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Nilüfer Yanya – Rid Of Me

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 29, 2022

This summer I saw Nilüfer Yanya play to a more than half empty tent at Glastonbury, which is a shame because she was great. The previous day they had to close to entire field this tent was in as half a billion people turned up to hear Mel C play bangers from her eight (eight!) solo albums, and maybe Wannabe. And that’s how music works people! Yanya’s album PAINLESS is one of the best of the year, and this is her second single since, covering PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me to enjoyably nihilistic effect.

https://niluferyanya.com

Tags nilufer yanya, pj harvey, rid of me, rock

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Beth Orton – Unwritten

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 28, 2022

I still strongly associate Beth Orton with the 90s. She’s released at least half a dozen albums since Trailer Park, but for me she will always be the soundtrack to hanging out in my friend’s kitchen, having dinner with his parents, waiting until we could go out and take drugs and listen to trance. I’ve not listened to a single album of hers since, but her latest Weather Alive was getting such amazing reviews, here we are. And it’s incredible from start to finish, culminating in the exquisitely devastating Unwritten, and arrives just in time to perfectly soundtrack the bleakness of winter ahead.

https://bethortonofficial.com

Tags beth orton, central reservation, folktronica, singer songwriter, unwritten, weather alive

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Rex Kalibur – Benign Abyss

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 26, 2022

Get lost in the digital waves…

https://soundcloud.com/rex-kalibur

Tags ambient, benign abyss, electronic, rex kalibur

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Cate Le Bon – Typical Love

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 21, 2022

Cate Le Bon’s Pompeii is one of the finest albums of 2022 so far, and Typical Love is the first new material the Welsh artist has put out since its release. Following in a similarly idiosyncratic vein as her previous work, it’s another low-key, art-pop gem, and is the product of “a rare jam session with dearest genius friend, Stella Mozgawa”. Sparse and restrained with haunting brass, it’s reminiscent of Talking Heads in some of their odder moments.

https://catelebon.ffm.to/typicallove.OYD

Tags art pop, cate le bon, pompeii, typical love

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Quiraing – SU1-269MU

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 20, 2022

Incredibly chill and glassy ambient from Quiraing, written on an island in Northern Michigan and created mainly from field recordings made on the artist’s journey to reach it. Simple and very effective.

https://soundcloud.com/quiraingmusic

Tags ambient, electronic, quiraing, su1-269mu

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Blood Orange – Relax and Run feat. Erika de Casier, Eva Tolkin

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 16, 2022

If anything it’s surprising it’s taken Devote Hynes and Erika de Casier this long to collaborate, so perfectly do they compliment one another. Taken from the new Blood Orange EP Four Songs, Relax and Run is so ruthlessly up my street I was worried about its potential to underwhelm, but thankfully it’s everything I need it to be.

https://bloodorange.lnk.to/FourSongs

Tags blood orange, erika de casier, eva tolkin, four songs, r&b, relax and run

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Mads Kinnerup – Morph

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 15, 2022

Apologies for my recent absence (you noticed, right?) I was enjoying some post-birthday seaside celebrations and was way too busy pretending I’m rich to waste my time with music! Anyway, here’s some glorious Aphex-adjacent weirdness from Mads Kinnerup – the first single from his forthcoming album Interpolation – by way of an apology.

https://www.instagram.com/madskinnerup

Tags electronic, experimental, interpolation, mad kinnerup, morph

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Pr0files – Van Gogh

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 12, 2022

As has already been established, I’m a sucker for an 80s synth alongside lyrics with even the merest hint of unrequited yearning. And if it could conceivably soundtrack a film where someone tears a beaten up old car across an impressive vista, tears streaming down their cheeks, then all the better. Oh, and: the band name should preferably be something enigmatic, possibly with a number replacing one of the letters. Tick, tick, tick.

https://pr0files.bandcamp.com

Tags pr0files, synthpop, van gogh

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Micah Frank & Chet Doxa – Ave Maria (feat. Mary Lattimore)

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date September 8, 2022

This is the lead single from Micah Frank and Chet Doxas’s forthcoming LP The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part 1, which lands in November. Ave Maria combines a masterful harp performance from Mary Lattimore with Doxas’s meandering woodwind, gently billowing electronics and the late addition of a softly pulsing kick drum. Deep chill.