{"id":14433,"date":"2017-09-05T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=14433"},"modified":"2017-09-08T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:51:34","slug":"culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Culturedarm&#8217;s Songs of the Month (August 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14628\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=696%2C464&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=370%2C247&ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=270%2C180&ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=570%2C380&ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=770%2C513&ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=1170%2C780&ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelela-LMK.png?resize=870%2C580&ssl=1 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kelela \u2013 \u2018LMK\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ePi5BLJogyA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kelela - LMK\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ePi5BLJogyA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BWiRjLQAF0V\/?hl=en&taken-by=kelelam\">Kelela announced <em>Take Me Apart<\/em> last month<\/a>, her upcoming album and a relaunch of sorts as her full-length debut, even though <em>Cut 4 Me<\/em>, her breakthrough mixtape, and the <em>Hallucinogen<\/em> EP already firmly established her reputation for cutting edge, sleek and sinewy, menacing through its emotional honesty, beat-driven, minimalist, alternative R&B. The turn of August brought a release date of 6 October, and a new single, \u2018LMK\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018LMK\u2019 sees Kelela reunited with Jam City, the producer who helped furnish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NWPRYUHebSY\">\u2018Keep It Cool\u2019<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7rap0mltYlk\">\u2018Cherry Coffee\u2019<\/a> from\u00a0<em>Cut 4 Me<\/em>. Built on the tension between ominous synths and glimmering keys, muscular beats entwined with superslick handclaps, Kelela opens bluntly and forwardly with the threat of retreat, telling her prospective one-time partner \u2018Look, I\u2019ll give up right away \/ And you\u2019ll never figure out \/ What you said, but it\u2019s cool, baby\u2019. The song addresses a possible intimacy while gesturing towards the wider gender inequality of the club, where men are presumed to favour brief dalliances, one-night stands, quick in-and-outs lubricated by the lure of intense but fleeting attraction, while women are burdened with expectations of commitment, even marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Kelela\u2019s point is that she wants what she wants when she wants it: \u2018No one\u2019s trying to settle down\u2019, and whether they hook up for the night \u2018It ain\u2019t that deep, either way\u2019, but if the object of her interest can muster the capacity to treat her as an equal, to read the signs barely masking her almost palpable desire, then the outcome is simple, \u2018All you gotta do is let me know\u2019. The video for \u2018LMK\u2019 was directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, who has previously worked with Bj\u00f6rk on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZM80F_J-QHE\">\u2018Mutual Core\u2019<\/a> and extensively across the innovative video installations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YGn1pJIpZw8\">accompanying <em>Vulnicura<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Kelela-lmk-lyrics\">He writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018We wanted make a video that showcases the multiplicity of who Kelela is and who she has the potential to be. The video is essentially a grand unveiling featuring Kelela wearing different wigs and guises as she pushes through the club with her friends, ultimately revealing herself.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fumio Miyashita \u2013 \u2018Live on The Boffomundo Show\u2019 (Excerpt)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ec34h9Pch20\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fumio Miyashita \u201cLive on The Boffomundo Show\u201d (Excerpt)\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ec34h9Pch20?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boffomundomusic.com\/\">The Boffomundo Show<\/a> existed between 1979 and 1981, the \u2018early daze of cable\u2019, as a talk show devoted specifically to the musicians of progressive rock and jazz fusion. Hosted by Ron Curtiss and Aaron Weiner, co-produced and co-written by Len Peyronnin, and developing a relationship with Tony Harrington of All Ears Records, the show featured interviews with such luminaries as Robert Fripp, Phil Collins, and Al Di Meola, which Curtiss and Weiner have been remastering and reissuing over the course of the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The Boffomundo Show\u2019s first live in-studio musical performance came courtesy of Fumio Miyashita, who was then embarking on a solo career after the best part of a decade as the frontman for The Far East Family Band. Widely regarded as the first Japanese progressive rock group, The Far East Family Band released five albums with Miyashita contributing on vocals, synths, guitar, and bamboo flute. Now Drag City are set to release