DOWNLOAD: Jacaszek - Dare Gale
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Jacaszek is back and coldly serious as ever on "Dare Gale." The Polish composer treats airy, abandoned noise with classical hands to make dark ambient music that could easily soundtrack the next time you get trapped in a cave. Sink into this one and try to find your way out. Find more on Jacaszek's new album Glimmer, which is available December 6 on Ghostly.
DOWNLOAD: yMusic - Proven Badlands (Composed By Annie Clark)
Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, continues to excel at rubbing unique songwriting together with complex, near-classical arrangements. yMusic just took things a huge step forward, though. Check this recording of "Proven Badlands" -- a new Clark composition performed in sweeping fashion by the sextet orchestra, which has also collaborated with My Brightest Diamond, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear and Spoon. Powerful, playful and unexpected. Grab yMusic's new Kickstarter-funded album Beautiful Mechanical. It's available now.
DOWNLOAD: Mick Barr - Vohvar
Mick Barr has always embraced the classical just as much as awe-inspiring shredding. On the new track "Vohvar," the former Orthrelm mastermind is in peak solo form, raining complex showers of gothic notes in such rapid-fire and twisty formations that no other instruments are close to necessary. Barr plays guitar like it were a machine and the only way to make it start-up was with a jackhammer. His new record Coiled Malescence is out September 13 on Safety Meeting.
DOWNLOAD: Glenn Jones - Of Its Own Kind
It doesn't take much to make beauty. Glenn Jones knows this and exemplifies it well with a simple acoustic guitar on "Of Its Own Kind" off his upcoming Thrill Jockey debut The Wanting. Surely indebted to fingerpicking icon John Fahey, Jones combines technical ability with a knack for conjuring melodies as natural as soil. It's the ability to put virtuoso playing at the service of emotion that makes him standout. The Wanting comes September 13.
DOWNLOAD: How To Dress Well - Suicide Dream 3 (Orchestral Version)
How To Dress Well, the solo project of Tom Krell, went from a mysterious blogspot dropping transcendent EPs to one of the more hyped campaigns in underground music last year. While much of that work was shrouded in a deliberate fuzz and distortion that obscured Krell's falsetto from clarity, the deceased friend-dedicated "Suicide Dream 3 (Orchestral Version)" feels positively naked. Backed by an emotive, minor-key string quartet, this one-off puts How To Dress Well in a classical light. The track is part of the new Just Once -- a 1,000-copy limited edition 10-inch with $1 of each sale going to MindFreedom International mental health charities. Read-up and pre-order via Love Letters Ink.
PREMIERE: Robortom - Paganini Rocks (feat. Au Revoir Simone) (Louis La Roche Remix)
As with most offerings from prolific ‘90s stadium spinner Tom Middleton, when listening to this remix of “Paganini Rocks”—itself a reimagining of orchestral composer Paganini’s 1819’s “24th Caprice”—you’re not quite sure what you’re listening to. Is it big light, big cheese ambient? Slow-pressed coffeepop? Funky French house? With Rob da Bank, Au Revoir Simone, and Louis La Roche in the mix, it’s all three. Whatever you call it, it’s bringing back a roll we thought we lost in 1997. Y’all want a backrub? Well, if you change your mind, we (and this track) will be right here.
Robortom - Paganini Rocks (feat. Au Revoir Simone) (Louis La Roche Remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Manic Street Preachers - This Joke Sport Severed (Patrick Wolf's Love Letter To Richey Remix)
Why does Patrick Wolf deserve to make music? Because when he listens to this he hears the above; his remix of the Manics' "This Joke Sport Severs" quite possibly the first wonky-classical track you'll have heard (on this planet, at least). Single-handedly skewering the myth that all IDM guys are shy, bearded loners, Patrick's reimagining will appear alongside other efforts (by British Sea Power, Four Tet, Fuck Buttons, Optimo, Underworld, The Horrors, et cetera...) on Journal For Plague Lovers Remixed, yours to own now.
Sounds Like: Memory Tapes, Gold Panda, Four Tet
Manic Street Preachers - This Joke Sport Severed (Patrick Wolf's Love Letter To Richey Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Gareth Williams - Nothing On + Anger of Fire
That handsome looking chap on the left is Gareth Williams, once of London's This Heat, who were approximately the sixth most influential band of all time. The girl he's with is Mary Currie, with whom Gareth recorded the drifting, delirium-bound songs below back in the mid-Eighties, after he'd returned from his first trip to India and left This Heat behind. Gareth died on Christmas Eve in 2001, sadly, but at long last the music he made with Currie and other collaborators a quarter of a century ago is getting a relatively wide release, various bootlegs dusted off and gathered together for an album named Flaming Tunes, out now through Life and Living Records.
Sounds Like: Arthur Russell, The Beatles, David Bowie
Gareth Williams - Anger of Fire
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