Last month, Alejandra Ghershi released a 62-minute single called @@@@@, her first new music since 2017's Arca. Broadcast on NTS, visualized on YouTube and finally put on streaming services as one long track for XL Recordings, it's yet another release from Ghershi with an experimental format. @@@@@ operates in the same vein as 2013's &&&&& and 2016's Entrañas, records that are...(展开全部) Last month, Alejandra Ghershi released a 62-minute single called @@@@@, her first new music since 2017's Arca. Broadcast on NTS, visualized on YouTube and finally put on streaming services as one long track for XL Recordings, it's yet another release from Ghershi with an experimental format. @@@@@ operates in the same vein as 2013's &&&&& and 2016's Entrañas, records that are not quite albums nor mixes, but perhaps serve as outlets for the artist's many ideas in between. After all, Ghershi tinkers with a lot of new music without official release. Since her last studio album, she has toured extensively, performed for Burberry and created a four-part immersive performance for New York art center The Shed. (The artist also just announced her next LP, KiCK i.) It's possible that music from these projects inspire bits of @@@@@—but with few performance videos and strict no-phone policies at her shows, part of Ghershi's work is, at least in the iPhone era, ephemeral and untraceable. This way of being fits the new single's concept: sci-fi pirate radio. "@@@@@ is a transmission broadcasted into this world from a speculative fictional universe in which the fundamentally analogue format of FM pirate radio remains one of few means to escape authoritarian surveillance," she posted. Though it may be a fantasy framework for @@@@@, reality is not far off. We already live in a dystopian world where culture is dictated by machine-learning algorithms. By delivering a single, 62-minute piece of sound, Ghershi protects her individual tracks—which each have a title and time stamp—from becoming part of the data mining system. This move, however subtly, reminds us that taste should not be codified and rules aren't always right. Who better to deliver that message than Ghershi? @@@@@ is another test of limits, made up of 30 short, surreal and, most characteristically, jarring sketches. Similar to past mixtapes, where one track ends and another begins is hard to parse. Meanwhile, the rhythms are erratic and the sound design marries extremes—sharp and airy, mystical and mutant, psycho and serene. Standout moments show the best sides of Ghershi's production work. "No Lo Digas," at 34 minutes, aches with the poignant singing revealed on Arca. "Membrane," at 39 minutes, shows the idiosyncratic beatmaker, a soft instrumental that's as pretty as it is ragged, topped off with sensuous masculine whispering. "Apuro," at 42 minutes, and the following "Saintly Pride," also found in a 2018 Primavera Sound live show, are rambunctious rave bangers with Ghershi's industrial-sized drums. The single may be full of these kinds of highlights, but over its hour-long jumble of ideas—twice the length of Ghershi's other mixtapes—I wished more than once the "next" button were an option. @@@@@, much more casual and freeform than the artist's albums, is not so much a defining musical moment as it is another spectacular show of Ghershi's personality: the creature of chaos, the matriarch of experimental club, the artist who authentically straddles playful and profound. After repeat listens, I find myself enjoying @@@@@ most by starting around the 20-minute mark, with "Psychosexual," a track where Ghersi flaunts her attitude. "You can shake that pussy, bitch," she busts out over a slimy beat. "I don't care what genitals you were born with!"
6 有用 Krio 2020-02-26 21:29:52
妈妈
0 有用 TODAY 2020-10-11 13:20:08
6.5
8 有用 bjsn 2020-07-04 18:09:49
arca很聪明,知道怎么样制造噱头,很多在小圈子里沾沾自喜的“小众音乐人”应该学习一下人家吸睛的能力,当然也得有相应的实力做支撑,这“专”的后启示录叙事让他的声音设计终于合理了起来
1 有用 Jaychen 2020-04-26 07:39:01
科科,建议分割开一首一首听……
1 有用 十 2023-06-12 12:45:00 江苏
给四x以下的都应清空资料库
0 有用 sojeuhe 2024-10-14 23:28:56 广东
听得我快精分了….卡仙子这是卡车底盘了么….
0 有用 东东的奇妙树洞 2022-06-06 22:28:20
卡妈妈最后给了我一个big kiss好感动我要哭了,我就跟找妈妈要糖的小朋友一样开心。我记得当时这首歌出的时候网易云死活不给封面,AM貌似直接没有我就直接无语了,但是我其实自己没有听完,中间说实话实在是有些鬼魅,有些处理的声音还蛮好笑的真的。不过这一首歌出来还是形式感特别强的,这个MV还真的蛮有趣的,不过我必须要去油管看了
0 有用 🥥 2022-02-24 20:24:33
好长…玄学分布
0 有用 千歲世野 2024-05-09 05:48:09 加拿大
太喜欢这一张了……可惜是mixtape
0 有用 親切胖丁 2022-08-13 02:13:29
喜欢听啊,睡不着失眠的时候听就睡着了😴