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Aesop Rock Announces First Solo Album in Five Years, Unveils New Song

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Aesop Rock Announces First Solo Album in Five Years, Unveils New Song

Aesop Rock has announced his first solo album in over four years. It’s called Spirit World Field Guide and it arrives November 13 via Rhymesayers Entertainment. Aes has also shared a new song titled ‘The Gates’ alongside an accompanying music video directed by Rob Shaw and featuring illustrations by Justin “Coro” Kaufman. Check it out below, and scroll down for the 21-track LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.

“If you are among the countless individuals who find themselves feeling both dead and alive at the same time, the information contained within may serve as an invaluable asset to your journey,” Aesop Rock said in a statement. “Godspeed and good luck.”

According to a press release, Spirit World Field Guide is a concept album that follows Aesop through a parallel universe “rife with hallucinatory images of killer eels, magic spells, and people on the run, peppered among anecdotes, recipes, survival tips, warnings, maps, drawings, and more.”

Aesop Rock’s most recent solo album, The Impossible Kid, came out in 2016. The following year, he composed the score for the movie Bushwick. Last year, he joined forces with Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Tobacco for the collaborative LP Malibu Ken.

Spirit World Field Guide Cover Artwork:

Spirit World Field Guide Tracklist:

1. Hello From the Spirit World
2. The Gates
3. Button Masher
4. Dog at the Door
5. Gauze
6. Pizza Alley
7. Crystal Sword
8. Boot Soup
9. Coveralls
10. Jumping Coffin
11. Holy Waterfall
12. Flies
13. Salt
14. Sleeper Car
15. 1 to 10
16. Attaboy
17. Kodokushi
18. Fixed and Dilated
19. Side Quest
20. Marble Cake
21. The Four Winds

Bedouine, Waxahatchee, and Hurray for the Riff Raff Share Cover of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’

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Bedouine, Waxahatchee, and Hurray for the Riff Raff Share Cover of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’

Bedouine’s Azniv Korkejian, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra have teamed up for a cover of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’. Check it out below.

In a press release, Azniv Korkejian said that the idea for the cover came about while the three musicians were on tour together. “We threw the idea around of doing a song together but weren’t sure what,” she explained. “I was backstage in Columbia, Missouri when I realized it was the anniversary of Big Star’s ’93 reunion show that had also taken place in Columbia. I was fiddling around with the song in my dressing room when Katie and Alynda walked in. Suddenly I remembered there were 3 verses to split up. We played it as an homage that night and every night after.”

Bedouine’s last album was 2019’s Bird Songs of a Killjoy. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s most recent album, The Navigator, came out in 2017. Waxahatchee released Saint Cloud in March.

Full Line-up for 2020 BFI London Film Festival Unveiled

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Full Line-up for 2020 BFI London Film Festival Unveiled

With many prominent film festivals cancelling due to COVID-19 this year, BFI announced it’s going ahead with its 64th BFI London Film Festival. To roll with the challenges that COVID-19 has brought on, the format of this year’s festival has been altered to fit the needs and safety of press and filmmakers. This change will bring far more films into the online medium whilst still keeping some more notable films in the cinemas.

From the 58 features films and 47 short films showing throughout the 7th of October to 18th of October, there are four features that will be exclusively shown in the cinema. Those include Steven McQueen’s Mangrove, upcoming Pixar release Soul, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Francis Lee’s Ammonite. Ten other features will be shown both online and in the cinema, including Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli and Michael Blyth’s Supernova starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. The remaining 44 features and short films will be available online.

Like in previous years, BFI has categorised the selections into different strands, so festival-goers will have an idea of what kind of films are screening. Below is the full line-up of the feature selection, including information on the film’s directors, countries of origin, which strand they belong to and the platform they will be screened on.

