Los Angeles-based musician Ramona Gonzalez is following her 2017 Nite Jewel album Real High with No Sun, a record inspired by Gonzalez’s research into the musical lamentation practices of women from her PhD in musicology at UCLA. Released after Gonzalez’s 12-year marriage broke up, the album “questions and reshapes the archetype of female pain,” as she puts it in press releases. Read Pitchfork’s review of the single “Before I Go”.
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Water from your eyes: structure [Wharf Cat]
Nate Amos and Rachel Brown from Brooklyn form the experimental pop duo Water From Your Eyes. Her latest album Structure is her first for Wharf Cat. This is followed by the release of the 2019 duo Somebody Else’s Song and the subsequent cover compilation Somebody Else’s Songs. Check out Pitchfork’s Best New Track Review of “‘Quotations,” a reinterpretation of a different structure cut.
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Marisa Anderson / William Tyler: Lost futures [Thrill Jockey]
Guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler announced Lost Futures back in March. The title of the album comes from a theory of the writer Mark Fisher. “For every choice made, every path taken, there are a multitude of decisions that have not been made, paths that have not been taken,” Anderson said in press releases.
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Bendik Giske: Cracks [Smalltown Supersound]
Cracks is the second album by Oslo-born, Berlin-based saxophonist and composer Bendik Giske after his 2019 debut Surrender. The five-song album includes the lead single “Flutter,” which Giske shared along with a music video directed by Kiani del Valle. The new record is a collaboration between Giske and producer André Bratten. “The tracks wedge themselves into the cracks of our perceived reality in order to explore them for their beauty,” said Giske in press materials, adding that Cracks is “a celebration of physical states and different behaviors”.
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