the full recording of Miyashita\u2019s fledgeling solo performance, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragcity.com\/products\/live-on-the-boffomundo-show\"><em>Live On The Boffomundo Show<\/em> out on 22 September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Carmen Villain \u2013 \u2018Borders\u2019 (feat. Jenny Hval)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Borders feat. Jenny Hval by Carmen Villain\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F337158104&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Forest Swords \u2013 \u2018Raw Language\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ERVMqxc5EDs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forest Swords - Raw Language (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ERVMqxc5EDs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A$AP Twelvyy \u2013 \u2018Hop Out\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_RDVOYOW-rs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A$AP Twelvyy - Hop Out (Official Video) ft. A$AP Ferg\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_RDVOYOW-rs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rae Sremmurd \u2013 \u2018Perplexing Pegasus\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"gAP47abpRMk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rae Sremmurd - Perplexing Pegasus (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAP47abpRMk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vindata + Skrillex + NSTASIA \u2013 \u2018Favor\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dO1x1BHhwy4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vindata + Skrillex + NSTASIA - Favor (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dO1x1BHhwy4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jackie Shane \u2013 \u2018Any Other Way\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wiDVfi5dVp0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jackie Shane &quot;Any Other Way&quot; (official audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wiDVfi5dVp0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2018Any Other Way\u2019 was the biggest hit of Jackie Shane\u2019s relatively short but storied career. Originally from Nashville, she relocated to Montreal and then to Toronto after linking up with the saxophonist King Herbert Whitaker and bandleader Frank Motley, before going solo with a cover of \u2018Money (That\u2019s What I Want)\u2019 in 1962. \u2018Any Other Way\u2019 soon followed, reaching number 2 on Toronto\u2019s longstanding CHUM Chart, but although she began to receive a modicum of airplay in the United States with the follow-up \u2018In My Tenement\u2019, and was releasing her music through Sue Records based out of New York, Shane subsequently faded from view and recorded nothing for the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/music\/searching-for-jackie-shane-rbs-lost-transgender-superstar\/article35057998\/\">A black transgender woman working in soul<\/a> before the word \u2018transgender\u2019 was coined never mind commonplace, her Southern roots and elaborate stage presence brought unfounded rumours of a familial relationship with Little Richard. Across 1962 and 1963 she performed regularly at Toronto\u2019s Sapphire Tavern, her booming voice and teasing manner making her a popular figure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fyimusicnews.ca\/articles\/2016\/02\/09\/legend-jackie-shane\">at other clubs like the Zanzibar, Club 888, and The Blue Note<\/a>. When she returned to the scene in 1967 it was with a reissue of \u2018Any Other Way\u2019 and a new album, <em>Jackie Shane Live<\/em>,\u00a0taken from one of her Sapphire Tavern appearances in 1963. Two more singles came and went, and in 1971 Shane returned to the United States, turning down an offer to join George Clinton\u2019s Parliament-Funkadelic and all but disappearing after several brief and fruitless tours.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, CBC Radio\u2019s <em>Inside the Music<\/em> aired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/1573021090\">\u2018I Got Mine: The Story of Jackie Shane\u2019<\/a>. Only subsequently was Shane found alive and well back in Nashville, putting to bed untoward rumours of her demise. In 2011, <em>Jackie Shane Live<\/em> received a couple of reissues, and amid bonus tracks and compilations the resurgent interest in the singer saw <em>Jackie Shane Live<\/em> twice shortlisted for a Polaris Music Prize Heritage Award.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Numero Group are set to release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numerogroup.com\/products\/jackie-shane-any-other-way\">the first artist-approved collection of Shane\u2019s work<\/a>, a double-record offering comprising all six of her singles plus live sessions at the Sapphire Tavern with previously unreleased tracks. The title of the collection \u2013 which will be released on 20 October \u2013 is <em>Any Other Way<\/em>. The song remains Jackie Shane\u2019s defining track, its blaring horns and slinking percussion supporting Shane\u2019s voice, at once soft yet authoritative, forlorn but defiant and proud. Shane subtly changed a lyric from the opening verse of the song, a cover of the original by William Bell: where Bell offers dwindling assurances in the