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NOW PLAYING: Tropic of Cancer, ‘The Sorrow of Two Blooms’
The Artist/Album: Tropic of Cancer, The Sorrow of Two Blooms 12” (Blackest Ever Black, 2011) Our Review: FACT‘s deputy editor (Kiran Sande) launched Blackest Ever Black last fall as a means of “[reestablishing] electronic music as a poetic, provocative and emotionally inquisitive force…art, as opposed to engineering.” As clinical as all that sounds–hell, it might […]
VIDEO: We Were Promised Jetpacks Tease New Album
Looks like We Were Promised Jetpacks have a new album on the way this fall. In the meantime, here’s an acoustic clip from SXSW a couple years ago…
NOW PLAYING: Noveller, ‘Glacial Glow’
The Artist/Album: Noveller, Glacial Glow (Weird Forest/Saffron Recordings, 2011) A Short Review: The alliterative title of Sarah Lipstate’s latest solo album sums its sleeping pill approach up perfectly. Which means that, yes, Glacial Glow is a guitar-guided journey into the center of the sun, basking in delicate drone tones and riffs that ripple like wave […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Swans, Live @ Primavera Sound 2011
Two songs. Twenty-seven minutes of Swans at their very best. Thanks WFMU!
VIDEO: John Maus, “Head For the Country”
Check out more from John Maus here , or simply wait until early next week, when we unveil his first cover story alongside a contest involving concert tickets and hand-numbered LPs. (His Ribbon Music debut, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, drops next Tuesday.) Speaking of John Maus live, here are his upcoming […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Gang Gang Dance, “MindKilla (Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Remix)”
Do we even need to sell you on the following free remix, an eight-minute romp through the warped, piano-chased mind of the one-and-only Lee “Scratch” Perry? Here’s what Gang Gang Dance multi-instrumentalist Brian DeGraw had to say about it if so: “I feel blessed—like ACTUALLY blessed—to have made some form of musical communion with LSP. […]