Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Shares Four Tet Remix "I Will Make Room For You"

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Shares Four Tet Remix For “I Will Make Room For You”

Acclaimed New Album The Kid Out Now On Western Vinyl

(Photo Credit: Tim Saccenti)

“There is beauty in that impulse, as there’s beauty in all the human impulses The Kid excavates—and celebrates—so gracefully.” - Pitchfork

“Sounds don't align with the rhythms, and Smith's voice is awash in alien echoes. But as challenging as this avant-garde music is, it's also warm, absorbing and gorgeous.” - ****, Rolling Stone

“The Kid reveals a depth of craft and a pivot by Smith towards trusting her voice as she explores song structures....While it’s called The Kid, the LP shows Smith has matured as an artist.” – Resident Advisor

“In her music, Smith strives to create an equally magical and peaceful world, populating sonic forests with the organic and the synthetic as she augments her synthesizer symphonies with her ethereal voice and birdlike woodwinds.” – Washington Post

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has shared a new remix of “I Will Make Room For You” by Four Tet. The beloved electronic musician was an early supporter of her music, and has called Smith’s new album The Kid the best album of 2017. The remix perfectly balances the sense of wide-eyed wonder of the original with an expansive four-on-the-floor beat. It premiered this morning via Billboard, who said, “It’s the sort of remix you can get lost in for hours”. The original song is taken from Smith’s new album The Kid, which is one of the most acclaimed electronic albums of the year. It is out now on Western Vinyl.

STREAM: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “I Will Make Room For You” (Four Tet Remix)

(Single Art for “I Will Make Room For You” Four Tet Remix – by Alex Trochut)

Order The Kid: 

iTunes hyperurl.co/8n4qa5 

Bandcamp https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid 

WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv170 

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith images are available HERE 

Singles from The Kid:

“An Intention” – https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-an-intention

“To Follow And Lead” - https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-to-follow-and-lead

“To Feel Your Best” - https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-to-feel-your-best

In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP. 

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse. 

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving. 

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here. 

Alan Watts, another logical inspiration of Smith’s, once expounded that people record themselves to confirm their own existence, and as such, echoes and resonance are reminders that we are alive. “You're not there unless you're recorded,” Watts muses, “if you shout, and it doesn't come back and echo, it didn't happen.”  The Kid speaks to this idea directly.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own. 

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid 

(Western Vinyl – October 6th, 2017) 

1.     I Am A Thought 

2.     An Intention 

3.     A Kid 

4.     In The World 

5.     I Am Consumed 

6.     In The World, But Not Of The World 

7.     I Am Learning 

8.     To Follow And Lead 

9.     Until I Remember 

10.  Who I Am And Why I Am Where I Am 

11.  I Am Curious, I Care 

12.  I Will Make Room For You 

13.  To Feel Your Best 

Baths Shares New Single "Extrasolar"

In late September Baths  - aka Will Wiesenfeld - announced Romaplasm (his first new album in 4 years) and shared lead single “Yeoman.” Today, he share the album’s next single: "Extrasolar." While lead single "Yeoman" clearly illustrates the album’s pop sensibilities, and second single "Out" packs a more 4x4 oriented dance beat alongside some bubbly synth work and playful lyrics. "Extrasolar" is a sci-fi inspired ballad that distills the everyday struggles of young Americans – relationships, technology, dating, etc – in a way that only Baths could. It's sure to be one of the more relatable songs from Romaplasm, due out November 17th via Anticon.

Listen to/Watch the Lyric Video for "Extrasolar"

https://youtu.be/0m0nllJjFuU

Watch the Music Video for "Out"

https://youtu.be/j0bFmDt2n2E

Listen to "Yeoman"

https://youtu.be/BYkP4WRM118

Baths will be throwing an album release party for Romaplasm on Friday, November 24 at Zebulon in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale here.

In his own singular style, Baths has created his own post-modern take on Romanticism. Romaplasm bears a similar emphasis on emotion and individualism. You can see the hallmarks of the movement’s stress on awe—and like many of the great Romantic artists, he confronts the gnawing chaos of life with a focus on beauty and the sublime.

