Screw the Lucrative Magazine Business…We Should Start a Record Company
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Never before in our history (ten years), has there been a day like today in terms of you being able to buy albums by artists who are on the covers of The FADER. Let us qualify that by saying that we didn’t actually do the research because we’re busy and too excited to worry about truth. Today, after work or school, at your preferred record seller, you can purchase a physical or digital copy of Busy Signal’s Loaded (F56), The Tough Alliance’s A New Chance (F56), Brightblack Morning Light’s Motion to Rejoin (F57) and TV on the Radio’s Dear Science—each brand new today and each incredible in its own right. And if the recession has yet to pummel your bank account and four-plus hours of the newest FADER-sanctioned music isn’t enough, there about thirty other FADER-ered artists with albums out today, most of whom you can find listed at Insound. Say goodbye to money and hello to temporary happiness!
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posted on Sep 23, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS tags Brightblack Morning Light, Busy Signal, The Tough Alliance, TV on the Radio
FADER 57: TV on the Radio, Brightblack Morning Light. EXCLUSIVES!
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We are in love with TV on the Radio’s Dear Science and Brightblack Morning Light’s Motion to Rejoin. They are singular recordings of vast awesome heat, too universally awesome not to be in love with them. Shit, even the side-eyed computer-hobbits at Pitchfork liked the albums. And because we were terrified the turning-on of the Large Hadron Collider would cause the planet to be sucked into an obliterating black hole before we could share with you our exclusive FADER 57 covers, featuring TV on the Radio’s mellifluous brilliance and Brightblack Morning Light’s rugged individualism, we decided to sneak preview them now. Luckily, the Collider is getting temporarily shut down until it stops leaking helium, TVOTR’s and BBML’s albums both drop TOMORROW, and FADER 57 is coming soon to newsstands near you!
Freeload: Brightblack Morning Light, “Oppressions Each”
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Any opportunity we get to post this image of Nabob and Rabob “picnicking” in the Arizona desert, we’re going to take it. Because there’s buying a serape to wear to the gallery opening this Friday, and then there’s moving to a remote stretch of scrub brush and doing things that might make some people, yourself included, think you’re crazy. Here’s to taking shit to the next level (bong clink), and here’s to America. “Oppresions Each” is the next song released to the digital realm by Matador off Brightblack Morning Light’s Motion to Rejoin, available for purchase on September 23rd.
Download: Brightblack Morning Light, “Oppressions Each”
Freeload: Brightblack Morning Light, “Hologram Buffalo”
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We have it on good authority that Brightblack’s new album Motion to Rejoin was powered by the New Mexico sun. Not like, this album was Made Extra by the Sun®, but Nabob and Rabob actually juiced their studio, or adobe hut or whatever, with solar rays. Which may explain why it sounds like a giant peyote cactus and the biggest jug of iced tea ever known to man. That is, of course, a dubious simile, but what else are supposed to do when a band makes music that is so obviously meant for New Wave Sweat Lodges where it is totally acceptable to bring refreshments in case you get too weirded?
Download: Brightblack Morning Light, “Hologram Buffalo”
Video: Brightblack Morning Light, “Hologram Buffalo”
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In the past we would’ve given the nod to Devendra for best song titles, especially when he first told us Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon was going to be called Jewish Anarchy, but Brightblack are taking a shot at the champ on their new album Motion To Rejoin with titles like (obviously) “Hologram Buffalo”, “Summer Hoof”, “Past A Weatherbeaten Fencepost”, “A Rainbow Aims” and “When Beads Spell Power Leaf”. WHEN BEADS SPELL POWER LEAF. We’re actually going to change the name of this magazine to Caterpillar Wonk and just eat mushrooms in the park all day. It might not read that great, but we won’t be in this world when they fire us anyway. So…this is the promo video for the first single off Motion and yes, we will be watching it all day every day until the album is delivered by centaurs on September 9th.
Brightblack slideshow from FADER 39
