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Albums Out Today: Drake, Sufjan Stevens, A. Savage, Mary Lattimore, and More

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Albums Out Today: Drake, Sufjan Stevens, A. Savage, Mary Lattimore, and More

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 6, 2023:

Drake, For All the Dogs

Drake’s new album, For All the Dogs, has arrived. Following 2022’s Honestly, Nevermind and Her Loss, the record spans 23 tracks and includes guest appearances from SZA (on the pre-release single ‘Slime You Out’ and the Sexyy Red–assisted ‘Rich Baby Daddy’), Bad Bunny, J. Cole, Lil Yachty, Chief Keef, 21 Savage, Teezo Touchdown, Yeat, and PartyNextDoor. Drake executive produced the album alongside Noah “40” Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, and Noel Cadastre. Earlier this week, Drake released the single ‘8AM in Charlotte’ along with a video starring his song, Adonis Graham, who also drew the album’s cover art.

Sufjan Stevens, Javelin

Sufjan Stevens has released his new album Javelin. The follow-up to 2020’s The Ascension spans 10 songs, including the previously unveiled singles ‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me?’, ‘So You Are Tired’, and ‘A Running Start’, and is accompanied by a 48-page book of art and essays created by Stevens. It features contributions from adrienne maree brown, Hannah Cohen, Pauline Delassus, Megan Lui, and Nedelle Torrisi, as well as guitar from the National’s Bryce Dessner on the song ‘Shit Talk’. It ends with a cover of Neil Young’s ‘There’s a World’. Read our review of Javelin.

A. Savage, Several Songs About Fire

Parquet Courts leader A. Savage has dropped a new LP, Several Songs About Fire, via Rough Trade Records. The follow-up to 2017’s Thawing Dawn was recorded in Bristol with producer John Parish and help from friends such as Cate Le Bon and Modern Nature’s Jack Cooper. “I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning,” Savage said in a statement. “Fire is something you have to escape from, and in a way this album is about escaping from something. This album is a burning building, and these songs are things I’d leave behind to save myself.” The singles ‘Thanksgiving Prayer’, ‘Elvis in the Army’, and ‘David’s Dead‘ preceded the album.

Mary Lattimore, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada

Harpist and composer Mary Lattimore has unveiled a new collection, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, which takes its name from a hotel on the island of Hvar in Croatia. Out now via Ghostly, the 6-track LP features contributions from Lol Tolhurst of the Cure, Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements. Lattimore explained: “When I think of these songs, I think about fading flowers in vases, melted candles, getting older, being on tour and having things change while you’re away, not realizing how ephemeral experiences are until they don’t happen anymore, fear for a planet we’re losing because of greed, an ode to art and music that’s really shaped your life that can transport you back in time, longing to maintain sensitivity and to not sink into hollow despondency.”

Truth Club, Running From the Chase

North Carolina’s Truth Club have come through with their sophomore full-length, Running From the Chase, out now via Double Double Whammy. Following 2019’s Not an Exit , the record was previewed by the singles ‘Blue Eternal’, ‘Exit Cycle’ (featuring Indigo de Souza), ‘Uh Oh’, and ‘Siphon’. “I struggle with bipolar disorder, and when I started writing these songs I was really struggling with it, so much so that I didn’t come close to finishing any of the songs at the time,” singer/guitarist Travis Harrington explained in press materials. “When I began to regain some footing it was an interesting emotional exercise to go back and try to finish those thoughts while in a more grounded and clear mindframe. Trying to extract the ugly hopelessness and put it in this jar I can observe from time to time as a point of reference for what that looks like in my brain.”

Glasser, Crux

Glasser is back with Crux, her first new album in a decade. Out now via One Little Independent, the record follows 2013’s Interiors and features the advance tracks ‘Vine’, ‘Drift’, ‘All Lovers’, and ‘Easy’. “I wanted to create something where all the parts sound like they’re very separated,” Cameron Mesirow explained in a statement. “I was thinking like jazz, actually. It was about getting back to writing music after feeling a bit disconnected from the machinery around making music your profession.”

Pangaea, Changing Channels

Pangaea has issued Changing Channels, his latest release for Hessle Audio, the label he co-runs with Ben UFO and Pearson Sound. It marks the UK producer’s first album in seven years, following 2016’s In Drum Play. “The LP to me feels like it’s distilled all the different elements of my music over the past 15 years,” Pangaea said in a statement. “And is probably my most complete record to date.”

