‘It’s pretty implausible to not go loco for mesmeric Mediterraneana on a day like today, and that’s precisely what we’ve before our baying ears and prying eyes this morning as Chilean maverick Matias Aguayo returns with El Sucu Tucu – a manic ode to a chinchilla-type critter, or so an albeit inaccurate trawl of Google Images may well lead you to believe. Once renowned for his idiosyncratic brand of minimal techno commotion although perhaps most vividly remembered for his featuring as a key ingredient of Battles’ Ice Cream belter from a couple years back, Aguayo here calls upon the synthetic exotic humidities of Bonde do Rolê’s With Lasers and puts his tongue in the proverbial line of fire as it emits a series of esoteric trills, shrieks, and avifaunal chirps. Arriba, etc.’
El Sucu Tucu is taken from Aguayo’s forthcoming The Visitor full-length, which is expected June 24th on Cómeme.
Posts tagged Battles.
‘A bit of an old-fashioned brouhaha was made when Tyondai Braxton upped and left Battles. Irreconciliable differences, contrasting artistic directions, and violent clashes of personality were posthumously divulged as motives for the dissolution of the band as was, and yet to a not insubstantial degree he of the haywire barnet was Battles in that Mirrored quite evidently reflected Braxton. It was a joyous record. And although Atlas may never again be thrashed out as we may now only dream, Braxton lives on. And it’s in the live realm where he tonight truly thrives.’
Dots & Dashes review Central Market live as part of this year’s Ether…
‘Initiated in ‘06, Suffolk’s Latitude has quietly; calmly; calculatedly become the worthiest of estival mainstays and anyone to have happened upon any ad luridly imploring attendance at next month’s seventh edition will already be fully aware of the almost unfathomable strength of this year’s bill. In fact we’d go on to spin some further hyperbole yarn-like and profess it to be the line up of the season. Taking place, as ever, in Southwold’s supremely picturesque Henham Park the festival spans July 12th-15th by which time some sunshine may have just about seared through the unremitting grim currently overhead. Just. Last month we compiled a playlist of preferred stuff in association with Latitude and, entrenched in immovable tastes, our Fest Bests below stray only slightly from such aural stuff already proffered. But heck; here’s who we wouldn’t miss for love, nor money, nor even the money exchanged for a plastic pitcher unwittingly stumbled upon amid the inevitable sludge underfoot in The Word Arena…’
Dots & Dashes’ Latitude Fest Bests feature the likes of Battles & Sharon Van Etten & Zun Zun Egui…