face of his former lover, \u2018Tell her that I\u2019m happy \/ Tell her that I\u2019m okay\u2019, Shane opted for something more resilient and revealing, \u2018Tell her that I\u2019m happy \/ Tell her that I\u2019m gay\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ariel Pink \u2013 \u2018Feels Like Heaven\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Tnig6Qp8sEk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ariel Pink - Feels Like Heaven [Official Audio]\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tnig6Qp8sEk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Machine Woman \u2013 \u2018Camile From OHM Makes Me Feel Loved\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Machine Woman - &#039;Camile From OHM Makes Me Feel Loved&#039; by Technicolour Recordings\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F335206387&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Julia Michaels \u2013 \u2018Worst In Me (Stripped)\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"TJg-nqmlIOo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julia Michaels - Worst In Me (Stripped) (Vevo LIFT)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TJg-nqmlIOo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>With a slew of songwriting credits already to her name \u2013 from her work alongside BloodPop and Justin Tranter on the songs \u2018Sorry\u2019 and \u2018Friends\u2019 by Justin Bieber, to wholesale contributions to albums by Hailee Steinfeld, Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, and Gwen Stefani \u2013 2017 has seen the birth of Julia Michaels\u2019 solo career. Her debut EP, <em>Nervous System<\/em>, was released at the tail end of July, and although it weighs in at just under 22 minutes, in scope and realisation it feels like an album\u2019s worth of songs, featuring seven eloquently expressive, impeccably constructed, perfectly concise snatches of modern pop.<\/p>\n<p>Michaels teamed up for <em>Nervous System<\/em> with some big-hitting writers and producers, including Tranter, Stargate, and Mattman & Robin. Yet it\u2019s impossible for her to sound any better than she does here, on this stripped-back performance of \u2018Worst In Me\u2019 which arrived via Vevo LIFT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bomba Est\u00e9reo \u2013 \u2018Amar As\u00ed\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"aJr1zbtb5Kw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bomba Est\u00e9reo - Amar As\u00ed (Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aJr1zbtb5Kw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pia Mia \u2013 \u2018I\u2019m A Fan\u2019 (feat. Jeremih)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5IvmgMMaTfU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pia Mia - I&#039;m A Fan ft. Jeremih\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5IvmgMMaTfU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lil B \u2013 \u2018Global\u2019 (feat. iLoveMakonnen)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global by LilBTheBasedGod\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F338234746&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DJ Python \u2013 \u2018Yo Ran (Do)\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DJ Python - Yo Ran(Do) [INC-001] by Incienso\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F334638743&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Variously recording under the monikers DJ Wey, DJ Xanax, and Luis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.residentadvisor.net\/features\/2918\">the Queens-based artist DJ Python<\/a> \u2013 real name\u00a0Brian Pi\u00f1eyro \u2013 is set to release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubadub.co.uk\/records\/dj-python-dulce-compania\">a new album, <em>Dulce Campa\u00f1ia<\/em><\/a>, which will be out on the fledgeling label Incienso on 25 September. With a palette that throbs and lingers across the genres of deep house, shoegaze, trance, and reggaeton, as DJ Python\u00a0Pi\u00f1eyro homes in on what he refers to as \u2018deep reggaeton\u2019, a style and a mood well exemplified by album closer \u2018Yo Ran(Do)\u2019. The deceptively quick pace of the dembow riddim and the incessant humming of the bass is glossed by squiggly and spacious synths and redolent vocal fragments, for a song at once propulsive and contemplative, and airy enough to lift you out of a tight spot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GoldLink \u2013 \u2018Meditation\u2019 (feat. Jazmine Sullivan & Kaytranada)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Y-OqT5Po8KQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GoldLink - Meditation (Official Video) ft. Jazmine Sullivan, KAYTRANADA\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-OqT5Po8KQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Grouper \u2013 \u2018Children\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=2855528443\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The delicate, enveloping piano-led songs <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/culturedarms-albums-of-the-decade-so-far\/\">which comprise <em>Ruins<\/em><\/a> \u2013 recorded on a portable 4-track during a residency in Portugal in 2011 \u2013 for their heartrending intimacy and lyrical content always seemed to centre upon love, lost and