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Iglooghost

04-01-2019 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Iglooghost, The Besnard Lakes, Dhani Harrison, Anna Calvi, John Maus, Steve Mason, KATIEE, Letherette, Melkbelly, Gudrun Gut, Johnny Jewel, Heron Oblivion, Katie Dey, Airiel, Kate Nash

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Irish producer blending hip-hop, juke/footwork, IDM, pop, and video game-like concepts into an intense, hyperkinetic rush. 
Iglooghost
Pale Eyes 2:24
Super Ink Burst 3:27
from Neō Wax Bloom 2017
Iglooghost is an Irish lad named Seamus Malliagh, and his music appears on Brainfeeder, the Flying Lotus-helmed imprint which often releases abstract hip-hop and jazz, but it could just have easily appeared on an obscure Japanese netlabel like Maltine Records, or experimental meta-pop collective PC Music. Malliagh's productions are giddy, cartoonish, and extremely busy, with densely packed samples and squeaky voices flying around at an impossibly rapid pace...

Montreal-based psych/space rock unit led by the husband-and-wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. 
The Besnard Lakes
The Bray Road Beast 5:30
Pressure of Our Plans 5:21
from A Coliseum Complex Museum 2016
There are five musicians in the Besnard Lakes, but it sounds like some sort of pop orchestra was on hand to record the group's fifth full-length album, 2016's A Coliseum Complex Museum. The scope of this music is vast, combining the melodic angles of indie pop with the grand scale ambitions of prog rock, and group founders Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas are determined to make the most of it, filling every nook and cranny of these songs with banks of guitars, keyboards, percussion, and massed vocals, until the music takes on the shape of a vast ship at sea, moving deliberately but with a strong sense of purpose through choppy waters in the chilly nighttime...

Son of the Beatles’ George Harrison formed his own band the newno2 in the late 2000s. Dhani Harrison started his musical career relatively late, switching from the automotive industry to performing following the death of his father, George Harrison, in November 2001. Initially, Dhani served as the custodian of his dad's legacy, assisting family friend Jeff Lynne in the completion of George's posthumous 2002 album, Brainwashed...
Dhani Harrison
Never Know 5:23
Úlfur Resurrection 7:24
London Water 7:52
from IN///PARALLEL 2017
Like other children of the Beatles, Dhani Harrison found himself drawn to music and, like all of the members of this select group, he was reluctant to capitalize on his famous father. He initially solved this problem by burying himself within the confines of thenewno2, a band he formed in 2002, but after a decade of playing with the group, he decided to pursue a solo career. Maybe this 15 years of experience is the reason why 2017's IN///PARALLEL doesn't feel tentative in the way so many first albums do. Harrison exudes a quiet confidence, letting IN///PARALLEL unfold surely and steadily, keeping the music meditative and slightly trippy...

British singer/songwriter with influences ranging from Nick Cave's post-punk to Django Reinhardt's flamenco. Hailed as "the best thing since Patti Smith" by Brian Eno, as well as being included in the BBC's Sound of 2011 list, the hype surrounding London-born Anna Calvi came to a crescendo in late 2010. Gaining critical acclaim among music journalists, Calvi drew comparisons with passionate and brooding musicians like Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. The dense and rich musical influences that inhabit Calvi's world are broad and distinctive strokes of sultry flamenco, smoke-filled blues, and seductive goth pop/rock. Adding to this tapestry of influences, Calvi claims to have been inspired by the films of David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, and Wong Kar Wai; the cinematic element of her music contributes a mysterious and unyielding undercurrent to her work.
Anna Calvi
As a Man 3:46
Indies or Paradise 4:41
from Hunter 2018
Anna Calvi took a five-year break after releasing 2013's One Breath, but the intervening time didn't diminish the grand sound she's been cultivating since her debut. From the title track's breathy opening to the soaring melody of "Away," her gift for elucidating the drama of a bygone era is intact and just as effective. If anything, the lustily provocative nature of her artistry reaches its dizzy apex on Hunter...

