They’ve also shared lead track ‘The Sound In My Mind’

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Kali Malone and Drew McDowall are releasing a collaborative album.

Titled Magnetism, it features five tracks, which the pair recorded together in just a matter of days. The collaboration was born from a decade-long friendship, during which both artists have witnessed first-hand each other’s artistic and personal evolution.

“We put trust in each other, in our own domains and our unique strengths,” they said in a joint statement about working on the record. They worked on the album spontaneously at McDowall’s Brooklyn studio. Taking the decision to impose certain limitations on how they worked, they programmed bespoke tunings on a monophonic modular synth patch and recorded performance takes without overdubs.

“Playing…

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“This track is going to be part of something bigger but I got impatient waiting for that to come together,” the producer said of the new cut

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Joy Orbison has released a standalone new single, ‘play it again’.

Taking inspiration from his love of 80s new wave and 90s electronica, the new cut is primed for both home and club listening. It’s become a fixture of the UK producer’s DJ sets over this past summer.

In a statement, Joy Orbison, real name Pete O’Grady, said: “‘play it again’ started in London, but it really began to take shape while I was out in San Francisco. That trip ended up being quite a memorable one. I got pulled in to Portola [festival] to fill…

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Wolf Alice also feature on the shortlist, making them the first act to be nominated for all of their first four albums

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The nominees for this year’s Mercury Prize have been revealed.

12 albums have been shortlisted for the award, which aims to celebrate the best British and Irish records of the past 12 months. Among them is Pulp, whose first album in 24 years, More, has been given the nod. The band were previous winners in 1996 for their fifth album, Different Class.

Also featured on the shortlist are FKA twigs’ EUSEXUA, Emma-Jean Thackray’s Weirdo, Pa Salieu’s Afrikan Alien and PinkPantheress’ Fancy That. Wolf Alice’s The Clearing is another of those nominated, making them the first act to be nominated for all…

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Ahead of an AV performance at Lunchmeat Festival this month, Prague’s Ursula Sereghy tells Daryl Worthington about how post-humanism rewired her brain, the themes of safety (and lack of it) explored on her new album Cordial, and why playful music can still be deadly serious

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Ursula Sereghy’s music is radiantly askew. ‘Fight Child’, the opening track on her latest album Cordial, has labyrinthine chimes ripple around liquid beats. Synthetic wind instruments sprout and spiral. Voice, sliced into snippets, alternates between acting as a drum and a pointillistic choir. It sets the tone for an album where foreground and background, centre and periphery settle in unusual configurations. The Prague-based artist’s work shares space with the gleeful, hyperactive experimentation found…

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My Disco and Eros bassist to release new record via Downwards – read an interview here

Liam Andrews is an artist we’ve followed on The Quietus for years via his work in Melbourne’s superb My Disco, and more recently as part of Eros with Karl O’Connor and Boris Wilsdorf. Andrews now has a solo release imminent on O’Connor’s Downwards label under the Aicher moniker, which comes, he tells tQ, from an old Irish poem and translates to “a sharp, bitter wind”. The original text reads “Is aicher in gaíth innocht fu fuasna fairggæ findḟolt ni ágor réimm mora minn dond láechraid lainn ua Lothlind”, which means “Bitter is the wind tonight, it tosses the ocean’s white hair. I fear not the coursing of…

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From the foundational inspiration of George Clinton to Bay Area hip hop, and the lifechanging experience of witnessing Prince’s last ever show, Clipping MC Daveed Diggs takes Stevie Chick through the soundtrack of his life

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Even within the realm of hip hop – a genre where beautiful music is so frequently made by slamming together jarringly estranged elements – Daveed Diggs’ CV doesn’t really make sense. He’s best known in the straight world for originating the twin roles of the Marquis De Lafayette and President Thomas Jefferson in cultural phenom Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-garlanded Broadway musical, which won Diggs a Tony (he’s also won awards and nominations for his performances in the TV adaptation of Hamilton and Snowpiercer). 

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Lucrecia Dalt

A Danger to Ourselves

Joined by David Sylvian and Juana Molina, Lucrecia Dalt finds wild abandon in minimalist electronics and eerie soundscapes, finds Lina Adams

A Danger to Ourselves by Lucrecia Dalt

On her latest endeavour, Lucrecia Dalt at once returns to her delightfully minimalist, ambient roots while building a cinematic world where power and fragility intertwine. David Sylvian, co-producer and Dalt’s partner, certainly makes his mark on the album, which plays like a window into their relationship. It feels almost too intimate for the world to hear.

The hauntingly cyclical ‘cosa rara’ opens the album, a piece that feels like it could easily slot into the Killing Eve soundtrack. Its title, translated from Spanish as ‘a strange thing’, doesn’t miss the mark….

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The 10-track record will be released in October

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Tortoise have a new album on the way.

Comprised of 10 tracks, Touch is the US band’s first studio effort since 2016, and encompasses elements of Krautrock, techno and jazz across its runtime, according to a press release. It was recorded between the three cities in which the group’s members now live: Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.

Touch will first get a digital download and physical release in late October, before being made available for streaming two weeks later. It includes the single ‘Oganesson’, which the band put out earlier this year.

To mark the announcement of the album, Tortoise have shared a video for new song ‘Layered Presence’, which you can watch…

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The Canadian artist made the track in collaboration with Pearson Sound

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Jessy Lanza has released a new single through Hyperdub, ‘Slapped By My Life’.

Out now, the track marks the first new music from the Canadian artist since the release of her 2023 album Love Hallucination. It’s described in a press release as “a bittersweet love letter to Jessy’s husband and frequent collaborator Winston H. Case”, and comes with co-production from Pearson Sound.

In a statement, Lanza said: “I wrote ‘Slapped By My Life’ while my husband Winston was going through chemotherapy. The treatment cycle was relentless and he spent most of the time bedridden, so while he slept I wrote this song for him. It’s been challenging to…

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Unreleased Works 94′ – 97 takes in eight unreleased cuts by the late Japanese artist

A new album of unreleased tracks by the late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota is set for release later this month.

Spanning eight tracks, Unreleased Works 94′ – 97 takes in ambient, techno and acid tracks that the artist worked on during the titular period. German label Transmigration is overseeing the release, having recovered the tracks from a collection of DAT tapes that Yokota’s Mantaray collaborator Ray Castle passed on. Every track featured has been restored and remastered.

Listen to lead track ‘Dust’ below.

Yokota released more than 30 albums across his career, mainly during the period of 1993 to 2012. He died aged 54 in 2015 following an illness.

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