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The New York Times | Jessica Pratt's Timeless Folk Music Is Evolving. Slowly.
PAPER | Witness Vegyn's Quiet Euphoria
Vegyn is a mysterious entity. The London-based musician and producer, born Joseph Thornalley, has made quite the name for himself in the world of ambient electronic music. Aside from his own musical oeuvre, Thornalley has found himself in rooms with some of hip-hop and pop’s biggest names like Travis Scott, JPEGMafia, Kali Uchis, even producing some of the most heavy-hitting tracks on Frank Ocean’s era-defining Blonde and Endless.
Rolling Stone | Who’s Vegyn? And How Does He Make Such Subtly, Utterly Beautiful Electronic Music?
Interviewing Vegyn isn’t easy. After three months of back-and-forth, I’m finally given a time to meet him on a gray day in early March at a coffee spot in east London. I’ve been eager to make this happen. Vegyn’s career is one of the most impressive in modern music, distinguished by collaboration, style, and a fair amount of mystery.
Office Magazine | Taraneh's New Age Prayer
Fresh off the release of her third single, “On Repeat”, from her upcoming record, New Age Prayer, Taraneh is ready for the world. The New York City-based artist tells us that she feels as if she’s stepped into a new era, one defined by power and control. Last Saturday, I sat down with Taraneh in her Chinatown apartment, where we delved into her latest, most expansive project yet. We also talk about the “death” of genre, making music for your younger self, and the joy in exploring louder vocals than her typically softer melodies.
The Guardian | daine: Australia’s thrilling new pop persona enlists viral rapper Kreayshawn for latest track
Daine is to ketamine what Tame Impala is to acid. The Filipino-Australian artist’s best songs are cool to the touch: over two mixtapes and a handful of singles released since 2020, they gaze into the dreadful violence of existence with a chilly insouciance and a thousand-yard stare. Online, they have spoken about their experience with chronic pain and disability, as well as the “fire and anger … that I’ve carried from my mum and grandma’s generational trauma”. And yet on their latest tracks they metabolise that wrath into steely resolve, dispelling any hints of injury with impish ripostes and garish techno.
Interview Magazine | Evanora:Unlimited and Taraneh on the Power of Prayer
Before their friendship and musical collaboration materialized, Evanora:Unlimited was having dreams about Taraneh. “They were in my subconscious because I listened to their music so much,” he explained. The pair went from DMing to touring the world together, merging their frenetic styles and finding unexpected waves of inspiration, including a recording of a prayer to Mother Mary that Evanora overhead in Poland (which was eventually interpolated into their new single “Salt Water”). The pair joined last week in a cramped back room during a release party for Taraneh’s solo single to talk about their creative partnership, touring the world together, and making music in a dentist’s office.
CRACK | Vegyn is exploring the subtle art of letting go
Its words, etched into countless Alcoholics Anonymous chips, Hallmark cards and TV scripts, crackle like an old public service broadcast over the opening track of Vegyn’s forthcoming album, The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” The prayer is used in an array of contexts, religious and non-religious, but the underlying principle is the same: enjoy life in service of a higher power, whatever that means to you. Its appearance in Vegyn’s work is one of many gestures towards a philosophy of ‘letting go’ – something he’s embraced in recent years as part of an ongoing negotiation between creativity, ego and the public eye.
PAPER Mag | You’re Going To Give Taraneh What She Wants
Taraneh has established herself as a magnetic force in the New York music scene. On stage she looks like a goth Debbie Harry and sings like a moody siren. We met up on the heels of her latest single release, “Face of Fear,” at home in Chinatown, where she’s just rearranged her bedroom. In the newly feng shui'd space, Taraneh and I talk dreams, writing for her inner 13-year-old and her increasingly amped-up sound.
Stereogum | The 40 Best New Bands Of 2023
Hello and welcome to the 13th edition of Stereogum's annual Best New Bands list. Lucky number 13! We started doing this back in 2010, and every year since then -- except for 2014, which we skipped (sorry to any band that really hit it big in 2014) -- our writers have taken stock of the past twelve months to spotlight the artists that have us excited about the future of music in any genre.
Pitchfork | Shabazz Palaces: Robed in Rareness Album Review
Interview Magazine | MIKE Is Taking His Time and Living in the Moment
MIKE, the 24-year-old critically acclaimed godfather of New York City’s current underground rap scene, released his eighth album, Beware of the Monkey, on December 21st.
Vice | ‘Deranged, Cocky, Goblin-Thing’: daine is the Star of Future-Emo
Melbourne artist daine uses an interesting collection of words to describe herself: goblin, a villainous character, a hermit. They’re all aspects of an otherworldly figure who moved into the music world still in the depths of their teenage years, joining the “hyper-pop” movement – a contested umbrella genre – of 2019 aside the likes of perto, erica, midwxst and quinn.