King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have announced that their latest album, The Silver Cord, will be released on October 27. The album’s opening suite – ‘Theia’, ‘The Silver Cord’, and ‘Set’ – is out today alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below.
The new LP, which follows June’s PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation, will be available in two versions. “The first version’s really condensed, trimming all the fat,” Stu Mackenzie explained in a press release. “And on the second version, that first song, ‘Theia,’ is 20 minutes long. It’s the ‘everything’ version – those seven songs you’ve already heard on the first version, but with a whole lot of other shit we record while making it. It’s for the Gizz-heads.”
“I love Donna Summer’s records with Giorgio Moroder, and I’d never listen to the short versions now – I’m one of those people who wants to hear the whole thing,” Mackenzie continued. “We’re testing the boundaries of people’s attention spans when it comes to listening to music, perhaps – but I’m heavily interested in destroying such concepts.”
The Silver Cord Cover Artwork:
The Silver Cord Tracklist:
1. Theia
2. The Silver Cord
3. Set
4. Chang’e
5. Gilgamesh
6. Swan Song
7. Extinction
Ahead of the release of his new album Javelin this Friday, Sufjan Stevens has shared one more single from it, ‘A Running Start’. Featuring additional vocals from Hannah Cohen, Megan Lui and Nedelle Torrisi, the track follows previous entries ‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me?’ and ‘So You Are Tired’. Listen to it below.
Last month, Stevens revealed he had been hospitalized h due to complications from Guillain-Barré Syndrome, and is currently undergoing intensive physical therapy to relearn how to walk.
Even when it expands into something grandiose, Oneohtrix Point Never’s music can feel endlessly interior. It’s also part of what Daniel Lopatin, in a recent interview, called “a world of inter-referentiality.” His work can be sonically challenging in a vacuum, but it can also feel alienating as a continuously evolving interrogation of the history of the project itself. His new album, Again, is billed as a “speculative autobiography,” the final installment in a trilogy of albums that includes 2015’s Garden of Delete and 2020’s Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. One of the most salient references on the album is the organ arpeggios on closer ‘A Barely Lit Path’, which are lifted from R Plus Seven’s ‘Boring Angel’. But when it comes to drawing from the music of his past, Again goes a little farther than those records by leaning into a kind of youthful naivety. “I was really open, a sponge, delighted by possibility – and I had no idea what I was doing,” he has said of his younger self, and the LP serves less as an outline of the possibilities that lay ahead than the magical playground where cluelessness and optimism meet. The results are less conceptually grounded and more meandering, but still hypnotically replete with elements of beauty and surprise.
Whether or not it instantly clicks, it’s refreshing to hear the experimental musician – who has worked on two film scores and recently produced records for everyone from Soccer Mommy to the Weeknd – tread back into the recesses of his own mind in a way that can feel disconnected even from his previous OPN albums. The illogical and fragmented structure of Again mirrors the nature of memory as it likely appeared to him as he finished the album in Accord, New York, surrounded by the New England landscape where he grew up, but it is also animated by the excitement of starting a new life – looking back and forward at the same time. His use of AI tools like OpenAI’s Jukebox, Adobe Enhanced Speech, and Riffusion, which are all credited here, might be a way of winking at the future of AI’s capabilities, but even then, Lopatin is more fascinated by how its failures now can produce sounds that are musically unique and strangely familiar in affect – familiar enough to relate it to his own process. “I’d say, ‘I want you to make a Smashing Pumpkins song.’ It tries, and it can’t,” he explained. “That’s a lot like me.”
Lopatin employs the technology in a casually exploratory way on tracks like ‘The Body Trail’, but lands on something more transcendent on ‘On an Axis’, where an AI-generated loop allows him to dive into shoegaze in thrilling fashion. It’s just one of many unpredictable moments on the album, which begins with the string-led cacophony of ‘Elsewhere’ and hits another peak with ‘Krumville’, a hauntingly pensive, Xiu Xiu-assisted track that descends into something resembling Midwestern emo. But the genre descriptor that looms over much of Again is post-rock, which Lopatin often refracts to eerie, poignant effect. But his excursions, interesting as they may be in the moment, are more so when you take a step back, as memorable and impactful as a dream you can only half-remember. Songs like ‘World Outside’ have both an ambling and disorienting quality to them, evoking the wonder that formlessly lingers through and out of adolescence as he sings, “Isn’t the view so amazing?”
