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"Being brought up in a white wealthy family in a Western country, we were privileged. And we have a privileged position as people being able to make music and study and get asked about what we think about the general political situation. This brings responsibility. When we see people listen to what we have to say, it makes us think about how we can use this attention in the best political way and how we can change our own working process by thinking norm-critically when making choices about who we employ, how we work, what salaries we pay."-
-The Knife on Shaking the Habitual (for Pitchfork)
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"The last two years. And I can’t deny it. There’s no point in trying to come up with some other explanation for what I’ve been writing about. I mean, there has been somebody that I’ve been writing about. And that’s about as much as I’ll say about it. But definitely one of the strongest impetuses to write is feeling that. It was kinda long-distance too, so far away that there was this longing and this distance. So I think this record has the feeling of those love songs but also a sense of distance about it. A sense of transition and ‘love in motion’."- James Blake on Overgrown, being in love. (via Hot Press)
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"Failure pop, the phrase coined by Ashin to describe Autre Ne Veut, seems to be another statement as serious as it is satirical. Does it merely express a level of discomfort with the genre he’s most often categorised as, or is it a joke at his own expense? “It’s more to try and capture the aspirational qualities to the music. To me it’s a failure in that sense that I’m reaching outside of the purview of what’s comfortable for me as a producer and what’s comfortable for me as a performer. All my songs are my inability to successfully make songs the way I want."- The Quietus
(Source: thequietus.com)
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"A sense of impending death is a common symptom of a panic attack, something Arthur Ashin, previously known only as Autre Ne Veut, has himself experienced. “‘Gonna Die’ was actually like a cathartic exercise,” he recalls. “Writing that song, I was literally standing in the bathroom having a weird onset of panic and hyperventilating. I needed to do something to mitigate it, so I ran to my practice room and banged it out almost note for note."- The Quietus
(Source: thequietus.com)
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"I hate indie culture. I am not an indie rock musician— I don’t even know what the fuck that means. I’m not independent. I’m co-dependent. “Codie rock”— co-dependent rock. For the fuck-ups, I’ll always be there. That’s the only position I know how to fill. Obviously, I try to be better adjusted, but it’s futile."- Bradford Cox (Atlas Sound/ Deerhunter) on indie culture. via Pitchfork
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Ducktails’ The Flower Lane vintage-styled text and printing by Emma Young
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Gold Panda’s Trust artwork by Andy Gilmore
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drop it like it's not
by Harmonimix
Harmonimix (James Blake) | ”Drop it Like It’s Not”
finally found this after so much searching
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Illustrations for Toro Y Moi’s Anything in Return
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New James Blake song filmed live
perhaps titled “Our Love Comes Back”
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Angel Olsen- “Sweet Dreams”
shot on film
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“Bowie keeps up— he’s an aesthete who knows what the kids are up to and has used those obsessions as a sort of spiritual Botox…The beautiful thing about “Where Are We Now?” is that Bowie sounds every second of his 66 years; the tone is elegiac, his voice is weary and wise and could never be mistaken for the voice of a younger man. It’s a little disconcerting at first, just how cracked and naked his singing sounds, but the scotch-soaked after-hours musical backing gives it the perfect context. “Where are we now?” is a question Bowie wouldn’t have asked in the same way in the 1970s; back then he might have expected an answer but now he’s old enough to understand that you never really figure it out.”
-Pitchfork on David Bowie’s “Where Are We Now?”
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"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."- Steve Reich
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"Nicki might be one of just two rappers that possesses the energy to ride this sort Pokemon seizure music effectively and the only one who possesses the confidence to go all in with it."- Pitchfork on Nicki Minaj
