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Lauren Auder

Whole World As Vigil

'Whole World As Vigil', the new album from Lauren Auder, opens with a proclamation. “Let greed in,” Auder declares. It’s an invitation to what can happen when you embrace life in all of its euphoria, desperation and endless possibility. While 2023 debut 'the infinite spine', released via True Panther, explored Auder coming to terms with her own identity, here the world is showcased by another set of fresh eyes: inspired by a romantic relationship, the songs bottle up not only the electrifying sheen of being in love, but what it then forces you to examine and consider.

London-based Lauren Auder is a British-French singer-songwriter, record producer and composer who stitches together elements of classical, experimental, emo, and rap music into her own strange and hypnotic form of orchestral pop music. With the likes of Celeste, Caroline Polachek, Mura Masa, Boris and Jeshi all on her credits list, as well as composing music for Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton campaigns, and modelling for Marni, Gucci and Celine, Auder has cemented herself as an auteur across the worlds of music and fashion.

For fans of: Perfume Genius, Tirzah, Vegyn, L’Rain, Geese

TRACK LISTING

1. Marrow
2. Praxis
3. Yes
4. Pier
5. 701
6. Candles
7. No Outline
8. Mantra
9. Orchards
10. Say Nothing

Deathcrash

Somersaults

deathcrash’s third album, Somersaults, glimmers with an everyday euphoria. The London-based slowcore/ post-rock quartet has always had an affinity for building worlds only to crush them. From their breakout EP, People thought my windows were stars (2021), through two critically acclaimed studio albums, Return (2022) and Less (2023), they have been both the architects and the destroyers, the creationists and the ones manning the flood barrier. But, recorded between Black Box Studio in the Loire Valley and Haggerston’s Holy Mountain, Somersaults is almost joyful.

Its ten tracks are more vocal heavy than any of the band’s catalogue – think Mark Linkous via The Kinks – but lyrically, Somersaults resists revelation. For all its abrasion, phrases appear half-swallowed, broken off at the edge of meaning, consumed by the smaller textures of living. “Thirty, no career, it fucking worries me / And doing the band doesn’t help,” Banks sings in ‘NYC’. But, “This life is the best life,” he finishes in ‘CMC’ on top of the ambient white noise of an office printer, thankful that the band is still there, “still making noise in the doorway.”

Musical abstractions jettison the same way sunlight might catch the broken glass of a ransacked liquor store. Within those prisms are songs crafted from real hurt, but reflect beautifully. Their role as caretakers of Duster, Low and Codeine’s slowcore lineage is all across Somersaults – songs scud to a narcotic crawl, sound monolithic and inwards before spotlighting a crystalline nothing. Cathartic builds are muddied with tenderness, the bass a heavy grounding, the drums an exhausted heartbeat grasping for air. But more so than ever, even the silence feels collaborative – a gesture of communal trust – friends celebrating the room they’ve made for each other’s ghosts, and some of the biggest, brightest songs they’ve made to date.


TRACK LISTING

Side A
Somersaults
NYC
CMC
Triumph
Bella

Side B
The Thing You Did
Wrong To Suffer
Stay Forever
Love For M
Marie’s Last Dance

Jerskin Fendrix

Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire

London-based artist & composer Jerskin Fendrix has announced Once Upon A Time. . . In Shropshire, his highly anticipated sophomore album, due out October 10th via untitled (recs). It follows his critically acclaimed debut album Winterreise – Loud & Quiet’s 2020 Album of The Year, as well as his Ivor Novello-winning, Oscar & Golden Globe nominated soundtrack to Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things (2023). In-between time spent nurturing his burgeoning career as a composer, Jerskin began work on OUATIS. The record threads together memories of a vibrant, rural childhood, attempting to capture a time and place that’s been altered by the ebb of time and the failings of memory. “It's not a sad thing - maybe a bit nostalgic. It’s trying to capture that feeling and how important that was to me and my friends and my family - and then how, bit by bit, it gets cracked and corrupted” he says.
 Raised in the rural county of Shropshire, England, where he learnt violin and piano, Jerskin moved to London and spent 2 years nurturing a visceral live personality at the iconic Brixton Windmill, playing alongside Black Midi and Black Country, New Road. He released his debut-album Winterreise in 2020 which was described as an “unhinged collection of pop songs”, and named by Loud & Quiet Magazine as their Album of the Year. In 2023, he scored the motion picture Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It is the first time the director of The Favourite and The Lobster has worked with an original composer. The score was critically acclaimed and received a range of “Best Original Score” nominations from the Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, as well as an Ivor Novello Award. The pair collaborated again on the feature film Kinds of Kindness (2024) and on forthcoming film Bugonia (2025).


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