Bizarre and beautiful synth pop solo work from this multi-instrumentalist who's worked with Ariel Pink and Animal Collective. 
John Maus
The Combine 3:38
Touchdown 3:41
from Screen Memories 2017
Arriving six years after his previous studio album, Screen Memories rejoins Minnesota musician John Maus after he finished his doctorate in political philosophy and set about building his own custom set of modular synthesizers to record it. As evoked by cover art that shows a sparsely furnished room with a snowy cathode-ray tube TV, Maus returns to a cinematic, turn-of-the-'80s-inspired synth pop, if a slightly more coherent one with his new setup...

Scottish singer, songwriter, producer, and former frontman of Edinburgh's acclaimed Beta Band. 
Steve Mason
Water Bored 3:47
Words in My Head 4:59
from Meet the Humans 2016
After the intensity and sheer breadth of 2013's politically charged Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time, Steve Mason returns with his most cohesive and fully realized solo effort yet. In a deliberate step away from the thematic sweep of his first two solo releases, the former Beta Band and King Biscuit Time maestro uncorks a set of pop songs that stand proudly as independent pieces, yet make for an even greater whole. Produced by Elbow's Craig Potter, Meet the Humans manages to distill Mason's lush melancholia and maverick pop acumen into 11 strong tracks that refer to his two decades of recording while delivering something new...

The free-flowing, electronic and jazz-influenced project of former Young People vocalist/percussionist Katie Eastburn. 
KATIEE
My Forgotten Man 2:48
4 The Good Times 6:11
from Out All Night 2016
Katie Eastburn's music has always fully transported listeners into her world. It's a place where nothing is simple and everything is direct, where joy and sadness are soulmates, and where old and new bring out the best in each other. As one-third of the criminally underappreciated 2000s band Young People, she combined traditional song forms with the avant-garde in ways that underscored her gifts as a passionate interpreter and singer. After Young People disbanded, Eastburn's music-making was delayed by a string of family tragedies. However, she continued to write and record, first on her own and then with a group including some of the finest from New York City's avant jazz scene as well as her husband Jim McHugh and composer Ray Sweeten. Out All Night, her first album as KATIEE, announces her as a solo artist with a bold vision while sharing Young People's gift for making innovative music steeped in tradition...

This production duo's stylish fusion of house, electro, and hip-hop recalls the work of Dilla and Daft Punk. 
Letherette
Momma feat. Rejjie Snow 2:30
Last Night on the Planet feat. Pyramid Vritra 4:36
from Last Night on the Planet 2016
self-titled debut, a tradition Richard Roberts and Andy Harber continue on Last Night on the Planet. But where Letherette's eclecticism felt like a warmly literate pastiche, on this album the duo gets close to dabbling. Roberts and Harber have updated their palette since their first album, adding more hip-hop and downtempo elements to their disco, house, and synth pop foundations...

Chicago noise rockers Melkbelly formed toward the end of 2013, with all the members coming from seemingly disparate backgrounds. Vocalist and guitarist Miranda Winters had previously performed folk-rock music under the moniker reddelicious, and brothers Bart (Winters' husband) and Liam Winters ran a show space in Chicago before taking up guitar and bass in the band. 
Melkbelly
Off the Lot 2:13
R.O.R.O.B. 5:01
from Nothing Valley 2017
Melkbelly may be saddled with the kind of name that makes one wonder what names they decided not to pick, but their debut album shows that you can't judge a band by name alone. The Chicago quartet kick up all kinds of gnarly racket on Nothing Valley, calling to mind Dischord bands like Fugazi with their stuttering rhythms; the Breeders, thanks to guitarist Miranda Winters' melt-in-your-mouth vocals; wiry '90s bands with insistent guitar attacks like Hot Snakes, and romping neo-punks like White Lung. It's 100-percent indie rock all the way without being hopelessly derivative...

After her boundary-breaking stints with Mania D, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Malaria! in the '80s, and her years as a composer, collaborator, and label founder in the '90s, Gudrun Gut's work as a solo artist in the 2000s and 2010s reaffirmed her place as a pioneering force in German underground music.
Gudrun Gut
Startup Loch 5:56
Boys Keep Swinging (David Bowie / Brian Eno) 3:15
from Moment 2018
After the release of 2012's Wildlife, Gudrun Gut spent a few years pursuing relatively esoteric projects that included remixes of folk songs from around the world and a spoken-word collaboration with Myra Davies based on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. On her third solo album, she explores darker, more direct territory: Moment's stark atmospheres and penetrating synths evoke the coldwave and early industrial music of the '80s -- when she played with Mania D, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Malaria! -- as well as trends in late-2010s electronic music...

