Kayla Guthrie Falling Star
Styles: half-light, silhouette, haute abjection
Others: Lau Nau, Eve Essex, Lizzi Bougatsos, Will Sheldon, Jarboe, Lydia Tomkiw and Leslie Winer
I discovered Kayla Guthrie’s music a few years ago through the recommendation of multidisciplinary artist Eve Essex, someone I deeply respect due to her seemingly limitless range of projects and abilities, spanning sculpture, classically trained bassoon and saxophone playing, electronic music, songwriting, installation, and performance art.
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Foodman to chill on a chaise lounge and casually release new album Aru Otoko No Densetsu on Sun Ark
Given his prodigious SoundCloud and general affinity for the web, fans of 食品まつり a.k.a. Foodman have typically had easy access to his music. But what about those music lovers who loathe online communities and resist track-by-track distribution like a person who stubbornly resists restaurant appetizers? After all, not everyone wants to spend time munching on fried zucchini with a main course waiting in the wings.
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Amnesia Scanner announce debut album Another Life on PAN
Since 2014, we here at TMT have been patiently awaiting the first major statement from the cryptorave mediators/technological fetishists known as Amnesia Scanner.
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Forma Semblance
Styles: synth revivalism, retrofuturism, kosmische musik
Others: Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Emeralds, OPN, Visible Cloaks
Semblance can mean resemblance: “Semblance bears some semblance to the recent crop of 80s synth revivalists.” In Merriam-Webster, this is definition #4, “actual or apparent resemblance.” Oddly, semblance can also mean the opposite, something closer to dissembling: “There is only a semblance between Semblance and those neon-obsessed throwbacks.” This is the more common meaning, #1a, “outward and often specious appearance or show.” So, what kind of semblance does Semblance perform?
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Sarah Davachi very, very softly and quietly returns with new album Gave In Rest, shares new track “Evensong”
Turns out, even when she’s in rest-mode (perhaps, say, after releasing one of our favorite albums of 2018 so-far with this past spring’s haunting
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Jlin’s score for Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography gets release date, first preview track
If you often find yourself suddenly screaming out, “I just want to dance!” at the tippy-top of your lungs without incitement of any form, then I’m happy to let you know that, today at least, you’re likely to be more than satisfied. Yes, you know what that means: there’s new Jlin music! The footwork producer’s previously-announced collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor on his Autobiography show finally has a release date: September 28. The score is out through Planet Mu.
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Body/Head The Switch
Styles: noise, drone, experimental rock
Others: Wolf Eyes, Goslings, The Dead C, White Suns
Boredoming. It’s such a wandering imperial sneeze, whatever presentation one might be witnessing. That bemused snort when there isn’t the threat of violence or epiphany. The way it can ripple through a crowd is not unlike the sunset leaking in around your periphery before you’ve had a chance to break focus and regard it. With this in mind, one remembers the saving grace of the lateral move. One must come again to the simple pleasure of strapping in and going as nowhere as you possibly can.
More about: Bill Nace, Body/Head, Kim Gordon
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The Broad museum in LA details 2018 Summer Happenings, featuring Gang Gang Dance, Pharmakon, Matmos, and more
Animal Collective unveil new audiovisual album Tangerine Reef, remind us all that coral is an animal
Oh yes!
Just when you thought that the Alternative Rock combo known as Animal Collective had perhaps finally arpeggiated their last “oh-oh-oh” sound, Avey Tare, Geologist, and Deakin (Panda Bear is still hanging with his homies at the Waffle House, I guess) ARE BACK, BABY!
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Upgrayedd Smurphy #PENINSULA
Styles: club, techno
Others: Debit, D/P/I
Under her Smurphy alias, Mexico City’s Jessica Smurphy crafted music that hovered in the vague area around techno as both a set of sounds and a conceptual framework but remained largely formless, mostly eschewing direct engagement with muscular beats and focusing primarily on a gaseous, disorienting drift perfectly summed up by one album’s title, A Shapeless Pool of Lovely Colors Suspended in the Darkness.
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