For as long as Will Wiesenfeld has been Baths, he's been trafficking in perfect—or, more often and more interestingly—near-perfect pieces of pop. The project first emerged in 2009, merging the glitchy, punishing gloom of L.A.’s beat scene with sunnier melodies and vocals that often drifted into falsetto. The music was an instant sensation. Publications like Pitchfork heaped praise on his debut album, 2010's Cerulean, which codified the sound; Obsidian, which followed three years later, in part chronicled Wiesenfeld’s recovery from a ghastly illness, and was even more well-received.

Wiesenfeld is an artist who, through his work as Geotic, has carefully deconstructed songwriting into its basest parts; as Baths on Romaplasm, he reassembles the pieces of his musical and personal lives in the most piercing ways imaginable.

As always, Baths is unafraid to run counter to his surroundings: delicate when others are posturing, gripping and visceral where others drift into the digital morass. But this album is not about contrarianism, or about rejecting the status quo. It's about centering the things that are important to you, and doing so in the most honest way possible, even if that means fucking things up a bit along the way.

Pre-order Romaplasm on vinyl: https://www.anticon.com/item/romaplasm

Baths Assets are available HERE.

Bicep Releasing 'Glue' EP, Share Video for "Glue" & Stream New Single "Metro"

As the waves of praise for Belfast-born, and London-based duo Bicep’s eponymous debut continue -- steadily securing its position as one of THE electronic albums of the year -- their latest release, the “Glue” EP, drops digitally today and on vinyl on 3rd November via Ninja Tune. The EP features two new tracks, “Metro” and “DLR,” both embodying the same throttling yet atmospheric tunes featured throughout the full length. With “Metro” whose propulsive build takes cues from earlier single “Glue” and the winding, acid-tinged groove of “DLR,” the duo continues to seamlessly minimize the divide between raw, big-room dance cuts and artfully crafted, often times deliberately restrained tracks fit for home listening.

Listen to “Metro”

https://open.spotify.com/album/5hXjtSmicQETbDf1HNfEeD

Inspired by the song’s homage to the rave era, Bicep also share the video for “Glue” by Joe Wilson. It is a series of landscapes which revisit the sites once brought alive by now infamous raves but today sit desolate and empty, retreating back to their former state with little to show of their impact they had on UK music culture. The static shots offer space to reflect on the importance of these locations and how an abandoned lido, remote airfield and disused warehouse helped to shape the lives of a generation. Juxtaposed with the images are the hazy, fragmented recollections of those who were there, lifted from Youtube comment sections of the genre’s most defining sounds. Perhaps the most beautiful and poignant pieces of evidence from the time, they eulogise over a time of unity and euphoria, and a longing to be returned for just one more night.

Watch “Glue”

http://youtu.be/A7ZxRs45tTg

With support in from Four Tet, Ben UFO, and The XX -- who recently played album single “Vale” on their Radio 1 Takeover -- as well as a 10-page cover story in Mixmag, Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson have honed their skills as both producers and prolific selectors. The result of which is a sonically sprawling record that appeals to the most dedicated of headsy club-goers and bedroom listeners alike. Bicep has quickly climbed the charts, landing at an impressive #20 on the UK album charts and at #7 on the UK Vinyl charts. Their unique approach to this record, founded on the blueprint of classic house, techno, electro, and Italo disco but stamped with the signature Bicep sound, has won acclaim from Pitchfork, Resident Advisor and The Guardian, and was chosen as BBC 6Music’s ‘Album of the Day’ upon its release. The duo’s second single ‘Glue’ was a hit straightaway, racking up over 1.6 million streams on Spotify, a first play from Annie Mac, with further support from, Gilles Peterson, Lauren Laverne, and landing at #1 on the BBC Radio 1 Specialist Chart with Phil Taggart.

