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Upper Wilds — Guitar Module 2017 (Thrill Jockey)

Guitar Module 2017 by Upper Wilds

Photo by Standard Joy Productions

For the last half decade, Dan Friel has been making a buzzy, fizzy, racket, the most joyful sort of solo electronic noise. In 2015, I wrote that Life, “takes that bouncy castle exuberance to even greater lengths, channeling the euphoria of sleep-short early parenthood into woozy, optimistic grooves.” But what was missing, if you were a fan of Parts & Labor, was the gleeful skree of distorted guitar and the joltingly tuneful vocals jetting out from the roar. With Upper Wilds, Friel’s first guitar band since Parts & Labor folded in 2011, it’s all back with a vengeance.

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Golden Retriever — Rotations (Thrill Jockey)

Rotations by Golden Retriever

Rotations is the first Golden Retriever album to split configuration from methodology. Until now the duo’s music has been all about what Matt Carlson (synthesizer, piano) and Jonathan Sielaff (bass clarinet, effects) could do together, first by improvising in real time and more recently in the recording studio. But the genesis of this project lies in a grant provided by Portland, Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council, which gave them the resources to stage some concerts in the fall of 2015 of new music that added pipe organ, woodwinds, brass, percussion and the Mousai Remix String Quartet to their core instrumentation.  

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Man Forever - Debt and Greed (Official Music Video)

"Debt and Greed" is from the album Play What They Want by Man Forever, available on Thrill Jockey. CD/LP: http://thrilljockey.com/products/play-what-they-wan...

Man Forever - Debt and Greed

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Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa — Are Euphoria (Thrill Jockey)

Photo by Hiromi Shinada

Are Euphoria by Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa

Dustin Wong, the guitarist from Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine, has now made three albums with Japanese pop musician Takako Minekawa, using guitar loops and keyboard riffs to construct intricate, high spirited compositions. Here in tracks that combine puzzle-box complexity with wordless euphoria, Minekawa takes a more prominent role than in 2014s, her vocals layered and counterpointed and foregrounded in a way that suggests 1960s French pop and its spiritual heirs (ahem Stereolab). These cuts build on foundations of rattle-trap precision. Beats comprised of tonal blurts and buzzes and plunks carve out bright, trance-y artificial spaces. Lush flourishes of synthesizer, guitar and, especially, singing, fill in those spaces with ultra clean, abstracted tunefulness. You can’t help but feel that you are listening to the idea of pop rather than the thing itself.

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House and Land — House and Land (Thrill Jockey)

House and Land by House and Land

Photo by Judy Henson

(Ed note: Check out Sally Anne Morgan’s Listed, too.)

House and Land may have too many entry points for talking about their music. On their self-titled debut, the duo of Sally Anne Morgan (we’ll call her a fiddler for now) and Sarah Louise Henson (let’s go with guitarist) have this mutual ability to take traditional Appalachian folk music, run it through their own minimalist sensibilities and turn it into something both forward-looking and historically grounded.  

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Thanks #hanabi @bronsonproduzioni and all the people who came out…it made for an amazing night! Off to Parma now to play at Art Lab tonight. 📸 by @chiaraviolenta #whitehillsmusic #whitehillsband #whitehills #goodtimes #italy #goth #gothic #gothsbytheseaside #fuzz #noise #psych #stopmutedefeat #ontour

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Listed: Sally Anne Morgan (of House and Land)

Photo by Judy Henson

No one does just one thing nowadays, and neither does Sally Anne Morgan. The Asheville NC resident is both a musician and a graphic artist. She sings and plays fiddle, banjo, and guitar in a myriad of settings. On her own, she calls square dances. Her duos Sally & Scott (with fiddler Scott Prouty) and House and Land (with singer/guitarist Sarah Louise dig deep into the roots of old time music. For the last five years she has been a member of the loose confederation known as the Black Twig Pickers, which also includes Isak Howell, Mike Gangloff  and Nathan Bowles. Thrill Jockey Records has just released House And Land’s debut LP on Thrill Jockey.

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Found in the archives…Polish cassette versions of Thrill Jockey classics! 

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Man Forever featuring Laurie Anderson - Twin Torches

Short film by Joshua Ford

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25 years of Thrills!!

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Berlin we are here with @follakzoid & @10000russos at Lido! The evening kicks off at 8pm! Can’t remember who took the 📸. If it was you let us know. #whitehills #whitehillsband #whitehillsmusic #berlin #lido #inconcert #concerting #goth #gothic

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Arbouretum - Fall From An Eyrie (Official Music Video)

"Fall From An Eyrie" is from the album Song Of The Rose by Arbouretum, available on Thrill Jockey. Directed by Gabriel DeLoach LP/CD: http://thrilljockey.com...

Arbouretum - Fall From Am Eyrie

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THE BODY photo by Adam DeGross

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Pontiak - Ignorance Makes Me High

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ENTRANCE - Always The Right Time (Official Music Video)

"Always The Right Time" is from ENTRANCE's new album, Book Of Changes, out on Thrill Jockey. Directed by Jay Buim CD/LP: http://thrilljockey.com/products/boo...