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It's been four years since Cherry Glazerr released their resplendent third album Stuffed and Ready, but Clementine Creevy has been in no rush. "I've spent these years taking a hard look at myself, at my relationships, and writing about it," she says. "I guess I'm coming to terms with a lot of my bullshit." Cherry Glazerr has been on the road more often than not since Creevy was still in high school, and when the pandemic hit, she immersed herself in a static existence she’d been deprived of.   Creevy describes Cherry Glazerr's ambitious new album, I Don't Want You Anymore, as some of her most personal, raw music to date, a collection of songs that elaborate on this period of self-reckoning. It's the first she's produced since Cherry Glazerr's garage rock debut, Haxel Princess, released nearly a decade ago when Creevy was a teenager.   Creevy describes I Don't Want You Anymore as a "mature" album, moreso in reference to her personal growth than a reflection of the record, which in true Cherry Glazerr fashion is best described as Extremely Fun. To make it, Creevy linked up with producer Yves Rothman, who's best known for his work with Yves Tumor.   Lead single "Soft Like a Flower" exemplifies that growth. A murky guitar riff inaugurates the track, before Creevy's unguarded vocals enter the mix. She sings of a consuming obsession and is joined on the chorus by longtime bandmate Sami Perez. It's proudly emotive, what Creevy calls an "Evanescence moment." "It's a real 'losing your fucking shit' kind've vibe," she says. "I wanted this album to be just heart and soul. Completely exposed."  I Don't Want You Anymore uses the element of surprise to its advantage; each track is a radical reimagination of what Cherry Glazerr is and can be. "Bad Habit" opens with a spiraling vocal loop that Creevy began recording at home and it expands into a delirious downtempo dance track without ever invoking a guitar. The subsequent track, "Ready for You" is sung in funky staccato and the initially spare bassline on the opening verse is eventually overtaken by a massive, staticky guitar riff that reminds you this is, at its heart, a rock album. These are songs to soundtrack the listener's life, a score to suit any occasion. The titular track makes a promise to an unnamed other, but the repeating lyrics on the bridge could just as easily serve as a love letter to listeners: "In the end, you're always holding me."

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The female-led discodelic soul band Say She She, named as a silent nod to Nile Rodgers (C'est chi-chi!: It's Chic!), release their sophomore album 'Silver' on the heels of an epic break-out year that grows brighter by the day.   The three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown front the band. This harmonizing trio was formed in a classic New York tale of friends that met by following the music: the downtown dancefloors, through the Lower East Side floorboards and up to the rooftops of Harlem.   'Silver' was entirely written and recorded live to tape at Killion Sound studio in North Hollywood earlier this year and produced by Sergio Rios (of Orgone). While these analog recording techniques help root Say She She’s sound in a bedrock of tonal warmth that only tape can achieve, it is also their process of cutting the track in the moment and capturing the magic of communal creativity that has seen their sound described as "a glorious overload of joyful elation and spiritual elevation" (MOJO) and "infused with the wonky post-disco spirit of early '80s NYC" (The Guardian).   Silver, the element, is known as the metal of self-confidence and the mirror of the soul. With that, the 16-song double-LP projects not only their growth in writing with confidence, but also reflects a deeper exploration into their punk-chic, femme-forward sensibility.  Ultimately, 'Silver' oozes with quirk and adventure and embraces the multifaceted nature of what it means to be a modern femme. The She She's fully embrace their role as beauticians, actively reminding people of the inherent beauty in the world. They skillfully employ double entendres and humor to encourage open dialogue and fearlessly address important matters that demand attention.

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Despite its title, JOBS - Soft Sounds is a full-spectrum sonic experience best played loud, one that crackles with clarity and urgency. The album represents a creative leap forward for the quartet, one that finds them fusing uniquely human gestures with precise repetition, creating an overall sound with distant echoes of folk songs, IDM, and 1970s jazz fusion.

Recorded during drummer Max Jaffe’s recording residency at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, the sessions coincided with significant life changes for each member of JOBS. Some moved across the US. Family formations grew, shrank, and shifted. All four members made moves in their own careers, musically and beyond. For bassist Ro Lundberg, this music also developed alongside an expanding view of their own gender, informing their contributions. Though the band arrived at these sessions with only a couple of guitarist Dave Scanlon’s melodies, Lundberg’s harmonic structures, and violist Jessica Pavone’s lines of lyrics, the sense of autonomy afforded by the residency allowed them to write, record, edit, and mix in a semi-concurrent flow state.