Indeed, the praise is well-earned; Few can forge an album with as many memorable hooks and dance floor moments as this one, but even fewer can make a truly crossover electronic album which moves into slower territories and maintains that same sweeping tone with such effortless fluidity. To quote Pitchfork, “What sets Bicep apart from their big-tent contemporaries is their ability to slow things down.” Bicep will play Pitchfork Music festival in Paris this November to close out an impressive run on the festival circuit this year, which saw them play Glastonbury, Coachella, and Primavera Festivals among others. Having recently returned from their sold out shows in LA & New York, Bicep continue to tour their roof raising live show across UK, Europe & Australia ahead of their biggest live ever show at The Roundhouse, London in April 2018.

Bicep Live Tour

03/11/17 - LE PETIT SALON - LYON - FR

04/11/17 - PITCHFORK FESTIVAL - PARIS - FR

11/11/17 - ELECTRIC BRIXTON - LONDON - UK*

17/11/17 - MOTION - BRISTOL - UK

18/11/17 - WAREHOUSE PROJECT - MANCHESTER - UK*

23/11/17 - KESSELHAUS - BERLIN - DE*

24/11/17 - KINO LUNA - WARSAW - PL*

25/11/17 - NITSA - BARCELONA - ES*

30/11/17 - BAAD - GLASGOW - UK*

02/12/17 - RAINBOW WAREHOUSE - BIRMINGHAM - UK*

14/12/17 - JAEGAR - OSLO - NO

21/12/17 - MONDO - MADRID - ES

22/12/17 - CONTRAIR - ANTWERP - BE

23/12/17 - MAASSILO - ROTTERDAM - NL*

02/03/18 - TBA - TBA

09/03/18 - THE TBC CLUB - BRISBANE - AU

10/03/18 - TBA - TBA

11/03/18 - PITCH MUSIC FESTIVAL - VICTORIA - AU

28/04/18 - ROUNDHOUSE - LONDON - UK

* HAMMER SUPPORTING

MORE INFO GO TO BICEPMUSIC.COM/STORE

Joji: New EP 'In Tongues' From #1 Spotify Global Viral 50 Artist

Today rising Japanese artist Joji shares his fist full body of work via label/creative collective 88rising. The In Tongues EP is an exercise in authenticity by an artist who has been known by various aliases over the past few years. In Tongues distills the everyday struggles of young Americans – relationships, sadness, etc – in a way that only Joji could. It's a straightforward and pure statement from an artist whose name is sure to be on the tips of the tongues of fans and critics alike for years to come. Lead single "Will He" hit #1 on the Spotify Viral charts globally and the EP itself is sure to follow suit. Listen to it HERE.

Speaking on the release, Joji says,"This is an important piece of work to me because my emotions not only get conveyed through lyrics but with sounds and textures. To me, that's what music is; communication. I feel the need to communicate with the listener because when we're on the same page, it's a magical experience.

As a naturally conflicted person, I get to show my turbulence and anger through hard hitting drums, and my melancholy through melody."

Watch The Video for Lead Single "Will He" Here

https://youtu.be/R2zXxQHBpd8 

Watch the Full EP Visual for In Tongues Here:

https://youtu.be/kU7LF5mYZkw

Osaka, Japan-born singer and producer Joji is the multi-talented visionary, capturing a following from every corner of the Internet. The Osaka, Japan-born musician defies convention - his songs are characterized by down tempo, melancholic themes and soulful vocals, layered over lush grimy textures, blending elements of trap, folk, electronic, and R&B. Named a Best New Artist of 2017 by Pigeons & Planes, Joji is one of the most interesting and promising artists living in the digital age. 

A master of multiple mediums, Joji commands a massive and almost fanatical fan base, with over 600 million views on YouTube alone.

His loyal following has carried over into Joji's music career.  Although yet to release anything commercially, Joji's few tracks have millions of plays across Soundcloud and YouTube. His only two 2017 songs thus far - "I Don’t Wanna Waste My Time" and "Rain On Me" - have already been lauded for their "beautiful, captivating, understated quality" (Pigeons & Planes) and "lush emotion and thoughtful execution" (Earmilk). 

In Tongues is the first full project from Joji and it is supported with beautiful and moving visuals for "Will He" - directed by Matthew Dillon Cohen (Goldlink) - and "Window" - directed by critically acclaimed duo BRTHR (Travis Scott, The Weeknd). Joji's live experience will see the stage in early 2018. 

