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Uploading into the ether with remarkable speed, here comes Dean Spunt’s loaded-down new LP! Basic Editions, out September 27, is the No Age artisan’s latest solo work, humming and blipping with Y2K-era digital modules and celestial soundscapes to achieve a post-existence state of ambient chaos. Today, Dean’s hitting you with another ping: a new single/video, “Confusion Is SysEx”, is now online!

To boot up “Confusion Is SysEx”, hard edits of aquatic synth thunderheads and crumpled balls of digi-junk bop up slowly,... (read more)

Whitney Johnson, known separately and together as Matchess, delve deeper into their material history of reproduction with two new singles today: “Dafni” and “Death in Trafo (or, The Crater)", off their forthcoming alter-ego albums Hav and Stena. Two deeply enigmatic encounters from each individual, the dueling nature of these separate works from Whitney and Matchess arrive together on September 27th.

The Whitney Johnson track, “Dafni”, selects frequencies and waveforms with body-aligning level of precision, using a flow of sine waves, marimba, viola, Arp... (read more)

With the release of Locust Land this past May, Bill MacKay's discovered a territory all his own — and now he's heading to yours! Following a swig of dates overseas, Bill's bringing his bag and spreading new tunes throughout the West n' Midwest this October. California folk, Milwaukeeans, Rock Island dwellers, Kenosha kind: come one, come all!

Bill MacKay's six-stringed transcendence has always translated into a striking live show, but with the breakthroughs Bill's made on Locust Land, the holy... (read more)

Ty Segall’s next record, Love Rudiments, is a daring, romantic pursuit sought out percussively: no words, no singing, no strings attached! The second single/visualizer is out today to keep the mood going: “Honeymoon (Edit)”, a delirious dance laced with cascades of Latin cowbell patterns.

“Honeymoon (Edit)” meditates on the most blissful, carefree period of any intimate tangle: the honeymoon phase! Amid a great exultation of celebratory feels, Ty’s snare shufflin’ heart beats score this intensity to foreshadow the lovers’... (read more)

Six Organs of Admittance extend their annum of improbable delights with Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix), out September 27! Following Time is Glass in April and Jinxed by Being in June (the planetary conjunction of Six Organs and Shackleton), the third Six Organs-branded release in one year is an auditory upending of 2020’s Companion Rises, with Twig Harper tearing up Californian chaos into a totally new noise. Hit play on “The 101” today, Twig’s way!

Companion Rises dropped in... (read more)

Active since the 1970s, Jill Fraser is a composer and electronic music pioneer with a staggering list of credits across music, film, television and performance. Yet her new album, Earthly Pleasures (out September 27) sits uniquely against her groundbreaking body of work. Her Drag City debut is a modular resetting of American revival-style hymns that speculates on death, what comes after it, and how the spirit of our songs might be interpreted after we’re gone — taking Jill’s ever-evolving curiosity about music as... (read more)

Dean Spunt’s all-new Basic Editions, out September 27, is an excursion in electronic sound that instrumentally unpacks his fascination with language — in this case, the syntax of systems and processes of various 64-voice E-MU modules. Against the traditional sonic manipulations of No Age and other Spunt projects, Basic Editions is a meditative, compulsive, and consumptive record in Dean’s non-aesthetic aesthetic that delivers further unexpected hard-turns in his two-decade career. Hear the first single today: “Gonzo Bop”.

Track one on Basic... (read more)

Sun Araw,
a.k.a. Cameron Stallones, continues to investigate space as a motionless field
against which many motions are observed on his tenth studio album 
Lifetime

"DRIPPING MAGNETIZATIONS!
ARCS OF SLOWING ROTATIONS!
'THE SHEEP UNSHORN'
A LAUGHING FOUNTAIN"
SUN ARAW

STASIS: wheels within and wheels without!
Two LPs at 45 RPM.
Mixed by Cameron Stallones & Jake Viator.
Mastered by JJ Golden.

Please enjoy this adventure in sound!

Listen to the single... (read more)

“I am living a double life.” This is how Whitney Johnson, a.k.a. Matchess, once described the co-existence of her alter egos: the musical entity Matchess, and the sociologist of sound known in academia as Whitney Johnson. With the dual existence of Hav and Stena, both out September 27, these two identities now stretch and twist across each other to create hypnotic, engaging new parallels: two distinct albums from two different artists. In demonstration, two new singles/videos materialize today: “... (read more)

Drag City’s approaching first-ever reissue of Dorothy Carter’s Troubadour (arriving August 30) is a merry moment to celebrate. Her 1976 debut found Dorothy hammering out a folk sound inclusive of the music she found out in the world: Appalachian folk tunes, ancient psalms and hymns, melodies from Scotland, Ireland, France, and a few of her own songs, too! Today, take your turn towards “Masquerade”, one of Dorothy’s original compositions.

Dorothy’s dulcimer shimmers reflectively on the instrumental “Masquerade”, joined... (read more)