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HEALTH issues :: “ANTI-LIFE” + “ISN’T EVERYONE” + a flashback performance at Cloak & Dagger 2017
I thought of breaking this into individual posts. But it's just easier to lump them all together. So let's get started ...L.A.'s own industrious noise rockers HEALTH have a crunchy new single titled "ANTI-LIFE," featuring Deftone's frontman Chino Moreno. It's got crazy percussive drum-patterns, raucous guitar licks, and an audio attitude meshed between aggro grind …

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Atlas Sound’s “Quick Canal,” featuring Lætitia Sadier

Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox. Photo sourced from artist's Facebook.
I was poking around earlier today, and stumbled upon a bootleg live recording of Atlas Sound's beautifully etheric "Quick Canal," taken from their performance at Desert Daze last fall. Because the influential avant-pop pioneers Stereolab were also performing the same day, frontwoman Lætitia Sadier was on hand to lend vocals to their live rendition, just …

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Four Tet’s “Planet”

Four Tet's 2017 album "New Energy," featuring the singles "Planet" and "Two Thousand and Seventeen."
Okay, I'm going to kick out another one for the evening. This one's titled "Planet," from Brit-based Kieran Hebden's electronic nom de plume Four Tet. Honestly, I've been meaning to post all kinds of Four Tet. For example, I've had "Two Thousand & Seventeen" sitting in the queue for months. But for one reason or …

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“Goodbye” from Goat

Goat. Photo credit: Andreas Johansson; sourced from artist's Facebook.
Here's a weird and wonderful one. It's called "Goodbye" and it's a psychedelic folk instrumental from Swedish art-rock and fusion experimentalists Goat. I actually was introduced to this band a few years back with one of their eclectic live albums. Never heard of them before. But the person who opened the door absolutely loved them. …

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