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Curses will release a new album later this month. Known for making dark, romantic, cinematic new wave, Curses, real name Luca Venezia, has previously released two full length albums on Dischi Autunno—the latest, Incarnadine, coming in 2022. Another Heaven, his new album, lands on synth label Italians Do It Better, and it’s once again soaked […]
Experimental guitarist Guy Blakeslee will release his Extravision album on Leaving Records. Blakeslee self-released Extravision in 2022. Since then, he has spoken about its genesis. On March 13, 2020, while walking across the street, he was struck by a car. Upon regaining consciousness, he found both the outer world and his inner world suddenly transformed. […]
Last month, Max Graef returned to Tartelet Records with his third solo album under his own name. Like the two that have come before it—2018’s Lo Siento Mucho Pero No Hablo Tu Idioma and 2014’s Rivers Of The Red Planet—Natural Element is filled with psychedelic, starry-eyed jams. Amongst these releases, Graef—a resident of Berlin, Germany, […]
In May, Kenneth James Gibson released Murals For Immersion, a collaboration with saxophonist Paul Carman who played and recorded with Frank Zappa. It was the latest ambient album that Gibson—a musician based in California—has released under his own name. Active since the early ’90s, after being born in Canada but raised in Texas, he has […]
Nicolás Jaar‘s Other People label has shared the debut album of Solpara, the Lebanese-American live act and DJ-producer. Born in New York City, Solpara started DJing in the late ’00s when he was living in Montréal, Canada, and he later co-founded the Booma Collective, a label collective and event series focused on experimental techno, ambient, […]
This week’s podcast comes from Shcaa, the French composer and guitarist otherwise known as Sacha Khalifé. Khalifé started music production in high school, while living in Tunisia. He had been playing guitar for a couple of years and was listening to a mixture of ’60s rock and British IDM, and eventually Burial. At the age […]
Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day will release a “dulcet and exploratory” new self-titled album on Leaving Records. Sam Wilkes, Dylan Day, Craig Weinrib was recorded on location outdoors among the San Bernardino mountains in Southern California. Most of the album was made during a single early evening; Dylan Day played electric guitar, Sam […]
Strut Records will release a new compilation compiled by Kampire, a revered East African DJ. Forging her reputation through memorable performances for Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda over the last decade, Kampire is celebrated for her sets spanning the full range of African music styles, from the ’70s and ’80s to the present day. Born […]
Seven years…that’s the time between Mount Kimbie‘s third album, Love What Survives, and their fourth, The Sunset Violent. During that time, Dominic Maker relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he wrote for artists including James Blake, Travis Scott, Slowthai, Rosalía, and Jay-Z; meanwhile, Kai Campos, his partner, whom he met at London Southbank university, remained […]
Arushi Jain will release a new album on Leaving Records. Delight follows on from 2021s Under a Lilac Sky, which also landed on Leaving. The album carries, at its core, the simple proposition that delight is accessible and that the practice of cultivating it is a worthwhile endeavour. Across nine tracks, Jain aims “to instil […]
Laurel Halo will release a new album in September. Atlas is the American DJ-producer’s first album in five years, since 2018’s Raw Silk Uncut Wood. Using both electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Halo has created a “potent” set of sensual ambient jazz collages, comprised of orchestral clouds, shades of modal harmony, hidden sonic details, and hallucinatory […]
Wata Igarashi is one of the leading figures of Japanese techno—an XLR8R favorite who featured in our XLR8R+ series and delivered a podcast of deep, sci-fi tinged hypnotic techno in 2019. What we haven’t covered so much before are his productions, which have been released on labels including Figure, Semantica, Time to Express, The Bunker […]
One Little Independentwill release the debut album from Laura Misch, the London-based saxophonist and producer. Sample in the Sky is a departure from Misch’s previous, more isolated bedroom-produced work, like Playground and Lonely City, released in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Though some songs had been years in the making, the catalyst for the record’s crystallisation […]
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