Geography of Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks

(via Flavorwire » Awesome Infographic: The Geography of the Year in Music)

Man, Baltimore is totally underrepresented.

(via fritfilter)

[..] In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they’re told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that’s sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

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Pitchfork: Yeah, it does seem that something that’s changed over the years is that headphones have become much more prominent, in terms of the way people have experienced music.

BE: Yes, well, that’s important because it means that they’re doing something different with music from what they’ve ever done before. And whenever there’s a new music, there’s a new way of listening. And whenever there’s a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently— that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies. Whenever that happens, whichever one of those it is or whichever mixture, then a new music evolves for that niche, as it were. It’s like a new ecological niche opens up and wham! Within no time at all, it’s populated.

Brian Eno on pitchfork

Actually I could quote the whole Brian Eno’s interview but anyway you can read it on pitchfork

How to dress well – Ready for The World 

How to Dress Well aka minimal-deconstructive-earie-R&B from Chicago, Brooklyn & Köln (tweeter style)

For a more detail review I copy Joe Colly from Pitchfork

On paper, a blown-out, emphatically lo-fi reinterpretation of Ready for the World’s tender 1986 slow jam “Love You Down” doesn’t seem like it should work. But Brooklyn bedroom producer How to Dress Well, alongside Cologne-based pal cokc dokc strip the song to its barest elements and make something truly haunting out of it. The pair, who aptly describe their sound as “lo-fi Shai”, have been releasing boatloads of material recently— six EPs since September— and “Ready for the World” shows what they do best.

Superficially a sexed-up, romance ballad, the original “Love You Down” also contains a tinge of melancholy, and How to Dress Well & cokc dokc isolate that element and magnify it into a whole song. Layering longing falsetto over pieces of a clipped female vocal sample and loping, tinny drums, the track lurches resolutely forward but feels distant, as if it were seeping in from a neighbor’s apartment. The unrefined production (which is Ariel Pink-like in nature but in this context brings to mind newer acts like Salem) enhances this faraway quality, and by song’s end you feel like something warm and strange has washed over you. It’s an eerie sensation, but a good one.

How to Dress Well are self releasing their tracks and are all available on Soundcloud for streaming and download

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