Hannah Diamond, Perfect Picture

Hannah Diamond has dropped her new album, Perfect Picture, via PC Music. The follow-up to 2019’s Reflections was promoted with the singles ‘Staring at the Ceiling’, ‘Affirmations’, ‘Poster Girl’, and the title track. “This album is more focused on who I am on the inside, a multi-layered self-portrait,” Diamond said in a press statement. “I’m the girl you already know but grown up. I’m more self-assured and exploring my dreams.”

Short Fictions, Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me (Void Filler)

Pittsburgh emo band Short Fictions have put out their third album, Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me (Void Filler), via Lauren Records. “I wrote this one in kind of a time of panic,” vocalist/guitarist Sam Treber said of the LP, which follows last year’s Every Moment of Every Day and features the singles ‘Wasting’ and ‘Reno Nevada, January 2020’. “Whereas the last one was a fun one, this one’s a little bit more chaotic and spastic again.”

Citizen, Calling the Dogs

Citizen have followed up 2021’s Life In Your Glass World with a new LP, Calling the Dogs. Produced by Rob Schnapf, the album was previewed by the singles ‘If You’re Lonely’, ‘When I Let You Down’, ‘Hyper Trophy’, ‘Can’t Take It Slow’. “The way I feel about the name Calling the Dogs is like a rallying cry for Citizen fans,” frontman Mat Kerekes told New Noise Magazine. “You know, like I’m calling the dogs. It’s time to go crazy. I think people like unity.”

Other albums out today:

Jolie Holland, Haunted Mountain; Open City, Hands in the Honey Jar; Dogstar, Somewhere Between the Palm Trees and Power Lines; Mutual Benefit, Growing at the Edges; Mil-Spec, Marathon; Sam Gendel & Marcella Cytrynowicz, AUDIOBOOK; Butcher Brown, Solar Music; Svalbard, The Weight of the Mask; Nídia, 95 MINDJERES; HUNNY, new planet heaven; Axis: Sova, Blinded By Oblivion; CARRTOONS, Saturday Night; Mansions, Tuff Luff; Youmna Saba, Wishah.

Paramore Release ‘This Is Why’ Remix Album Featuring Panda Bear, Julien Baker, Bartees Strange, and More

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Paramore Release ‘This Is Why’ Remix Album Featuring Panda Bear, Julien Baker, Bartees Strange, and More

Paramore have released a reimagined version of their latest album, This Is Why. It features reworkings of songs from the LP, with contributions from Panda Bear, Wet Leg, Julien Baker, Bartees Strange, Romy, Foals, DOMi & JD BECK, Remi Wolf, Claud, the Linda Lindas, and Zane Lowe. The tracklist ends with a previously unreleased a demo called ‘Sanity’. Listen to Re: This Is Why below.

“We’ve long wanted to recognize the connection we have with some of the artists who’ve influenced us as a band and/or who have cited our band as an influence,” Hayley Williams said in a statement. “Re: This Is Why is almost a remix album. Some of the songs have been remixed sort of classically, while others were reworked or rewritten. It’s incredible to hear all our worlds colliding.”

The artwork for Re: This Is Why was inspired by a Marlene Dumas painting that was intended as the original cover art for the record. “It didn’t get clearance the first time around so we went with a different image,” Williams explained on social media. “Grateful to her for allowing us to use this, now.”

Mia Joy Announces New EP, Unveils New Single ‘More Green’

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Mia Joy Announces New EP, Unveils New Single ‘More Green’

Mia Joy has announced a new EP, Celestial Mirror, which will arrive November 10 on Fire Talk Records. To accompany the announcement, the Chicago singer-songwriter has shared a video for the new single ‘More Green’. Check it out below.

‘More Green’ marks Mia Joy’s first new music since their 2021 LP Spirit Tamer. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Mia Joy.

Prof. Jimmy Choo’s JCA Reveals Second MA Showcase During London Frieze Week

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Prof. Jimmy Choo’s JCA Reveals Second MA Showcase During London Frieze Week

On Thursday, 12th October, Prof. Jimmy Choo’s Mayfair-based JCA London Fashion Academy will present its MA designers cohort following last year’s runway show.

Stephen Smith, founder and CEO of the JCA commented: “We are so excited to participate in this years’ London Frieze Week and where better than to host in our beautiful Mayfair campus at 20 Hanover Square. Our learners were previewed during an amazing charity ICON show during London Fashion Week and we now get to see their launch collections. The JCA show is truly the interconnection between arts and business given we have been able to incubate our graduating cohort, from idea to final presentation.”

At three storeys of the JCA’s Grade I Period Building, doors will open at 3 pm. Residents will be welcomed by a pianist.