forsaken, resigned, shapeless and fighting self-abnegation, restless, lingering, enduring, the possibility of love. But even with that record Liz Harris gestured towards a political content often overlooked: \u2018political anger\u2019 alongside \u2019emotional garbage\u2019, \u2018failed structures\u2019 intensifying or rudely disrupting the feeling of \u2018living in the remains of love\u2019. Now Harris has released \u2018Children\u2019, an offshoot from the same sessions, a much more explicitly political song with some of the proceeds going to the\u00a0Silvia Rivera Law Center, Transgender Law Center, and Trans Assistance Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/grouper.bandcamp.com\/track\/children\">Harris wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018Towards the end of making RUINS I wrote a song that never made it onto the album. Though it felt aesthetically similar, something about the content and energy felt distinct in a way that didn\u2019t fit the rest of the music. I pushed it away, unsure what to do with it, and eventually forgot I\u2019d recorded it. This year, amidst chaotic and painful political times, while working on another project, it reemerged and made more sense.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jessy Lanza \u2013 \u2018I Talk BB\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"QxrXD4Fz0hc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jessy Lanza - I Talk BB\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QxrXD4Fz0hc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Martin Glass \u2013 \u2018Sound & Image\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"eiRw6spfqFQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin Glass - Sound & Image\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eiRw6spfqFQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A$AP Mob \u2013 \u2018Feels So Good\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LtlO4FVzXew\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A$AP Mob - Feels So Good (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LtlO4FVzXew?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>dd elle \u2013 \u2018latin aphorism\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=2284175658\/album=1241959407\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Babyfather \u2013 \u2018Benzo Amore\u2019 (feat. A$AP Rocky)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4zSEUx6Iq5A<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BICEP \u2013 \u2018GLUE\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"1ZapePrpX64\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BICEP | GLUE\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ZapePrpX64?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>K \u00c1 R Y Y N \u2013 \u2018MOVING MASSES\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"O_2kRefJazA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"K \u00c1 R Y Y N | MOVING MASSES\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_2kRefJazA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Over the past six months, the Syrian-American-Armenian artist K \u00c1 R Y Y N has been steadily uploading songs to SoundCloud and YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7bh_tLwT4bc&t=2s\">\u2018ALEPPO\u2019<\/a> with its celestial, layered vocals over droning and buzzing electronics, the lusciously alliterative <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/karyyn\/binary-1\">\u2018BINARY\u2019<\/a>, by turns cooing and jarringly chopped up, the sustained and unfolding narrative hum of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KPMOrK6VR4\">\u2018PURGATORY\u2019<\/a>, some of these accompanied by short films showing Syria and family footage from K \u00c1 R Y Y N\u2019s youth. Her latest, the breathtaking \u2018MOVING MASSES\u2019, is taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sourcematerialcollective.com\/work-1\/\">the opera <em>Of Light<\/em><\/a>, for which K \u00c1 R R Y N was the composer. \u2018A durational performance, an incantation of celestial rhythm\u2019, performed largely in darkness and inspired by Icelandic nature, it was directed by Samantha Shay, and premiered at the Tjarnarbio Theatre in Reykjavik \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2016\/sep\/02\/bjork-digital-vulnicura-vespertine\">to the acclaim of Bj\u00f6rk<\/a> and Marina Abramovi\u0107 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/180669928\">in the summer of last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Zola Jesus \u2013 \u2018Exhumed\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"S4s-kGT5bFo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zola Jesus - Exhumed (Official Music Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4s-kGT5bFo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wolf Alice \u2013 \u2018Don\u2019t Delete the Kisses\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"WqxE-zppu30\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wolf Alice - Don&#039;t Delete the Kisses (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqxE-zppu30?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So Much Light \u2013 \u2018Let It Absorb You\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"i578ziit21c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"So Much Light - &quot;Let It Absorb You&quot;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i578ziit21c?