Whatever feeling Lopatin is after on Again, however tied to the past or the future it may be, it seems to accumulate towards the end. Rather than subverting expectations, he mostly succeeds at retaining our attention with playful detours that are grounded in sincerity, but the record’s hopeful, dramatic final stretch elevates the experience. ‘Memories of Music’ strips the confusion off the sentimentality that’s hinted at throughout and that Lopatin came close to embracing on Magic, using his technical mastery to fuse everything that came before it. But it’s ‘A Barely Lit Path’ that best encapsulates Again‘s ethos. The emotion is sweeping, unrestrained, and perfectly set up, approaching catharsis and even a sense of closure. “If I empty my mind/ Do I scoop out my skull/ What gifts would I find/ Nothing’s inside,” he sings, voice swaddled in effects. “Just a slug that provides/ A barely lit path/ From your house to mine.” It’s a simple offer, but Lopatin makes it so that nothing could be more striking than that moment – even the mere possibility – of true connection. That’s a world worth striving toward.
In the Life of Forms exhibition, the Hayward Gallery will showcase how artists have drawn inspiration from movement, flux, and organic growth, from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave or from molten metal flowing to a spider’s web tangled.
Over 50 years of contemporary art will be showcased in this unique exhibition, including a range of energetic sculptural forms that seem to exude, undulate, blossom, erupt and sprawl in the gallery space, inspiring fluid and transforming experiences. The Life of Forms will bring together works that tackle physical experience in a world where everyday encounters are increasingly digitized in a dynamic and urgent way.
The exhibition will feature the works of 19 international artists, namely Ruth Asawa, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Michel Blazy, Paloma Bosquê, Olaf Brzeski, Choi Jeong Hwa, Tara Donovan, DRIFT, Holly Hendry, EJ Hill, Marguerite Humeau, Jean-Luc Moulène, Senga Nengudi, Martin Puryear, Matthew Ronay, Teresa Solar Abboud and Franz West.
Talking about the exhibition, Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, said: “Intricate, exuberant and playful, the works in this show will take visitors on an adventure into a world of fascinating forms. Whilst they avoid directly representing the human body, most of these artworks evince a compelling corporeality – they remind us that there is a comedy, as well as a politics, of form.”
The exhibition will run from the 5th of February, 2024, until the 6th of May, 2024.
Truth Club have shared a new single, ‘Siphon’, lifted from their upcoming album Running From the Chase – out this Frday, October 6 via Double Double Whammy. It follows previous cuts ‘Blue Eternal’, ‘Exit Cycle’, and ‘Uh Oh’. Check it out below.
“The process of bringing ‘Siphon’ to life was an exciting one,” drummer Elise Jaffe explained in a statement. “While Travis, Yvonne, and I put together the core structure of the song, Kam was coming back to us with new and crazy guitar lines at every practice that drastically changed the whole feel of the song. The collaborative nature of writing ‘Siphon’ made it feel so fresh for all of us, and reinforced the rewarding nature of making music together as a band.”
The father-daughter duo of Ethan and Maya Hawke have shared a cover of Willie Nelson’s ‘We Don’t Run’. It will appear on a new compilation celebrating the archival label Light in the Attic, Light in the Attic & Friends, to be released exclusively for Record Store Day’s Black Friday event on November 24. The track features Christian Lee Hutson on a number of instruments, including electric guitar and Wurlitzer. Listen to it and find the full tracklist below.
“This song is off Willie’s brilliant album Spirit, which has been a mainstay in our home since it was released in 1996,” Ethan Hawke said in a statement. “Everybody needs a good anthem song. This is one of the best.”
“We believe that an essential component of archival work, aside from simply honoring the music, is to seek ways in which to bring fresh perspectives, context, and reverence to the original artists and their work,” Light in the Attic founder Matt Sullivan commented.
