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The FADER’s transgender charity covers compilation FADER & Friends Volume 1 is out now, available exclusively on Bandcamp until December 1, 2023. 100% of the proceeds go towards the Transgender Law Center, Mermaids, and Rainbow Railroad.

André 3000 has released his long-awaited new solo album New Blue Sun. Announced earlier this week, the project is a collection of woodwind flute compositions from the former Outkast rapper. New Blue Sun is co-produced by 3000 and Carlos Niño.

André 3000 has explained why he has stopped rapping, saying that it can now feel “inauthentic” to do so.The OutKast member – real name André Lauren Benjamin – released his debut solo album, ‘New Blue Sun’, today (November 17) after announcing the project earlier this week. Clocking in at 87 minutes, the project consists of minimalist and experimental flute music.Fans were told ahead of the record’s arrival that it would contain “no bars”, beats or vocals. The LP even opens with a track titled ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A “Rap” Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time’.‘New Blue Sun’ comes 17 years after OutKast’s sixth and final studio effort, 2006’s ‘Idlewild’.

André 3000 has revealed he had to ask Beyoncé’s permission to use her name on a forthcoming song title.The Outkast rapper recently unveiled his first solo album in 17 years, which will reportedly consist of an 87-minute long album of experimental flute music. ‘New Blue Sun’ is set to drop tomorrow (November 17).The album also features a number of rather unusual and long song titles.

André 3000 will release a new solo album this Friday. The album is titled New Blue Sun and features eight tracks of him playing the flute. NPR, who spoke to the OutKast member ahead of the release, reveal that the album clocks in at 87 minutes and features a track titled "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time." In recent years André 3000 has been spotted playing the flute in public settings, something that has confused onlookers and making him regularly go viral.

André 3000 has shared details about his first solo album in 17 years, an 87-minute long album of experimental flute music.Announced today (November 14), the OutKast rapper revealed to fans that the album is not a rap record and even includes a label on the cover warning that the LP contains “no bars”.Titled ‘New Blue Sun’, the album is instead an 87-minute long record of both minimalist and experimental music, which hears André take on a variety of woodwind instruments including contrabass flute, Mayan flutes, bamboo flutes as well as other digital wind instruments. No bars, beats or vocals are included.“I’ve always kind of been analysing it or figuring out how I wanted to approach it… I have to feel happy about sharing it,” André 3000 told NPR about his approach to a new solo album.“That’s why ‘New Blue Sun’ was something that I realised, whoa, I really want people to hear it. I really want to share it.

New artists often face a creative conundrum; parsing through a lifetime of influences to slot themselves into, or create, an easily defined sound of their own. For Singapore-based artist Xena Giam, feeling is what guides her music far beyond the confines of genre.

The FADER’s transgender charity covers compilation FADER & Friends Volume 1 is out now, available exclusively on Bandcamp until December 1, 2023. 100% of the proceeds go towards the Transgender Law Center, Mermaids, and Rainbow Railroad.

Death Grips walked off stage without finishing their set at a show in Fayetteville, Arkansas over the weekend after the group's MC Ride was pelted with items thrown by people in the audience. Eyewitness reports at the JJ's venue report both a phone and multiple glowsticks being thrown at the frontman, with the latter prompting him to leave the stage and not return. Footage from the night can be seen below.

Björk and Rosalía have shared their first official collaboration, a 75-second song protesting fish farming in Iceland. It exists only on YouTube and is appropriately titled — for now, at least — “help fight fish farming in iceland.” The Icelandic art-pop legend and Spanish flamenco-pop superstar sing a capella and in unison on the track, repeating a simple refrain: “Is that the right thing to do? / Is that the right thing to do? / Oh, I just don’t know / I just don’t know.” A statement shared by Björk explains that the track will be officially released later this month, with proceeds going toward the legal fees of the people on the front lines of an ongoing protest against a new fish farm in Fjord Seyðisfjörður.

Experimental pop artist Eartheater has released her sixth full-length studio album Powders. The project is available via her own label, Chemical X, and features the previously released singles “Pure Smile Snake Venom” and "Chop Suey." The latter is a blissed-out cover of System of a Down's nu-metal classic.

Eartheater has shared the second single from her fifth solo studio album, Powder, due out September 20 via her own label, Chemical X. Along with her announcement of next week’s project last month, the Queens-based experimental pop singer shared that she’ll have another album, Aftermath, out sometime in 2024.

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Take a deconstructed, bass-heavy beat from the pulsing womb of a German club.

The experimental music community mourns its losses intensely. Just this past weekend, an army of deep listeners rushed to pay tribute to one of their own — Stars of the Lid co-founder Brian McBride, who died on Sunday, August 27 at the age of 53.

Tirzah’s next project is fast approaching. The elusive English electronic artist who covered The FADER in 2021 posted the news on Instagram this afternoon (August 29) along with a string of October tour dates.

Jane Remover has released her first offering for the year, “Lips,” the lead single of her newly announced sophomore album, Census Designated. The ten-track project is scheduled to arrive on October 20 via deadAir.

In 2021, Kristin Hayter released Sinner Get Ready, the third and final album from the California-based artist as Lingua Ignota. It was a brilliant capstone for a catalog unlike any other, a gothic hymnary bound in skin and bone and bursting with hard-won revelation.

Netflix has announced that Brian Eno‘s soundtrack for the series Top Boy will be released in various formats next month.‘Top Boy (Score From the Original Series)’ will be released on vinyl, CD, and digital formats, coinciding with the final season of the series. This marks the first time that any of Eno’s music from the series, aside from two tracks included on Eno’s album, ‘Film Music 1976 – 2020’, will be available to the public.The first track to be released from the soundtrack is ‘Cutting Room 1’ which was a completely unheard track. The song is one of two on the LP that Eno selected for inclusion though they do not appear in the series.

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Jasper Marsalis (a.k.a.

If art is creativity plus proficiency plus chance, Fievel Is Glauque are exemplars of its purist form. During their trans-Atlantic “writing trips,” generally held when multi-instrumentalist Zach Phillips and singer Ma Clement visit each other in Brooklyn and Brussels, respectively, they take a spontaneous yet controlled approach, starting and finishing a song each day, with Phillips constructing intricate arrangements to Clement’s angular melodies, one bar at a time.

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. It’s hard to think about the harp without summoning Renaissance imagery of cherubs plucking golden strings, their celestial reverberations echoing down from on high.