Tag: stereogum
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Blanck Mass returns with In Ferneaux
I have missed Blanck Mass – I have checked in every once in a while, and the recent-ish punk songs weren’t my thing. But released yesterday their fifth album has a real timely post-apocalyptic feel, very Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest meets older Blanck Mass via newer Mogwai, Made from ten years of site…
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Lewis – L’Amour
In a post I marked for later last month but only recently checked was this album by Lewis aka Randall Wulff. It’s amazing, and easily has become one of my favourite albums of recent times but it was recorded 31 years ago. It’s a strange story, of outsider music on a private press, a man…
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Bow down and call me maybe – NIN vs Carly Rae Jepsen
PomDeter sent me this a day or two ago but I’ve been so busy with the Radio Station I didn’t listen – fool on me, this has since gone deservedly viral with Boing Boing, Stereogum and many others posting it. It’s a very funny mashup between Trent Reznor’s ‘Head Like A Hole’ and Carly Rae…
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Stepson
Stepson is a new El-P collaboration with Nick Diamonds who worked on Stay Down which is one of my favourite tracks from Cancer for Cure. First listen of the strangely titled ‘movie tit’ seems like it’s going to be a good one. (via Stereogum) El-P can do no wrong in my eyes, after a great…
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Pandora, Spotify, the new devil?
Responding to this Stereogum article ‘Deconstructing: Pandora, Spotify, Piracy, And Getting Artists Paid‘ I thought I’d repost it here: Can we look at that specific example and devise ways to make piracy less convenient for fans and less profitable for distributors, because such reform is better for our cultural health over the short-, medium-, and…
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TV Girl’s Wild and Innocent Mixtape
Got the email a day or so ago from LA’s TV Girl but only got round to listening tonight – as usual, brilliant. I don’t often say that of a Stereogum feted act, but I think it’s the mix of the usual sunkissed indie chillwave pop we’ve grown to love with spoken word and odd…