 30 years, The Necks need no introduction…

…Hey, really, I mean it!

Still, the Australian trio just keeps churning forward. This August, they’ll be delivering what they’re calling “their most relentlessly driving album since Hanging Gardens.” (Ooh, deep cut!)

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