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RELEASE RADAR | New Album from High Turnover
Plus new music from Oginalii, Ghostly Kisses, Lauren Rocket, and more
10.05.2018
Pour some bubbly and settle in, we planned your weekend playlist for you.
RELEASE RADAR is here to give you the breakdown of your top singles, albums, and videos to check out as you head into your weekend. Get ready to jam out with some of our favorite up-and-coming artists, plus celebrate new stuff from those you already know and love.
SINGLES…
TELYKast | "101"
TELYKast is shattering stereotypes when it comes to electronic music. Sandwiched between DJs and computer-based beats, the L.A. trio features instrumentals, expertly mixed vocals, and catchy lyrics in their new single.
You Might Also Like: The Chainsmokers, Gryffin, Cheat Codes
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Oginalii | "No Littering"
Oginalii frontwoman Emma Hoeflinger is a rock 'n roll powerhouse--and don't you forget it. "I hope this song can be a reminder to all the beautiful women out there of your inner power," said Hoeflinger.
You Might Also Like: The Dead Weather, The Kills, Band Of Skulls
Follow Oginalii on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram⭐ PREMIERE ⭐ | Ghostly Kisses | "The City Holds My Heart"
Margaux Sauvé, better known as Ghostly Kisses, draws on her classical violin training for her new single. Heart-wrenching lyrics melt into a dreamy pop melody as two forlorn souls struggle between heart and home.
You Might Also Like: Daughter, Fiona Apple, Death Cab for Cutie
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⭐ PREMIERE ⭐ | Lauren Rocket | "Diamond Nights"
L.A.'s Lauren Willow White's first single as Lauren Rocket puts an '80s spin on otherwise modern synth-pop. "It was influenced by Blondie, and memories of driving across the country," said Rocket." Also what it feels like to be in love in your youth, when everything feels so intense and so permanent."
You Might Also Like: The Child, MGMT, MadonnaFollow Lauren Rocket on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Sakr | "Home Again"
Sam Sakr shows off his production prowess in his debut single. "'Home Again' is about the surrender of falling into dark places over and over again," Sakr explained. "The jagged nature of the arrangement and the complex sound design is a sonic projection of how frantic and uneasy my mind moves in those places."
You Might Also Like: James Blake, SOHN, Bonobo
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VIDEOS...
⭐ PREMIERE ⭐ | Anjulie | Hold Me Down
Award-winning songwriter Anjulie takes DIY and makes it her own in the video for her new single, which dropped during the Toronto Film Festival. "I didn't have a budget for a video but I'm super hype on the song so I thought it would be fun to just run through the center of TIFF with a camera," said Anjulie. "No one in the video could hear the audio so I looked even more insane in person than I do with the music."
You Might Also Like: Natalia Kills, Fefe Dobson, Neon Hitch
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WAFIA | I'm Good
Australian pop queen WAFIA is back with a video her single "I'm Good" (previously featured on Release Radar) and takes us on a spin around Highland Park in L.A.--in one continuous shot.
You Might Also Like: Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Amy Winehouse
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ALBUMS/EPs...
Lindsay Kay | For the Feminine, by the Feminine
Lindsay Kay's aptly-named debut LP celebrates womanhood in all of its forms. Kay collaborated with strong, powerful people who identify as women throughout the project. "I tried to imagine men recording this music," Kay says, "even men I love working with, and it made me uncomfortable. I needed people who could truly connect with the music on a personal level and would allow me to be completely vulnerable in the studio."
You Might Also Like: Laura Marling, Julien Baker, Joanna Newsom
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Mink's Miracle Medicine | Pyramid Theories
"Twang inspired rock 'n roll" group Mink's Miracle Medicine is back with their sophomore album, defying genres and leaving us yearning for more.
You Might Also Like: The Breeders, The New Pornographers, Uncle Tupelo
Follow Minks Miracle Medicine on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
High Turnover | Face Melt
Seattle's High Turnover turns classic folk rock on its head with their latest album, Face Melt. Frontman Alec Estes varies his approach to songwriting and crafts a unique story with each track and keeps raising the bar.
You Might Also Like: Lou Reed, Danny Brown, Ty Segall
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Allie Delyanis is an award-winning and losing freelance journalist based in New York City. She likes bands, books, breakfast food, and would love to be David Sedaris when she grows up. You can find more of her work on www.delyanis.com.
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CULTURE
What Ageism Means in the Era of "OK, Boomer"
If you cling to outdated ideas, you are choosing to be left behind.
01.09.2020
A relative recently reached out to express concern that I was sharing ageist sentiments on the Internet.
She didn't have to specify which content had bothered her. I knew she was talking about my attacks on "boomers."
