from the Pretenders’ self-titled release — 1/11/1980
“Tattooed Love Boys”
on Sire Records
Vein-Warming Scentings Of “Lilac” From Porridge Radio
from the forthcoming Every Bad (out 13 March 2020)
on Secretly Canadian
Silken Volts From Synth Vamps Automatic: “Electrocution”
Redolent Honey From The Lone Star in Kruangbin and Leon Bridges’ “Texas Sun”
from the Texas Sun EP (out 7 February 2020)
“Texas Sun”
on Black Vinyl
A Thanksgiving Thank You From Darondo
“Thank You God”
from Listen To My Song: The Music City Sessions
on Omnivore Recordings
“Pressure Drop” Takes Cue From Its Own Internal Implosions
the Suzanne Kraft remix
from Pressure Drop, newly released by C.A.R.
on Ransom Note Records
Nadine Shah’s Enchantingly Banshee-esque “Fool”
From Fast Food
on Apollo Records
The Lighthouse
In 2016, production designer turned writer/director Robert Eggers awed critics with his directorial debut, The Witch, a daring horror film set in the 1630s. Now, for his ferociously anticipated follow-up, he and his brother/co-writer Max Eggers have journeyed 200-some years to a rocky and remote island off the New England coast to tell a tale of isolation, envy, intimacy, wrath, and regret with The Lighthouse (2019). [Read more…]
Another Stellar Delivery From Big Thief: “Not”
Featuring the gloriously blistering guitar of Sir Buck Meek, who here earns his entry into the String-Warring Gods (aka The Axe Warriors).
From Two Hands, out today on 4AD Ltd
D’Angelo, Prince, Fully Absorbed In Brittany Howard’s “Baby”
From the fine new release Jaimie
on ATO
Joyous New Work From Michael Kiwanuka: “You Ain’t The Problem”
From the forthcoming release Kiwanuka
out October 25 on Polydor Records
A Long-Lost Coltrane Soundtrack Recording In New Release: The Lovely “Blue World”
From Blue World (2019)
Originally from the French-Canadian Film Le chat dans le sac (1964)
on Impulse!
After 17 Years, Exceptional New Work From 808 State: “Tokyo Tokyo”
Forthcoming on Transmission Suite
Out October 11 on 808 State
Forthcoming Menace From Kim Gordon: “Sketch Artist”
From No Home Record
out October 11 on Matador
Afro House, aka a Hurricane, From Emmanuel Jal: “Kuar”
The Henrik Schwarz remix
on Innervisions
The Slits, With A 40-Year-Old Blade, Still Cut
“Typical Girls”
from the album Cut
released 40 years ago today on Island Records
The Nightingale
It’s rare that a press screening comes with a warning. But in the wake of reported walkouts, invites to see Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale (2019) came with a warning. In red font, critics were alerted that the film would contain “sexual violence towards women, violence towards children, and violence motivated by racism.” Since the film’s Venice premiere last fall, some have criticized Kent for the brutality found in her much-anticipated follow-up to her breakthrough debut The Babadook. However, considering her sophomore effort is a revenge-thriller that explores the sins of colonialism, the brutality is essential to its message. To capture the merciless of this domineering mindset, Kent won’t look away from its violence and depravity. And she won’t let us look away either. [Read more…]
A Revisit With Rob Swift: “The Ghetto”
From the Sound Event release
on Tableturns Records
Anime In A Song: Nathan Micay‘s “The Party We Could Have”
from the forthcoming Butterfly Arcane EP
out September 23 on Lucky Me Records
New Work From Anatolian Weapons: “Ofiodaimon”
Featuring Seirios Savvaidis (Tolouse Low Trax vs Anatolian Weapons Remix)
out today on Beats In Space Records