“Ripe” is the brilliant new collab between Banoffee and SOPHIE, who has been releasing her own new original tunes lately. Equal parts industrial techno and bubbling pop, this jam will assault your senses. Best Songs of 2017 2. Banoffee – Ripe Banoffee | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp | @marthabanoffee Continue reading
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Lindstrøm released a single and new album in quick succession last week, so it makes sense that I haven’t yet recovered from the brilliance of “Bungl.” Hval’s methodical monologue laces through Lindstrøm’s techno beats for an aptly haunted jam. Source: SoundCloud / Smalltown Supersound Continue reading
Forest Swords put out a new record back in May titled Compassion, and new singles “Congregate” and “Free” are the latest tracks from that studio session to be released. The former features experimental vocal chants as melodies and compressed hisses for percussion, and together the track becomes remarkably meditative. All proceeds go to ongoing and future aid work in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Mexico, … Continue reading
Let me catch you up. Nathan Fake is a producer from the UK, whose techno beats have leaned industrial lately, especially on his latest LP, Providence. His career’s fourth full-length and first out on Ninja Tune, on Providence he layers oversaturated bass lines atop one another, morphing his usual intergalactic melodies into something slightly more sinister for the project. The record came out in March, but Nathan … Continue reading
The simplest way to explain Jinka is as a series of textures, some pleasurable and others…not quite. But “Trash From the Past” sure does make for a crazy jam, harsh and melodic in all the right ways. Continue reading
o yea get that new Tobacco in your ears! Gorillaz thought they just released an end-of-the-world party record, but “Got Wet in the Bomb Shelter” knocks all of Humanz on its ass. Source: SoundCloud / Rad Cult Continue reading
Fortunes. recently graced us with another EP, produced by the omnipresent god of beats, Andrei Eremin. Undress EP comes after last year’s Jacket EP, which followed 2015′s Hoodie EP… I detect a pattern, and look forward to hearing the next chapter in the saga. Source: Bandcamp Continue reading
Are Our Gods Best? Ruminating on Emay’s New LP, Ilah
sngalbums: Originally appeared on Grimy Goods. Adams worked mostly solo on this record. A few guests contribute on the refrains, grounding the lofty project, but never detract attention away from what is largely autobiographical. Emay also produced all the backing tracks throughout Ilah, filling it with chopped drums and spliced samples for a unique listening experience, if not an acquired taste. The album’s production is … Continue reading Are Our Gods Best? Ruminating on Emay’s New LP, Ilah
Hopelessness in the Face of Injustice
If you hated Jenny Hval’s feminist commentary noted earlier on this best of the year list, you may not enjoy ANOHNI’s contribution either. Then again, if you hated Blood Bitch because the ideas were too amorphous, then Hopelessness may be exactly the album for you. To mention one without the other would be a dismissal of intersectionality in today’s music industry, but this is not … Continue reading Hopelessness in the Face of Injustice
Jenny Hval, Feminist Vampire
sngalbums: I wouldn’t mind writing about Jenny Hval every year. The Norwegian artist has been around the block, but remains relatively quiet in a provocative niche, where industrial electronics meet political performance art. Her 2015 LP, Apocolypse, girl, was a great introduction to her work, and did make my top albums list of that year. Now she’s back on SnG due to the mastery of … Continue reading Jenny Hval, Feminist Vampire
Sawdust & Gin 