<p>It's become a common thread online for members of the baby boomer generation to<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90426654/is-ok-boomer-an-ageist-slur-these-18-hilarious-takes-say-definitely-not" target="_blank"> accuse young people who use the phrase "OK Boomer" of being ageist</a>, and I think it's worth addressing the concern in a bit more detail.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>As <a href="https://www.popdust.com/guide-for-talking-to-boomers-2641187797.html" target="_self">others have pointed out</a>, "OK Boomer" should not really be thought of as an attack on any individual—let alone the vulnerable individuals who are materially harmed by ageism. While many no doubt use it recklessly, it can best be understood as an attack on entrenched power structures and the mindsets that prop them up: in particular, the political mindset that was molded by events stretching roughly from the "Summer of Love" through September 11th, 2001.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><p>The boomer mindset formed largely in opposition to the supposed values of the Soviet Union and embraced individualism and self-actualization above the material conditions of a shared society. It was also, of course, formed in opposition to "The Greatest Generation," and it made some real strides in dissolving the rigid conformity and open racism that came to define their parents' era. The free-love movement, the anti-war movement, and much of the civil rights movement were products of baby boomers entering the cultural conversation, and they pushed society to change in a positive direction.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>Unfortunately, while they could plainly see the problems of the world they were changing, they were unable to predict the problems of the world they were building. The embrace of individualism, which was so fundamental to their perspective, helped to acknowledge the <em>nominal</em> rights and freedoms of all people—regardless of race, sex, or (eventually) sexuality—but it was also a valuable tool in the effort to systematically<a href="https://psmag.com/economics/what-caused-the-decline-of-unions-in-america" target="_blank"> undermine organized labor</a> and<a href="https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/12/04/cold-war-welfare-state/" target="_blank"> the welfare state</a>. Because when the individual is the key to understanding everything, personal responsibility is the only true duty of any citizen.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><p>There is no reason, from this perspective, to concern ourselves with the ways in which systems that do not explicitly damage individual autonomy might impact broad cultural groups differently. It asserts that America has a meritocracy; so if a group is claiming unfair treatment, it's likely because the individuals in that group actually want access to some special treatment. Most importantly, taxes and regulations should always be cut, and business interests should be favored above all—because that's how you achieve endless economic growth, and "Big Government" just gets in the way of people helping themselves.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>It's an ideology that proved itself successful in the economic growth of the Reagan '80s, along with "American Exceptionalism" and free-trade imperialism. And while many baby boomers might even be sympathetic to left-of-center politics, they've seen too many campaigns—Mondale, McGovern, Howard Dean—collide and collapse against the immovable monolith of these foundational Cold-War values. When the Democrats finally took back power in the '90s, it was because Bill Clinton knew how to reach across the aisle and<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-have-been-seeking-compromise-since-clinton-it-hasnt-worked/2019/05/27/4912b9ea-7d83-11e9-b1f3-b233fe5811ef_story.html" target="_blank"> give Republicans 80% of what they wanted</a>. And the reason Hillary didn't win in 2016—according to this line of thinking—was that she listened <em>too much</em> to marginalized groups vying for special treatment…and because she's a woman.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><p>You have to play it safe, they say. You can push for little changes, but you can't try to change everything all at once. That's <em>not how the world works</em>. It's an understandable position to take, given the historical context that formed it, but it's built on one shaky premise that is patently absurd to anyone born after 1985: that the world works.<br></p><p>For the generation that controls<a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/heres-how-big-the-boomer-millennial-wealth-gap-is-51575586317" target="_blank"> more than half the wealth in the nation</a>—compared to Millennials' 3%—it must be easy to imagine that the world works. For the generation who saw their ideas turn into economic growth that<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/05/23/americans-arent-ready-weather-sustained-downturn-new-report-shows/" target="_blank"> actually benefited the middle class</a> and assured that their lives would be better than their parents', it must be easy to imagine that progress is inevitable. For the generation that won't have to face<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report" target="_blank"> disastrous environmental consequences</a> as a result of the global industrialization that fueled all that growth, it must be easy to imagine that there is not an urgent need to make<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/14/crisis-talk-green-new-deal-naomi-klein" target="_blank"> structural changes to our entire civilization</a>…</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><p>So don't tell us how the world works when we can clearly see that it doesn't. We've heard what you have to say—we've been hearing it our entire lives—and we just don't care anymore. The social paradigms that formed the boundaries of political possibility in your era no longer apply. Your notions of "centrism"—tough on crime, soft on corporations—have pushed our country far to the right of the developed world and left us with<a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/7/13/8913297/mass-incarceration-maps-charts" target="_blank"> unconscionable levels of mass incarceration</a> and a truly<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2019/05/29/americas-humungous-wealth-gap-is-widening-further/#58ab861042ee" target="_blank"> shameful wealth gap</a>.