Light in the Attic & Friends Cover Artwork:
Light in the Attic & Friends Tracklist:
1. Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band – Slip Away (Rodriguez)
2. Sweet Tea – After Laughter (Comes Tears) (Wendy Rene)
3. Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart – How Could You Let Me Go (Madelynn Von Ritz aka Lynn Castle)
4. Barbara Lynn – We’ll Understand (The Supreme Jubilees)
5. BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Jonah Yano – Key To Love Is Understanding (Majestics)
6. Iggy Pop & Zig Zags – If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up (Betty Davis)
7. Mozart Estate – Low Life (Public Image Limited)
8. Leslie Winer & Maxwell Sterling – Once I Was (Tim Buckley)
9. Ethan & Maya Hawke – We Don’t Run (Willie Nelson)
10. Gold Leaves – Won’t You Tell Your Dreams (Lee Hazlewood)
11. Swamp Dogg, John C. Reilly, Jenny Lewis & Tim Heidecker – The Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea (The Louvin Brothers)
12. Silas Short – You’ve Become A Habit (Leo Nocentelli)
13. Mac DeMarco – Honey Moon (Haruomi Hosono)
14. Cameron Bethany – Send It On (D’Angelo)
15. Roedelius – Le Chant des Fauves (Tinariwen)
16. Mark Lanegan – Same Old Man (Karen Dalton)
17. Angel Olsen – Something On Your Mind (Karen Dalton)
18. Mary Lattimore – Blink (Hiroshi Yoshimura)
19. Acetone – Plain As Your Eyes Can See (Jim Sullivan)
20. Steve Gunn & Bridget St. John – Rabbit Hills (Michael Chapman)
Ah, luxury. The word itself conjures images of opulent chandeliers, gold-plated everything, and perhaps an actual butler. But let’s face it, not all of us are living the Gilded Age dream. Luckily, there’s an alternative that’s rather more accessible to the likes of you and me. Enter “quiet luxury”, the understated cousin of traditional luxury. It’s all about comfort, quality, and—the key element—personalization. Let’s dive deeper into this fascinating world where less is more, and your unique personality is the star of the show.
The Changing Landscape of Luxury in Home Decor
Remember the days when luxury living conjured up a house that looked like a Versace fever dream? Those days are long gone. Today, it’s all about minimalism, subtlety, and pieces that exude quality without the need to swagger. Think of it as the difference between wearing a beautiful watch and carrying a neon sign that says “High net worth individual”. But where did this trend come from? Well, it’s a combination of changing societal values, a focus on sustainability, and the realization that comfort can indeed coexist with elegance and that a beautiful custom pillow can be just as much of a status symbol as a designer handbag.
What is Quiet Luxury?
Quiet luxury in home decor is akin to a classic novel—assured and deeply satisfying. It rests on three foundational elements: simplicity, quality, and functionality. Let’s delve deeper into these core principles.
Simplicity
The beauty of quiet luxury lies in its simplicity. It’s about choosing a neutral color palette that soothes the soul—think earth tones, pastels, and those ever-versatile greys and whites.
Quality
When it comes to furniture and decor items, quality trumps quantity every time. Opt for pieces made from natural materials like wood, stone, or organic fabrics. These not only last longer but also age gracefully.
Functionality
The last pillar is functionality. Your home should not only look good but also be practical. Think smart storage solutions, multi-purpose furniture, and tech devices that make your life easier without distracting from the aesthetic.
The Psychological Impact of Personalized Home Decor
Returning to a home that reflects your unique tastes and preferences offers more than just aesthetic pleasure; it promotes emotional well-being. Personalized home decor and custom prints elevate your living space from merely attractive to deeply comforting.
The Comfort Factor
The psychology of comfort is fascinating. Studies show that familiar objects and personalized spaces can significantly reduce stress and anxiety. So that custom print featuring your favorite quote or photo can genuinely aid your mental health.
The Aesthetic Dimension of Quiet Luxury
A well-curated space is like a well-curated Instagram feed—it just feels right. Personalized decor and custom prints offer a way to infuse individuality into your home, transforming walls and rooms into expressions of your personal taste.
The Art of Balance
Achieving the right balance is crucial. Going overboard with too many personalized items can make your space feel cluttered and compromise the look you’re going for. The key is to mix and match. Combine custom prints with classic art pieces or family heirlooms to create a harmonious blend.
Cost-Effective Luxury
Believe it or not, quiet luxury can be budget-friendly. You don’t have to empty your wallet to achieve the look in your own home. Focusing on a few quality pieces means you’re investing in things that will last, and adding personalized touches makes those items even more special.
Here’s where personalized printing services come in handy. They let you customize everything from wall art to throw pillows, making it easy to put your own stamp on your space without going over budget. And the best part? Many of these services have flexible pricing, so you can start small and add more personalized pieces as you go along.
Our Top Tips for Personalization
Start Small: If you’re new to home decor, start with small items like cushions, mugs, or photo frames.
Be Selective: Choose designs that resonate with you emotionally. That could mean choosing the right quote, image, or even color.
Mix and Match: Don’t go overboard. Balance personalized items with more generic pieces to create a cohesive look.
Conclusion
Quiet luxury is not just a trend; it’s a lifestyle. It’s the art of living well without needing to shout about it. And with the added layer of personalized home decor and custom prints, your home won’t just be a living space – it’ll be your own little masterpiece.
