pitchfork thursday, july 21

 

The Compton-based, Dr. Dre-affiliated rapper steps out with a pop-rap debut that puts a futuristic spin on 90s alt-rap.

Artist: Kendrick Lamar

Album: Section.80

Label: Top Dawg

Pitchfork  8.0

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Dominick Fernow's latest one-man recording is... pleasant, and not only by contrast with his old unholy racket.

Artist: Prurient

Album: Bermuda Drain

Label: Hydra Head

Pitchfork 7.0

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This 3xCD box set compiled by 78 collector Ian Nagoski chronicles the experience of Ottoman immigrants in the early 20th century.

Artist:Various Artists

Album: To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929

Label: Tompkins Square

Pitchfork 8.3

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Members of the Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, the Delgados, and Idlewild come together for a one-off album united by a common theme.

Artist: Fruit Tree Foundation

Album: First Edition

Label: Chemikal Underground

Pitchfork 5.9

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Produced by WHY's Yoni Wolf and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's Owen Ashworth, the Chicago MC's solo Anticon debut marks a return of sorts for the label.

Artist: Serengeti

Album: Family and Friends

Label: Anticon

Pitchfork  6.8

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pitchfork wednesday, july 20

Circa 1986 was a very good time for metal, and Megadeath's awesome entry from that year has been given an expanded reissue.

Artist: Megadeth

Album: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? [25th Anniversary Edition]

Label: Capitol

Pitchfork  8.7

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The Atlanta rapper's latest mixtape adapts his unique approach to a more aggro era by tapping Brick Squad mixtape mercenaries Lex Luger and Southside.

Artist:Gucci Mane

Album: Writings on the Wall II

Label: Datpiff.com / 1017 Brick Squad

Pitchfork 7.9

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The latest in the RVNG's series of improv collabs between experimental music veterans and their contemporary counterparts includes minimalist David Borden.

Artist: Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin

Album: FRKWYS Vol. 7

Label: Rvng Intl.

Pitchfork 7.7

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The young producer with some promising EPs under his belt steps out with a full-length on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint.

Artist: Samiyam

Album: Sam Baker's Album

Label: Brainfeeder

Pitchfork 6.3

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The Glasgow band's macabre spirit remains on its third LP, which recalls gothic post-punks like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and Bauhaus.

Artist: Sons and Daughters

Album: Mirror Mirror

Label: Domino

Pitchfork  5.6

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pitchfork tuesday, july 19

The Chicago retro-rap duo has been promising the imminent arrival of a proper debut album for so long it felt reasonable to assume it would never show up.

Artist: The Cool Kids

Album: When Fish Ride Bicycles

Label: Green Label Sound

Pitchfork 6.9

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This brief four-track EP finds Christian Fennesz in lyrical mode, using his processed guitar to evoke a memory-washed vision of pop.

Artist:Fennesz

Album: Seven Stars

Label: Touch

Pitchfork 7.1

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This career-spanning compilation finds the genre-averse Berlin electronic producer revealing an impressively favorable ratio of pearls to embarrassments.

Artist: Siriusmo

Album:Pearls & Embarrassments: 2000-2010

Label: Monkeytown

Pitchfork 7.4

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The second EP from this once-mysterious London producer is more refined than last year's Sauna, with elements of Balearic, R&B, and UK garage.

Artist:Vondelpark

Album: nyc stuff and nyc bags

Label: R&S

Pitchfork 7.5

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In a DVD, a CD, notes, and photographs, the filmmaker/photographer documents the music of 13 Ethiopian tribes with extraordinary thoroughness.

Artist:Olivia Wyatt

Album: Staring Into the Sun

Label: Sublime Frequencies

Pitchfork  7.2

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pitchfork monday, july 18

 

On their latest album, Brooklyn's Men put their own spin on the raw and ragged sound of noisy 1980s indie rock to delirious effect.

Artist: The Men

Album: Leave Home

Label: Sacred Bones

Pitchfork 8.2

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With help from HEALTH's Jupiter Keyes, Denver producer Travis Egedy refines the blasted-electro approach of 2009's Dark Rift.

Artist:Pictureplane

Album: Thee Physical

Label: Lovepump United

Pitchfork 7.0

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Hypnogogic pop maven explores his mysterious, hyper-referential 1980s sound on a new album and a recent vinyl reissue.

Artist:James Ferraro

Album: Night Dolls With Hairspray / On Air

Label: Olde English Spelling Bee / Underwater Peoples

Pitchfork 7.9 / 7.5

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On his latest LP, Sole collaborates with Lil B and Pictureplane and rhymes over diffuse synthetic soul from the Skyrider Band.

Artist: Sole and the Skyrider Band

Album:Hello Cruel World

Label: Fake Four

Pitchfork 6.1

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Featuring former members of 90 Day Men and U.S. Maple, the Chicago band retains an air of inscrutability on its second Drag City album.

Artist: Singer

Album: Mindreading

Label: Drag City

Pitchfork 5.8

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pitchfork thursday, july 14

The hyper-prolific rapper with an endless number of YouTube freestyles finds a new focus and crafts his most accessible album.

Artist: Lil B

Album: I'm Gay (I'm Happy)

Label: Amalgam Digital

Pitchfork  8.1

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The 12th volume in the series dedicated to AIDS awareness features Madlib, David Byrne, Tom Zé, Of Montreal, and more collaborating on Tropicália updates.

Artist:Various Artists

Album: Red Hot + Rio 2

Label: E1

Pitchfork 7.2

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The Baltimore-based noise-punk quartet uses pedals, loops, and off-kilter rhythms to pummel its teenage heroes into blurry abstraction on its debut album.

Artist: Dope Body

Album:Nupping

Label: Hoss

Pitchfork 7.8

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Basement Jaxx half Simon Ratcliffe's new solo EP is another reminder why the house duo's unconventional spirit once made dance classicists turn up their noses.

Artist: Ratcliffe

Album: Dorus Rijkers EP

Label: Atlantic Jaxx

Pitchfork 7.0

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The band name suggests throwback pop, but the era in question is actually the 1980s, and Chain Gang of 1974's emulation of it is both impressive and its undoing.

Artist: The Chain Gang of 1974

Album: Wayward Fire

Label: Modern Art

Pitchfork  5.7

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