Full feature line up for the 2020 BFI London Film Festival:

180° Rule | Farnoosh Samadi | Iran | 2020 | Debate | Virtual

200 Meters | Ameen Nayfeh | Palestine | 2020 | Debate | Virtual

A Common Crime | Francisco Márquez | Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland 2020 | Dare | Virtual

A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura | d. Hirokazu Kore-eda | w. Sakura Higa | Japan 2020 |Journey (Series) | Virtual

African Apocalypse | Rob Lemkin | UK 2020 | Debate | Virtual

After Love | Aleem Khan | UK 2020 | Love | Virtual + Cinema

Ammonite | Francis Lee| UK 2020 | Closing Film | Cinema

Another Round | Thomas Vinterberg| Denmark 2020 | Journey | Virtual + Cinema

Bad Tales | Fabio D’Innocenzo, Damiano D’Innocenzo | Italy 2020 | Dare | Virtual

Bloody Nose, Empty Pocket | Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | USA 2020 | Journey | Virtual

The Cheaters | Paulette McDonagh | Australia 1929 | Treasures | Virtual

The Chess Game of the Wind | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Iran 1976 | Treasures | Virtual

Cicada | Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare | USA 2020 | Love | Virtual

Days | Tsai Ming-Liang | Taiwan 2020 | Love | Virtual

David Byrne’s American Utopia | Spike Lee | USA 2020 | Create | Virtual + Cinema

Delia Derbyshire: the Myths and Legendary Tapes | Caroline Catz | UK 2020 | Create | Virtual

The Disciple | Chaitanya Tamhane | India 2020 | Create | Virtual

Farewell Amor | Ekwa Msangi | USA 2020 | Love | Virtual

Friendship’s Death | Peter Wollen | UK 1987 | Treasures | Virtual

Genus Pan | Lav Diaz | Philippines 2020 | Journey | Virtual

Gold for Dogs | Anna Cazenave Cambet | France 2020 | Journey | Virtual

Herself | Phyllida Lloyd | UK 2020 | Love | Virtual + Cinema

Honeymood | Talya Lavie | Israel 2020 | Laugh | Virtual

I Am Samuel | Pete Murimi | Kenya 2020 | Journey | Virtual

Identifying Features | Fernanda Valadez | Mexico-Spain 2020 | Journey | Virtual

If It Were Love | Patric Chiha | France 2020 | Love | Virtual

Industry | d. Lena Dunham, Tinge Krishnan, Ed Lilly | w. Mickey Down, Konrad Kay | UK 2020 | Journey (Series) | Virtual

The Intruder | Natalia Meta | Argentina-Mexico 2020 | Dare | Virtual

Kajillionaire | Miranda July | USA 2020 | Laugh | Virtual

Limbo | Ben Sharrock | UK 2020 | Journey | Virtual

Mangrove | Steve McQueen | UK 2020 | Opening Film (Series) | Cinema

Mogul Mowgli | Bassam Tariq | UK 2020 | Dare | Virtual + Cinema

Never Gonna Snow Again | Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert | Poland-Germany | Laugh | Virtual

New Order | Michel Franco | Mexico 2020 | Dare | Virtual

Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | USA 2020 | Journey | Cinema

Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy-Germany-France 2020 | Journey | Virtual

One Man and His Shoes | Yemi Bamiro | UK 2020 | Debate | Virtual

The Painter and the Thief | Benjamin Ree | Norway 2020 | Create | Virtual

Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg | Canada-UK 2020 | Cult | Virtual

The Reason I Jump | Jerry Rothwell | UK 2020 | Virtual

Relic | Natalie Erika James | Australia-USA 2020 | Cult | Virtual

Rose | Jennifer Sheridan | UK 2020 | Cult | Virtual

The Salt in Our Waters | Rezwan Shahriar Sumit | Bangladesh-France 2020| Journey | Virtual

Shadow Country | Bohdan Sláma | Czech Republic 2020 | Debate | Virtual

Shirley | Josephine Decker | USA 2020 | Dare | Virtual + Cinema

Siberia | Abel Ferrara | Italy-Germany-Mexico 2020 | Dare | Virtual

Soul | Pete Docter, Kemp Powers | USA 2020 | Family | Cinema

Sound for the Future | Matt Hulse | UK-China 2020 | Experimenta | Virual

Stray | Elizabeth Lo | USA 2020 | Journey | Virtual

Striding Into the Wind | Wei Shujun | China 2020 | Create | Virtual

Supernova | Harry Macqueen | UK 2020 | Love | Virtual + Cinema

This Is My Desire (Eyimofe) | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Nigeria 2019 | Virutal

