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[NEW] L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog
release date: oct/13/2023
genre: neo-psych/art pop
favorite track(s): r(EMOTE), New Year’s UnResolution
Multi-instrumentalist and composer L’Rain returns with her third album I Killed Your Dog. Over-writing themes of grief and identity that informed her previous work, I Killed Your Dog considers what it means to hurt the people you love the most. Multi-layered in subject and form, L’Rain’s sonic explorations interrogate instead how multiplicities of emotion and experience intersect with identity. The experimental and the hyper-commercial; the expectation and the reality; the hope and the despair.
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[NEW] MIKE - Burning Desire
release date: oct/13/2023
genre: hiphop
favorite track(s):
new MIKE.
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[NEW] Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X
release date: oct/06/2023
genre: art pop/experimental
favorite track(s): Brain Weather, Marbles
Vanishing Twin is now the tightly honed collective of singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti (Holy Tongue, Tomaga, Moin) and bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). Harnessing the diverse touchstones of its members; Lucas’ left-field song-craft, Magaletti’s singular approaches to experimental percussion, and Mukai’s long history in the production of electronic music, the band has refined a hypnotic sound at the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop.
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[NEW] Slauson Malone 1 - Excelsior
release date: oct/06/2023
genre: experimental/hiphop
favorite track(s): New Joy, Voyager
The word "excelsior" embodies perpetual ascent. Slauson Malone 1 envisions it as a metaphorical sword, one that in someone's possession incessantly grows until it cleaves the Earth in a grand finale. That metaphor becomes his lens to explore all facets of masculinity with a newfound clarity, as he interrogates his own lived experiences through songs and movements across the album inspired by everything from Grammy award-winning composer Wendy Carlos, to the similarities between falling out of love and a nuclear half-life. EXCELSIOR takes the form of a collection of personal essays, with vignettes that intertwine and stand-alone, but ultimately serve the purpose of forming Slauson Malone 1's most personal and enthralling musical work to date.
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[NEW] Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Testing Strips
release date: sep/29/2023
genre: hiphop
favorite track(s): too many
billy woods and ELUCID once again bring their best, this time with help from JPEGMAFIA, Moor Mother, EL-P, Junglepussy, Pink Siifu, and more. WBDTS has an extra layer of angst and cohesive chaos that keeps in line with the album’s message.
[NEW] Oneohtrix Point Never - Again
released: sep/29/2023
genre: electronic, experimental
favorite track(s): krumville
In Lopatin’s words the album is in part “a speculative autobiography,” a transmission, a spellbound backwash of digital languages and sonic paranoias, what’s remembered and what’s forgotten, all presented in OPN’s trademark melodic touch.
mark william lewis - pleasure is everything
released: dec/12/2021
genre: dream pop,slowcore
favorite track(s): Cold Paris Vogue
released: sep/16/2020
genre: experimental,hiphop
favorite track(s): Simile #7, Smile #6, THE MESSAGE 3: BLOOD
Dungeon Family - Even In Darkness
released: oct/22/2001
genre: hiphop
favorite track(s): Follow the Light, Rollin’, Crooked Booty
Outkast, Goodie Mob, and more collab on this album, the only full release from the group.
The Edge Of Daybreak - Eyes of Love
released: 1979
genre: soul, funk
favorite track(s): Eyes of Love
The Edge of Daybreak was a group of inmates who met, wrote songs, rehearsed, and performed behind bars. This album was recorded live in a single morning by a mobile recording unit brought to the Powhatan prison complex in Richmond, Virginia, where the band members were incarcerated. Eyes of Love gained some regional publicity through local media outlets before band members were transferred to other facilities and ultimately released from prison, and they were not fated to create any follow-up music.
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