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2022

albums: Alex G - God Save the Animals Alex G - We're All Going to the World's Fair Anthony Naples + DJ Python - Air Texture VIII Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Björk - Fossora Bladee & Ecco2k - Crest Broadcast - Maida Vale Sessions Carla dal Forno - Come Around Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time Cass McCombs - Heartmind Charli XCX - Crash Daphni - Cherry Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Pigments Hikaru Utada - Bad Mode Huerco S. - Plonk Isabella Lovestory - Amor Hardcore Junior Boys - Waiting Game Kali Malone - Living Torch Malibu - Palaces of Pity Marina Herlop - Pripyat Oren Ambarchi - Shebang Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin - Ghosted Organ Tapes - 唱着那无人问津的歌谣 / Chang Zhe Na Wu Ren Wen Jin De Ge Yao Phoenix - Alpha Zulu Physical Therapy - Teardrops on My Garage PPJ - Trindade Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing Raum - Daughter Sally Shapiro - Sad Cities Sam Prekop - The Sparrow Sam Prekop & John McEntire - Sons Of Shinichi Atobe - Love of Plastic Shygirl - Nymph The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? Torus & DJ Lostboi - The Flash Two Shell - Icons The Weeknd - Dawn FM William Basinski & Janek Schaefer - “ . . . On Reflection “

songs: Alex G - JLB's Drawing Bibio - Off Goes the Light Björk - Ancestress (ft. Sindri Eldon) Bladee & Ecco2k - Faust Bladee & Ecco2k - The Flag is Raised Call Super - Swallow Me Carla dal Forno - Side by Side Carly Rae Jepsen - Anxious Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking to Yourself Cass McCombs - Belong to Heaven CFCF - After the After (Bodysync Remix) Charli XCX - Sorry If I Hurt You Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Haha Coco & Clair Clair - Bad Lil Vibe Cole Pulice - City in a City Daphni - Take Two Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Sandstone Demi Lovato - Substance DJ Heartstring - Can't Stop the Night Doss - Look (All Night Mix) Doss - Strawberry (Singin' Club Mix) Double Virgo - Kicked Out by Seven Ecco2k & Bladee - Amygdala Ela Minus & DJ Python - Pájaros En Verano Embaci - Tiniest Whisper Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles Hudson Mohawke - Bicstan Isabella Lovestory - Exibisionista Job - Lore Junior Boys - Thinking About You Calms Me Down Kelela - On the Run Luis - Jack Anderson Malibu - Iliad Marina Herlop - Abans Abans Merely - The Killing Sun Mr Twin Sister - Resort Mura Masa & Erika de Casier - e-motions Objekt - Ballast Oren Ambarchi - I Organ Tapes - Burnout Organ Tapes - heaven can wait Physical Therapy - Chain Reaction PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar PPJ - Dar Um (Lauer Remix) Purelink - Butterfly Jam Rachika Nayar - Gayatri Raum - Walk together Sally Shapiro - Sad City SG Lewis & Tove Lo - Call on Me (SG's Dub Edit) Shinichi Atobe - Love of Plastic 1 Shygirl - Firefly Two Shell - Unrequited Yasmine - Doce Atração Yung Lean - Lips Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle

games: Elden Ring Kirby and the Forgotten Land Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Signalis Sonic Frontiers Squaredle Tactics Ogre: Reborn

film: Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) Ambulance (Michael Bay) Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron) Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker) Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine) Kimi (Steven Soderbergh) Nope (Jordan Peele) Orphan: First Kill (William Brent Bell) Pacifiction (Albert Serra) Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) Stars at Noon (Claire Denis) Tár (Todd Field) Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)

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HI LOVELY 🌿

🎵 Last song you listened to?

Last song I heard was Bicstan by Hudson Mohawke. My bf was playing it in the car earlier. It's completely unhinged and the music video is hilarious.

The last song I listened to on my own initiative though was Sweep Me Off My Feet by Pond. In the chorus there's a bit where he sings "baby understand" but to me it just sounds like "baby I'm a sandal". I now refuse to sing along with any other lyrics. He says sandal, right??

