Listen to new holiday songs from Mac DeMarco, Sinkane, The Soul Santas (members of Beak>), Amber Coffman, Lydia Loveless, Black Marble, Allegaeon, and more.
Featuring Katalyst and Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Quakers’ first album in 8 years includes appearances from Guilty Simpson, Sampa the Great, Jonwayne, Jeremiah Jae, Chester Watson, Boog Brown, Jeru the Damaja, and many more.
Production collective Quakers -- Katalyst (Ashley Anderson), Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow of Portishead & Beak>), and 7-Stu-7 (Invada Studios engineer Stuart Matthews) -- are back after eight years with this 50-track, 50-minute beat tape...with more on the way soon.
Many artists have criticized Spotify CEO Daniel Ek for saying "you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough."
Tributes have also come in from Jean Michel Jarre, Midge Ure (Ultravox), the Safdie Brothers, Orbital, The Orb, Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Lloyd Cole, Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Kid Congo Powers, Junior Boys, JD Samson, and many more.
Modern Nature, the new group that includes Jack Cooper (Ultimate Painting, Mazes) and Will Young (BEAK>, Moon Gangs) and Aaron Neveu (Woods), just released their excellent debut album, ’How to Live’.
This week: reviews of new albums by Tropical Fuck Storm, Modern Nature (mems Ultimate Painting, Beak>, Woods), and Ghost Funk Orchestra, plus Teardrop Explodes reissues.