The idea of description creates a throughline across Soft Sounds. Lyrically, description and data dominate songs like parts 1 and 2 of “List The Creator Twice,” which meditate on the voyeuristic nature of description. “There is Differing” plays with and pushes English’s sometimes rigid language binary: around gender as well as the divide between the self and others.

Throughout Soft Sounds, the sonic palette expands and contracts as each song sees fit. In JOBS’ music, Mark Hollis-type abstraction sits comfortably alongside grooves inspired by Jaffe’s time in Malawi. Their immersive sonic spaces suggest the speaker-test work of Ryoji Ikeda offset by soft-synth wobbles that recall an asexual reimagining of “brostep.” It’s in this reordering of the familiar and foreign that JOBS’ fluid approach reveals a sense of playful wonder and depth. 

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On Stonewasher, Maxwell Allison achieves what he considers a level-up for the Mukqs project. While he approaches each Mukqs release with a specific genre and set of themes in mind, making albums that could be filed under harsh noise, video game music, aquatic electro / techno, intricate IDM programming, and hip-hop (in his duo producing for Linz rapper Sharkula), Stonewasher turns the dial resolutely towards the realms of all-consuming glitch collage. The album’s improvised performance recorded live with no overdubs infuses the chaotic energy of a noise set into the dynamic narrative flow and tonal diversity of progressive electronic music. Mukqs never gives his spread of sounds a chance to settle, as sentimental melodies get swallowed by blasts of noise and shards of vocals cut into arrhythmic drum patterns. Allison performed the album live on a standalone sampler into which he recorded a library of original patterns from his arsenal of hardware synths and drum machines. Inspired by the vocal sample deconstruction of artists from Carl Stone to Burial, Allison sought to inject a grounding element into Stonewasher by fusing the dizzying palette of electronics with chopped samples of human voices culled from royalty-free a cappella videos on Youtube. If its final incarnation sounds overwhelming in its layered volleys of texture and rhythm, every sound that listeners hear resulted from the press of a button on Allison’s hardware sampler during a single live performance. This stubborn adherence to spontaneous creation using a limited palette of equipment has defined the Mukqs project from its inception, in all of its improvised mess and its moments of half-accidental complexity. If music is the opposite of seamless — all seams — then it begins to approach its own 

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SOS Forks AI REM II bears the fruit of Doug Kaplan’s longstanding quest to push his MrDougDoug project to a level of bewildering “all-over-the-place-core” MIDI programming and plunderphonic trickery. He stands at the gate in a top hat and tie-dye tails inviting us into a rare zone where vocaloid Animal Crossing sludge metal and minimalism like Philip Glass sit side by side with synthetic air horns and simulated burps. Kaplan builds his tracks on the frameworks of MIDI files salvaged from the Internet Archive’s Geocities MIDI Collection, weaving together structures from the unearthed scraps of all manner of songs from the traditions of rock, jazz, nü metal, country, and more. Kaplan harnesses soundfonts from video games released on Super Nintendo and N64, disfiguring the familiar tones and sound effects of those consoles through pitch-shifting and effect manipulation into carnivalesque curlicues or passages of majestic consonance. Kaplan’s meticulous process of recombining MIDI files and programming voices works in consort with his Merry Prankster nature to produce music that is at once baroque and, as he himself would tell you, often utterly annoying in its delivery – a maniacal orchestra offering up moment after moment of “???” and “lol wtf”. Despite the in-the-box software-based nature of his album’s creation, he pursued processes that would inject pure chance and unpredictable deviations into what could have manifested as antiseptic digital music. MrDougDoug’s vision of the present-as-future leads us away from the iridescent towers looming over the would-be utopian landscape and squirrels us down the tunnel to his deranged clown dimension. The wonders he presents to us down there can’t help but bear the humor and irreverence that he brings to his art practice – a mindset, coupled with that of Mukqs, that has come to define the output of Hausu Mountain as a whole. 

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Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We

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