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Nice to see Ms. Badu collaborating quite a bit as of late
This time she's featured on Damon Albarn/Flea/Tony Allen's debut album as Rocket Juice and the Moon

Pitchfork has a stream up now

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Visions
Grimes (2012)

01. Infinite ♡ Without Fulfillment
02. Genesis
03. Oblivion
04. Eight
05. Circumambient
06. Vowels = Space and Time
07. Visiting Statue
08. Be A Body
09. Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus) [feat. Doldrums]
10. Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)
11. Nightmusic [feat. Majical Cloudz]
12. Skin
13. Know The Way (Outro)

Download it here

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Download a recording of Bjork's February 12 Biophilia concert at the New York Hall of Science for free over at NYC Taper

01 [intro]
02 Thunderbolt
03 Moon
04 Crystalline
05 Hollow
06 Dark Matter
07 Mouth’s Cradle
08 You’ve Been Flirting Again
09 Isobel
10 Virus
11 Generous Palmstroke
12 Sacrifice
13 Pagan Poetry
14 Mutual Core
15 Cosmogony
16 Solstice
17 [encore break]
18 Nattura
19 Declare Independence

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The always-fierce Erykah Badu played Letterman with Mark Ronson last night, check out their performance of “A La Modeliste" below

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Light Asylum have finally announced their debut LP, titled Light Asylum
I've been lucky enough to see the band perform a couple of times, and trust me, this is something you should be excited for

The first single from the album, "Shallow Tears," is streaming now, along with b-side "Genesis"
Check them out below, with the tracklist of the album

Light Asylum is out May 1

01 “Hour Fortress”
02 “Pope Will Roll”
03 “IPC”
04 “Heart of Dust”
05 “Sins of the Flesh”
06 “Angel Tongue”
07 “Shallow Tears”
08 “At Will”
09 “End of Days”
10 “A Certain Person”






If you haven't heard of the band, do check out their stupendous In Tension EP

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Friends,

I would like to say something about this release, in particular the Kindred EP (as Street Halo was released last year)

I went to listen- outside, smoking in complete darkness- and I started dancing, honestly moved beyond words
I'm really speechless about it, I don't know how to really phrase what I want to say about this record. I do hope any who read this enjoy it as much as I have (and will, from now on)

Kindred is among the most staggering pieces of music to have ever been made; I am so grateful to have been around on Earth at the time to witness this achievement of Burial's
I am proud to preserve it digitally here on the internet, for the rest of our computer age

"My tunes are a bit rubbish and messy but it's all I know."1

Burial's discography is still small, having only released two albums. His second, Untrue (the masterpiece to which this quote refers), arrived five years ago
He's been working for a while

"One day I want to make a tune people can have a dance to" 2

And here we are in 2012, listening to what came next. Here is the evolution of a hallowed and now-historic trademark sound, his first rebirth- and fuck, put simply, these "tunes" are fucking unreal. Unreal. There are infinite numbers of twists, shocks, moments of unparalleled beauty and awe. They very well may move you to tears. It's got the best dance beats ever produced, and a bass presence like nothing before it (not even Untrue!)

Burial is the most singular electronic artist of all time. I'm 20 years old and I've watched the world's first great producer-artist come into being, and on February 10, 2012, I got to listen to one of my favorite albums ever made for the first time

Really really happy about it
Michael



Street Halo EP / Kindred EP
Burial (2012)

Street Halo EP

1. Street Halo
2. NYC
3. Stolen Dog

Kindred EP

1. Kindred
2. Loner
3. Ashtray Wasp

Download it here (!!!!)

LISTEN PROPERLY, BASS-HEAVY SURROUND HEADPHONES, LOUD SPEAKERS ONLY, THIS IS BURIAL, DO NOT DISGRACE HIM WITH YOUR SHIT EARBUDS AND LAPTOP SPEAKERS
& if you download, you better fucking buy it when it's released in your country!



1, 2 Burial, speaking with Mark Fisher, published in 2007 by The Wire, which is a must read if you haven't already

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