Taken from SBKT067: 96 Back - tender, exit
Release date: 27th November 2024
Limited vinyl + digital

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For his sixth 96 Back LP, Evan Majumdar-Swift found himself writing “a long form eulogy” to his years living in Manchester while preparing for an imminent move to London. Initially intended as a series of technical exercises, which saw the artist radically stripping back his established production setup, over the last two years tender, exit gradually took on the form of an emotional landscape, mapped in transit between two cities. “The overarching concept of the record is cycles, recognising them, loving them, and tearing yourself away from them,” he says. Heard together, the project takes on the pace and cadence of a passionate conversation with a loved one.

Full press release - https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/tender-exit

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Photography: Ana Radtsenko
Design: Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

tender, exit

96 Back - Tongues iii feat. LINTD

Available to pre-order from Second Born Bandcamp: https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/smooch-soundsystem-live-at-the-white-hotel

Smooch Soundsystem is the opening act of LINTD’s three-part project, reclaiming Black Utopia through the technologies of sound.

Emerging from the collaborative force of Nigerian negro-gothic musician LINTD and Sheffield producer Porter Brook, this piece was recorded live at the White Hotel in December 2022.

Smooch Soundsystem celebrates the machines of a pro-Black utopia by centralising the Soundsystem as an extension of the human form, acting as the interface between flesh, technology, and community. Rooted in call and response, the performance centralises the Soundsystem as the mechanism of this symbiosis.

LINTD captures the innocence and tension of hope, as well as the struggle to reclaim one's existence in a world where rest is denied to Black bodies, even in death. By channelling Sun Ra’s call to be “endless, immeasurable, eternal, impossible,” LINTD invokes the power of speculative world-building to explore a Black utopia of immeasurable abundance.

“The first step in acknowledging the impossible dream: to create, preserve, and crystallise Black Utopia within our music, our art, our filmmaking, and our speculative world-building practice.”

Written and Performed by Iyunoluwanimi Yemi-Shodimu and Peter Murch, Live at The White Hotel on the 3rd of December 2022
Hosting and additional contributions by Nirav Chandé
Mastered by Miles RS
Words by Kinaya Said Ibrahim
Distributed by Second Born

'gimme', from SB003: LINTD - Smooch Soundsystem [Live at The White Hotel]

DOGTOOTH is an album reclaiming the black African macabre as a utopian space, where pain, joy, paranoia and pleasure can be explored with equal and seamless ferocity. This album is a brother’s Grimm style collection of vignettes set in this world, starring Nigerian musician and filmmaker LINTD, as the titular creature DOGTOOTH. An impossible creature of paranoia, lust and anxiety, who must overcome its very nature to survive.

This work is act 2 of LINTD’s The Black Impossible, a collaboration with Sheffield born producer Porter Brook, where the 2 explore the extremities of black sound as utopian technology. When asked about this project LINTD expands, saying “ the work exists as 3 distinct acts of music, representing the black utopias that manifest on the sonic extremes of our current anti-black reality. In order, they are Act 1 SMOOCH Soundsystem, Act 2 Dogtooth, Act 3 Funeral Rites on Planet Saturn. They are speculative interpretations of real life black underground realities springing utopian, innovative life into western society without the much-needed support or even credit they need to sustain themselves.” LINTD extends the black macabre in DOGTOOTH as a place for the validation of black anxiety with lessons of solitude and the power of God and love.

LINTD adds when questioned about the title, “it is about a character who eats dog teeth for lunch. Something about that image haunted me, there is little or no nutritional value to dogs, and he doesn’t even eat the meant, yet he persists out of pure pleasure. It is sickening and that experience is how paranoia feels. Sharp but also somehow slippery, a warning and a curse. The extreme of what it can feel like to navigate the paranoia of white society as n African migrant. Nauseating but also I’m hoping, kinda cute.”



04 AND NOW THEY WANT MY BLOOD

02 REEPLACED

DOGTOOTH is an album reclaiming the black African macabre as a utopian space, where pain, joy, paranoia aand pleasure can be explored with equal and seamless ferocity. This album is a brother’s Grimm style collection of vignettes set in this world, starring Nigerian musician and filmmaker LINTD as the titular creature DOGTOOTH. An impossible creature of paranoia, lust, and anxiety, who must overcome its very nature to survive.

This work is act 2 of LINTD’s The Black Impossible, a collaboration with Sheffield born producer Porter Brook, where the 2 explore the extremities of black sound as utopian technology. When asked about this project, LINTD expands, saying “ the work exists as 3 distinct acts of music, representing the black utopias that manifest on the sonic extremes of our current anti-black reality. In order, they are Act 1 SMOOCH Soundsystem, Act 2 Dogtooth, Act 3 Funeral Rites on Planet Saturn. They are speculative interpretations of real-life black underground realities springing utopian, innovative life into Western society without the much-needed support or even credit they need to sustain themselves.” LINTD extends the black macabre in DOGTOOTH as a place for the validation of black anxiety with lessons of solitude and the power of God and love.

LINTD adds when questioned about the title, “it is about a character who eats dog teeth for lunch. Something about that image haunted me. There is little or no nutritional value to dogs, and he doesn’t even eat the meat. But DOGTOOTH persists out of pure pleasure. It is sickening, and that experience is how paranoia feels. Sharp but also somehow slippery, a warning, and a curse. The extreme of what it can feel like to navigate the paranoia of white society as an African migrant. Nauseating, but also I’m hoping, kinda cute.”



03 I_M NOT SURE

08 SOMETHING NEW

07 TEARS ON THE CHEEK OF DRUM GOD CHANDE

05 MALICE

06 DEEEVINE

Distant memories and childish rhymes from the contemporary Faerie tale land, DOGTOOTH. From Nigerian rapper LINTD's abominable Head ii debut.

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