Christian Eede
, March 10th, 2021 18:29
The Nine Inch Nails affiliate releases his second album for Mute in June
Alessandro Cortini has a new album on the way.
SCURO CHIARO takes its title from the term for heavily contrasting light and shadow in painting and other visual arts. Cortini says it shows that no matter how you order things there s always going to be two elements that tend to be the opposite of each other that make up the truth or make up everything.
Cortini has shared lead track CHIAROSCURO alongside the album s announcement, and you can listen to it above. Speaking about the track, the producer says: It represents the record, where I was and where I am emotionally. It s to do with the conscious decision about trying to be positive, of striving for happiness while accepting the fact that happiness is not all positive.
Eleanor Philpot
, March 9th, 2021 08:14
For years Anita Lane was overshadowed by her collaborator and ex-boyfriend Nick Cave. Eleanor Philpot argues that we instead need to see the singer as an artist whose exploration of female sexuality was way ahead of its time
I started listening to Anita Lane by accident, during one of those heartbreaks so painful you become physically unwell. I spent my days incapacitated in the bath, repeatedly listening to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Boatman’s Call and sobbing. It was during one of those sessions of weeping that the cruel murmuring of ‘Green Eyes’ segued into the Spotify album radio.
Future Times
Tom Bolton
, March 9th, 2021 08:51
Imbued with a rich sense of place, Plankton Wat s new record finds inner peace, finds Tom Bolton
From the turbulent alternative heartland of Portland, Oregon, a dispatch arrives. The Pacific North West may seem further away at the moment than it has for generations, but Plankton Wat’s new album drops us into the heart of the city and its mountainous surroundings, beset by political and climactic upheaval during the dying days of Trump. The swirling, guitar-driven instrumentals are pure psychedelic exploration, but the album addresses forest fires (‘The Burning World’), Black Lives Matter protests (‘Dark Cities), and police violence (‘Defund the Police’). It also offers spiritual redemption through the wild places that surround Portland (‘Future Times’, ‘Wind Mountain’).