def one of the best artists of the decade
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Absolutely, total hero
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 April 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
yeah agree
― Dan S, Thursday, 11 April 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
i was disappointed by r.i.p at the time, idk, maybe bc of the absence of vocals and it being less apparently danceable, it felt like a collection of inwardly-turned idm fragments to me. i am discovering, to my regret, that this was an extremely surface-level reading!!! "raven" and "shadow from tartarus" and "caves of paradise" are amazing and i don't even know what "jardin" is
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
I like the description of it as "a twilight interzone between rest and wakefulness"
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
(from the Wire end of year 2012)
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
feels in retrospect like R.I.P was a peak along with Splazsh
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
although Hazyville, Ghettoville, and AZD were all pretty much equally amazing
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
R.I.P. and Ghettoville are both amazing
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
splazsh and ghettoville are my favorites
― the late great, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:22 (five years ago) link
also he is an amazing DJ
This could either be something special or a complete mess:
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131511-actress-x-stockhausen-sin-x-ii-2019
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 April 2019 08:39 (five years ago) link
ghettoville is my favorite, absolutely scraped out
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
feel like i could put any track from it on a mix with early godflesh and no one would blink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo0BniC5oco
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
New LP, Karma and Desire, coming out in October.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
... combining titles of two of my favorite records by artists named "Pharoah(e)"!
― The depressed somebody from the popular David Bowie song, (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
His new album was supposed to come out last month. I wonder what happened.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
AT LAST
https://thequietus.com/articles/28603-actress-new-album-88
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 July 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
I couldn't figure out the clue but I found a link to the unlocked album regardless
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 16 July 2020 06:41 (four years ago) link
88 is out now. Ninja Tune will release Karma & Desire in October 2020.
― calzino, Thursday, 16 July 2020 07:37 (four years ago) link
oh now its obvious!
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 16 July 2020 07:45 (four years ago) link
Heavy later BoC vibe a few minutes in.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'm really enjoying this so far.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
This drifts along very nicely, I like the deep bass sound. BoC vibes is otm!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 July 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
this is awesome
― carin' (map), Saturday, 18 July 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
I agree!
― paolo, Saturday, 18 July 2020 08:18 (four years ago) link
To me it sounds extremely Flying Lotus, and also maybe like he got some Korg Volcas? The synth textures feel very familiar to me (and I use a lot of Volcas). Also its more like a 22 minute beat tape than an album, but none of these are bad things, I'm into it.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
Although some of these beats wear out their welcome by the time they hit 2 min, as opposed to his murky & detailed tracks that feel like they could go on forever.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
Actress is less sprawl-prone than FL. His tracks come across as self-enclosed, gnomic fragments ('hedgehogs', per Fr. Schlegel) more so than FL's comparatively maximalist approach. I'm also tempted to argue that Actress is paradoxically closer to the core Warp aesthetic than FL.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
True, FlyLo packs a lot into his 2 min tracks.
On the plus side I'm currently listening to AZD again, what an album.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
i hear shake shakir in the newest actress but shake has just generally been on my mind so idk
― carin' (map), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
lol at the emails from actress with subject lines looking like straight up spamanybody call the phone number?
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
i did there was some musicmeh
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 24 September 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
Karma & Desire strikes me as his piano album, and in some ways his vocal album as well, with feats. by Zsela, Sampha, Aura T-09 and Christel Well. He gets more out of this spartan palette than when he's collaborating with a full orchestra as on LAGEOS. There's also plenty of overtly electronic material that hearkens back to the work for which he's best known, so the the risk of monotony is averted throughout. At first pass, this has got to be one of his best releases so far.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
Also, 'Public Life', a bona fide solo piano piece performed by Vanessa Benelli Mosell, is better than anything on Drukqs imo.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
ohhhhhh my god
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
on one level seems like a straight-up gorgeous nighttime house record, on another seems like one of his most formally ambitious and realized projects
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
2020: year of the dance full-length for people who love doing it wrong
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I love when he convincingly reminds you that you don't have to choose.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
in a year that was less stacked this would be my aoty easy. maybe it is
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
ok wow this is something else
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 23 October 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
Oh my actual goodness this is unreal
― the article don, Friday, 23 October 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
This is superb. It'll sound daft, but it's making me miss London so much - London at night, black streets in the rain, the blind foreheads of houses, the promise of solace behind every door.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 24 October 2020 09:05 (three years ago) link
I hesitate to invoke the B word but a lot of the stuff he's doing with claustral atmospheres and the slurring of voices is kinda Burial-adjacent.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 24 October 2020 09:22 (three years ago) link
I was just thinking that. Album feels like a cross between Drukqs and Burial. And it's fantastic.
― gman59, Saturday, 24 October 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
this is great, much better than the last mixtape, it feels so singular and uncompromising
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 October 2020 09:10 (three years ago) link
Actress is my favourite artist recording name ever, I think. I find it compellingly blank and suggestive at the same time.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovr3Zh28ZtQ
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
This is classic Actress but very much a headphones album (or at least a solitary/nighttime album), I made the mistake of putting it on during morning coffee time while my partner was around and it sounded really dumb in that context. :(
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link