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>Thankfully, you are outnumbered. Your children's generation is<a href="https://money.cnn.com/interactive/economy/diversity-millennials-boomers/" target="_blank"> not only larger than yours</a> it's more diverse; more socially, scientifically, and environmentally conscious; and<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90218064/for-young-people-socialism-is-now-more-popular-than-capitalism" target="_blank"> more open to collectivist ideals</a>. Hope, on the other hand—along with the mental health that requires it—is in short supply. If we continued to let your generation guide the political and cultural conversation, the last of that hope might just drain away.</p><p>So when you try to play the old hits for the thousandth time, it's safer just to tune you out. There are finally more of us than there are of you, and we deserve a chance to build our own movements, our own ideas, and our own society. In that process, it's necessary to discard the outdated ideas that brought us here—the toxic individualism, the adulation of wealth, and the "centrist" compromises that consolidate power while immiserating working people.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</script></center><p></p><p>And there are some baby boomers—two presidential candidates, for instance—who are willing to help in that process. If you can get on board with Black Lives Matter, the Green New Deal, and trans rights, then you are welcome to join the dialogue. But if you are unwilling to see a lot of the ideas you grew up with be discarded, then the conversation will have to leave you behind. Ok, boomer?<br></p><h2></h2><p>In time, the changes we make will no doubt reveal their own set of flaws, but only our children will be qualified to diagnose them. They will tell us we're wrong in brand new ways, and we will no doubt resist and cry ageism and resent the upstarts putting us in our place. But for now, all we can see clearly are the ravages that the current power structure has wrought and the necessity of change. If you don't see it too, then it's time for you to take a back seat.</p>
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Post Malone is the poet laureate of all beer-drunken hearts, and his astute observations on life, love, and intoxication deserve to be taken far too seriously.
As a freshly graduated English major who just moved to Brooklyn, I feel that it's my personal responsibility to share my philosophical musings with the world. Sadly, very few people read books anymore, so I've decided to apply my degree to something I love but that also may meet the masses on their terms: the exquisitely poetic lyrics of the one and only Post Malone.
<p>In all honesty, I find Post Malone extremely peaceful. There's a ragged edge to his music that corresponds well with the frayed edges of my soul, and Post Malone has provided refuge from many a storm. But why? Is it his quivery vibrato, or the starry reverb-drenched tropicana-hip-hop that backs it, or something more? </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>In an effort to determine the source of Post Malone's ability to lull the howling wolves in my heart as effortlessly as Orpheus soothed the dragon of Colchis during the hunt for the Golden Fleece, I've decided to conduct an in-depth excavation of his lyrics. </p><h4>6. "All this stuntin' couldn't satisfy my soul. Got a hundred big faces, but I'm still alone."<span></span></h4><p>Post Malone might seem like a mutated, glitchy mashup of a variety of cultures that are not his own combined with 2008-level fetishization of the come-up game, but actually a lot of his lyrics are pointed deconstructions of late capitalism (when you examine them closely through the rose-tinted lenses of the shades you're wearing to hide your hangover). This line—like much of <em>Beerbongs & Bentleys—</em>clearly reveals the alienation and pain that defines existing within the chokehold of neoliberalism, even when you've supposedly "won" its rigged game. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>Like so many of Posty's messages, this lyric proves that we are nothing, in the end, without compassion for each other. We cling to each other in the darkness, like ships beating against the current, knowing our own selves only because others have lent us the faint glow of recognition and connection. Though we perform "stunts" like gender, class, or whatever the corporations have decided we must be, Post Malone knows that all the crowds in the world can't fill the empty keg in his heart.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><p><br></p><h4>5. "It seems like every plug ran east to Utah, became Mormons"</h4><p>One could (whether one <em>should</em> is another topic entirely) write an entire book about "Feeling Whitney," but this line in particular offers a window into the depth and breadth of Post Malone's body of references. "Whitney" is a poignant song about depression and wasting away in one's bedroom, one that Hamlet might've sung had he lived to express his angst today. Post also manages to work in critiques of toxic masculinity while coming clean about how difficult it is to subvert these archetypes of masculinity and the need to compete to achieve them. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>The song is also about addiction and the emptiness of not being able to find one's fix because even all your dealers have left you. But perhaps there's more: Perhaps Post Malone is expressing hope that someday he'll undergo a Kanye West-style religious awakening, that he'll get clean and join a church, that he'll kick his selfishness and his drug habits and that he'll find the pure faith and love that he's always been brushing up against in his music but running from in his real life. Perhaps Utah is a symbol for an Edenic transcendence or a world beyond material desires. Or maybe Post Malone just needs a new dealer.