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Danish-Chilean artist Molina’s new album When You Wake Up is due out in October, and last week she shared the latest single, teaming up with TPW favourite ML Buch on Organs. According to Molina, Organs is “a fusion of our individual approaches to perceiving melodies, recordings, and sound in general” while incorporating their “mutual attraction to catchy melodies”.
Mk.gee’s LP Two Star & The Dream Police is the Take Care of 2024, and his latest single Lonely Flight continues his sadboy reflections in impeccable fashion.
Bathe Alone is the dreampop solo project of multi-instrumentalist Bailey Crone from Atlanta, Georgia. Bailey plays everything from drums, guitar, bass to vocals on the project and aims to create songs you can “lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling to.” I’m currently mainlining everything Night Tapes make and my critical faculties have been suspended. Is this good? I think so?
August hasn’t been the most exciting month for new releases, but trance is here to save us once again. Four years ago Oklou and Sega Bodega to cover Italian trance titan Maurco Picotto’s Komodo – which I guess was a very low key version of all those celebs getting together to murder Believe in lockdown – and today it gets a wide release, proving once again that trance is Best Genre Of Music. Komodo (Save a Soul) heavily sampled Deep Forest’s Sweet Lullaby, a reworking of which was included in one of my favourite mixes of all time. So many layers!
ISHA’s new EP What You’re Seeing is “about my journey of growing into my skin, learning to speak my mind and take the lead as a female producer. Lead single ‘Undone’ is the embodiment that.” Featuring MAX RAD, who was excellent at Glastonbury!
Following a limited two-track vinyl edition earlier this year, The Smile have now officially released Don’t Get Me Started alongside The Slip, now accompanied by a typically hard-to-watch-without-your-eyes-melting music video from audiovisual artist Weirdcore, who has previously created videos for Charli XCX, Radiohead and perhaps most strikingly Aphex Twin.
Yetsuby is the solo experimental electronic and ambient-focussed project of South Korean artist Yejin Jang who also records of one half of the excellent duo Salamanda. If I Drink This Potion is taken from her new album, b_b, her debut release on Seb Wildblood’s all my thoughts label; a striking mini LP that features some of the most arresting, engrossing and detailed production of any I’ve heard this year.
The prolific, multi-aliased producer on life-changing impact of a song by Yumi Arai
The premise of One Track Mind is pretty simple: I ask artists to pick one track that means a lot to them – either something they’ve discovered recently, something that’s been with them for years, or one that reminds them of a specific time in their life or career – and tell me what makes it so special to them. I get to talk to the artists I love, and they get to talk about the artists they love. Love all round!
Ludvig Cimbrelius is a versatile Swedish musician known for his expansive and emotive soundscapes across a wide range of aliases, each reflecting a unique aspect of his artistic vision. Perhaps his best-known alias, Purl, focusses on music that evokes the serenity of nature, while Illuvia explores ambient jungle and drum & bass realms. Eternell delves into meditative and ethereal compositions, and Abraço de Vapor delves into deep, immersive soundscapes. Other aliases include Alveol, Ziyal, and Surr, showcasing his wide-ranging talent across ambient, electronic, and cinematic music.
Released back in June, his latest album as Illuvia Earth Prism is a masterpiece, and one of my favourite LPs of the year so far; an escapist joy with atmospheric pads and lush melodies combined with lo-fi drums filtered almost out of existence. Ideal listening for anyone who misses the glory days of ‘intelligent’ drum and bass but doesn’t have the energy to go out raving anymore.
For his One Track Mind selection, Ludvig has picked out supremely joyful track that never fails to bring him to tears.
Reunion Island is Ashley Leer, Matt Leer, and Brad Loving, and that’s about as much information as I can find out them. Their second (I think) album Night Words came out last month, and it’s really very good; ambient techno one minute, shoegaze the next, and various things in between. Lost New is dubby, hypnotic techno, as soothing as it is stimulating.
JPEGMAFIA may be too creative for his own good. Often his tracks have more ideas in them than entire albums from other artists. Sometimes this results of works of genius, at others it makes his music hard to keep up with; an overwhelming assault of samples, glitches, changes of direction and genre clashes. For me, his new album I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU is too much like hard work, but it does have its moments. either on or off the drugs is vibey, soulful bliss.: just don’t expect the rest of the album to sound anything like it.
https://jpegmafia.bandcamp.com/album/i-lay-down-my-life-for-you
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