I’m writing this story with Siri’s voice-to-text, so apologies in advance. I just can’t type with my body, though, because every single pore on my skin is so tantalized by the exquisite news that Eartheater is sharing her new album, titled IRISIRI, on the illustrious PAN this coming June. Looks like my phone will have to do the hard work for me. How prescient.
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Lil Xan TOTAL XANARCHY
Styles: SoundCloud rap, trap, mumble rap
Others: Lil Pump, Lil Peep, Jake Paul
Lil Xan is boring. This is one of the harshest aspersions I can cast on the Redlands mumble rapper, but it’s also one of the more diplomatic things I can say of him. In a trendy subgenre like emo rap, where sensationalistic subject matter like drug abuse, self-harm, and suicide is the preferred stock in trade, to call Xan underwhelming is to dismiss both him and his message.
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Sleep The Sciences
Styles: doom metal, drone, stoner rock
Others: Black Sabbath
[Note: I tried to give this album a 4.20/5, but my editor said it couldn’t be done.]
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Jamie Stewart Xiu Xiu frontman talks debut solo album, “experimental” music, and coming out to his parents
Xiu Xiu frontman talks debut solo album, “experimental” music, and coming out to his parents
Jamie Stewart is no stranger to change or new and uncomfortable surroundings. Having been involved in music since the mid-90s, he has become somewhat of a cult figure, attracting the same kind of unrelenting fandom that boy bands do — except on a comparatively miniscule scale. He has played in a multitude of styles, from conventional song lead projects to more abstract ones, best known of course through his Xiu Xiu project.
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Sleep makes 4/20 a little TOO exciting by releasing first new album since 1998 TODAY via Third Man
WHOA there.
Just…whoa.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, internet: all this hubbub about Sleep releasing the their first NEW ALBUM since fucking 1998 today (April 20) in honor of 4/20 is certainly cool and all…but…
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“Never really try to judge a girl by how she fakes.”
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♫♪ Deafheaven - “Honeycomb”
The consensus about the new Deafheaven song is that it’s good, but that it’s more of the same, another exercise in the black metal/post-rock aesthetic of 2013’s Sunbather and 2015’s New Bermuda. In a sense this is true, but “Honeycomb” also seeks to blend the sounds of those two records: the fractured lightness and leaded buoyancy of Sunbather with the sludgy darkness, the more self-consciously “metalness” of New Bermuda.
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Kanye West announces two new albums, including one with Kid Cudi as Kids See Ghost
Kanye West is BACK, and he is LIVING THE DREAM (a.k.a. tweeting). Just minutes ago, he tweeted that his new album features only seven tracks (!!) and will be out June 1. He also announced a new joint album with Kid Cudi that’ll be out a week later, June 8, under the name Kids See Ghost.
This is all very good news.
Read all of his tweets here, and get yourself ready for some new Kanye. LOVE YOU!
my album is 7 songs
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Justin Meyers announces new synth-centered album Struggle Artist on Shelter Press
People often look up to musicians as emotional mediums who survive purely by the will of their marvelous talent, but anyone who’s refrained from a Tolkien obsession surely appreciates the less fantastic truth: the vast majority of artists out there have a second gig in order to live at least semi-comfortably. In the indie world, you’ll be hard-pressed to come across a project that isn’t the tip of the human glacier that appears majestically above water (meaning there’s necessarily more going on in their lives).
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Kemialliset Ystävät Siipi Empii
Styles: psychedelic, free noise, electronica
Others: Nobukazu Takemura, Barbati Confeti, Yakui
“I accept Chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.”
– Bob Dylan
Sonic elusiveness, or obtrusiveness. Amid a surge, in crud, incongruous, searchingly. Sounds that are lily pads that are peaches that are trash heaps.
Coming through the meadow that is a door that is a symbol of love. Of sound seemingly painted. Press Any Key.
In attention in intention, held captive by information. Failure: the goal of electronic music. As if locked into the servitude of the infinite.
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