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EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Moses Sumney - 'Aromanticism'

25/9/2017

 
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Since emerging onto the scene in 2014, Moses Sumney has ridden a wave of word-of-mouth praise, hushed recordings, and dynamic live performances. It's an organic, patient ascent all too rare in today's musical climate. In a voice both mellifluous and haunting, Sumney makes future music that transmogrifies classic tropes, like moon-colony choir reinterpretations of old jazz gems. His vocals narrate a personal journey through universal loneliness atop otherworldly compositional backdrops.

Following the self-release of his debut cassette EP, Mid-City Island, and 2015's 7", Seeds/Pleas, Sumney has performed around the world alongside forebears like David Byrne, Karen O, Sufjan Stevens, Solange, James Blake and more. With his 2016 Lamentations EP, The California and Ghana-raised troubadour widened the spectrum of his heretofore "bedroom" music, incorporating songs that feature more elaborate production and evocative songwriting. Now his inspired ascent continues.

His proper debut album, Aromanticism is a concept album about lovelessness as a sonic dreamscape. It seeks to interrogate the social constructions around romance. The debut includes the devastating, billowing synths of "Doomed,” which in a way serves as the album’s thesis statement, as well as new versions of standouts "Lonely World" and "Plastic.” It’s a deliberate, jaw-dropping statement that can leave you both enlightened and empty.

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Zola Jesus - 'Okovi'

18/9/2017

 
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Nika Roza Danilova has been recording music as Zola Jesus for more than a decade. For the majority of that time, she’s been on Sacred Bones Records, and Okovi marks her reunion with the label. Fittingly, the 11 electronics-driven songs on Okovi share musical DNA with her early work on Sacred Bones. The music on this record was written in pure catharsis, and as a result, the sonics are heavier, darker, and more exploratory. In addition to the contributions of Danilova’s longtime live bandmate Alex DeGroot, producer/musician WIFE, cellist/noise-maker Shannon Kennedy from Pedestrian Deposit, and percussionist Ted Byrnes all helped build the textural universe of these songs.


Above all, Zola Jesus has crafted a profound meditation on loss and reconciliation that stands tall alongside the great works of its genre. Okovi speaks of tragedy with great wisdom and clarity. Its songs plumb dark depths, but they reflect light as well.


ARTIST STATEMENT:


"Okovi is a Slavic word for shackles. We are all shackled to something — to life, to death, to bodies, to minds, to illness, to people, to birthright, to duty. Each of us born with a unique debt, a price for riding the thresholds of this sensuous existence. We have until we die to pay it back.  Without such cost, what gives us the right to live? And moreover, what gives us the right to die? Are we really even free to choose?


The past couple years were spent violently braced against limbo, for loved ones and for myself. Clawing at the geography of fresh wounds, biting the marks of a lost interior war. We curse the world, we throw our arms up to at dead sky, and we cry: Is this all there is? And the sky shouts back, Isn’t it enough?


Okovi is a deeply personal snapshot of loss, reconciliation, and a sympathy for the chains that keep us all grounded to the unforgiving laws of feral nature.


Last year, I moved back to the woods in Wisconsin where I was raised. I built a little house just steps away from where my dilapidated childhood tree fort is slowly recombining into earth. For this record, I decided to enlist the help of Alex DeGroot, who has been the only constant in my live band and helped mix the Stridulum EP back in 2010. The record will be released on Sacred Bones, the closest group of people I’ll ever have to blood-bound family.


Okovi was fed by a return to roots and several very personal traumas. While writing the record, I endured people very close to me trying to die, and others trying desperately not to. Meanwhile, I was fighting through a haze so thick I wasn’t sure I’d find my way to the other side. Death, in all of its masks, has been encircling everyone I love, and with it the questions of legacy, worth, and will."

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Mogwai - 'Every Country's Sun'

11/9/2017

 
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Every
 Country's Sun
 takes two decades of Mogwai's signature, contrasting sounds - towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume - and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock, and transcendental euphoria. It's a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle, twinkling, synth-rock spectre to a solid, blown-out, skyward-thrusting obelisk.

Their most transportive album yet, this is music as a keep-out chrysalis, protective audio armour through exalting organs and portentous, dissonant guitar fuzz warping at the edges, bending the world inside-out into a reality in which you'd much rather live. 

The band recently performed 
Every Country’s Sun in its entirety for the first time in a triumphant surprise show at this years Primavera Sound, Barcelona. 
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EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Citizen Kay - 'Belly Of The Beast'

4/9/2017

 
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Charismatic and hugely motivated Canberra rapper CITIZEN KAY has released his second LP, 'Belly of the Beast'. 
 
After announcing his signing to Illy's ONETWO label (a joint venture with Unified Music Group), Citizen Kay hid away in the studio like a crazed word-doctor making sure the LP was exactly as he envisioned. "A lot of time was spent choosing my words, and how I wanted things to be said." says Kay of the writing process "I challenged myself more, as a wordsmith and poet on this album"
 
'Belly of the Beast' is a personal record, incorporating themes of introspection and reflection, as well as the fine line between ego and confidence. Taking his time with each track, Kay dug deep into his own psyche, with the firm intention of harnessing his strengths and accepting his weaknesses. Significant emphasis was put on perfecting the flow and tracklisting, resulting in a cohesive, authentic record that packs a serious punch.
 
Rapper, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Citizen Kay migrated from Ghana to Australia at six-years-old, and has made it his life's mission to make music that blends traditional hip-hop with the soothing sounds of soul, jazz, blues and rock. 

An undeniably charming and dedicated performer, Citizen Kay has shared stages with some of the best: Ice Cube and Public Enemy, Run The Jewels, Danny Brown, Wiz Khalifa, Earl Sweatshirt, plus locals Tkay Maizda, Seth Sentry and more.
 
Its a rough and tumble world out there at present, but Citizen Kay's deft rhymes and bombastic attitude are going to actively convince you that, really, we're all going to be OK.

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