Time | Garrett Bradley | USA 2020 | Debate | Virtual + Cinema

Ultraviolence | Ken Fero | UK 2020 | Debate | Virtual

Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany 2020 | Virtual + Cinema

Wildfire | Cathy Brady | UK-Ireland 2020 | Dare | Virtual

Wolfwalkers | Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart | Ireland-Luxembourg-France 2020 |Family | Virtual

Zanka Contact | Ismaël El Iraki | France-Morocco-Belgium 2020 | Create | Virtual

For more information about the festival and the selections, please visit the official BFI website.

How To Improve Your Gaming Health

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How To Improve Your Gaming Health

Video games are extremely fun, interesting, routinely varied experiences that offer more than just ‘an escape,’ but can actually be quite educationally and socially constructive. For this reason, it’s important to know how to game in the best way possible. As with any hobby that suggests you sit down and stare at a screen for long periods of time, it’s important to know how to improve your health despite this.

So, how do you improve your gaming health? By getting rid of all your snacks and implementing some self-discipline? Well, that could be a start, but don’t be overly draconian with yourself. It’s important to use sustainable practices that work, not just small platitudes that grant you nothing. So – how can you get started, and more than that, how can you keep this practice up despite the difficulty?

It’s worth asking those questions. So, let’s ask them. After all, if you’re to be the best gamer you can be, trying new experiences, working with your team, or soaking in a good story – you want to feel good and healthy to make the most of it:

Take Care Of Your Eyesight

It’s important to take care of your eyesight when gaming. Long sessions in front of the screen in badly lit environments can cause terrible eye strain, which can, at the end of it, cause your vision to become damaged. For this reason, it’s important to set yourself up with methods that help your eyesight during those long playing sessions.

This glasses buying guide can help you understand just how important the right eyeglasses are, particularly if you need a prescription that needs tending to. Furthermore, using the 20/20/20 rule can be thoroughly worthwhile. This dictates that every twenty minutes, you stare at something twenty feet away for twenty seconds. That will help you reduce some of the eye strain you may otherwise feel. Our eyes are continually supposed to be searching around and seeing things of all different angles, and if you’re stuck in one perspective (as with a screen), this can present a problem. Take care of your eyesight, it truly does matter.

Ensure Your Spinal Health

Ensuring your spinal health is important. This is unfortunately the first issue that gamers experience when sitting slouched or without any thought to good posture. A good ergonomic office chair can often make the world of difference as far as this is concerned.

These can cost a little more than the cheap ‘gamer chairs,’ but they will feel profoundly more relaxing to deal with. Furthermore, you will be able to sit for long hours without encountering back pain, or mitigating that if you have it already. It turns out that before you invest in a gaming rig, you should invest in your health. This is the best set of stacked priorities you could curate.

Take Regular Breaks

Taking regular breaks is important. Gaming can be a very stressful, exciting, engaging activity. You can get lost in it for hours upon hours. It can also raise your blood pressure, and you might find yourself lacking in exercise, sleep, or good nutrition in order to chase it.

Don’t let this be you. Focus on stress reduction methods such as meditation (if you play a lot of ranked competitive games), and be sure to go for walks now and then. Spend hours of your day away from the games console and focusing on something else. Games should be a wonderful substitute to your life, not something that sucks up all of your free time, energy, and goodwill. Regular breaks can help you come back refreshed, interested, and playing your best.

Get Enough Sleep

One thing that many gamers can find is that they decide to ignore sleep in favor of gaming. Late-night raids, early morning gaming sessions before school, or sometimes drinking coffee late at night in order to enjoy the latest story revelation, all of this can become a burden and troublesome to minds young and old.