On the first floor, the seven MA designers will each have their dedicated room to display their collections, with each area thoughtfully designed to immerse attendees in the designer’s unique vision. The JCA MA Graduates in Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design and Brand Innovation include:

  • Polly McEvitt, founder of the eponymous brand, focuses on avant-garde designs, with whimsical embellishments and intricate details, and each garment helps the wearer express their individuality and self-expression.
  • Olivia Black, the founder of the eponymous brand, is a sustainable label centered on genderless designs and the use of upcycled materials and deadstock to create unique collections.
  • Mariam Saeed, founder of “Location-em”, aims to step in to fill the gap in modest fashion, by offering occasionwear dresses. The brand, born from Mariam’s challenge when seeking appropriate attire, provides a modern style without compromising personal values and beliefs.
  • Saleha Hussain, founder of “Yasmin”, a luxury streetwear brand that redefines modest fashion by fusing contemporary and modesty and prioritizes ethical manufacturing and sustainable practices. The label combines modest silhouettes and vibrant colours, to be styled for different occasions.
  • Rocio Sánchez, is a brand designed with women in mind, with the aim to inspire them to embrace their uniqueness. The collection emphasizes the importance of sustainability and inclusivity.
  • Meryem Bertal, founder of “Unbound”, a trailblazing brand at the intersection of dance and style. The collection featured cutting-edge materials and techniques, for exceptional comfort and durability, aimed at revolutionising the world of dancewear across various genres.
  • Aaiyma Masoud, founder of AAIYMA Creative Studio, is dedicated to artistic innovation and technical expertise. Inspired by geometrical shapes and three-dimensionality, the brand aims to push the boundaries and inspire individuals to embrace their uniqueness and express themselves through extraordinary sartorial choices.

Positivity or distress: How does online gambling affect a person’s life?

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Positivity or distress: How does online gambling affect a person’s life?

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The issue of the positive and negative factors of gambling is widespread, and scientists still argue about this element of our lives. However, thanks to hundreds of studies, no one claims anymore that gambling is exclusively harmful, in fact, it is even good for our brain. But how does it work and why is gambling so popular among users? This is exactly what we will talk about next.

How can gambling have a positive impact on your life?

We have all heard about gambling and how it can affect our lives. In fact, the world of casinos and gambling is shrouded in mystery, because there is always a thin line between a person who enjoys it and a person who cannot stop. In the latter case, such a player needs help, and to provide it is a direct responsibility of the people around him, but what about the first?

Gambling is not just entertainment, it is a way to stimulate the brain and provoke the release of various substances and hormones, such as adrenaline and endorphins. For example, professionals who work in complex positions and operate a large amount of data, often like to play slot machines, because nothing depends on them, they can relax and enjoy the result. The same applies to users who work at difficult physical jobs, because unlike an active hobby, casino online Turkey Pin Up does not require a lot of time, offers a wide range of entertainment and favorable conditions. But how exactly does gambling affect a person?

Well. Speaking about the positive factors that a user who plays online gambling gets, it is worth mentioning the following:

  • Entertainment and adrenaline

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One of the main things that attracts players to Pin Up online is the opportunity to win real money. Winnings can be significant and can even change your financial situation. This hope of winning big can be a powerful motivator to improve your skills and game strategies.

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Online casinos operate around the clock, giving players the opportunity to play at any time of the day or night. This is especially convenient for those who have irregular work schedules, or those who want to enjoy the excitement in their free time. You don’t have to stick to the casino’s schedule or wait for it to open.

  • Large selection of games

Online casinos offer a huge variety of games to satisfy every player’s interests. This includes classic card games such as poker and blackjack, as well as modern 3D slots with rich graphics and animations. The large selection allows you to find the games that best suit your mood and interests.

  • Bonuses and promotions

Many online casinos actively attract players through bonus casinos and promotions. Newcomers can receive welcome bonuses that increase their initial deposit. In addition to this, casinos provide regular promotions such as free spins, tournaments, and loyalty programs. All this makes the game even more attractive and interesting.

  • Ease of Use

Most online casinos strive to create the most user-friendly interfaces for players. This includes intuitive design, simple rules, and tips for beginners. You can easily start playing even if you have limited experience.

  • Social interaction

Many online casinos provide the ability to connect with other players through chat rooms and forums. This creates social interaction and experience sharing among players. You can share strategies, discuss wins and losses, and make new friends with common interests.

As you can see, the range of positive aspects of playing on online gambling platforms is hard to call small. This is one of the reasons why the world of gambling has not just not gone into oblivion but continues to develop. But why do some users have a negative attitude to gambling and are they right? This is worth talking about separately.

