The most currently relevant selections of the immediate now: it's new!

Here is Spotify playlist of best music: open.spotify.com/playlist/40RZVd2JDjMZzeHZ3xpR7j

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: MAY 2023

life select

kerosene ??? ?? ???? ?

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more eaze - the joker ELP074

mari maurice aka more eaze returns to Ecstatic with a tenderly gorgeous solo side after her standout claire rousay collaboration last year for the same label - a big recommendation if yr into Elysia Crampton, Mica Levi, MBV, Vegyn, Organ Tapes, Grouper, Dntel, Nozomu Matsumoto, Rainy Miller.

Nestling in the space between ambient, indie-/synth-, and what’s now termed hyper-pop, more eaze specialises in lower case songcraft that effortlessly gets under the skin. Featuring notable guest input by Spivak, Dialect, and Pam3, ‘The Joker’ is perhaps more eaze’s most significant long player, forming a filigree distillation of soft-touch, emo-core pop styles wreathed in fractal electronics and blessed by a gentle sensitivity that feels like micro-dosing with mates on a sunny day. 

’The Joker’ was inspired by more eaze’s experiences travelling extensively during 2021-22, absorbing and transmuting time spent meeting new people, seeing new places, and watching established relationships change. Like regular spar claire rousay, ‘The Joker’ finds micro-insights crystallised to odd-pop imperfection, merging ohrwurm hooks with field recordings and traces of electronica, R&B, reggaeton, and classic indie-rock chops to divine a personal truth that should resonate with lovers of low key ambient as much as hi-key poptimism.

Through nine subtly effected snapshots of daily life, mari somehow encapsulates the feeling of trying to endear yourself to someone new, the tactility of another’s touch, chuckling at misfired jokes. Beginning with fractured toytronics and autotune vox in ‘yours’, melodies spill over from the Dntel-like licks of ‘fall apart’, to the mutant shoegaze bliss of ‘vindictive’ (it properly sounds like an autotuned version of MBV’s ‘to here knows when’), plus E+E-via-Palmistry reggaeton of ‘hablar contagion', with Spivak lending featherlight vox to ‘a chat’, while ‘comedy’ dials up a sense of outsider irony with a wry shrug.

Liverpool-via-Brooklyn’s Dialect helps seal the deal with the burbling touch of ‘eyeliner’, a fittingly hypnagogic ending to a dreamlike album whose effect lingers like latent fractals of a therapeutic psilocybin session.

Buy!

more eaze - fall apart

made w @1nt3gr4l
artwork by Makayla Trentadue

Schrodinger

Taken from Charles Verni's 'I Was Today Years Old', out May 12th.

AND NOW TO BUY PRE-RELEASE: https://charlesverni.bandcamp.com/album/i-was-today-years-old

@charles-verni <3

The present and inhabiting it, existing in the immediate current rather than the then that was and the soon that is to be and continuing to be and locking into now and deconditioning mind to foresight or reflection and being today years old always and forever and always having been and forever willing to only be; also liking and reposting and sharing widely this Charles Verni song 'Earth' now and now and now and now and now and now and now and now and now and now not then now because it's all that is and is and is and is and is and is and isn't not and is — today!

Charles Verni - Earth [MK PREMIERE]

20 Mins In

TO BUY: bodymotionlabel.bandcamp.com/album/afc2

'No Doubt' appears on angelicaa & First Circle's AFC2, out on Body Motion.

Intravenous soap dispenser cleansing all the tubular flesh routes and fluid passageways inside of yourself. Some kind of pipe-based system funnelling spitshine into crevices. Fashioning new crevices and using some kind of pipe-based system to funnel spitshine inside of them. You can achieve hygiene. You can be purged. You can listen to angelicaa & First Circle's 'No Doubt', from their collaborative album AFC2 out now on Body Motion. Spick as well as span!

@angelicaamusic <3
@firstcirclemusic <3
@bodymotion <3

angelicaa & First Circle - No Doubt [MK PREMIERE]

From 'Through the Fire and Flames', a compilation of guitar music. Drops June 9th on TT.

Pre-order: https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-fire-and-flames

@lovefear1 🎸♪✮☠︎︎

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The High Council of axemongers abides. They bear screaming blades of fret-forged light, string-lashed instruments wielded to sear new paths skyward. They stand astride 13 gleaming new pillars of soon-to-be-mythological guitar heroism, shining beacons of musical truth illuminating a world of grey.

'Through the Fire and Flames' is a compilation of guitar music, defined in the most open sense. Enclosed are heart melters, head soothers, heavy hitters and more. It's a shrine to a sacred instrument, a pantheon of tributes from the furthest reaches of the shred spectrum. Guitar speaks to us. Guitar animates our beings. Guitar is language, communion, path — guitar is a way Through the Fire and Flames.

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Curation: Madjestic Kasual
Mastering: Robert Venning, aka DJ Pitch
Cover art: Josh Crumpler
Motion graphics: Alvar Halo

Lovefear - Day Place

LUCY (COOPER B. HANDY) - WHAT SHE’S HAVING PROD EVILGIANE #HEAVENSGATE

dvstrr+Figure skater - Dublin Drill

liberation from lived experience_20230607

Eggsperience music and beanies in a newer way.

@cloutfarmpod 😃

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