Get enough sleep. It’s not only essential for you as a human being, but coming to a game with all of your rational faculties intact is a wonderful consideration to keep on top of. Furthermore, no game is more important than you living a healthy and full life. This way, you can manage your habit in the healthiest manner possible.

With this advice, we hope you can improve your gaming health from start to finish, and generally enjoy your time in front of a screen feeling better than ever.

Album Review: Lomelda, ‘Hannah’

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Album Review: Lomelda, ‘Hannah’

On the opening track of Lomelda’s new album, Hannah Read’s words barely come through; her voice is audible, but the singer-songwriter seems more interested in using it as a conduit to her inner world, another way of mirroring the sentiments so intricately expressed in her music. Adorned with plush, delicate pianos so wonderfully organic you might as well be present in the studio at the time of recording, her vocals center around an unusual affirmation: “I’m light like kisses”. Read is always careful with her choice of words, and “light” happens to be a perfect descriptor for the nature of the album itself: radiant yet soft, like a feather floating through the sky on a warm summer day. But beneath its gentle exterior, there’s a quiet storm raging on; Hannah takes us on a personal journey that’s genuinely illuminating as it reflects on questions of identity with both subtlety and unbridled emotion.

The very fact that Read is negotiating her relationship with her own self is signalled on the album’s title, but she even goes one step further and includes her name in not one, not two, but three tracks: ‘Hannah Sun’, ‘Hannah Happiest’, and ‘Hannah Please’. In them, Hannah appears to be less of a real person and more like another one of her creations, just like Lomelda, the moniker she’s been using for years now. She addresses herself in the third-person: “Hannah, do no harm,” she begs on ‘Hannah Sun’; on the wrenching closer, ‘Hannah Please’, she cries out “Why can’t I speak?/ Come on Hannah, please”. By pointing to the lack of control we have over own selves and the decisions we make, Read cuts to the marrow of how big the divide between who we are and who we want to be really is. “So confused who I have been, who I haven’t,” her voice bursts through ‘Reach’.

Throughout Hannah, Read finds new and creative ways of engaging with that age-old problem. On ‘It’s Lomelda’, she lists a number of her musical influences – Low, Yo La Tengo, Frank Ocean, Frankie Cosmos – all of which, she seems to imply, are part of what makes up Lomelda, but fall short of getting to the core of who Hannah Read is. For her friends on ‘Hannah Happiest’, her name is imbued with the kind of deeper meaning she is somehow unable to access: “Asked you if you knew who I was,” she sings, “You said, ‘Hannah’.” When a security guard sits by her on ‘Stranger Sat by Me’ and asks what her name is and whether she’s okay, her crumbling voice dissolves into a weeping bed of synths and dissonant guitars, their elemental nature more suited to answering that question.

Read’s lyricism on Hannah is as poetic as it is profoundly affecting, but it’s only as a whole that the album comes even close to encapsulating the true essence of her character. Though it marks her fourth studio LP, it also serves as a re-introduction to the artist, taking the characteristics of a self-titled effort but turning the microscope less on her art than on herself. It contains elements from her previous records, but is even more dynamic and diverse in its presentation: ‘Both Mode’ is grungy and expansive, while ‘Sing for Stranger’ is a discordant and experimental interlude. And yet, each song flows seamlessly into the next. Read’s voice doesn’t always sound hesitant or insecure, either; on tracks like ‘Wonder’, it rings through with tremendous passion, one that boils over in the fury of emotion that is ‘Tommy Dread’. By the end, Read doesn’t sound any less conflicted compared to where she started off, but at least the listener can share in some of that frustration, finding comfort in intimate songs that swirl around uncertainty.

Watch Bill Callahan Perform on NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’

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Watch Bill Callahan Perform on NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’

Bill Callahan is the latest artist to perform on NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series. Accompanied by Derek Phelps on trumpet and Matt Kinsey on electric guitar, the singer-songwriter performed three tracks from his recently released studio album, Gold Record – ‘Pigeons’, ‘Another Song’, and ‘The Mackenzies’ – as well ‘Released’, from last year’s Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest. Check out the performance below.

