#Body Meat reaches paradise

#Body Meat reaches paradise

Body Meat reaches paradise The Philly producer’s critically acclaimed debut album, Starchris, finds self-actualization through bold, video game-inspired music. By Sandra Song Uma Fodar The FADER’s longstanding GEN F series profiles the emerging artists you need to know right now. For the past couple of months, Chris Taylor has been busy “making tracks” about naptime…

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#Mount Eerie’s impermanent eternities

#Mount Eerie’s impermanent eternities

Mount Eerie’s impermanent eternities Phil Elverum discusses motherhood, forces of nature, trolling, and his new album, Night Palace. By Raphael Helfand Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie). Photo by Indigo Free.   Phil Elverum likes nature: looking at it, being in it, and using it as an ever-present component of the vast metaphors he conjures in the…

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#The Necks are keeping it normal

#The Necks are keeping it normal

The Necks are keeping it normal As it turns out, Australia’s most renowned free-improvisation trio are just regular guys who like to party. By Raphael Helfand The Necks (from left: Tony Buck, Lloyd Swanton, and Chris Abrahams. Photo by Camille Walsh.   When the Necks released their debut album, Sex, in 1989, it didn’t make…

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#Office Culture finds beauty in the details

#Office Culture finds beauty in the details

The New York City jazz-rock band’s new album, Enough, is the product of an entirely new approach to making music: expansive, omnivorous, and otherworldly. Ivy Meissner Shortly after finishing work on Big Time Things, his band Office Culture’s third studio album, Winston Cook-Wilson realized he’d pushed his process to its limit. Written alone and rehearsed…

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#Dancing with DJ E

#Dancing with DJ E

Chuquimamani-Condori’s latest experiment sounds unlike anything before it. At UNSOUND last week, they conjured the same strange magic behind the decks. Chuquimamani-Condori (aka DJ E). Photo courtesy of UNSOUND.   DJ E shocked the world last year. Self-released without external promotion, E Crampton Chuquimia’s de facto debut as Chuquimamani-Condori spread by digital word of mouth,…

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#A morning in Rafael Toral’s garden of drone

#A morning in Rafael Toral’s garden of drone

The Portuguese guitarist and soft-noise auteur brought the unassuming yet gorgeously complex sounds of his latest album, Spectral Revolution, to UNSOUND this week. Rafael Toral. Photo by Vera Marmelo.   Rafael Toral’s 30-year career as a solo recording artist is a story of perpetual growth — a more fluid line than most experimentalists take toward…

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#Xiu Xiu’s switchblade pop

#Xiu Xiu’s switchblade pop

13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips might be the group’s most approachable album yet, but it cuts as deep as their darkest material. Angela Seo (left) and Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu [not pictured: David Kendrick]. Photo by Eva Luise Hoppe   Knowing Xiu Xiu is a difficult endeavor. The sheer size…

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#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. By The FADER Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can’t get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists or hear them all below. urika’s…

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