Joji is signed to 88rising - the team behind Internet-breaking sensations Rich Chigga, Keith Ape, and Higher Brothers. 88rising is the pioneering media platform representing the most forward-thinking artists and creators from Asia. Bridging East and West, 88rising is known for its "slew of massive viral video hits and collaborations with established American artists" (CNN). Led by an award-winning team of creative visionaries all over the world, 88rising is "clearly filling a void," (Forbes) by celebrating the unique cultural landscapes of Asia and beyond.

Sunflower Bean Release New Song & Sign With Mom + Pop

"Nimble, restless guitars propel the songs of Sunflower Bean, a Brooklyn band barely out of its teens that neatly connects 1960s psychedelia with decades of its indie-rock descendants, a family tree that holds Pink Floyd along with the Smiths, the Sundays, R.E.M. and Haim." - New York Times

"classic-rock chops and New Wave aesthetics" - The New Yorker

"Listening to the debut album from Brooklyn trio Sunflower Bean is a bit like flipping through some smart stoner's impeccably refined record collection." - Rolling Stone (4/5 stars)

"...excitement is palpable on Human Ceremony." - Pitchfork

"[Sunflower Bean] make classic-sounding songs about the weight of contemporary existence." - The Fader (GEN F)

Today New York trio Sunflower Bean announce that they have signed with Mom + Pop and share their first new single since releasing their critically acclaimed debut album Human Ceremony in 2016. The dreamy new song "I Was A Fool" is their first release with the label, and can be heard now HERE via NPR Music or HERE. You can also watch the band's prom-inspired music video for the track. Watch a clip for the Andy DeLuca-directed video HERE and watch the full music video on Apple Music HERE.

"'I Was A Fool' is one of those songs that seemingly crept up from nowhere and into our practice space. It was a special moment between the three of us, Julia and I both improvised the lyrics," explains Nick Kivlen. "It feels like far longer, but it's been nearly 2 years since we've put new music into the world. I think this song is a good example of how we've grown as a band, while still staying true to the band that first played together back in high school."

Sunflower Bean have some upcoming headlining tour dates, including one of the first shows at Brooklyn's new venue Elsewhere on November 30th. They will also open for Wolf Alice on tour in the UK/EU this Fall, followed by a North American tour opening for Sleigh Bells early next year. See below to find a show near you and get your tickets HERE.

Sunflower Bean is: Jacob Faber [drums], Julia Cumming [vocals/bass], and Nick Kivlen [vocals/guitars]. Watch this space for more: 

Tour dates - North American shows in BOLD

11/08 - Bristol, UK @ 02 Bristol *
11/09 - Manchester, UK @ 02 Apollo *
11/11 - Glasgow, SCT @ Barrowlands *
11/12 - Glasgow, SCT @ Barrowlands *
11/13 - Newcastle, UK @ 02 Academy *
11/15 - Nottingham, UK @ Rock City *
11/16 - Birmingham, UK @ 02 Academy *
11/17 - Norwich, UK @ UEA *
11/18 - Leeds, UK @ 01 Academy *
11/20 - Brighton, UK @ Dome *
11/21 - Southampton, UK @ 02 Guildhall *
11/24 - London, UK @ Alexandra Palace *
11/27 - Belfast, North Ireland @ Ulster Hall *
11/28 - Dublin, Ireland @ Olympia *
11/30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere

1/26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Everybody Hits
1/31 - Chicago, IL @ Metro ^
2/01 - Nashville, TN @ The Basement East ^
2/03 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk ^
2/05 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger ^
2/06 - Dallas, TX @ Granada ^
2/07 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Inside Downstairs) ^
2/09 - New Orleans, LA @ Republic New Orleans ^
2/10 - Athens, GA  @ 40 Watt ^
2/11 - Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre ^
2/14 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ^
3/01 - Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge
3/02 - San Francisco, CA @  Rickshaw Stop

* - w/ Wolf Alice
^ - w/ Sleigh Bells