Run the Jewels Drop
RTJ4 Two Days Early
Photo TIMOTHY SACCENTI Run the Jewels have released their fourth album on DSPs two days early. Download RTJ4 here or stream it in full below, featuring appearances from 2 Chainz, Greg Nice, DJ Premier, Pharrell Williams, Zack de la Rocha, Mavis Staples, and Josh Homme. “Fuck it, why wait,” Killer Mike and El-P wrote in […]
Demian Licht Channels
Art and Architecture on
Debut Album Die Kraft
It doesn’t take long to get swept up in the storm of Demian Licht’s debut album. Due out July 10th through the producer’s own Motus Recordings imprint, Die Kraft takes the movie-like techno of Licht’s Female Criminals trilogy even further, bringing her broader ideas into full relief. “I feel like I was finally able to […]
Kevin Richard Martin
Launches Record Label,
Drops Two Solo Albums
Photo MORISA MARTIN Having recently moved from Berlin to Brussels, right in the middle of a pandemic, Kevin Richard Martin was left with two options: dwell on the dark side of not being able to tour anytime soon, or get back in the bunker and churn out more challenging music. The restless producer chose the […]
Lea Bertucci On…
The Black Panthers,
Matsutake Mushrooms,
and Psychotropic Art
Recording Under the Influence is a recurring feature where we ask our favorite musicians what moves them. Today’s post takes a closer look at the alien sound worlds of Lea Bertucci, the New York-based composer responsible for such widescreen LPs as last April’s Acoustic Shadows (SA Recordings) album and the deep alto sax explorations of […]
Sam Spiegel Reveals
Exclusive Mixtape
Featuring RZA,
Anderson Paak,
Sean Paul and More
Photography MAXWELL MIRANDA About halfway through his new Random Shit mixtape, Sam Spiegel (see also: N.A.S.A., Squeak E. Clean Studios) poses an important rhetorical question: “Are mashups still a thing? Apparently so.” Indeed. Much like next Friday’s proper Random Shit From the Internet Era LP, the exclusive set below is a palate cleanser meant to put the […]
Maze & Lindholm Share
The Stories Behind
Their New Album,
A River Flowing
Home to the Sea
Photography CAROLINE LESSIRE Maze & Lindholm’s new LP (A River Flowing Home to the Sea, now available on Bedouin Records) finds the left-field duo dialing back on the darkness that crept into their 2018 debut (Where the Wolf Has Been Seen). The record isn’t reduced to easy listening exercises, though; it’s more of a fluid […]
Concentric Records’
Top Ambient Tracks
When Simone Merli (see also: the Patti Smith-approved Soundwalk Collective) and Luca Calo (a.k.a. the ambient DJ Born In 1986) decided to launch their own ambient label this year, they set Concentric Records’ bar for the stratosphere with its first three releases. Rather than slide into a steady album cycle, the duo tapped a wide […]
Anna Homler, Alessio Capovilla Share Vasi Comunicanti Single
Having first crossed paths during a dynamic improv performance in Turin a few years back, Anna Homler (a.k.a. the avant-garde artist Breadwoman) and Gang of Ducks co-founder Alessio Capovilla set out to slowly develop a proper record together. The first hint of where they were headed popped up on Homler’s Deliquium in C EP — […]
Chester Raj Anand
Makes Us a Mixtape
of Birdsong Music
Ask anyone who’s ever spent some time in Tokyo alone; life is but a dream once you’re swept up in its neon-bathed streets, a tangled web of intertwined lives and constant stimulation. Chester Raj Anand found this out first hand during the impromptu recording sessions for Strawberry (Quiet Time), a minimal, synth-and-tape-deck-led meditation on how […]