I put both songs below if you wanna form your own opinions. XD

🐰 What do you think says the most about a person?

Their ability to admit when they've been wrong, and their willingness to consider different perspectives.

Or when they see a small animal crossing a dangerous road, do they a) ignore it or b) help it cross safely. You'll know an absolute psychopath when they c) intentionally run it over. D:

🦋 Describe yourself in three words.

An absolute fucking BITCH.

Lol okay, let's be nice. Um... Practical, playful, a perfectionist. Working on letting go of that last one.

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HUDSON MOHAWKE // BICSTAN [CRY SUGAR, 2022]

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The comedian and musician discuss collaborating on HudMo’s shit-splattered music video.

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Elles The Doll

Α piece of music that needs to be played loud

Carl Stone - Aus Jus

A piece of music that moves you forward

Kelela - Washed Away

A piece of music that gets stuck in your head

Caroline Polachek - Bunny is a Rider 

A piece of music that makes you want to dance

Hudson Mohawke - Bicstan

A piece of music that makes you feel badass

Elles The Doll - Catwalk

A piece of music that you remember from your childhood

Bjork - Oceania

A piece of music that reminds you your hometown

Joy Division - She’s lost control

The piece of music you’ve listened to the most

Arca - Hymn

Elles The Doll is a producer and audio-visual artist based in Berlin. Her early teenage years were accompanied by multiple musical instruments followed by a MA in Audio & Visual Arts, the first expositions in sound design and electroacoustic music.

Influenced by  esotericism, pop culture and performance art, her music is consisted by ethereal landscapes, complex textures and unconventional sonic spaces.

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“Bicstan” by Hudson Mohawke [Cry Sugar, 2022]

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2022 - BEST SONG

AWARD NO.5 - BEST SONG OF 2022

PAST WINNERS

2021 > Self Esteem ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Jockstrap ‘Acid’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Weyes Blood ‘Andromeda’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Let’s Eat Grandma ‘It’s Not Just Me’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson ‘Ogre’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Solange ‘Cranes In the Sky’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Kendrick Lamar ‘The Blacker The Berry’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs ‘Two Weeks’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Oliver Wilde ‘Perrett’s Brook’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > Untold ‘Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix) (see full list HERE)

2009 > Joker - ‘Digidesign’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Lil’ Wayne - ‘A Milli’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Panda Bear - ‘Bros’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Hot Chip - ‘Over And Over’ (see full list HERE)

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RULES - A maximum of THREE tracks from any one artist. Songs can be tied in the same position.

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*SPOTIFY PLAYLIST WITH (ALMOST) ALL THE TRACKS*

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THE RUNNERS UP (in alphabetical order)..

100 Gecs ‘Doritos & Fritos’

A$AP Rocky ‘Shittin’ Me’

Alabaster DePlume ‘Don’t Forget You’re Precious’ / ‘Mrs Calamari’

Aldous Harding ‘Tick Tock’ / ‘Fever’

Alex G ‘Mission’

Alvvays ‘Pharmacist’

Angel Olsen ‘Big Time’ / ‘Ghost On’

Animal Collective ‘Walker’

Bar Italia ‘Banks’ / ‘Miracle Crush’

Bas Jan ‘Progressive Causes’ / ‘Sex Cult’

Batu ‘Atavism’

Beabadoobee ‘The Perfect Pair’

Beyonce ‘Alien Superstar’ / ‘Cuff It’

Bjork ‘Ovule’ / ‘Atopos’ / ’Ancestress’

Black Country, New Road ‘Chaos Space Marine’ / ‘Bread Song’ / ‘Basketball Shoes’

Black Midi ‘Still’ / ‘The Defence’

Blanck Mass ‘Italia ‘90’

Bolis Pupul ‘Neon Buddha’

Alan Braxe + DJ Falcon feat. Panda Bear ‘Step By Step’

Brockhampton ‘Big Pussy’

Caroline ‘Dark Blue’ / ‘Good Morning (Red)’

Caroline Polachek ‘Sunset’ / ‘Welcome To My Island’