Why some users have a negative attitude to gambling

Studying the human nervous system, scientists have come to the conclusion that each of us has its own personalized structure of building priorities. Our priorities can be influenced by both external and internal factors, which adds variety to a variety of decisions. Thus, what may be a top priority for you may play absolutely no role for another user.

Online casinos today are services that don’t just offer you to play at your leisure, they try to stop players who have spent too much time on the service. To do this, Pin Up Casino periodically has a special information box that tells the player that it’s time for a little rest. This is important because, among the classic players who perceive the game of slot machines as a form of entertainment, there are those who can not stop because of the peculiarities of their moral state.

Summarizing the benefits and harms of Pin Up online, it is worth remembering that the Pin Up service is primarily a platform for entertainment. Users who want to get some adrenaline after a hard day’s work, come to the catalog of games in order to spend a little time and get more emotions. However, if you consider yourself an over-gambling person or you have a recommendation from a specialist not to face games built on excitement and playing with Fortune, perhaps you should think twice and not resort to this kind of entertainment.

Blink-182 Pay Homage to Ramones in Video for New Single ‘Dance With Me’

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Blink-182 Pay Homage to Ramones in Video for New Single ‘Dance With Me’

Blink-182 have shared ‘Dance With Me’, the fourth single from their upcoming album One More Time…. Following previous offerings ‘One More Time’, ‘More Than You Know’, and ‘Edging’, the track comes with a music video directed by the Malloys in which Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, and Travis Barker dress up like the Ramones. Watch and listen below.

One More Time…, the trio’s first album together since 2011’s Neighborhoods, comes out on October 20 via Columbia.

Björk and Rosalia Share New Song to Protest Icelandic Fish Farming

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Björk and Rosalia Share New Song to Protest Icelandic Fish Farming

Björk and Rosalia have teamed up for a new song. The one-minute acapella track, which is available today as a YouTube video with the title ‘help fight fish farming in iceland’, will be released later this month, with proceeds going to help pay the legal fees of people at the Fjord Seyðisfjörður who have stood up to protest against fish farming in their area. Check out the collaboration below.

Björk shared the following statement along with the song:

i am offering a song me and rosalia sang together
the profits will to help the fight against fish farming in iceland
it will come out in october
people at the fjord seyðisfjörður have stood up and protested against fish farming starting there
we would like to donate sales of the song to help with their legal fees
and hopefully it can be an exemplary case for others

iceland has the biggest untouched nature in europe
and still today it has it´s sheep roaming free in the mountains in the summers
it´s fish has swum free in our lakes, rivers and fjords

so when icelandic and norwegian business men started buying fish farms in the majority
of our fjords, it was a big shock and rose up as the main topic this summer,
we don´t understand how they had been able to do this for a decade with almost no regulations stopping them.
this has already had devastating effect on wildlife and the farmed fish are suffering in horrid health conditions and since a lot of them have escaped, they have started changing the DNA in the icelandic salmon to the worse and could eventually lead to its extinction

there is still a chance to safe the last wild salmon of the north
our group would like to dare these business men to retract their farms!
we would also like to help invent and set strict regulations into iceland´s legal system to guard nature.
the majority of the nation already agrees with us
so this protest is about putting the will of the people into our rule-systems

warmth

Björk and Rosalia both released albums in 2022: Fossora and MOTOMAMI, respectively.

Watch Japanese Breakfast Perform ‘Kokomo, IN’ on ‘Colbert’

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Watch Japanese Breakfast Perform ‘Kokomo, IN’ on ‘Colbert’

Japanese Breakfast appeared on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to showcase their song ‘Kokomo, IN’. The band was joined by a quartet of string players for the performance, which you can watch below.

‘Kokomo, IN’ appears on Japanese Breakfast’s most recent LP, Jubilee, which came out in 2021. Back in March, frontwoman Michelle Zauner confirmed that White Lotus star Will Sharpe is slated to direct the film adaptation of her best-selling memoir Crying in H Mart. More recently, she posted a casting call for the film, looking for a Korean American actress between the ages of 18 and 25 to play “the role of Ms. Breakfast.”

Drake Shares Video for New Single ‘8AM in Charlotte’

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Drake Shares Video for New Single ‘8AM in Charlotte’

Ahead of the release of his new album For All the Dogs tomorrow (October 6), Drake has shared a new single called ‘8AM in Charlotte’. The track comes paired with a music video starring his son, Adonis Graham. Check it out below.

