Category: Listen

LISTEN: Cold Cave, “Black Boots”

Cold Cave's "Black Boots" single Cold Cave has revealed yet another DIY-or-die 7” through Wesley Eisold’s Heartworm imprint. Available now in a split black/clear pressing, “Black Boots” b/w “Meaningful Life” features a self-described slice of “cool nihilism” on its A-side and a “sombre ballad” on the flip.

Ride the wobbly sine waves of “Black Boots” down below and look out for just 100 limited copies of the single on clear vinyl at the band’s upcoming tour with Boyd Rice. We’ll also be unveiling Eisold’s new monthly book column on this very site soon…

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LISTEN: Talking Heads + Arthur Russell, “Psycho Killer”

Arthur Russell

So Dazed Digital scored quite an exclusive this week: a previously unreleased version of “Psycho Killer” featuring the wild brush strokes of Arthur Russell. The Talking Heads track is part of a promotional rollout for Circoloco Celebrates Arthur Russell, a tribute to the avant-garde cellist/composer that happens to coincide with this weekend’s Movement Festival in Detroit. Among the confirmed acts for Saturday’s event are Carl Craig, Kim Ann Foxmann, Ryan Eliot and Lee Curtiss.

Check out Circoloco’s official trailer below, along with this “Psycho Killer” business…

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LISTEN: Scout Niblett, “No Scrubs” (TLC Cover)

Scout Niblett - 'It's Up to Emma'Considering the first single from Scout Niblett‘s new album is simply called “Gun” and features sucker-punch drum fills alongside lines like “But I think I’m gonna buy me a gun/ A nice little silver one/ In a crowd someday/ You won’t see me coming anyway,” you better believe that her version of the TLC standard “No Scrubs” isn’t some novelty spin. As spare as ever, it’s dead serious about not wanting to waste one’s time with a revolving door of willful losers.

Check it out below, and look out for the It’s Up to Emma LP on Drag City tomorrow…

LISTEN: Pharmakon, “Ache”

Pharmakon - 'Abandon' One of the most compelling acts at RBMA’s “Drone Activity in Progress” show, Margaret Chardiet’s Pharmakon project was actually one of the night’s only traditional noise acts—an uncompromising wave of wickedness, from her sawed-off synth lines to the kind of primal screams Kanye West ought to have studied before performing this song on Saturday Night Live. Which makes sense considering Chardiet says she’s driven by a “deep-seated need/drive/urge/possession to reach other people and make them FEEL something in uncomfortable/confrontational ways.”

Case in point: “Ache,” taken from Abandon, Pharmakon’s first Sacred Bones song cycle after a series of small releases and CD-Rs…

LISTEN: Mux Mool Shares Tweet x Missy Elliott x The Supremes Edit

Mux Mool

Remember the pre-Girl Talk days, when ‘mash-ups’ were a thing perfected by Soulwax and massacred by just about everyone else? Well the following Mux Mool bootleg works because it pays homage to both songs (The Supremes’ “Can’t Hurry Love” and Tweet’s “Oh My”) without cramping the other’s style too much. Happy Friday…

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Wu-Tang Clan Offer Rare Pay-What-You-Want 7” From RZA’s Vaults

Wu-Tang's early days

[Pitchfork] As the Wu-Tang Clan get ready to mark the 20th anniversary of their seminal debut with a new record (A Better Tomorrow) in July, RZA’s Soul Temple imprint has revealed a limited 7” of a previously unreleased track called “Execution in Autumn.” Produced by Frank Dukes and featuring Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, U-God and RZA himself, it barely eclipses the three-minute mark and is all the better for it. Stream the song below, and score your own pay-what-you-want copy here

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LISTEN: Liars, “I Saw You From the Lifeboat” / “Perfume Tear”

Liars @ JellyNYC's Pool Party

Just in time for the launch of their late spring tour, Liars have shared a camera phone-sourced video for “I Saw You From the Lifeboat” and a free mailing list single that includes that synth-splashed track and a B-side that’s much more subdued yet still just the right amount of sinister (“Perfume Tear”). Check out both tracks below, and a rundown of tickets and tour dates here

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LISTEN: Zebra Katz Covers Tiffany, Recruits Busta Rhymes on New ‘DRKLNG’ Mixtape

Zebra Katz's 'DRKLNG' MixtapeZebra Katz has finally released a proper follow-up to last year’s breakout hit “Ima Read.” A panic-attacked web of smoke rings, lascivious synth lines and charred beats, the DRKLNG mixtape also happens to feature the creepiest Tiffany cover (“I Think We’re Alone Now”) you’ll ever hear and a vicious set of verses from Busta Rhymes on the spare, speaker-slapping “Ima Lead.” (Maybe Rhymes isn’t as homophobic as he’s been made out to be? Or maybe he simply hasn’t seen last year’s “Rise of Queer Rap” stories.)

Long story short: the half-hour set—presented as one seamless, streamable track—is incredibly tight, with each pitch black track bleeding into the next and Katz maintaining a suffocating sense of dread throughout.

Listen to A Guy Called Gerald’s ‘After the After Selection’ Mix

A Guy Called Gerald

Acid-house icon A Guy Called Gerald quietly uploaded a two-part after-hours mix today, giving recovering warehouse ravers an excuse to revisit the endless nights of the ’80s and ’90s. Definitely highly recommended if you appreciate DJs who actually know what that term originally entailed. Listen to part one and two here and here.

LISTEN: Kool Keith, “Let the Bars Go”

Kool Keith

Remember when Kool Keith said he was going to retire from rap entirely? Well considering he’s unveiled two mixtapes, a TOKiMONSTA collab, and a Dr. Octagon cameo since then, it looks like he isn’t putting his mic down just yet. In fact, he may have another album on the way soon, if the following SoundCloud selection—taken from Keith’s “Bobby Blak” account, which features a porn-y profile photo (of course it does) and some other previously unreleased material—is any indication…

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