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Open Mike Eagle \u2013 \u201995 Radios\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"BnSVqxYSPPY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Open Mike Eagle - \u201c95 Radios\u201d (Official Music Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BnSVqxYSPPY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kodie Shane \u2013 \u2018Full Clip\u2019 (feat. Lil Wop)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"UVGIhNezCmc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kodie Shane &quot;Full Clip&quot; Feat. Lil Wop (WSHH Exclusive - Official Music Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UVGIhNezCmc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Few artists can boast a month as busy as Kodie Shane\u2019s August. The Atlanta native and first female member of Lil Yachty\u2019s Sailing Team, still just 18 years old, began the month with the late-night neon of \u2018Full Clip\u2019 featuring Lil Wop, following it up with a new video for last year\u2019s breakout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jI3LRFQ2EEo\">\u2018Drip On My Walk\u2019<\/a>, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0TZQ8tkeRMY\">\u2018Level Up\u2019<\/a> coincided with the release of her latest seven-song EP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/kodie-shane-back-from-the-future-ep-new-mixtape.117460.html\"><em>Back From The Future<\/em><\/a>. She is currently part of Lil Yachty\u2019s \u2018Teenage Tour\u2019 which runs until the end of September. And even after releasing <em>Back From The Future<\/em>, she still found time to round off August with the swarming, stretched-out dub-meets-club of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kodieshane\/start-a-riot-prod-by-greystonepark\">\u2018Start a Riot\u2019<\/a>. Her endlessly malleable voice within the same verse, phrase, or sentence can sound loose and drawling or taut and articulate, her songs \u2013 running the gamut from hip hop to dancehall to R&B \u2013 threateningly coy, blissfully summery, or seasonless and carefree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The-Dream \u2013 \u2018Summer Body\u2019 (feat. Fabolous)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"TyG9hvX_ETQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The-Dream - Summer Body ft. Fabolous\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TyG9hvX_ETQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith \u2013 \u2018To Follow and Lead\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - &quot;To Follow and Lead&quot; by Western Vinyl\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F338011628&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jorja Smith x Preditah \u2013 \u2018On My Mind\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PA5uuBCtZ5k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jorja Smith X Preditah - On My Mind\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PA5uuBCtZ5k?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bonnie Prince Billy with The Roots of Music \u2013 \u2018The Curse\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jVgAU5_cGVs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bonnie Prince Billy w\/ The Roots of Music &quot;The Curse&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jVgAU5_cGVs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2018The Curse\u2019 is the opening song from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertchristgau.com\/xg\/cdrev\/mekonscu-not.php\"><em>The Curse of The Mekons<\/em><\/a>, which back in 1991 proved the relatively sprawling and unheralded follow-up to <em>The Mekons Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/em>. Bonnie Prince Billy\u2019s version sees him capably and clamorously backed by <a href=\"http:\/\/therootsofmusic.org\/\">The Roots of Music<\/a>, the brass band of a non-profit educational organisation which serves kids aged between 9-14 from low-income households in New Orleans. In the process Bonnie Prince Billy and The Roots of Music turn a driving, rollicking statement of intent into something more whimsical, and more exuberant too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>William Patrick Corgan \u2013 \u2018Aeronaut\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7PdZXNET88A\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Corgan - Aeronaut\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7PdZXNET88A?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Blue Hawaii \u2013 \u2018No One Like You\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NXsUm0967vU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blue Hawaii - No One Like You (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NXsUm0967vU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelela \u2013 \u2018LMK\u2019 Kelela announced Take Me Apart last month, her upcoming album and a relaunch of sorts as her full-length debut, even though Cut 4 Me, her breakthrough mixtape, and the Hallucinogen EP already firmly established her reputation for cutting edge, sleek and sinewy, menacing through its emotional honesty, beat-driven, minimalist, alternative R&#038;B. 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