It’s kind of crazy to think about RP Boo’s legendary status, despite the dearth of formal releases bearing his name. First there was RP Boo’s appearances on the renowned Bang & Works compilations.
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Zs Noth
Styles: noise, improv, jazz, drone, electro-acoustic, no wave
Others: Chris Corsano/Mette Rasmussen, Tyler Damon/Tashi Dorji, CP Unit, Don Caballero
Agency woes… Destinations dim you down, so just don’t have a shape. Fumble and pique, rest back or lean in prone, primed for significance. Tip momentumward, with nimble stumbling and giddy last-second saves. Premeditated or random, the run-off swims up to deck you out in its thorough din. Anticipation, flits of ease with slashing jaunts of stilted conversation. A disassociated disruption in the back of the room. They left the movie, but some stayed. They turned their attention, but some were fixed. It is not a noble distinction.
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Pinkshinyultrablast Miserable Miracles
Styles: violet eyelinger, butterflykisses
Others: My Bloody Valentine, Astrobrite, Stereolab, YMO, The Sabres of Paradise
In the noise that elides the space between sound, there we might touch. All butterflykisses our gazes might meet, and anyway, to which surface of the eye do lips compare? Our gazes meet: a way of expressing a distance that brings together: our gazesmeet.
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♫♪ Carla Bozulich - Quieter
How much can we sing the praises of Carla Bozulich? As much as it takes to make sure every single person who reads this plus two of their relatives get up to speed! Bozulich’s decades-spanning career has produced a diverse and enviable oeuvre, which includes stirring performances and productions, impassioned writing, and clangorous sound art.
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Eleanor Friedberger Rebound
Styles: mature sentimentality, sentimental maturity
Others: Kaputt-era Destroyer, Julia Holter if she liked Carly Simon better than Laurie Anderson
Catharsis. While promoting her new album Rebound, Eleanor Friedberger has been circling that idea without ever really articulating it. It might be a deliberate omission: spinning Aristotelian philosophy when discussing the songs she wrote during a summer in Greece could be too on the nose. She has, however, provided a quite transparent allegory: Friedberger found the inspiration for this album on the dance floor of a goth-/post-punk-themed club in Athens.
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Lucrecia Dalt Anticlines
Styles: in/organic, surface and depth
Others: Félicia Atkinson, Colleen
In Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense, the Little Girl, concerned with the realm of surfaces, is contrasted with the Schizophrenic, the explorer of depths and the body. Anticlines is what happens when the two meet — if that is even possible, if there are, in the first instance, two separate subjects who then encounter each other (and if the listener can encounter sound). But if they can — how? That is also Anticlines.
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♫♪ Death Grips - “Streaky”
“Evokes the greasy rumble of Booker T and the MGs in the opening bars before channeling the spiritual ecstasy of Sly and the Family Stone in the soaring choruses.”
– Earbuzz
“‘Streaky’ is a smooth, sensuous song, with a guitar part evoking a hot summer day, an organ that sends you to the front pew, and a brass section that feels like something straight out of Turn the Radio Off.”
– Liquid Music
“Adapts occult imagery with a sexy twist.”
– Music Is Lyfe
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Jan Jelinek Berlin’s experimental mainstay talks deceleration, chemical reactions, and new album “Zwischen”
Berlin’s experimental mainstay talks deceleration, chemical reactions, and new album “Zwischen”
To take a look at the German electronic landscape is to take a look at Jan Jelinek. The producer — responsible for some of the most notable and brilliant albums of German house, techno, and experimental music — has sketched the outlines of his country’s scene across various decades and noms de plume.
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Twin Shadow Caer
Styles: pop, new wave, indie
Others: The Cure, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Taylor Swift
It’s not easy to make a record that tries to grasp the ethos of its own time by looking to another generation — in this case, the 1980s — for inspiration. It’s what George Lewis Jr. (Twin Shadow) has been trying to do since 2010’s Forget, and it’s what has always burdened his music with imbalance. Finally, in Caer, Lewis finds the clearest expression of the ideas he’s been chasing for almost a decade.
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♫♪ Princess Nokia - “For The Night”
Upon first listen of the new Princess Nokia cloud-emo mixtape A Girl Cried Red (released in April on Friday the 13th), I felt similar to what was said in our TMT Review written by [hater-]Hydroyoga.
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