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Daddy s Home (out May 14), Annie Clark s sixth album as St. Vincent, takes the sounds and sleaze of early-1970s New York as its aesthetic backdrop. Zackery Michael/Courtesy of the artist
There s a scene in Torrey Peters new novel,
Detransition, Baby, where two trans women argue over the enduring legacy of Candy Darling, one of the most memorable stars in Andy Warhol s orbit in late- 60s and early- 70s New York. One character asserts that she was little more than a muse, a blank canvas onto which men like Warhol and Lou Reed (who wrote about her in Candy Says and Walk on the Wild Side ) could project their fantasies: just some helpless languid blonde waiting around for a man to save her and make her famous. In response, the other character lifts her skirt to reveal an enormous, photorealistic portrait of Darling s face tattooed
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Throughout 2020, punk bands and fans wondered how anyone could generate and sustain a wave of excitement without the usual dues-paying opening slots, five-band gigs or breakout Fest sets. The brash Floridians in Home Is Where might still do that eventually, but theyâve excelled in the compact spaces that serve as proving grounds in 2021: TikTok, Twitter, and 18-minute albums. On their bracing first official LP
I Became Birds, Home Is Where talk a big gameâabout power structures, trans rights, and especially about fifth-wave emo. Brandon MacDonald mostly expresses themselves in uncanny bursts of imagery, so the few times they are direct are rare enough to quote in full: âcops are flammable, if you try,â âLook at all the dogs/I wanna pet every puppy I see,â âHow long has it been since a president got assassinated?â (mind you, âThe Scientific Classification of Stingraysâ was initially released in October 2020). Th
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Bedroom polymath Daniel McBride has journeyed through a personal hell - and come out clutching treasure Illness, physical assault, recurring anxiety and depression, Kiwi alt. pop auteur Daniel McBride, aka
Sheep, Dog & Wolf, has gone through some awful shit since his 2013 debut album
Egospect garnered much critical buzz. He has used the long stretches of enforced isolation to craft something truly beautiful.
Every single note of his follow-up collection
Two-Minds has been sung, played, produced and arranged by the man himself. And it is released into a world that now has an inkling of what it feels like to be cooped up against your will, with your thoughts running haywire. While it was born out of immense pain and suffering, much of the music, at least, seems to point towards recovery and a happier place.
“Any space where you are able to stop and recreate your own reality in whatever way is an act of resistance,” Simphiwe Ndzube told Lindsay Preston Zappas on the Carla project podcast.
A “born-free”, raised in post-apartheid South Africa, Ndzube’s reality is that of a South African immigrant and artist who has been living and creating in Los Angeles for several years. The art he makes is a reimagining of epic proportions; Ndzube begets an entire world that he is “constantly in the process of expanding and creating as a way to allow imagination and opportunities to come to life”.