Fis - Iterations

Listen to Fis' Tri-Angle-Records-released Iterations EP in full after the jump.

Evian Christ - Waterfall

An atonement post, yet the new Evian Christ cannot go un-remarked upon.  'Waterfall' takes the industrial undertones and negative space of Kings and Them and re-contextualizes them in a more caustic and pointed release.  I imagine this won't get the gushing love from Christ's new Kanye fans, but this pushes his sound into more developed territories where more is at stake.

Forest Swords - The Weight of Gold (directed by Benjamin Millepied)

Nowness premiered Forest Sword's new video for "The Weight of Gold," a stand-out track from Barnes' Tri Angle Records release, Engravings, directed by French filmmaker Benjamin Millepied and set along the coast of Israel-Palestine's Dead Sea. Below, I've included Nowness' interview with Millepied and Barnes. Read a great introduction to the featured dancer, Billy Barry. 

Benjamin Millepied Fills a Bright Dead Sea Landscape with the Experimental Artist’s Brooding Music
“I first saw Billy Barry perform at Juilliard four years ago,” says the acclaimed French choreographer, filmmaker and photographer Benjamin Millepied. “I thought, ‘Who is this creature?’ Billy’s quality as a dancer is so otherworldly, I immediately knew I wanted to create a portrait of him. The sense of solitude depicted in the film reflects just how different he is as an artist.” The chance to direct today’s music video for British artist Forest Swords’ haunting track “The Weight of Gold” presented an intriguing opportunity for Millepied, who was seduced after being inspired by Israel’s Dead Sea area’s landscape, including the Judean desert and Nebi Musa site that is dedicated to Moses. “We arrived at a beautiful location and I just let the music and the desert move me instead of forcing it,” says Barry, the young flaxen-haired dancer who earned a spot at Tel Aviv’s prestigious Batsheva Ensemble straight out of school. “I listened to the music a lot before the shoot and on the day we just went with what happened naturally.” Below Forest Swords, AKA Matthew Barnes, explores the musical side of this creative collaboration.
I grew up listening to a lot of mainstream pop music, and I was fascinated with the production and structure of it. Then I gradually got into punk, hip-hop and electronic music. All that filters into the type of sounds, melodies and textures I’m attracted to now, though it’s difficult to be objective about that kind of thing when you’re making it.
The track “The Weight of Gold” came together fairly slowly. I pieced it together over a few weeks, adding and subtracting until it felt right and I mixed it outdoors like the rest of the record.
The locations Benjamin picked for this video really resonate with the track. I’ve always associated the songs from my album Engravings with a British landscape—woodland and sandstone, because that’s the environment I live and produced the record in. Taking the music out of that context and placing it in Israel definitely shifts the track in a direction I did not expect.

Sd Laika - Meshes

Sd Laika's That’s Harakari comes out 27 April 2014. Coupled with the release of "Meshes" Tri Angle issued this press release.

It isn’t often an artist seems to materialize from nowhere with a sound so disinterested in following any conventional rules that it inspires equal measures bafflement and astonishment, but in 2012 with the release of the ‘Unknown Vectors’ EP, Milwaukee based producer Sd Laika did just that. Taking the already alien sounds of grime music as a starting off point and abrasively twisting them into something even more unknowable, Laika had developed a sound that defied any easy categorization. 2 years later Dummy Magazine would come to refer to this record as ‘one of the most jaw-droppingly inventive debuts in recent memory and ought to be considered “the other ‘Cold Mission’” (in reference to the highly acclaimed Logos LP from 2013)’. After ‘Unknown Vectors’ Sd Laika became something of a mystery, disappearing from the scene altogether leaving behind him a small, but hardcore cult fanbase convinced they’d glimpsed something very special in those 5 tracks. It was only in 2013 when Tri Angle approached Sd Laika that a new record began to take shape. This record would end up consisting of songs Sd Laika had recorded in 2011 and 2012, songs he’d convinced himself would never see the light of day. For various reasons it looked likely Unknown Vectors would wind up being Laika’s one and only ever release, which is why we’re so excited (and as huge fans, relieved) to announce the release of his debut album ‘That’s Harakari’.