It isn’t always as simple as ABC to move to a new house. Suppose you are interested in a long distance moving to San Francisco, CA, what are you going to do? With the help of expert tactics and suggestions from the A2B Moving & Storage company, you will be able to speed up this daunting task and minimize the amount of effort, stress, and labor required to succeed.
If you have no idea how to get started, this list of recommendations will certainly come in handy. Check them in practice and ensure that packing your belongings quickly and reliably is a reality. Mind the gap!
Find a Mover Pronto
To put it mildly, the big day can be hectic, crazy, and chaotic — no matter whether you move across the street or opt for a long distance moving San Francisco CA. It is easy to overlook the need to pack something important or skip your meals at all. That’s why it is better to start your preparations early. Don’t hesitate to consult with seasoned teams and gain more confidence. A2B experts ensure you don’t have to take care of the moving boxes, packing, and so on. In turn, it saves you a lot of time to stay focused and devote your attention to other crucial processes before and during the moving day.
Call the Utility Companies ASAP
Aside from finding the best provider out of numerous moving companies, you have to remember the basic requirements of the relocation. Not only do you have to be attentive to the day your rental agreement is over (or when your house is sold), but also you have to contact your utility service provider and terminate the contract. If you won’t switch to another dealer, you can inform them about your relocation to a new address and set your move-in date to renew the agreement at the next place to call home.
Set Your Budget
Another reason why people are so interested in expert moving tips and tricks is seeking ways to make the experience more cost-efficient. There are two simple strategies customers go for:
When they book teams just to move their belongings, they have to be precise with their calculations and predictions, taking care of the necessary boxes and other packages to safeguard their belongings. Requesting moving quotes from a few different companies is a good idea.
On the contrary, unlike what popular belief says, it might be less expensive to go through the entire relocation process under the guidance of a seasoned crew. In this case, your budget will be set with the assistance of the team — with unexpected costs included and no hidden charges guaranteed.
Hold Small Items in Pots
Decluttering is exactly what you have to do about your clothes and items. When they just chill on your shelves, they seem harmless. However, once you start gathering your stuff around the house and trying to put the hundredth piece of clothing or kitchen supplies in bags, it is no joke. One of the most crucial packing tips is to take your time and analyze what you require and what can be sold or given for charity purposes — there are several possible variants then.
Contact A2B Moving Services
The DIY approach to relocation isn’t always the best choice. With professional assistance, this experience won’t face hidden pitfalls whatever decision you make. A2B experts stay on the guard of your peace of mind and navigate you through a hassle-free journey from point A to point B. Stay in touch for a free service estimate!
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the quality of your moving process doesn’t depend on the amount of labor to put it. Regardless of the project’s scope, your thorough preparations and decisions to cooperate with the best companies will pay off. With A2B specialists, you will relocate your belongings at any distance and won’t need to worry about their state — customer satisfaction is assured.
After promising one of the best lineups for a festival this year, All Things Go 2023 did not disappoint. On Saturday, fans gathered at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland in perfect, sunny weather to enjoy some of the biggest musicians out right now, including up-and-coming TikTok-propelled hitmakers, legends like Tegan and Sara and Carly Rae Jepsen, and an energetic headline performance by rocker Maggie Rogers. Here’s the best moments from Day 1.
Hemlocke Springs
Credit: ALIVE
Hemlocke Springs’ breakout hit ‘girlfriend’ might have been minted by TikTok, but that’s no reason to shrug off the raw talent in this young performer. Having just released her debut EP going..going..GONE!, she opened the entire festival at the Chrysalis stage at noon — a hard slot to take, but Springs shows promise as a performer as well as a musician. She sang upbeat unique alt-pop hits dripping in personality (‘heavun’, ‘girlfriend’, ‘enknee1’) with a fascinating vocal performance reminiscent of predecessors like Kate Bush and MARINA. It’s hard to get any of her songs out of my head, so it was a treat to see her perform live and be so warmly welcomed by the crowd.
Sudan Archives
Credit: ALIVE
The multi-talented Brittney Parks, also known as Sudan Archives, was (perhaps unjustly) granted only a 30-minute set, but she made every minute work for her. Donning a violin and a sharp voice, she mostly performed songs from her impeccable 2022 album Natural Brown Prom Queen, opening with an odd but mesmerizing choice of ‘Milk Me’, turning up with ‘Freakalizer’, and ending with ‘Selfish Soul’. The best moment came when she sang “NBPQ (Topless)”, and during the iconic bridge, she turned her self-empowerment anthem over to the crowd: “I’m not?”, she posed, “Average!” we all answered; “You’re not?” “Average!”; “We’re not?” “Average!”