Cate Le Bon ‘Moderation’ / ‘Harbour’ / ‘Running Away’

CHAI ‘Whole’ / ‘Hero Journey (feat. Superorganism)’

Charli XCX ‘Beg For You (feat. Rina Sawayama)’

Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘HAHA’ / ‘Mantra’

Crack Cloud ‘Costly Engineered Illusion’

Cryalot ‘Hell Is Here’ / ‘Hurt Me’

Dagger Brothers ‘That’s Magic’

Dean Blunt, Skepta, Novelist, A$AP Rocky ‘London Tonight Freestyle’

Delifinger ‘I Don’t Even Want To Know’

Denzel Curry ‘Walkin’

Dick Dent ‘Fun Times’

Divorce ‘Checking Out’

Dorian Electra ‘My Agenda (Anamanaguchi Remix)’

Dry Cleaning ‘Kwenchy Kups’ / ‘Gary Ashby’

Eartheater ‘Mitosis’

EASYFUN ‘Audio’

El Michels Affair & Piya Malik ‘Kabhi’

Ernold Same ‘The Reader’

Felicita & Kero Kero Bonito ‘Cluck’

Fences & Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Sympathy For The Devil’

The Financial Year ‘Serpenti’ 

FKA Twigs ‘Meta Angel’ / ‘Oh My Love’ / ‘Honda (feat. Pa Salieu)’

FLO ‘Cardboard Box’

FLOHIO ‘SPF’ 

Gabriels ‘One And Only’

Group Listening ‘Hollywood Dream Trip’ / ‘All Of A Sudden’

Gruff Rhys ‘People Are Pissed’

Hannah Diamond ‘Staring At The Ceiling’

Hercules & Love Affair feat. ANOHNI ‘Poisonous Storytelling’ (Giant Swan remix)’

Hot Chip ‘Eleanor’ / ‘Broken’

Hudson Mohawke ‘Intentions’ / ‘Bicstan’

John Cale & Weyes Blood ‘Story Of Blood’

JPEGMAFIA ‘Hazard Duty Pay!’

KAINA ‘Apple’

Kate NV ‘Early Bird’ / ‘Oni (They)’

Katy J Pearson ‘Talk Over Town’ / ‘Howl’ / ‘Float’

Kelela ‘Happy Ending’ / ‘On The Run’

Kelli Blanchett ‘Peaceful When You Sleep’

Kendrick Lamar ‘N95’ / ‘The Heart Part 5’

Kinlaw & Franco Franco ‘Crocs On The Plough’

Let’s Eat Grandma ‘Happy New Year’

Little Simz ‘Gorilla’ / ‘Broken’

Lizzo ‘About Damn Time’

Max Tundra ‘MBGATE (Kero Kero Bonito remix)’ / ‘Lights (A.G. Cook remix)’

Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert, PainkPantheress & Shygirl ‘Bbycakes’

NANORAY ‘Endless Higanbana’

Nilufer Yanya ‘Shameless’ / ‘Stabilise’

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ‘Gettin’ To The Point’ / ‘Go On’

Pet Simmers ‘Sonder’ / ‘Edge Lord’ / ‘Stream Friendly Play Shifter’

Phoenix (feat. Ezra Koenig) ‘Tonight’

Pictish Trail ‘Natural Successor’

PinkPantheress ‘Do You Miss Me?’

Planet 1999 ‘Crush’

Pozi ‘Slightly Shaking Cells’

Pusha T ‘Diet Coke’

Richard Dawson ‘Thicker Than Water’

Robbie & Mona ‘Clapback’ / ‘Sherry Prada’

Rosalia ‘Saoko’ / ‘Delirio De Grandeza’

Rozi Plain ‘Agreeing For Two’ / ‘Help’

SAULT ‘Time Is Precious’

Savage Mansion ‘The Crucible’ / ‘Football Weather’

SCALPING (feat. DÆMON) ‘Tether’

Self Esteem ‘The Process’

Seraphina Simone ‘Milk Teeth’ / ‘Lovesick’