For All the Dogs, which was initially scheduled for release on September 22, will include the recent SZA collaboration ‘Slime You Out’.

 

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Album Review: Sufjan Stevens, ‘Javelin’

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Album Review: Sufjan Stevens, ‘Javelin’

In Sufjan Stevens’ lexicon of love, there is nothing brighter, or more binding, than the afterglow. The word appears twice in the 48-page booklet of original art and essays that accompanies his phenomenal new album Javelin, as richly poetic and all-encompassing as the music itself, a personal catalog of love rendered as short glimpses in the cosmic journey between pre- and rebirth. First, it is the soft and natural afterglow of lovemaking, warmed by “the sweet bliss of here and now” and dreaming of a domestic future. Then, in the end, it’s part of something else entirely. In the final essay, Sufjan describes a kind of alien invasion that brings the promise of an endlessly renewable self for the narrator, who must open his mouth for a DNA sample, cover his naked body with spray foam, and succumb to the abyss. In the euphoric vision that lays out before him, his former self reveals itself like that love, “soft and pillowy.” So it follows that the songs on Javelin invariably have the same delicate beginnings, which Stevens somehow manages to retain and transform as they ascend.

Javelin is billed as Stevens’ first album in “full singer-songwriter mode” since his 2015 masterpiece Carrie & Lowell, though it doesn’t exactly find him in the same mode. It’s his first proper solo album since 2020’s The Ascension, which married sparse melancholy with opulent synths in ways that drifted away from both the heartbreaking quietude of Carrie & Lowell and 2010’s freakier The Age of Adz. If you want to call Javelin a return to form, or a culmination of Stevens’ various approaches over the years, you could, as is often the case with a high watermark in an artist’s discography. But what is moving and even groundbreaking about the album is the way Stevens arranges these elements, not foregoing the existential questions that swaddled The Ascension but weaving them into a lush, approachable tapestry of sound – one that notably serves as a reminder of his reverence for the song-based format after several forays into downcast synth and ambient experimentation. There’s perhaps no greater evidence of this than choosing a cover of Neil Young’s ‘There’s a World’, striking and clear-cut in its hope, to do the emotional heavy lifting of closing the record.

It also, of course, manifests in the strength and precision of all the original songs on Javelin, which Stevens recorded almost entirely by himself. In their heart and directness, the singles ‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me?’ and ‘So You Are Tired’ are some of his all-time best, addressing different stages in the aftermath of love with hushed, unguarded vulnerability that feels revelatory even for Stevens. “I was the man still in love with you/ When I already knew it was done,” he confesses on the latter, sharpening the devastation by recreating the fateful realization as present-tense dialogue. But instead of wearily resigning itself, even this song searches for a kind of resolution in the fullness of the choral harmonies provided Megan Lui, Hannah Cohen, and adrienne maree brown. They also elevate the grand declaration of opener ‘Goodbye Evergreen’ as it bursts into colour, mirroring the abundance of faces in the accompanying artwork. And they do the same on the following track, the lovely ‘A Running Start’. “Can you lift me up to a higher place?” Stevens asks on ‘Everything That Rises’, the sort of question his audience might turn to him for. Time and time again, seemingly in spite of and back to himself, he answers affirmatively.

Throughout Javelin, Stevens’ ability to hold contradictions and focus his energy in the right places makes his tender optimism feel true. Each swell and crescendo isn’t there for dramatic effect but to serve parts of the story whose beauty remains ineffable, to urge and propel the singer through it. Most of all, he’s incredibly careful about where and how to end things. On ‘Javelin (To Have And To Hold)’, he’s forced to entertain a violent thought, paints the image in his mind, but doesn’t allow himself to linger on it – it’s the shortest track on the album. Then, on the eight-and-a-half-minute ‘Shit Talk’, which could have been a giant misstep on an album that favours intricate simplicity over jarring shifts, he uses the space to dissolve the hopelessness out of his plea: “No more fighting.”

At first, Stevens sounds tired, like on The Ascension‘s similarly outstretched ‘Ativan’, with its despairing sigh: “So much for the afterglow.” Then his voice, literally drowned out by a choir, becomes part of something bigger. Like so much of Javelin, it expands. “You know I love you/But everything heaven sent must burn out in the end,” he sings on ‘Goodbye Evergreen’, before asking us on ‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me?’, with the same yearning desperation, to “celebrate the afterglow.” Oblivious as we might be to what it all means, running shorter and shorter on time, there is nothing lonely about it. For Stevens, and for all of us inclined to listen, that says a whole lot.

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