Check out our exclusive Korallreven mixtape here and an extended version of their “Sa Sa Samoa” single (featuring Julianna Barwick) below…
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Tag: Julianna Barwick
Photo by Samantha Casolari
As we continue to look back at the year that was, we’d like to take a moment to memorialize 40 records we haven’t already highlighted in our editors’ lists (available here, here and here) or album spotlights, starting with a stunner that soothed our caffeine-wracked nerves every time we had to deliver an issue on deadline…
The Artist/Album: Julianna Barwick, The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty, 2011)
The Reason(s) We Can’t Stop Listening: A strange thing happened when we showed up to the second day of this summer’s Pitchfork Music Festival early: we stopped dead in our tracks and stared. These kind of things don’t just happen at 1 in the afternoon, when we’re on the way to the free beer pen backstage and there’s a solo artist performing in front of an open field that fits 20,000 people.
That’s Julianna Barwick’s thing, though—sharing so much with so little, filling wide open spaces with church-like choruses and live vocal loops that build ’til they’re about to break. This is music as a religious experience without all of that god stuff, and easily one of the most beautiful albums we’ve heard all year.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Have a listen and a look below…
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Memory Tapes (Photo: Travis Huggett)
Good news for anyone who misses reading actual magazines: our new issue is now available in its standard Web edition here. The iPad pressing is imminent as well, but for now, here’s what you’re getting for free:
- An afternoon at the Central Park Zoo with John Maus
- A rare, revealing interview with Zomby
- A track-by-track breakdown of Ford & Lopatin‘s debut album
- Jamie Woon on … Louis C.K., George Orwell and more
- Austra‘s guide to Nine Inch Nails
- A Lib Service session with Memory Tapes
- Dirty Beaches discusses the importance of family
- Damian of Fucked Up shares his favorite records, from 7 Seconds to the Smiths
- Blondes, Laurel Halo, ARP and more take us behind the scenes their one-night-only performance with Harald Grosskopf
- Disposable camera shots of SXSW by Black Lips, the Megaphonic Thrift and Toro Y Moi
- Original art by Boris, as inspired by the Weeknd‘s House of Balloons mixtape
Stay tuned to our Twitter account and Facebook page for more info, including details on how to score a hand-numbered LP and a pair of concert tickets from our cover star!
