Here are five new releases that stayed in our office rotation throughout the week…
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Tag: Xander Harris
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Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches and William Cody Watson have curated a special compilation for the latter’s Bathetic label called Expressway. Featuring exclusives from both artists and such fringe favorites as Cough Cool, Xander Harris and Wet Hair, it’s meant as a travelogue of sorts.
Or as Hungtai puts it on the record’s liner notes page, “Whether its years spent on the road, relocating to another town, working to pay the rent, playing numerous gigs underpaid or with zero pay, writing until eyes crossed, recording until ears decay, dying in a Tibetan sense, or simply living, this compilation is a collective meditation of our personal travels. One of love, of hate, of wander, and of mileage.”
Hit the road below…
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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…
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Much like the warped portrait on your left and the smoke-engulfed serial killer sleeve of his debut album (Urban Gothic, available now on Not Not Fun), the synth-guided songs of Xander Harris pay tribute to horror’s heyday; a time where John Carpenter’s crystalline keys were as creepy as Michael Myers’ mask and the death toll that went along with it. And unlike the growing number of vaporized VHS groups who clearly listened to a lot of Goblin growing up, Harris translates many of his tracks for the dancefloor, from the chest-beating basslines and steam-pressed breaks of “Fucking Eat Your Face” to the absolutely banging crypt keeper beats of “I Want More Than Just Blood,” a song that recently received a full-on 12” treatment from Not Not Fun’s new sister label, 100% Silk.
In the following exclusive, the Texas-based producer presents a “collection of Berlin School/Kosmische Musik-style jams that I’ve been into a lot here lately”…
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