Tegan and Sara
The Canadian duo took the main stage early on Saturday and sang a collection of songs from their more-than-two-decade-long career, including hits like ‘Boyfriend’, ‘Back in Your Head’, and, of course, ‘Closer’. I wasn’t too familiar with the band before this, but they were great live, showcasing a fun performing ability and great energy. It was a special moment for Sara, too, who admitted that because they were on so early, her 15-month-old was able to see her perform. Music for the whole family!
Suki Waterhouse
I’ll be honest, Suki Waterhouse’s 2022 debut album I Can’t Let Go didn’t really move me, but on the stage, it took on a whole new experience. Looking absurdly cool in a two-piece brown suit and sunglasses, the Daisy Jones & the Six star hit songs from that album like ‘Moves’, ‘The Devil I Know’, and covered Mazzy Star’s ‘Fade Into You’ and Taylor Swift’s “Lover.” She earned a convert!
Carly Rae Jepsen
Credit: ALIVE
The best set of the night, hands down, belonged to Carly Rae Jepsen. The ‘Call Me Maybe’ star of course sang her flagship hit (and everyone in the crowd knew every single word), but also performed upbeat synthpop from her two most recent albums, The Loneliest and LoveliestTimes, respectively. One particular run — ‘Surrender My Heart’, ‘Talking to Yourself’, ‘Shy Boy’, ‘Western Wind’, ‘Kollage’, then ‘Psychedelic Switch’ — showed her prowess of kicking it up, then taking it down with vibey, relaxing hits. Even campy songs like ‘Beach House’, not much when in an album, was extraordinarily fun live. Jepsen is an incredible performer, and you can tell she has a blast on stage — especially with some of her best songs, like ‘Run Away With Me’, ‘Want You In My Room’, and the closer ‘Cut to the Feeling’ (yes, she got a sword with this one!) I’d seen her once before, for the Dedicated tour in 2019, but it was like an entirely new experience. She’s a must-see for a spectacular night if she’s anywhere near your city — the pure joy she radiates is infectious. I left as an even bigger fan of her music and her as a person (if that’s even possible).
Maggie Rogers
Credit: ALIVE
The headliner of the night (there was some debating, in my mind, if this slot should have belonged to Carly Rae Jepsen) closed out Day 1 with some songs from her rock-heavy latest record Surrender, whose massive production and angsty hits lent itself perfectly to the stage. ‘Anywhere With You’, ‘Want Want’, ‘Shatter’, and ‘That’s Where I Am’ were, as predicted, perfect for a large stage like the Merriweather Post Pavillion, and she even took the time to preview two upcoming songs, ‘Sick of Dreaming’ and ‘Don’t Forget Me’. I saw her at the Santa Barbara Bowl in 2019, promoting her folky album Heard It In A Past Life, but touring Surrender is a different animal, one where Rogers feels completely at home.
Chromeo have announced a new album, Adult Contemporary, which arrives on February 16, 2024. It will feature the previously released songs ‘Words With You’, ‘Replacements’, and ‘(I Don’t Need A) New Girl’, as well as the new single ‘Personal Effects’. Check out its Spencer Ford-directed video and find the album artwork and tracklist below.
“This is the last song we added on the album,” Dave Macklovitch, aka Dave 1, said in a statement. “I was on a flight and the pilot said, ‘please don’t forget your personal effects’ and I was like, ‘wait how come this isn’t a Chromeo song title?!’ We felt like we needed a little breezy funk…something warm and fuzzy to bop to.”
“You notice that long instrumental bit at the end?” he continued. “That’s definitely a motif on the album: extended sections where we let the music ride out. Adult Contemporary is a meditation on modern, mature relationships, which means: if we gotta sing about curling irons, so be it.”
Adult Contemporary marks Chromeo’s first proper LP since 2018’s Head Over Heels.
Adult Contemporary Cover Artwork:
Adult Contemporary Tracklist:
1. (I Don’t Need A) New Girl
2. Got It Good
3. Lost And Found
4. BTS
5. Replacements (Featuring La Roux)
6. Lonesome Nights
7. Personal Effects
8. She Knows It (Personal Effects Pt. 2)
9. Ballad Of The Insomniacs
10. CODA
11. Words With You
12. A Cut Above
13. Friendsnlovers
14. Two Of Us (Friendsnlovers Pt. 2)
