Gravity Boys - Ferragamo Gold

KILN - Star.field

Trio of Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison, and Clark Rehberg III (a.k.a. KILN) are set to release their new album, meadow:watt, on November 11th through Ghostly International.

Tele Fresco - Act 6: Longing (directed by 2 Nice)

Tele Fresco - Act 6 from 2 Nice on Vimeo.

Cinema is predicated on the “look” – an idea acutely observed by feminist film critic, Laura Mulvey, but not contained solely to the “male gaze” of her seminal essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” – in which the viewer’s beliefs and passions—in both voyeuristic and self-reflexive manners—are structured to induce a range of emotions from encouraging unfettered revelry and schadenfreude to the sadomasochistic cinema of late Pasolini or the existential heaviness of Tarr. Yet, in the grips of realism that is omnipotent camera of CCTV, the surveillance state,  and reality television, contemporary popular cinema proffers the farce of objectivity in which everything is unmediated.  Film is not so much about what we see in any descriptive fashion, not a Cartesian mind moving about in a cinematic universe; rather, cinema is a place for value, a place in which we inscribe value and meaning, about how we know the world in particular ways. I should qualify this prescriptive notion for cinema by saying that I am not advocating a Pragmatism agenda in which cinema offers an arena to test and revise our beliefs until we come to some satisfactory description of the empirical real.  My question is not “what does it take to know the world?” but “what difference does it make for our sense of the world to be concerned with knowing it in particular ways outside of the paradigm of objectivity?”

The most recent installment of Love Letters, Act 6: Longing, is a triumph in the way it cultivates particular gaze.

FKA Twigs - Ultraviolet

Busy week not spent looking at music and I miss FKA twigs' release of EP2.  See the image for the closing track, Ultraviolet, co-written and produced by Arca.  

D33J - Slow featuring Kreyola

"Slow" is from D33J's forthcoming release Gravel.  The album was recorded in a warehouse in downtown San Francisco while living with thirty other artists.  Read more details below. 

Gravel is an attempt to capture the contradictory thoughts that trip up your head at 3 a.m. Gravel is the soundtrack to sleepless nights spent ruminating on both right and wrong decisions. Gravel is the new Anticon EP from Djavan Santos, better known as D33J.
Upon first listen, its aquatic textures, faded neon haze, and blend of 808 drums and lo-fi desk claps, might recall D33J’s fellow Weditit Collective family, Ryan Hemsworth and Shlohmo. But closer listening reveals that D33J’s experiments yield a unique alchemy.
“It was about self-reflection—trying to replicate the feeling of sitting alone after you get home late, still drunk and on drugs,” D33J says. “You’re high and thinking about life and whether these stoned thoughts are even worth anything in the end?”
The record was created during D33J’s stint living with 30 people in a warehouse in downtown San Francisco. The building was essentially an art frat called “The Matrix 1061,” with almost all the inhabitants engaging in some form of creative project. Adding to the artistic ferment was the fact that only two rooms got natural sunlight. You can hear this darkness and fluorescent light in the tones of Gravel.

Read more after the jump. 

Jo Def - & You

The second of Tar's three-track releases.  Tar is a collective label of  3 track releases from artists worldwide. Based in Los Angeles & run by PBDY. 

Banks - This Is What It Feels Like (Akouo Rework)

Saturday Sleeper: Loyu

I dono if this actually counts as a sleeper. They have 263 followers on soundcloud... this is more like a proper plug.  But Loyu is from The Hague, Netherlands... they're website looks dope but it's down right now.  Male/female duo. Futuristic Gasoline.

Isaiah Rashad - I Shot You Down

The New TDE signee is coo wit Vlad n apparently kicks it. No surprise when u peep the flame tho.

FKA twigs - Papi Pacify

Written & Produced by FKA twigs & Arca.
Directed by FKA twigs & Tom Beard (who is with Partizan, twice listed over the past decade as the Gunn Report’s ‘Best production Company in the World’).

Tele Fresco - Act 5

Tele Fresco - Act 5 from 2 Nice on Vimeo.

Purple - The Club

The first visuals from WEDIDIT Collective member Purple.

BANKS - Bedroom Wall (Prod. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs)

Azealia Banks - Atm Jam Featuring Pharrell (Kaytranada Edition)

Lost Scripts – I’ll Be Watching You

Young Turks will be releasing 12" complete with unique artwork from their stable of talent throughout 2013.  The first offering comes from Lost Scripts, Pional and John Talbot. 

Tele Fresco - Act 4: Aversion (directed by 2 Nice)

Tele Fresco - Act 4 from 2 Nice on Vimeo.

The fourth installment of Love Letter is the most emotionally charged yet as the relationship, replete with ferocious flames, vacillates between anger and passion.