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Canadian music producer Tim Hecker returns with a stunning collection of tracks that make for some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard this year.
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After a short studio album hiatus, Japan’s Melt-Banana is back with their most exciting, dynamic, joyous, and detailed album to date. I actually think it’s their best!
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Super-versatile production dynamo Lee Bannon has just been signed to Ninja Tune‘s ranks, and he’s celebrating the release of a forthcoming album with the label by putting out a new, one-track EP that’s streamable via widget above. Enjoy!
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Daniel Lopatin’s latest full-length sees him stepping away from the extreme sampling that made 2011’s Replica so thrilling. Instead, he rests on his passion for tightly sequenced synths, and there are some somewhat engaging results.
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Hyperdub oddity Laurel Halo has a new record coming out, following last year’s very special Quarantine. This new track, the penultimate on the LP, feels quite removed from her prior electro-pop experiments. It has a steady repetitive beat, a pretty familiar-feeling bassline, and really nothing too strange. Even Halo’
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Hyperdub oddity Laurel Halo has a new record coming out, following last year’s very special Quarantine. This new track, the penultimate on the LP, feels quite removed from her prior electro-pop experiments. It has a steady repetitive beat, a pretty familiar-feeling bassline, and really nothing too strange. Even Halo’
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The Body – An Altar or A Grave from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo. The experimental, tortured, and chilling metal duo known as The Body drops a new music video for a cut on their forthcoming album on Thrill Jockey Records, Christs, Redeemers. “An Altar of a Grave consists of the
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Divisive experimental pop act Xiu Xiu recently announced that it will be putting out a whole album of Nina Simone covers, simply titled Nina. Above, you can stream the opening track, an astonishing cover of “Don’t Smoke in Bed.” Xiu Xiu’s take on the song eschews the original’
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Neo-psych outfit MGMT returns with a fuzzy new album that’s got plenty of odd moments, but too few memorable ones.
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Oneohtrix Point Never has made his remix of Nine Inch Nails’ “Find My Way” available to stream on his Soundcloud page. His take on the track is incredibly spacious and multi-phased, abruptly alternating between droning organ textures and skittering synth sequences. Judging also from past singles, “Problem Areas” and “Zebra,
