Cenizas finds electronic producer Nicolás Jaar sinking into tonality and space. Cenizas, which translates to “ashes,” is a study on what movement in music sounds like, what atmospheres are possible when a song is relieved of its traditional forms. Ashes provide the …
Read MoreBicep - Atlas
Bicep’s new single ‘Atlas’ continues along the lines of 2018’s Rain EP as a cavernous dance epic to rival the grittiest, post-postmodern, post studio cinematic adaptation of The Odyssey set in a post-apocalyptic Middle Eastern desert. It’s energy is a raw slow-burn, and …
Read MoreMGMT - As You Move Through The World
MGMT launches another zoom-in from-outer-space-track with ‘As You Move Through the World,’ their March 2020 single release. Dulcet pads illicit embryonic development or a deep meditativeness, both of which suggest the empty space at the very center of your …
Read MoreFour Tet - Sixteen Oceans
With limited anticipation and even less fanfare, Kieran Hebden’s tenth album release as Four Tet has arrived. Sixteen Oceans continues the sonic journey charted on 2017’s New Energy and the handful of KH and ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ releases dotting the interim. …
Read MoreShaded - My Stimuli (3SR)
Skyler “Shaded” Taugher has arrived with another hott techno delivery, straight to your door, whether you ordered it or not; best not let it get cold, not that it could get cold because beats like these produce their own energy. Parcel number one contains eight minutes and …
Read MoreFlume feat. Toro y Moi - The Difference (3SR)
It was early March when the union of Flume and Toro y Moi bore fruit, which was a single they named, ‘The Difference,’ in an effort to vaguely espouse the idea of trying even though everyone is bound to die and die whenever. Lyrically, the track is pursuant of Toro y …
Read MorePantha du Prince - Conference of Trees
There is a place called the Cathedral Grove out on the west coast of North America. I have never been, but, as someone with an intellectual interest in art and the sublime, I read about it often and imagine from afar. The heavy height and silence of the douglas fir …
Read MoreOzzy - Een
Newcomer Ozzy née Oscar Jones is jumping into the cold waters of March with not one but two releases on not one but two labels each containing not one but three songs each. The Dutch-Australian artist brings an eclectic sensibility to the table with Een, a tale of …
Read MoreCaroline Rose - Freak Like Me
I think humor is funny because it’s rooted in truth, and the funniest standup comedians are the ones who take their acts one step (or two steps) further than is considered “socially appropriate” in the present company. They are thinking what we are all thinking. But …
Read MoreCaribou - Suddenly
Canadian Dan Snaith is back as Caribou, multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer and DJ. Suddenly follows 2014’s Our Love and 2017’s Joli Mai (as Daphni). This new outing finds the majestic hoofed ruminant in a familiar space, though time around this space has been …
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