#Listening to Niblock the wrong way

#Listening to Niblock the wrong way

A personal guide to grappling with the work of drone luminary Phill Niblock, who died at 90 this week. Phill Niblock in 1991. Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images.   Phill Niblock was notoriously resistant to analyses of his art. The composer and filmmaker, who passed away this week at 90, made the purest form of…

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#Songs You Need In Your Life: January 2024

#Songs You Need In Your Life: January 2024

Songs You Need In Your Life: January 2024 Our rolling list of this month’s essential new tracks. By The FADER The FADER’s Songs You Need In Your Life are our picks for the most exciting and essential new music releases out there. Every day, we update this page with new selections. Listen on our Spotify…

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#Discover Blogly: Listen to new music from Chuquimamani-Condori, Hi-C, and more

#Discover Blogly: Listen to new music from Chuquimamani-Condori, Hi-C, and more

Possessed underground rap, revelatory Chilean indie-rock, and blown-out indigenous Andean psychedelia are just some of the projects we can’t stop listening to. Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. Chuquimamani-Condori, DJ E DJ E by Chuquimamani-Condori It’s almost prohibitively difficult to make music that sounds wholly original as postmodernism’s…

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#The 100 best songs of 2023

#The 100 best songs of 2023

The 100 best songs of 2023 From Sexyy Redd to Liturgy and Fever Ray to Ralphie Choo, these are the songs we loved in 2023. By Raphael Helfand, Alex Robert Ross, Jordan Darville, David Renshaw, Cady Siregar, Vivian Medithi, Nadine Smith, Shaad D’Souza, Son Raw, Colin Joyce, Emma Madden, Wale Oloworekende, E.R. Pulgar, Sandra Song,…

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#The 50 best albums of 2023

#The 50 best albums of 2023

The 50 best albums of 2023 From bar italia to billy woods and yeule to Yves Tumor, these are the albums we loved in 2023. By Jordan Darville, Alex Robert Ross, David Renshaw, Raphael Helfand, Cady Siregar, Emma Madden, Vivian Medithi, Nadine Smith, Lila Dubois, Walden Green, Wale Oloworekende, Shaad D’Souza, Son Raw, Sajae Elder,…

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#Lucinda Chua shares surprise EP Reclaiming the Rose

#Lucinda Chua shares surprise EP Reclaiming the Rose

Listen to Chua’s three track follow-up to her debut album, YIAN. Lucinda Chua. Photo by Molly Daniels.   Lucinda Chua has shared a surprise EP called Reclaiming the Rose, her first follow-up to her debut studio album, March’s YIAN. The three-track tape follows its predecessor’s glacial, haunting aesthetic, adding spoken-word poetry to the London artist’s…

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