Shygirl ‘Nike’ / ‘Coochie (A Bedtime Story)’

The Smile ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’

Snoop Dogg ‘Crip Ya Enthusiasm’

Sobs ‘Air Guita’

Soccer Mommy ‘Bones’ / ‘Shotgun’

Soft Lad ‘2 Know U Betta’

Sorry ‘There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved’

Special Interest ‘Midnight Legend’ / ‘(Herman’s) House’

Spiritualized ‘The Mainline Song / The Lockdown Song’

Steve Lacy ‘Helmet’ / ‘Bad Habit’

Sudan Archives ‘Ciara’

Sweet Baboo ‘Hopeless’

Syd (feat. Lucky Daye) ‘CYBAH’

SZA ‘Shirt’ / ‘Kill Bill’

Tim Heidecker ‘Buddy’

Tirzah ‘Ribs’

Warmduscher ‘Fatso’

The Weeknd ‘Gasoline’ / ‘How Do I Make You Love Me?’ / ‘Take My Breath’

Wesley Gonzalez ‘A Taste Of Something New’ / ‘Greater Expectations (feat. Rose Elinor Dougall)’

Weston Allen ‘Girls From The Parking Lot’

Wet Leg ‘Being In Love’ / ‘Angelica’

Weyes Blood ‘Children Of The Empire’

Yama Warashi ‘Makkuroi Mizu’

Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Perfume Genius ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’

Yeule ‘Bites On My Neck’

Young Fathers ‘Geronimo’

Zoee ‘Microwave (Voka Gentle rework)’

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THE TOP 25 SONGS OF 2022

25. Tim Heidecker ‘Sirens Of Titan’

24. Panoram ‘Wandering Frames’

23. HAIM ‘Lost Track’

22. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ‘Edge Of The Edge’

21. Charli XCX ‘Baby’

20. Animal Collective ‘Strung With Everything’

19. Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘It Hit Me’

18. Pictish Trail ‘Remote Control’

17. Sudan Archives ‘Selfish Soul’

16. Dry Cleaning ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’

15. Steve Mason & Javed Bashir ‘No More’

14. Young Fathers ‘I Saw’

13. Alex G ‘Runner’

12. Weyes Blood ‘Grapevine’

11. Self Esteem ‘The 345 (acoustic version)’

10. Richard Dawson ‘The Fool’

9. Death’s Dynamic Shroud ‘Judgment Bolt’

8. Arctic Monkeys ‘They’d Better Be A Mirrorball’ / ‘Body Paint’

7. Black Midi ‘Welcome To Hell’

6. Weyes Blood ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’

5. Jockstrap ‘Greatest Hits’

4. Caroline Polachek ‘Billions’

3. Jockstrap ‘Glasgow’

2. Richard Dawson ‘The Hermit’

1. Jockstrap ‘Concrete Over Water’

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Favorite Albums of August 2022

5. Cheat Codes- Black Thought & Danger Mouse

Essentials: “The Darkest Part” ft. Raekwon & Kid Sister, “Aquamarine” ft. Michael Kiwanuka, “Saltwater” ft. Conway the Machine

4. Cry Sugar- Hudson Mohawke

Essentials: “intentions”, “Bicstan”, “3 Sheets to the Wind”

3. Bleed Out- The Mountain Goats

Essentials: “Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome”, “Hostages”, “Training Montage”

2. The Elephant Man’s Bones- Roc Marciano & The Alchemist

Essentials: “Daddy Kane” ft. Action Bronson, “The Elephant Man’s Bones”, “Trillion Cut” ft. Boldy James

1. Reset- Panda Bear & Sonic Boom

Essentials: “Gettin’ to the Point”, “Danger”, “Edge of the Edge”

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Hudson Mohawke//Cry Sugar

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Hudson Mohawke - BICSTAN - co-directed by Patti Harrison & Alan Resnick - 2022

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bicstan by hudson mohawke LOOK ITUP

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Is It Supposed / Hudson Mohawke (in Cry Sugar, Warp Records, 2022)

Hudson Mohawke embraces dystopian trash-pop imagery on his first album in seven years, maintaining his trademark clarity while bleeding and oozing over a larger canvas than ever.

