Delroy Edwards Rio Grande

[L.A. Club Resource; 2018]

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Rating: 4/5

Styles: saloon disc jockey, goof house, late-nite caper
Others: Whirlpool Productions, Sandy B, Last American Hero

A few weeks ago, I was hanging around the KCHUNG radio station in Los Angeles, talking to another DJ about his techno set. As we were chatting about the songs he was playing, he started telling me that, in spite of how seriously people take dance music culture, most DJs are actually just goofing around. He said that, during its 90s heyday, rave music was more of a parody of itself than some slick, buttoned-up ideal of black-cap cool, and that ultimately Coachella bros were probably more in touch with the true spirit of dance music than most deep techno heads.

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Klein announces new EP cc, shares “Last Chance”

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Klein announces new EP cc, shares "Last Chance"
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CHOO CHOO: the Klein-train keeps rollin’! Following the performance of her fantasy musical Care earlier this year, the London-born, Nigerian-English artist known as Klein has just dropped word of a BRAND NEW RELEASE.

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♫♪  Arca - “Fetiche”

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Outta seemingly nowhere (which is when the best stuff happens), Arca has shared an 11-minute video on YouTube. The work is titled “Fetiche,” and according to the description, the music is composed of “new material and edits.”

Check out the flower-stomping video — directed by Arca and Carlos Sáez — above, and, as Arca suggests: look inward, cut yourself loose from your self, and tolerate no abuse.

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Jenny Hval wants you to WAKE UP, cuz she’s got to tell you something: announces The Long Sleep EP on Sacred Bones, shares new single

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Jenny Hval wants you to WAKE UP, cuz she's got to tell you something: announces The Long Sleep EP on Sacred Bones, shares new single
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…Huh? Wha?…

Gah…sorry, y’all; I must have…dozed off there…

Oh, maaaaan…how long was I OUT for?? It feels like Jenny Hval (a.k.a. the Bjork of Norway) JUUUUST announced a new thing she was doing, like, two days ago.

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Amen Dunes Freedom

[Sacred Bones; 2018]

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Rating: 3/5

Styles: psyacht rock
Others: The Velvet Underground, Alex Cameron, Destroyer

Who is music for? Is it for the artist or the listener? And who is the artist?

Recently, albums dealing with the experience of grief — in particular, Mount Eerie, but also, for example, Japanese Breakfast — have been prominent on the cultural landscape. As Damon McMahon (Amen Dunes) began recording Freedom, his mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. As such, the critic notes with apprehension that bringing to bear a critical lens becomes a morally fraught task.

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Eartheater signs to PAN for upcoming full-length, shares video for new song “Claustra”

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Eartheater signs to PAN for upcoming full-length, shares video for new song "Claustra"
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If this isn’t a testament to the fact that my thoughts control the universe, then I don’t know what is. Literally just the other day I was thinking to myself, “Dang, those Eartheater records from a few years ago were totally excellent. Sure hope she drops some more goodness on us in the form of a full-length album, or at least maybe a video that takes place in a graveyard soon.” And what do you know?

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Gang Gang Dance share first new song in seven years from upcoming album Kazuashita on 4AD

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Gang Gang Dance share first new song in seven years from upcoming album Kazuashita on 4AD
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Now, I want you to think back. Waaaaaay back. Back before Gang Gang Dance was just a tag we stapled onto any “indie” band that discovered synthesizers and East Asian music. Back before I wrote for this site, or (probably) you read this site either. Back when Gang Gang Dance were the original “hipster shit.” Ah, those were the days…

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Sarah Davachi Let Night Come On Bells End The Day

[Recital; 2018]

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Rating: 4.5/5

Styles: vespers
Others: Music for Church Cleaners, Olivier Messiaen

In Maya Deren’s silent short At Land, a woman — thrown from the waves into a world in which she is thoroughly out of place — reaches above herself with an open grasp of yearning and draws herself upward, traversing disparate dream-shores.

At Land
At Land

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Princess Nokia to drop new mixtape, A Girl Cried Red, THIS FRIDAY via Rough Trade

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Princess Nokia to drop new mixtape, A Girl Cried Red, THIS FRIDAY via Rough Trade
A Girl Cried Red cover art (yup, for real)

Careful with yer eyeliner, my dear emotional readers. Princess Nokia — who is a pretty cool New York rapper — has just announced the release date for her “highly anticipated” new mixtape on The Instagram.

That mixtape’s name? A Girl Cried Red.

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Severed+Said John Touchton on why night evokes art, creating music through the subconscious, and his new album on Not Not Fun

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John Touchton on why night evokes art, creating music through the subconscious, and his new album on Not Not Fun

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Since 2014, a handful of deep, otherworldly synth transmissions emanating from Floridian mystic Severed+Said have carved an exciting niche within the fervent, if underrated, independent music outposts of the Sunshine State. Across four releases, Jacksonville’s John Touchton composes sounds that draw inspiration from the ritualistic undertones of creation, performance, and consumption.

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