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Name: Isaac Pollock
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Name: Isaac Pollock
“He likes my diamonds and my pearls / I said, ‘Thank you, I designed it.’”
Tirzah’s trip9love…???, released this past September, is an album shrouded in mystery. The London–based electronic artist gave no press interviews in the lead–up to its release, and dropped the album onto streaming platforms on a Tuesday night with hardly any promotion.
“This rap shit done saved my life, and fucked it up at the same time,” raps Danny Brown in the opening line of his sixth studio album, Quaranta. Brown has had a long complicated relationship with rap music. A true student of the game as apparent on his comedy podcast, The Danny Brown Show, the 42–year–old Detroit rapper has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of hip–hop music.
Why should you care about King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard? With the recent release of The Silver Cord, the Australian psychedelic rock band has released 25 albums since they formed in 2010, which averages out to almost two albums per year for 13 years straight. In 2016, King Giz frontman Stu Mackenzie shattered the minds of fans and reviewers alike when he announced that the band would release five albums in just one year and then actually followed through on that promise in 2017.
It’s drizzling rain outside in The Sculpture Courtyard, a mixed indoor–outdoor event space in Northeast Philadelphia. Murmurs, fragments of conversation mix with the icy and distorted synths of “Hedphrlym,” an ambient techno song. Guests walk by in military boots, colorful patchwork jackets, layers of silver punk chains. Here, on a Friday night, unique characters and personalities reveal themselves, liberated from the rules and normalities of daily life in Philadelphia. It’s a new, alien world, one defined by both individual self expression and a strong sense of community. This is not the “land of the free” anymore, it’s the Land of the Free(ks) fashion show.
Perched on top of her fridge with a bucket hat, cowboy boots, and an acoustic guitar, Adrianne Lenker, lead singer and songwriter of Indie–folk band Big Thief, belts out a verse from the band’s recent single “Vampire Empire,” an emotionally explosive track that details a toxic love gone bad like “expired milk.”
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