We're about to get a lot more information about Jupiter and, with it, how our planet and our universe were formed. NASA and Apple Music* teamed up and released a short film connecting the two spheres of space and music, and Reznor and Ross composed an elegant piece to score it. It feels like the softer, more beautiful moments from Ghosts. You can check it out here.
Beck
Beck's new, as-yet-untitled album, which, according to the Space Child himself, "will sound like a range between last year's 'Dreams'** and 'Wow'," is set for release in late October. The new single, while mucho funky, feels a bit pointless and cliche, lyrically (aside from the line about doing jujitsu and the Lamborghini shih tzu, that's pretty solid Midnite Vulture content). Plus, Beck sounds kind of, I don't know, uninterested in all the stuff he's saying. Look, I get that there will never be another MV, that's okay, we'll always have MV. I'd rather Beck just do something new and original than try and recapture the vibe he had 17 years ago.
Just the fact that new Beck is on the horizon gives me hope though...
Aphex Twin has a new EP dropping on July 8th called CHEETAH. While most of it is solid luminescent Aphex; "CHEETAHT2 (Ld spectrum)" has a fantastic, frantic energy appropriate only for the racing of future space cars, the "single"*** "CIRKLON3 [Колхозная mix]" thuds along and gets kind of dark at the end (but doesn't really do it for me), but the big stand out is "CHEETA2 ms800", which is just...fun. Fun and bouncy and, of course, only about fifty seconds.
*sigh*
Not my favorite Aphex Twin EP, but still a totally capable Aphex Twin EP.
I'll be in Los Angeles for most of July and August, so there might not be a Bitchfest next month.
* SYNERGY, MOTHERFUCKER.
** Which I just saw in a car commercial. This...displeases me...
*** Ha. Yes. The radio single. That will be played on the radio.
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