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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…
Krakow’s UNSOUND festival kicked off on Sunday. In honor of this year’s NOISE theme, we asked its featured artists a deceptively simple question: What the fuck is noise? Image via publicist. “What the fuck is noise?” asks sound artist and theorist Mattin at the start of his essay “Theses on Noise,” laid out plainly…
Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink The Chicago artist discusses musical meta-narratives, past and present pets, and how her chaotic new album Breeze relates to her peaceful new life in the ’burbs. By Raphael Helfand Angel Marcloid (Fire-Toolz). Photo by Bethany Puterbaugh. Angel Marcloid has built a studio in her own image….
The Egyptian-Welsh duo’s postmodern noise opera is one of this year’s most urgent albums so far. Pollution Opera: Nadah El Shazly (left) and Elvin Brandhi. Photo by Malik Beytrison. Nada El Shazly’s voice is something to behold. Last weekend at 24-HOUR DRONE, I watched her perform a powerful set over a minimal backing track:…
Inside an Italian label at the forefront of a soft-noise revolution In an era saturated with algorithmic ambient and pop by numbers, OOH-sounds offers an alternative listening experience. By Raphael Helfand From left: more eaze, Pardo, and Glass (Hugo Lamy and Etienne Reimund). Photos courtesy of the artists, collage by Cady Siregar. Paris Paris,…
The rage-emulating track sounds more like new Kim Gordon than old Yeat. Lil Yachty has dropped a new song called “Something Ether.” Released as the title track of an EP along with five of the other loosies he’s shared and repackaged in the year since the arrival of Let’s Start Here. (his polarizing foray away…
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,…
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,…
The extreme metal band discuss the making of their new, self-titled EP, premiering a day early with The FADER. Agriculture. Photo by Math Erao. Agriculture’s music is sublime chaos. The Los Angeles four-piece consisting of lead guitarist/vocalist Daniel Meyer, drummer Kern Haug, guitarist Richard Chowenhill, and bassist/vocalist Leah Levinson make extreme black metal that’s…
The rock legend and Basilica co-founder discusses the significance of this year’s premiere marathon music event. Melissa Auf der Maur. Photo by George Holz. When I call Melissa Auf der Maur on the eve of 24-HOUR DRONE, her only child is preparing for battle. “I’m delivering my daughter to be part of a reenactment…