I'm Ready is taken from Alexis Taylor's solo album 'Piano' out on 10th June on Moshi Moshi Records. Download the sheet music here to play the song yourself. The music video is directed by Simon Owens: "Working with Alexis was like working with Vantablack, I couldn't see or talk to him."
The month of June on Autre’s Friday Playlists column celebrates the most important record producers working in music today. Click here to listen.
Click here to listen to this week's Friday playlist, covering the best songs that came out this month.
Son Lux, a musical project from composer Ryan Lott, has released the first single from his upcoming album Stranger Forms, entitled Cage Of Bones. The music video for the track, directed by Jean-Paul Frenay, explores a miasma of post apocalyptic visions. Son Lux will be playing at National Sawdust on June 1, 2016. Click here to preorder Stranger Forms.
'Love Is Not Love' is the second single taken from Cate Le Bon's album 'Crab Day'. 'Crab Day' out now! The music video is directed by the wonderfully idiosyncratic Turner Prize nominee Phil Collins. Shot in Berlin, the video sees Cate being joined by an elite troupe of dancers to engage in some seriously avant-garde yet clinically synchronized dance routines! Buckle up kiddos, things are about to get weird.
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Take It All Back is a track off the upcoming album Secretly Susan. As waves lap on the shore in the opening moments of Secretly Susan, you know you're in for a journey. Sui Zhen, aka Susan, aka Melbourne-based Dream Beat artist Becky Sui Zhen, is at the helm. Drifting by tiki beach parties and nostalgic Sound Systems, Becky's ethereally radiant jams lead you on a path to positive enlightenment. Inspired by Japanese Lovers Rock, 80s Electro-Bossanova and Dubby-Lounge Pop which she discovered on holidays in Japan and London as a participant at the Red Bull Music Academy, Secretly Susan is truly a World album wrapped neatly in a an accessible cloak and tied with a bow. The album lands in North America for the very first time June 17th via Twosyllable Records (on exclusive license from Dot Dash/Remote Control) in decadent bubblegum pink vinyl. Click here to preorder.
His face splattered with Hello Kitty temporary tattoos, a chiseled male hustler body and a thick Austrian accent, Candy Ken is a Harajuku Greek God run through the sieve of a culture on digital overload. If you held a mirror to the teenage zeitgeist of the twenty first century, Candy Ken’s smiling gold grill would be twinkling right back at you. Over the weekend, the Berlin-based performer released his first official album, entitled Real Talk, and he did it as his own manager, promoter and record label. Click here to read more.
Click here to listen to our playlist in honor of Skepta's latest record..
Other Side is the first song of the Parisian electronic music producer's LP, which is out now, on Yuk-Fu records. Video by Boe Strummer. Digital and 12" Vinyl available here.
Taken from the new album released digitally on 8th May 2016 at 7pm BST. Click here.
Tim Heidecker shares the video for his new single, "Work From Home," off his forthcoming solo record, In Glendale (out 5/20 on Rado Records). "Work From Home" presents a melancholy Tim, wandering around his (presumably Glendale-based) home, passing a variety of insane vignettes, hoping for a bit of peace and quiet. Written and directed by Austin Kearns, the single-shot video features obtrusive characters, house crashers, winos, stoners, and even Tim's label boss and Foxygen songwriter Jonathan Rado.
Listen to the best tracks of April in this week's Friday Playlist.
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Brood Ma is James Stringer, a London by way of Kent-based producer and graphic artist. He first gained interest in music through heavy metal, and a predilection towards extremity still seems to hold a place in his musical identity. He got serious about music after dropping out of Central Saint Martins where he was studying visual art. His first output was more in the realm of noise, but eventually took on form, beat, and rhythm to emerge as the experimental dance project that now defines Brood Ma. Click here to read more.
Photo by Robert Whitman, outside the Schmitt Music Mural in Downtown Minneapolis
Click here to listen to this week's Friday Playlist, honoring the birth state of our late, great Purple Prince.
Never meant to cause you any sorrow….sweet, stirring, sexual, heartbreaking, revolutionary, soulful, endless are the adjectives to describe the deliriously intoxicating and rhythmic sound of the artist who will never be formerly known as Prince, he will live on….on the radios of our cars, our memories of our first erotic introspection, and beyond. There will be no more Prince, but his music will be forevermore. photograph by Deborah Feingold/Corbis
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The video for Soft Ethnic's "Prints," which exclusively debuts on Autre, relies on a simple set and a variety of characters played by Liam Benzvi to visually represent the construction and variation found throughout the song. Influenced by Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis group, the set pieces were designed and colored to add a playful backdrop and lightness to the scene. This, along with the relative sparseness and consistency of the editing creates a strong visual language that lends itself well to Liam Benzvi's melodic musings. Music video co-directed by Alex Rapine and Jarod Taber. Set design by Marki Becker. Click here to read an interview with Liam Benzvi.