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><p><br></p><h4>4. "When she's comin' for my heart, it feels like Armageddon"</h4><p>In "Over Now," Post Malone draws a parallel between violence and love, two kindred forces that have the potential to obliterate human beings, totally altering the courses of physical and mental realities, sometimes creating or ending life, and resonating for a long time after the fallout.</p><p>In the Book of Revelations, the word Armageddon refers to the apocryphal location of a massive battle that occurs during the end times. The term also broadly refers to the end of the world in any form. By comparing love to Armageddon, is Post Malone arguing that the end times are nigh? Is he referring to climate change, or the onslaught of artificial intelligence, or something more internal and universally distributed?</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>Love and death have always been concurrent forces, running parallel to each other across literature and the human experience. In her thesis <a href="https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/view/275" target="_blank"><u><em>Conceptions of Love and Death in Early Modern Literature</em></u></a><em>, </em>Jessica Dyson writes, "As Michael Neill has argued, 'death' is not something that can be imagined once and for all, but an idea that has to be constantly re-imagined across cultures and through time; which is to say that, like most human experiences that we think of as 'natural', it is culturally defined.' We might," she adds, "of course, argue that the same is true of 'love' and 'desire.'" </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>Perhaps love will obliterate us; it might be our Armageddon—but every end is also a beginning, and the word "apocalypse" itself actually means "revelation," not disaster. Perhaps in this age of ecological apocalypse, we need <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rJiLBwAAQBAJ&pg=PR24&lpg=PR24&dq=love+and+apocalypse&source=bl&ots=n5Kr7yRGCf&sig=ACfU3U0Qu53MyNzeJkHWhEi9b_lvh_6-xg&hl=en&ppis=_c&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS48T8wanmAhXkSt8KHa_sC3Q4FBDoATAHegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=love%20and%20apocalypse&f=false" target="_blank"><u>Armageddon-level love</u></a> to annihilate pre-existing realities and invent new paradigms and stories that can guide us into a new and more interconnected age.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><br></p><h4>3. "Population four million / how I see the same b*tches?"</h4><p>In this lyric, Post Malone raises the concept of the archetypal <a href="https://www.carl-jung.net/synchronicity.html" target="_blank"><u>synchronicity</u></a>, which is a term Carl Jung defined as "the acausal connection of two or more psychic and physical phenomena." Essentially, the refers to a strange, often symbolic coincidence that happens outside of the bounds of reason and that challenges conventional logic. Frequently cited in <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26905461_Synchronicity_Nature_and_Psyche_in_an_Interconnected_Universe" target="_blank"><u>occult theory</u></a>, synchronicities refer to higher plans and a potential invisible fretboard of interconnected energy lines that we cannot see but that connect us all. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>How else could there be four million people wherever Post Malone is, and yet, he only sees the same b*tches, over and over, reoccurring like clockwork? Why do we constantly find ourselves drawn towards the same energies, falling into the same patterns and returning to the same ghosts that began haunting us years or generations ago?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><br></p><h4>2. "A paranoid man makes paranoid plans"</h4><p>Once described by <em>The Atlantic's </em>Spencer Kornhaber as "<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/09/post-malone-hollywoods-bleeding-album-review-foggy/597655/" target="_blank"><u>The Voice of Modern Brain Fog,</u></a>" Post Malone always paints searing portraits of the apathy and anxiety that define our digital age. In this line, Posty addresses the fact that our realities tend to reflect our internal worlds. We attract the energies we put out, we accept the love we think we deserve, and if we are internally paranoid, then our world will reflect that paranoia, giving us more reasons to be afraid and creating a feedback loop. The line between our psychic worlds and physical worlds, as Carl Jung theorized, is thinner than we may realize.</p><p>One would also imagine that the more time we spend online, the more our exterior realities will end up resembling our digital mindscapes. As AI gets better at learning about us and selling us what it thinks we want, and as the Internet becomes more seamlessly connected to our brains, our worlds will begin to resemble the digital media we intake. Will we all become hollow personas—like Elisabet in the Ingmar Bergman film of the same name—actors in movies we very much would like to be excluded from? Yet what if we decided we could curate our realities for good, if we could change our minds and our activities and thus change everything around us? Post Malone asks these deepest of questions and more in this song about anxiety, surveillance, meaning, and the nature of reality itself.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><p><br></p><h4>1. "It's true that all that you know / is all that you are. You said / it's all you want and more. So f*ck off and pour another drink."</h4><p>"Stay" is a poetic anthem, a journey through the give and take of a crumbling relationship tied together by thin strings of sleeplessness, alcohol, and broken dreams. These first lines are Post Malone at his most philosophical; a veritable Descartes for the Internet era, he puts a new spin on "I think therefore I am" and slaps us right in the existentialism with that doozy of a first line. If all that we know is all that we are, then how can we change? Can we only be changed by others? If we only exist because we think, then is existence all a thought in our minds? Should all philosophers and new postgrads really just f*ck off?</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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</p><h2></h2><p>Post Malone, you've done it again. Now it's my turn to f*ck off and grab a beer from the office keg in Posty's honor, thank you very much. Cheers! <br></p>
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