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Deep Dark South<\/strong><\/a>
\nBendrix Littleton<\/strong>
\n\u00abBendrix Littleton is the writing and recording project of Nashville-via-Dallas musician Bennett Littlejohn. The project\u2019s namesake, Maurice Bendrix\u2014the protagonist of Graham Greene\u2019s 1951 novel The End of the Affair\u2014is described by\u00a0enotes.com<\/a>\u00a0as \u00absometimes an unreliable narrator, for he is so consumed by jealousy, self-pity, self-hatred, and bitterness, that he measures everyone else by himself\u2026[and] confesses that from time to time \u2018a demon\u2019 takes possession of his brain. It\u2019s an appropriate moniker for the self-aware, malaise-filled songs of Bendrix Littleton\u2019s debut,\u00a0Deep Dark South<\/em>. While in the album is imbued with the contradictions and painful beauty of the modern American South (as opposed to Greene\u2019s WWII-era London), the hazy, solitary narrative voice remains.\u00bb
\nNNA Tapes, September 2020<\/p>\n

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Hyper Romance<\/strong><\/a>
\nJadu Heart<\/strong>
\n\u00abJadu Heart, otherwise known as Bristol-based duo Alex Headford and Diva Jeffrey, have always been a bit of an elusive proposition. Last year\u2019s debut album\u00a0Melt Away<\/em>\u00a0moved from trippy-pop one minute to experimental bedroom electronica the next, their sound as hard to pin down as the pair themselves, who preferred to hide behind their masked alter-egos, Dina and Faro. On their second album,\u00a0Hyper Romance<\/em>, it\u2019s all change. The masks and monikers have been ditched for distorted guitars and delay peddles. The result is a very grungy take on the ecstasy and tragedy of falling in \u2013 and out \u2013 of love. Jadu Heart\u2019s romantic vision is full of pagan imagery: the object of their affection a devil with \u2018snakes in her hair<\/em>, rejecting heaven and dancing in the fire.\u00bb (NME)
\nVLF Records, September 2020<\/p>\n

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The World is Really Fucked but This Show Will Be Pretty Good<\/strong><\/a>
\nRachel Lark<\/strong>
\nA nice piece of trash from Oakland-based singer\/songwriter Rachel Lark who is back with a presciently comedic single and video,\u00a0The World\u2019s Really Fucked But This Show will Be Pretty Good<\/em>. Featuring toilet paper thrones and an upbeat soundtrack to the apocalypse, it follows the release of \u2018The Unicorn Song\u2019 and is the second offering from Lark\u2019s new EP\u00a0Sex and Balances<\/em>. She says about herself: \u00abI’m Rachel Lark, and I’m a multi-instrumentalist and singer\/songwriter who has made a name for herself amongst perverts, psychedelic party throwers, festival attendees, and college students. My music is weird, disruptive to the patriarchy, and sexually explicit. That’s why all of my support has come from badass weirdos like yourselves. You’ve given me love, loyalty, and occasionally, your money!\u00bb
\nDU Rec, September 2020<\/p>\n

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The Ascension<\/strong><\/a>
\nSufjan Stevens<\/strong>
\nSufjan Stevens grows on you. On and his first album in five years, the art he works with is alluring, the sound somewhat like a later day version of Jon & Vangelis. There\u2019s an invitation to escape the woes of the world but it also beckons us to relax and let ourselves sink into the day. Just as we do, the tone becomes more urgent so that we soon think we understand that we are being led to some kind of cosmic cataclysm. That\u2019s when things become playful, and the beat goes on to rock us before taking on a more sacral turn. Stevens was born in Detroit. He plays a large number of instruments and has been the recipient of a number of music awards. His eight\u2019s album is positively psychedelic. (sgs)
\nSufjan Stevens, October 2020<\/p>\n

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Something More Live Performance (Ibiza Lockdown)<\/strong><\/a>
\nRoisin Murphy<\/strong>
\nMurphy\u2019s distinctive voice and style first rose to fame in the late nineties as a part of the trip hop duo\u00a0Moloko<\/em>, together with partner Mark Brydon. She\u2019s originally from County Wicklow in Ireland but moved to Manchester as a teenager.\u00a0Roisin Machine<\/em>, the new album this song is taken from, is her fifth as a solo artist. It seems less raw than her former work despite Roisin running around in a sheer green nighty, reminding me of dancing to glam rock in a discotheque, but in soulful way. \u00abThe clip for \u2018Something More\u2019 is part of a whole series of innovative \u2018Live at Home\u2019 videos created in recent months. In \u2018Something More\u2019 a camera follows Murphy on her way through the splendor of an empty Italian villa before finally diving into the pool.\u00bb (sgs)
\nSkint\/BMG, October 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deep Dark South Bendrix Littleton \u00abBendrix Littleton is the writing and recording project of Nashville-via-Dallas musician Bennett Littlejohn. The project\u2019s namesake, Maurice Bendrix\u2014the protagonist of Graham Greene\u2019s 1951 novel The End of the Affair\u2014is described by\u00a0enotes.com\u00a0as \u00absometimes an unreliable narrator, for he is so consumed by jealousy, self-pity, self-hatred, and bitterness, that he measures everyoneContinue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}