A new exhibition of the Sonic Youth co-founder’s visual art reveals a new hunger for connection – even as the work is marked by a wariness towards the aftereffects of desire

Kim Gordon, Jeanetta and Alex, 2026. Single-channel video, 09:12min. Courtesy the artist and Amant, Brooklyn, NY.

Kim Gordon is a famously guarded performer. Yet Jeanetta and Alex (2026), the short film that anchors her exhibition Count Your Chickens, currently on view at Amant in Brooklyn, New York, begins with a confession. Breaking the fourth wall, a woman named Jeanetta looks directly into the camera and addresses a man, Alex, off-screen: “I was stirred by your text. I didn’t expect to be turned on.” Both of them are musicians. She quickly brushes…

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Listen to ’30 Degrees’ here

The Fall at the Cambridge Junction, November 2011 by Valerio Berdini

A new song by The Fall group has appeared online today, part of a planned album of previously unreleased material under the name Post Script. Former Fall manager / accomplice Ed Blaney announced the news via Facebook last week, saying “Have spent most the afternoon today listening to the final mixes of the official final studio album by The Fall, without any doubt I can say it’s an absolute brilliant album. A Fall fans dream and some … and for all the eager Fall fans awaiting the news, its release date and order details are imminent. The album is called Post Script. with nine absolute bangers.”…

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YHWH Nailgun

Magazine

Angry upstart Philadelphians prove brevity to be the soul of… well, something

In his 1886 work Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche questioned whether or not life is “a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves”. Well, Zack Borzone, Sam Pickard, Saguiv Rosenstock and Jack Tobias of YHWH Nailgun answer Nietzsche’s comparatively long-winded question with a comically brief album. Magazine comes in at a mere 11 minutes long. It’s over almost as soon as it’s begun. But for that, it’s certainly impossible to get bored.

Fans of the New York band know the deliberate brevity of their tracks is nothing new. Only one of their original songs has ever crossed the three-minute mark (‘Tear Pusher’ off their critically acclaimed…

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It features vocals from UK MC CASISDEAD

Photo by Anna van der Velde

Actress has shared a new song, ‘Live By You’.

A collaboration with UK grime MC CASISDEAD, the brief new cut marks Actress’ first release with Ninja Tune for three years. Listen to the song below.

‘Live By You’ arrives off the back of Concrète Waves, Actress’ collaborative album with Suzanne Ciani that came out in March.

‘Live By You’ is out now on Ninja Tune.

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It’s the second preview to new album Pure Devotion

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Overmono have shared a new track, called ‘Even Angels Ghost’.

Featuring vocals from Tennessee-based singer Kindora, the song arrives as the second preview to forthcoming album Pure Devotion. The duo first announced the LP last month with lead track ‘Lockup’.

The connection to Kindora came about after the duo discovered her music while digging on Bandcamp. They later sampled her vocals on the tracks ‘Gunk’ and ‘Cold Blooded’ and struck up a friendship with the US singer, which led to her recording original vocals for ‘Even Angels Ghost’. “We’re always drawn towards a particular tone in vocals, and hers is pretty much like the pinnacle,” said Overmono’s Tom Russell in a…

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The album has been remastered 26 years on from its original release

Mclusky’s debut album My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours is to be reissued by Beggars Banquet.

Arriving 26 years on from its original 2000 release by the Fuzzbox label, and after a 2003 reissue via Beggars imprint too pure, the album has been newly remastered especially for its updated release. The reissue will get a digital release, as well as a vinyl pressing that retains the original artwork.

My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad And Painful Than Yours was Mclusky’s introduction to the world, and arrived before the acclaim that met later albums Mclusky Do Dallas and The Difference Between Me And You Is That I’m Not…

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Baltimore avant-rock group propose a revolution in everyday life, reconstructing American vernacular traditions from the ground up

Credit: Kasia Zacharko

Often, a single sentence can say more than a manifesto spanning several pages. Especially when it is repeated, rewritten, and allowed to take on a life of its own. A phrase written two centuries ago can suddenly sound like a commentary on the present. A handful of words can become a refrain, an axis around which entirely new meanings begin to accumulate.

Horse Lords’ new album begins with such a phrase. Drawn from the nineteenth-century hymn, published in The Sacred Harp – one of the most enduring traditions of American sacred music – the line “We seek a city yet to come” becomes…

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In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Auden Alsop praises the rappers and producers drilling into the essence of contemporary New York

MIKE and Wiki by Ryosuke Tanzawa

In Jem Cohen’s 1996 film Lost Book Found the narrator, a pushcart vendor in New York City, meets a man who survives by fishing treasure from the rivers that run beneath the sidewalk grates. The man loans him a book containing cryptic lists of events, addresses, and prices. This haunts him, causing him to question whether there “really [are] any laws and systems, scales, balances? What is the city made of? …the rubble of stories and memories, layers and layers…” Thirty years later, a loose group of musicians are asking the same questions and crafting near-answers out…

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Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti

Almost Waking

A brilliant collaboration between the American guitarist and Guatemalan cellist

Almost Waking by Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti

Let it never be said that brevity and depth are antithetical to one another. Thirty minutes is all Orcutt and Fratti need to weave together an intricate, resplendent body of work. From start to finish Almost Waking utilises essentially only three elements, yet renders each of them enormous: Orcutt’s precise guitar work, Fratti’s airy, wisp-like vocals and her ethereal cello playing. Fratti’s voice is only present on a select few tracks, giving its appearances all the more impact, between what can be some incredibly heavy guitar playing from Orcutt. The stark contrasts between tracks like ‘El inicio es…’ and…

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Music Sets You Free: A Memoir will collect the late musician’s two autobiographies, which had previously been published in Japanese only

An autobiography by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto is to be published this September.

Music Sets You Free: A Memoir collects the English translations of the late musician’s two previously published Japanese language memoirs Music Makes You Free and How Many More Times Will I Watch The Full Moon Rise? The book is described as “an intimate, contemplative account of his life, from his first encounter with a piano, to his rise as a global pop star, and his later reflections on mortality and music in the wake of multiple cancer treatments and surgeries”.

Music Sets You Free: A Memoir will be available to pre-order…

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