From Brutalism
on Astrolab Recordings
Beat Tales From Flying Lotus And David Lynch: “Fire Is Coming”
From Flamagra
Released today on Warp Records
Film directed by Steven Ellison & David Firth
Flying Lotus, “Fire is Coming” (feat. David Lynch)
[full track]
Shadow
After the limp 2017 film The Great Wall, the director Zhang Yimou was clearly looking to enact a return to form. With Shadow (2018), Zhang has done more than that: he’s created a martial-arts movie landmark, as strong in its performances as it is spectacularly novel in its violence. [Read more…]
Grace Ives Gives Us A Fairest “Mirror”
From the recent 2nd
on Dots Per Inch
Arresting Braidings In Aldous Harding’s “The Barrel”
From Designer
released today on Flying Nun Records and 4AD
Forthcoming Sweetness From Big Thief: “Cattails”
From U.F.O.F
out May 3, on 4AD
47 Years Delayed: Marvin Gaye’s Marvelous “Where Are We Going?”
No Fuck Heart! Bow To “Boss.” Kiss Finger. No You Die!
From Little Simz’s Grey Area
on Age 101 / AWOL
Fresh Throwback Funk In Bibio’s “Old Graffiti”
From the recent Ribbons
on Warp
Honeyed Strings And Sanguine Pop To Boot: “In The Capital”
The flavorful new single from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
on Sub Pop
Brain Mites On Sonic Move In Tamburi Neri: “Pechino (Original Mix)”
from the Works #1 EP
on Optimo Music
Ecstatic New Work From Powder: “New Tribe”
Featuring Moko Goto
on Beats in Space
Cooling Heat In Nicolas Jaar’s “Mi Mujer”
from the Time For Us ep
on Wolf + Lamb Records
The Golem
Everything horror writers and filmmakers have stolen from Hebrew mysticism gets stolen right back by the Israeli writer-director team of Yoav and Doron Paz in The Golem (2019). A well-crafted and idiosyncratic supernatural thriller, the film plays like a mix of Frankenstein, The Witch, and some of the Coen brothers’ more explicitly Jewish movies.
Toro y Moi Lands Two Small Gems: a) “Laws Of The Universe”
From Outer Peace
Out today on Carpark Records
From Outer Peace: b) “Who I Am”
Toro y Moi
on Carpark Records
Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing” (feat. Chuck D)
Chuck D is at Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, tonight with a new body artwork. Exhibition review is forthcoming:
https://subliminalprojects.com/exhibitions/chuck-d/
“Kool Thing” is from Goo
on Geffen Records
John Coltrane’s Eternal “Equinox”
Coltrane, who recently saw his latest posthumous release go metaphorically gold — i.e. sanctioned by the Ameri-Grecian/Bacchanalian Gods of Jazz — would have been proud of his dear friend’s latest release: Eric Dolphy’s Musical Prophet, reviewed yesterday by Henry Cherry.
Dolphy’s is indeed a fine and wonderful new release, yet/and with all due respect I hence put forth Zeus, who, yay, sanctioned or obliterated all other sounds of this epic era in Jazz. Here, Coltrane’s “Equinox,” where McCoy Tyner (who, by the gracious hands of those same breath-giving gods, is still with us, and still playing!!) lays down perhaps thee most spare and lovey piano solos ever put to tape, nor to ears nor time fore or since.
Rejiggering The Very Elementals Of One’s Mind: Charles Mingus’s “Celia”
From the latest (and miraculous!) release, Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden
Introduction by Bud Spangler
With the prodigious Don Pullen on piano, Joe Gardiner on trumpet, Roy Brooks on drums, & John Stubblefield on tenor saxophone
on Barely Breaking Even
Read Henry Cherry’s review of this “combustable” (his words, entirely apt) new release here
Spare And Glorious: Section 25’s “Girls Don’t Count”
Produced by Ian Curtis
from the album Always Now
on LTM Recordings