“There are a lot of voices these days. So many that, I think, even positive sentiments become detrimental in their deafening number,” Callahan told NPR following the performance. “Quiet reflection can be the clearest and most informative and soothing voice you’ll ever hear. There are many unknowns at this time in history. It’s more than a junction in our old world. It’s the possibility of a whole new world. A large part of me believes this. Listen to music, read books, talk to friends and family. Don’t listen to the voices, not even mine!”

Gold Record was released last Friday (September 4). Read our review of the album here.

Carly Rae Jepsen Teams Up with mxmtoon For New Song ‘ok on your own’

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Carly Rae Jepsen Teams Up with mxmtoon For New Song ‘ok on your own’

Carly Rae Jepsen has teamed up with mxmtoon – aka Maia – for a new song titled ‘ok on your own’. The single is taken from 20-year-old singer-songwriter’s upcoming EP, dusk. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying music video.

“I was beyond excited to work on this track and have it be graced by Carly Rae Jepsen, someone who stands for empowerment and knows the themes of love and loneliness all too well,” mxmtoon said in a statement. “My hope for the song is that ‘ok on your own’ can let people know that vulnerability is never something to be afraid of, and admitting you need time for yourself and support from a friend is sometimes a necessary step.”

dusk, the follow-up to April’s dawn, arrives on October 1st. Previously, Maia shared the single ‘bon iver’. Carly Rae Jepsen recently released ‘Me and the Boys in the Band’.

Netflix Announces BLACKPINK Documentary ‘Light Up the Sky’

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Netflix Announces BLACKPINK Documentary ‘Light Up the Sky’

Netflix has announced a new documentary about K-pop superstars BLACKPINK, set to premiere on October 14. Titled Light Up the Sky, the film was directed by Caroline Suh and is described as “an all-access documentary about one of the world’s most popular groups”. It’ll be available shortly after the release of their highly-anticipated debut LP, and promises behind-the-scenes footage of the album’s creation.

In addition to the documentary, photos of the group’s members – Lisa, Rosé, Jisoo and Jenni – will also be made available as profile icons on the streaming platform. “We can’t wait to share our personal stories with Blinks all over the world through Netflix,” BLACKPINK said in a statement. “We hope this film will bring joy and light to the viewers, and they will enjoy seeing our journey together on screen from the past four years.”

BLACKPINK recently shared a collaborative single with Selena Gomez called ‘Ice Cream’.

Beabadoobee Unveils New Song ‘Worth It’

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Beabadoobee Unveils New Song ‘Worth It’

Beabadoobee has released a new song called ‘Worth It’. It marks the third single from her upcoming album Fake it Flowers, which is out next month. Check it out below.

In a statement, the rising indie rock artist described the track as being “simply about teenage infidelity and the mistakes one can make when they’re tempted to do things.” She adds, “It’s a bit of a confession song but also an understanding that it’s a part of life.”

Fake It Flowers arrives October 16th via Dirty Hit.  The 12-track album will include the previously released singles ‘Care’ and ‘Sorry’. Beabadoobee also recently revealed the tour dates for her 2021 UK and Ireland tour.

Ana Roxanne Announces New Album ‘Because of a Flower’, Shares New Song

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Ana Roxanne Announces New Album ‘Because of a Flower’, Shares New Song

LA–based ambient musician Ana Roxanne has announced a new album called Because of a Flower. The follow-up to last year’s ~~~ EP comes out November 13 via Kranky. Roxanne has also unveiled a new song from the album, titled ‘Suite pour l’invisible’. Listen to it below, and scroll down for the LP’s tracklist and cover artwork.

According to a press release, the artist began working on Because of a Flower five years ago. The album explores ideas of “gender identity, beauty, and cruelty”, informed by the experience of identifying as intersex – which Roxanne revealed publicly last year.

Because of a Flower Tracklist:

1. Untitled
2. A Study in Vastness
3. Suite pour l’invisible
4. – – –
5. Camille
6. Venus
7. Take the Thorn, Leave the Rose

Because of a Flower Cover Artwork:

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