Through the darkness that permeates your Instagram stories, Twitter timelines, newspaper headlines, coffee shop chats, collegiate classrooms, shared partner intimacy, and everything else…here comes a ray of light from Janus.
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Lotic announces debut album & single, makes squares uncomfortable
For some reason, whispering is really creepy. Long ago, horror movie producers realized they could combine this most natural of human vocal abilities with any number of unsettling images (identical twins, clowns in sewers, masked serial killers) to make us recoil in dark theaters (or, more contemporarily, on our couches). Why shouldn’t the same apply to music? I remember hearing PJ Harvey’s “Down By the Water” on some indie radio station way back during the formative years, and boy did that give me the chills.
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Drake puts on a jacket, announces new album Scorpion
EXTRA EXTRA: Drake took to Instagram to post some IMAGES.
One is of himself wearing a jacket that, at the top, reads “Scorpion,” in the middle reads, “June Twenty Eighteen,” and at the bottom reads, “by Drake.”
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Larry Wish How More Can You Need?
Styles: Columnated ruins domino!/ Canvas the town and brush the backdrop: are you sleeping?”
Others: Van Dyke Parks, Jerry Paper, Angelo Badalamenti
In an instant, it feels like it might all collapse in on itself. In an instant, it feels like it might take me away. I scan to the ballgame for grounding. “That’s the last of the second,” a voice reminds me, impossible and infinite.
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♫♪ Amnesia Scanner - “AS Chaos (feat. Pan Daijing)
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Mouse On Mars Dimensional People
Styles: electronica, glitch
Others: Flying Lotus, Oval, Prefuse 73, Tortoise
Warm synths simmered down by warm blankets. Absence rather than presence, then back again. An iridescence like the nacreous interior of an abalone shell. An aura that massages you. Cocktails crafted by extraterrestrials in spaceship lounges overlooking the darkness of the galaxy.
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♫♪ Guest Mix: Gosheven - Gosheven is hot, and his mix is even hotter
Bálint Szabó (a.k.a. Gosheven, a.k.a. Gosheven is hot) isn’t stopping anytime soon. His exquisite (and Wire-approved) debut Leaper was released only last year, but we’re currently on the brink of experiencing even more alternate-tuning goodness from the Budapest-based SHAPE affiliate: Bivaq, his equally hot follow-up, drops on Opal Tapes TODAY via CD and digital formats.
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Young Thug releases new EP Hear No Evil ft. Nicki Minaj, 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert
Young Thug, rapper from Atlanta and lead actor opposite Diane Lane in romcom Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), has just dropped a new EP. It’s titled Hear No Evil, and it features guest spots from 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, and Nicki Minaj. But you have to act quick, because the EP is out RIGHT NOW on 300 Entertainment! If it sells out there, try Atlantic Records! And I bet YSL Records would have some too! COOL!!
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Jean Grae & Quelle Chris Everything’s Fine
Styles: avant-rap, teamwork, comic relief
Others: Open Mike Eagle, DOOM
In an ever-changing reality, we’re always looking for an easy, simulated answer. We seek escape and endorphin pathways over much else. Because why even try anymore? Nothing is as it ever was. Life is filled with pain. Society is in the toilet. But we always have optimism, right? The handy tool to just keep on keeping on. Rarely do we question optimism, afraid of threatening the very cornerstone of that good old fashioned, American brand of determination.
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Dustin Wong, Takako Minekawa, and Good Willsmith collab 2 da max on new improv LP for Umor Rex
Ugh. I just HATE having to listen to one artist’s goddamn album at a time, don’t you? I just get this feeling like: there’s so many great records out there that I’ll NEVER have time to really dig-in and get intimate with nearly enough of them — hell, I barely have time to listen to enough digital snippets from them to impressively namedrop them in front of my hipster-idiot friends!
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