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Mount Kimbie: You Took Your Time on Nowness.com This video is from Mount Kimbie’s latest album, which features a collaboration with UK songwriter, rapper, and singer King Krule. The track casts Krule as the slightly patois-inflected wanderer of the London suburbs, and the video shoots other characters of
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Chicago experimental rock group Locrian creates some evocative sounds on a rough recording. I just wish their melodies and songwriting were as gripping as their moody, apocalyptic aesthetic. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Some wonderfully hypnotic and chilly techno from James Holden’s latest full-length, The Inheritors, which is out now on Border Community. Enjoy!
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The previously mentioned Motion Sickness of Time Travel releases a new song that’s set for release on a forthcoming split with Aloonaluna for Constellation Tatsu. Though Motion Sickness’ tracks typically deal in the softer, more ambient side of things, this is the first song I’ve heard from this
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A video for one of the more post-rock-inspired moments from the new Locrian album, Return To Annihilation. It’s the Chicago experimental rock group’s first LP for Relapse records, and it sounds like they’re taking a slight turn for the accessible on this one in an attempt to
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Return To Annihilation by Locrian For almost a decade, the Chicago band Locrian has been combining various forms of experimental music into a slightly lo-fi and texturally dense discography that challenges most who come into contact with any piece of it. The band added another release to that gauntlet this
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Sun Araw releases this video and track as a premiere on Chocolate Grinder. The song is a meandering guitar-pedal jam without forward momentum, a lazy summer afternoon refracted through Sun Araw’s psychedelic lens. Percussive clicks, synthesizer washes, and what sounds like a very-manipulated insect noise cycle through the piece,
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The tracks of experimental music producer Daniel Lopatin, a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never-, are difficult enough to make heads or tails of on their own–much less in the form of a three-minute excerpt accompanied by incredibly abstract visuals. Right now, Lopatin’s next album, R Plus Seven, is
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Electronic music producer Mark Pritchard stirred up some buzz a few years ago as one half of the colorful and creative music duo Africa Hitech. Now, he’s back with a new EP on the way via Warp Records titled Ghosts. The label has dropped the EP’s title track
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SUB by Kyle Rapps An eclectic and somewhat abstract hip hop project from Kyle Rapps titled SUB. There are some pretty impressive underground features here as well from Mr. MFN eXquire, Action Bronson, and Murs. Enjoy!
