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new music roundup #8

didn’t really fw any big releases this week (and not a ton of them came across my radar), so this week’s roundup is just a bunch of soundcloud obscurities! HEART EYES by collarbone collarbone · HEART EYES found this person because they liked one of my tracks on soundcloud and was immediately impressed by their work. super cool dark aggressive jungle/dnb stuff. holdurbreath by vai5000 vai5000 · holdurbreath「recycleBin + shinju」 more digicore rap by vai5000.

new music roundup #7

kutna hora by food house you ever wonder what tony hawk’s youngest child is up to? well, it’s this. i saw these two freaks live last weekend and it was a blast, very excited for the new album from all the new songs they played. matter of time by umru and warpstr umru · Matter of Time this track is pretty much what you’d expect from a collaboration between these two: it’s rubbery, it’s got wacky percussion and laser sounds, it sounds an awful lot like SOPHIE and A.

new music roundup #6

night palace by mount eerie Night Palace by Mount Eerie night palace marks the first relatively-normal release in the mount eerie catalogue since the death of phil elverum’s wife from pancreatic cancer in 2017. that death was followed by the beautiful, heart-wrenching a crow looked at me, and the similarly death-focused now only, and then a collaborative record with julie doiron called lost wisdom, pt 2, a sequel to their lost wisdom collaboration from 2008.

new music roundup #5

my twee monsters by tracey brakes my twee monsters by tracey brakes tracey brakes is one of my favorite producers of the past few years, and one of the most innovative and brilliant to come in the mold of SOPHIE and 100 gecs. this is her first full length album, and it’s a blistering mix of hyperpop, dubstep, and a whole lot more. shake it like a (jane remover remix) by jane remover and frost children Frost Children · Shake It Like A (Jane Remover Remix) back in august, nyc hyperpop twins frost children released a very good single featuring danny brown.

new music roundup #4

M3 n MIN3 by femtanyl and danny brown M3 n MIN3 feat. Danny Brown by Femtanyl danny brown continues to have goated taste in collaborators and femtanyl continues to produce nonstop bangers. daredeviil2000 by babii DareDeviil2000 by BABii this is a babii solo album, but the vast majority of the tracks are produced by iglooghost, so it’s kind of a stealth sequel to XYZ but with babii’s name on it instead of iglooghost’s.

new music roundup #3

hey! this is coming out saturdays now. i realized that obviously a lot of music comes out on friday and i need time to listen to it before posting about it. verdant by saeph saeph · verdant porter robinson’s 2021 album nurture featured two instrumental tracks: wind tempos and dullscythe. three years later, these tracks have spawned an entire soundcloud microgenre of imitators called “botanica.” the botanica scene has a lot of artists like shameless.

new music roundup #2

gold by 2hollis i discovered 2hollis off the praise he recieved for his excellent third album boy, and he’s rapidly become one of my favorite artists working right now. he went on tour recently supporting ken carson, and i see why – he’s operating in a similar lane of highly distorted trap-adjacent music – but he easily blows ken and all the other carti clones out of the water. his vocal performances have a huge amount of emotional expressive range relative to his peers, and his production is way more innovative, blending trap with hardstyle and electroclash to make something totally unique.

album of the decade

let’s try some dumber simpler posts on here pitchfork did some half-decade lists and of course fetch the bolt cutters, the only album they’ve given a 10 since my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, is #1. fetch the bolt cutters is such a funny album because nobody ever talks about it except in conversations like this. it’s a record that exists exclusively to fit the mold of what is supposed to top an “album of the decade” list, but nobody listens to it or talks about it or is influenced by it.

new music roundup #1

gonna try and do posts like this regularly, maybe once a week or so? since this is the inaugural one i’ll include some music not from this week but from earlier this month that i’ve been enjoying. just.dansen by xaev just.dansen by xaev somehow i totally missed that almost a month ago xaev put out a new album. it’s got some uk garage, some jungle, and some electro house/complextro type stuff.

album review: ants from up there by black country, new road

“maximalist indie rock is back baby. it’s good again. awoouu (wolf howl)” black country, new road are a british post-punk/post-rock band from london. they are, or were, fronted by isaac wood, whose expressive vocals and neurotic lyrics were what drew me to the band through singles like athens, france and sunglasses. their first album, 2021’s for the first time took a while to grow on me, but it eventually became one of my favorite albums of the year.