Hudson Mohawke lives in L.A. now, and he’s fallen head over heels for the American tradition of dystopian trash-pop imagery. The video for a megamix of tracks he released in advance of his third album, Cry Sugar, shows us a CGI scene of a man cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway with an assortment of Mos Eisley-worthy weirdos and an animated woman so buxom she appears warped. It looks like Grand Theft Auto and Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” video at once, run through the brain-fried filter of Kuso, Tim & Eric, and Adult Swim’s Off the Air. The cover by Willehad Eilers features the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters horking down a hamburger. In a city whose hills host the Hollywood sign, the Griffith Observatory, and an alarming regularity of smoke-belching infernos, it’s hard not to find the humor—and the horror—in this aesthetic.

The Scottish producer born Ross Birchard cites “American decadence” and the “quintessential backdrop of late capitalism” as an inspiration for his first solo album in seven years. Cry Sugar isn’t a polemic or satire, but it strikes some of the same notes as Idiocracy or Robocop, in which everything is so big, garish, and dumb it’s almost psychedelic. It’s full of moments that seem distasteful at first until you realize that’s exactly the point. Clarence Coffee Jr.’s rasp initially seems at odds with the music’s polymer-like textures, but he strikes the right note on “Bow” with crass, unsubtle lines like, “Now you walk around all stank-face like you need some Febreze!” Gospel samples abound, and when the choir rises up and screams “Freedom!” on “Intentions,” you might wonder if Birchard knows how cheesy it sounds—until the rest of the album makes it abundantly clear that he does.

Birchard’s style has long lent itself to adjectives like “colorful” and “neon.” But while his sharp shares and tightly quantized beats usually bring a sense of order to the mayhem, Cry Sugar spills all over the place, and the time-stretching and pitch-shifting Birchard slathers on his samples make them sound like they’re melting under the pitiless Southern California sun. Tobacco and Neon Indian go for a similar effect in their work, but while those Day-Glo detritus-diggers tend to choke their tracks in thick production smog, Cry Sugar retains the clarity of Birchard’s earlier music, sometimes giving the impression of a sturdy steel skeleton whose flesh is melting off. “Intentions,” “Bicstan,” and “Dance Forever” are absolute monsters that approach the same almost ridiculous level of intensity as TNGHT’s definitive “Higher Ground” while clearly being born from a more expressionistic corner of Birchard’s brain.

Cry Sugar is Birchard’s longest album by some measure, with 19 tracks that bleed and ooze across 63 minutes. But it’s not long in the way of some bloated event-rap album, rather in the way of great electronic long-players like Since I Left You or Geogaddi, where so much awesome shit happens that you grow excited about what comes next even when the album starts to drag. Most of Cry Sugar’s tracks are around two or three minutes long, but Birchard judiciously breaks up the flow with lengthier cuts, and they’re doozies. “Is It Supposed” is either building towards nothing or climaxing for six minutes, its wistful rave melody sparkling like a firework that refuses to extinguish. “Rain Shadow” is so rhythmically tricky that it eventually stops sounding like a banger and takes on a sort of insectoid beauty. “Lonely Days” is all strings and Westian melodrama.

My personal favorite, though, is “Stump,” one of the first songs from Cry Sugar to see the light of day. It sounds like Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra*—*the tone poem used in 2001: A Space Odyssey to soundtrack mankind’s ascent into the higher realms of sentience—for about two seconds. Then Birchard plays a chord so dissonant the high drama immediately curdles into a joke, as if the starchild has missed its path back to Earth and gone plop into the surface of the sun. It’s exactly the kind of unexpected, pessimistic, profoundly ridiculous sound gag that Cry Sugar delivers one after another, adding up to the funniest, most mind-twisting album Birchard’s ever made.

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【私の激ヤバ鬼マスト No.2788】 Hudson Mohawke / Bicstan

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Hudson Mohawke - Bicstan (Official Video)