Stack №474: Nov 15, 2024

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Nov 15, 2024

Starcleaner Reunion - The Hand that I Put Down

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The Fader Follow “The New York City band discuss Stereolab, world-building, and their excellent new EP, Café Life.” on Oct 17th →

New York City band Starcleaner Reunion cites Stereolab, krautrock, drone, and '60s Brazilian music as influences for their self-dubbed "Euro-pop" songs. They released their latest EP in September, and The Fader notes, "songs that are tied with knotty musical ideas yet float by like a refreshing summer's breeze."

Cavalier & Child Actor - Knight Of The East

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gingerslim Follow “Having already served up one of the strongest albums of the year, Cavalier returns with another project that looks set…” last week →

Brooklyn-raised, New Orleans-based rapper Cavalier (Stack №449) shares his third project of 2024. BrooklynVegan says he "paints a vivid picture of his former neighborhood" as producer Child Actor "sets Cav's stories to a genre-bending backdrop that embraces jazzy boom bap at one moment and something much more far-out and psychedelic the next." It's out on billy woods' (№281) Backwoodz label.

Contour - Theresa

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Pitchfork Follow “Fingerpicked guitar casts a dream-like trance around Khari Lucas’ plaintive singing on a spare, dense album with the quiet fervor…” 6 days ago →

Out now via Mexican Summer, the new LP from South Carolina artist Khari Lucas, aka Contour, is a "spare, dense album with the quiet fervor of prayer," writes Pitchfork. "Lucas prefers to operate in the haze, his music never soaring too high or sinking too low."

22º Halo - Cobwebs

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START-TRACK Follow “Lily of the Valley by 22º Halo ‘Lily of the Valley’ was not an easy” 15 hrs ago →

Stereogum says Philadelphia band 22º Halo "have developed a unique, enrapturing take on indie rock...spacious and minimal yet always overflowing with ideas—like Hovvdy (Stack №167) putting their cozy audio gauze around bar italia's (№409) spindly indie-pop, or maybe Alex G (№62) remixing Yo La Tengo." Their new LP arrives on Tiny Library Records.

Madam X & Cartridge - Hoodlum FC

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Resident Advisor Follow “Christiana Vassilakis's career has been old-school in a way that is increasingly rare. At 15, she got a fake ID…” 6 days ago →

Longtime DJ Madam X makes her production debut with a new EP featuring four bass-heavy club collaborations releasing on her own KAIZEN label. Per Resident Advisor, "the record sounds much like her own sets, which she described in 2022 as being connected by 'dark rooms, big fat speakers, sweaty bods and lots of wobble.' In that sense, Homecoming does exactly what it says on the tin."

FEATURED ALBUM

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - All That the Air Allows

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raven sings the blues Follow “Lyn Avery & Cole Pulice follow up their 2022 album, To Live & Die In Space & Time with a…” on Oct 7th →

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice follow up their 2022 collaboration with Phantasy & Reality, which finds the experimental artists "collaging their contributions, recording both in person and through a series of mailed overdubs that wind around songs in Papier-mâché layers," writes Raven Sings The Blues. It's out on Moon Glyph.

GOOD MIX

CRACK MAGAZINE - 25.02.2024

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Italian-German composer, DJ, and 99CHANTS label founder David August presents an abstract Sunday Mix for Crack Magazine: "I tried to keep things easy for the uneasy times we live in."

GOOD READ

For Stereogum, Tom Breihan on Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park”:

"The whole saga of ‘MacArthur Park’—as a song, a standard, and a cultural phenomenon—is a whole lot weirder than the infamous image of a cake left out in the rain."

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