Producer, label founder, and member of many projects whose eerie, nostalgic synth pop helped shape the sound of the early 21st century. 
Johnny Jewel
Digital Rain 5:19
The Runner 1:42
Seven Corners 2:02
from Digital Rain 2018
Appearing less than a year after the release of Johnny Jewel's solo debut Windswept, Digital Rain is an even more independent effort. Where Windswept included tracks Jewel recorded with bands like Symmetry as well as on his own, each track here is a solo composition -- and feels like it was recorded in solitude. After establishing himself in the arid city of Los Angeles, Jewel began to miss the rain and snow of places where he used to live, and challenged himself to create a wordless, beatless evocation of watery weather in its many forms...

Psych-folk group led by Meg Baird and featuring members of Comets on Fire and Six Organs of Admittance. 
Heron Oblivion
Beneath Fields 7:45
Sudden Lament 3:32
from The Chapel 2017
San Franciscan psych-folk group Heron Oblivion followed their excellent 2016 full-length debut with this live recording, captured in the band's home town in early 2017. Six of the album's seven songs are performed here, and while these takes aren't grand departures from the studio versions, they demonstrate the acute focus of the group's vision. Featuring drummer/vocalist Meg Baird, guitarists Noel von Harmonson and Charlie Saufley, and bassist Ethan Miller, the band alternate between fragile, dreamy folk and heavy psych-rock, often featuring delicate vocals and crushing dual guitar solos in the same song...

Experimental bedroom pop musician from Melbourne, Australia known for her unconventional arrangements and distorted vocals. 
Katie Dey
All 1:30
So You Pick Yourself Up 2:21
Only a Trip and Fall Down Again
from Flood Network 2016
Australian singer/songwriter Katie Dey's singular brand of fragmentary home-recorded pop is fragile, strange, and sometimes frightening. Taking full advantage of the recording and editing capabilities of her laptop, she vibrantly strums her scratchy-sounding guitar and programs nervous, glitchy beats. Nothing is ever straightforward with her music; it constantly feels like it's mutating and being pulled apart against its will. Most jarring of all is her voice, which she distorts into an unsettling digital croak. Similar to tUnE-yArDs, Dey's vocals are not for everyone, and may be a dealbreaker for many listeners. In the context of her music, however, they make total sense, and it's hard to imagine hearing pristine, angelic vocals over such broken, mutilated arrangements...

Ambitious Chicago-based dream pop/shoegaze group masterminded by guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Wrenn. 
Airiel 
This Is Permanent 5:36
Molten Young Lovers 4:39
from Molten Young Lovers 2017
Airiel aren't the most prolific band in the world, but when they do release something, it tends to be big and ambitious. Molten Young Lovers is only the Chicago-based dream pop group's second proper full-length since forming in the late '90s, and that doesn't include a four-part series of Winks & Kisses EPs, each of which contains an epic track hovering around the ten-minute mark...

English pop singer/songwriter who debuted in the mid-2000s with cheeky lyrics and catchy, piano-driven melodies. With each successive album, Nash reinvented her sound, tackling neo-soul, synth pop, and indie rock stylings throughout the 2010s.
Kate Nash
Life in Pink 4:15
California Poppies 4:20
from Yesterday Was Forever 2018
After debuting in 2007 with the U.K. number one Made of Bricks, irreverent popsmith Kate Nash diverged from that album's often staccato, piano-centric sound into vibrant neo-soul for her follow-up. She switched gears again to grittier indie rock on her third studio LP, Girl Talk. Inspired by revisiting diaries from her teens, 2018's Yesterday Was Forever revisits the past in more ways than one, favoring her debut's more efficient, bubbly pop while still incorporating other stylistic interests, including heavier synths, at least on some tracks...