Stack №469: Oct 4, 2024

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Oct 4, 2024

Anno - disco feat. NAPPYNAPPA

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Post-Punk.com Follow “Washington, DC’s Anno, formerly known as Olivia Neutron-John, is back with a self-titled debut album, led by the single Disco…” 6 days ago →

DC synth-pop artist Anno, formerly known as Olivia Neutron-John, announces their debut LP coming next month. The lead single, featuring NAPPYNAPPA, "is a sleek, minimal dance number, laced with delayed vocals and synth splashes that glide effortlessly over a bouncing beat," says Post-Punk.

TONY VAZ - YOUR PURSE OR YOUR LIFE

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Pitchfork Follow “The Brooklyn singer-songwriter’s eclectic debut blends winding Midwest emo guitars, half-mumbled vocals, glinting pedal steel, and minimalistic ’80s synths.” 2 days ago →

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Tony Vaz just released his first full-length album on Jubilee Gang, a label he co-runs. Rosy Overdive hears "mid-2010s 'bedroom pop'/and 'lo-fi indie rock' with regular detours into everything from orchestral pop to folk and alt-country to electronic music...always 'loose and freewheeling' in a coherent way."

Casual - Fights Over Egypt

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Bandcamp Daily Follow “Our guide to the month’s crucial hip-hop LPs. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.” 6 days ago →

In their “Best Hip-Hop” round-up for September, Bandcamp Daily (it's Bandcamp Friday, btw), highlights the latest project from Oakland-based MC and Hieroglyphics member Casual: "Fights Over Egypt is a smart and thought-provoking throwback to hip-hop's 'edutainment' era. On the mellow boogie-inflected title track, Casual recalls going back and forth with an Egyptologist PhD. scholar."

Cosmo - Misty Memories

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Resident Advisor Follow “A familiar name in Seoul's DJ circuit since 2017, Hyojin Min's sets are locally lauded for criss-crossing psychedelic disco, minimal…” last week →

South Korean DJ and producer Hyojin Min, aka Cosmo, debuts on the Taiwanese label JIN with a new EP. Per Resident Advisor, "The four tracks of aqueous house and techno bottles the emotional expansiveness and cruising pace of her DJ sets, full of understated acid tinges and sparkling melodies that land with impact despite their airiness."

Trace Mountains - In A Dream

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Post-Trash Follow “by Giliann Karon (@lethalrejection) Trace Mountains, the project of New York-based musician Dave Benton, leans away from humble lo-fi beginnings…” 4 days ago →

Atwood Magazine calls this standout from the new Trace Mountains record "a cathartic, hard-hitting, groovy, and gut-wrenching outpouring of raw vulnerability and provocative perspective." The New York songwriter cites Bruce Springsteen and David Lynch as influences. It's out now via Lame-O Records.

FEATURED ALBUM

Mustafa The Poet - SNL

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Pitchfork Follow “TK” 4 days ago →

Dunya, the new album from Mustafa, is out now on Jagjaguwar. "With subtly shifting production and incisive writing, the Toronto singer adapts intimate stories of pain and devotion to his worldly folk palette," says Pitchfork.

GOOD MIX

Cosmo [Korea] [Que Sakamoto 思考と発想 ](Thoughts And Ideas) [16.02.2022]

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Cosmo "draws her characteristic cosmic sound with a genre-agnostic track selection" for Tbilisi, Georgia community platform Mutant Radio.

GOOD READ

For Chicago Reader, Leor Galil on the Chicago music-zine revolution:

"Music zines can help their creators build their social circles, and under the right circumstances they can do something similar for the communities they document."

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