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Barbara Morgenstern: ‘Brainfuck’

This drony and itchy-glitchy track from Berlin-based electronic music artist Barbara Morgenstern is everything my cold and grey November nights need.

Morgenstern’s latest album ‘Unschuld und Verwüstung’ is out now on Staatsakt.

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Amanda Palmer & Jasmine Power: ‘Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now’

Amanda Palmer just released the music video for her latest single, and it hits you like a stack of bricks to the face.

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Spiritualized: ‘And Nothing Hurt’

Friendly service announcement that Spiritualized’s first album in six years is absolutely goddamn spectacular.

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Uffie: ‘Sideways’

Ah, Uffie. Unsung pioneer of that often ripped-off Myspace-era sound (you know the one), and undisputed staple in my personal high school soundtrack — who, instead of blowing up into a bonafide pop phenomenon, just sort of disappeared for eight years.

2018 turned out to be the year of her surprise return. And August, 2018 turned out to be the month where she released this deliciously dark melodic pop fantasy, named ‘Sideways’.

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Femern Horizon. (at Scandlines Rødby-Puttgarden)

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“You can count your karma if Nirvana is your goal. You can shake and you can rattle. You can rock and roll. You can be a Clark Kent or a Lois, or an Alice down the hole. You can be a vampire on a mountain with a heart of stone black coal.

You can be a leather angel on a sleek, black Harley bike. Or a redhead screaming faggot or a dazzling dyke. You can lock yourself in a closet in a fine mink stole. But it doesn’t really matter if you ain’t got soul.”

— Marsha P. Johnson, c. 1985 🌈

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Woke up to heartbreaking news this morning. After disappearing earlier in the week, Scott Hutchison from the band Frightened Rabbit was found, apparently having taken his own life. Scott Hutchison was a beautiful musician and songwriter, who very openly dealt with severe depression and anxiety. His music has helped countless people (myself included) going through dark times in their lives. In the UK, 75% of all suicides are committed by men, and suicide is estimated to be the single biggest cause of death for males below the age of 45. These are devastating numbers, especially considering how much of a taboo mental health still is — especially when we live in a society that teaches such rigid notions of masculinity and manhood. Mental illness is never your own fault. Having a mental illness is just as valid as having any other kind of illness. Vulnerability does not equal weakness, and does not make you any less of a man. Looking forward, I sincerely hope that our views on gender will evolve to a place, where we teach our boys that it is okay to express themselves, to share their emotions, to show vulnerability. Hug your loved ones, don’t be afraid to reach out to people, and always be kind. ❤️

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Teacup nebula.

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Feveruary

Make Me Feel — Janelle Monáe

Hot Pink — Let’s Eat Grandma

Faceshopping — SOPHIE

Moon River — Frank Ocean

Me Voy (King Doudou Remix) — Ibeyi feat. Mala Rodríguez

Soul Syncable — Sevdaliza

If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead — James Blake

Bird of Prey — Dita von Teese & Sébastien Tellier

The Barely Blur (Ó & Bellows Cover) — WHY? feat. Ó & Bellows

I’d Rather Be With Them — Marika Hackman

Picturesong — Girlpool

Turn Around — Dungen & Woods

Next of Kin — Lucy Dacus

Marble Skies — Django Django

Nameless, Faceless — Courtney Barnett

Pointlessness — The Voidz

An Acre of Land — PJ Harvey & Harry Escott

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August Chills

Desire — Everything Everything

Is This Ready? — Sleep Thieves

Runnerup — Doldrums

Deflect the Light — Vessels (feat. the Flaming Lips)

Burn It Down — Daughter

Fake It — Drinker

That’s Not Us — Beatrice Eli

Grounds for Resentment — Kele Okereke (feat. Olly Alexander)

Carin at the Liquor Store — The National

Welcome Oxygen (Day Five) — Will Samson

Here — Noga Erez

Let Me Go — Philip Selway

Quarrel (Edit) — Moses Sumney

Treetops — Cloud Control

Nowhere to Run / Bandits — UNKLE

Songthing to Remember Me By — The Horrors

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Lost in July

Go to Hell — Empress Of

Don’t Delete the Kisses — Wolf Alice

Blood Orange — Low Chimes

Harbour — SOHN

Asido — Purity Ring

Baba — Bilderbuch

Get Up — The Blow

See You Again — Tyler, the Creator (feat. Kali Uchis)

New York — St. Vincent

Offering — Cults

A Fever Dream — Everything Everything

The Pure and the Damned — Oneohtrix Point Never (feat. Iggy Pop)

Road Head — Japanese Breakfast

Livets Kollision — Franske Piger

Turn It Off (Unplugged) — Deap Vally

Streets Been Talkin' — Kele Okereke

Strangest Thing — The War on Drugs

Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse — Broken Social Scene

Neighbors — Grizzly Bear

Valley Boy — Wolf Parade

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Lissie: ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ (Kid Cudi cover)

There are days where you just really need to join tipsy Lissie’s pursuit of happiness, and today is most definitely one of them.

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Mayflowers

Morning Yawn — Febueder

Rainbow City — Cloud Control

Trouble Adjusting — Miya Folick

Slomo — Slowdive

Immigrant Boogie — Ghostpoet

Stolen — Son Lux

Die 4 You — Perfume Genius

American Dream — LCD Soundsystem

Radio — Sylvan Esso

Zakochany Czlowiek — Better Person

Susan — Jack Ladder

Broken Record — Alex Ebert

Coolverine — Mogwai

Hug of Thunder — Broken Social Scene

Moonlight on the River — Mac Demarco

Thinking of a Place — The War on Drugs

Chariot — Beach House

Edge of the World, Pt. 2 — Pond

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Miya Folick: ‘Trouble Adjusting’

Lately, I’ve been low-key geeking out to the tunes of Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Miya Folick.

Folick’s latest single ‘Trouble Adjusting’ is wonderfully chaotic, crunchy — and has an irrisistable 90s alt-vibe going on, that makes you want to drop everything and ugly-dance like no one’s watching.

Folick’s new EP, named ‘Give it to Me’, will be out this summer.

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Slowdive: ‘Slowdive’

Shoegaze heavyweights Slowdive just released their first album in two decades, and it’s absolutely glorious!

Friday night soundtrack, sorted.

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Insensible April

Oh Oh — Shout Out Louds

It Gets More Blue — Girlpool

In Cold Blood — Alt-J

Mirage — Alexandra Savior

Money — Pr0files

Freak Like Me —NoMBe

Chanel — Frank Ocean

Ocean — Goldfrapp

Twist Quest — Mew

Century — Feist (feat. Jarvis Cocker)

Night Skiing — L.A. Takedown

Tired as Fuck — The Staves

Birdie — Father John Misty

Sewer Blues — Timber Timbre

As the World Caves In — Matt Maltese

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Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam: ‘A 1000 Times’

So, I’m way outside the target group for Netflix’s latest teen drama ‘13 Reasons Why’ — but I’ll be darned if they haven’t been completely smashing it with the soundtrack, which features a variety of brilliant more or less well-known tracks from the past several decades.

An absolute standout is 2016’s ‘A 1000 Times’ by power duo Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam of the Walkmen and Vampire Weekend fame, respectively. The entire thing is impeccably produced, so ridiculously catchy that part of my brain is still convinced that it’s got to be a cover of something else, and Leithauser’s vocals have never sounded better.

Here’s to one more year of ‘A 1000 Times’ on repeat.