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!"
1 有用 Jaychen 2020-04-26 07:39:01
科科,建议分割开一首一首听……
58 有用 伤心日记本 2020-02-22 13:00:04
从委内瑞拉一路演唱到现在,各地报纸媒体都给我了我很多很好的评价,其中有一个让我印象最深刻的媒体说,阿卡不是天才,阿卡是妓女;额(叹气),其实没有很多很棒的人,天才不可能就在你身边,但是我相信努力努力一定会成功,不努力一定会进比约克的贝塔。
7 有用 血男孩 2020-02-27 18:04:56
我已经听不懂现在的arca了。
2 有用 IDKAboutYou 2020-02-22 12:10:07
High A-(86)space opera
0 有用 littlemirror 2020-12-08 16:27:23
B+
0 有用 Shakir o︿o 2024-09-18 13:59:14 北京
越往后越精彩 8/10
0 有用 Gimp 2022-03-14 00:48:35
啊?
0 有用 123平静 2024-01-13 08:52:18 江苏
10。 10.5。
0 有用 李素云 2023-06-28 14:17:03 四川
听到最后收获香吻👄
0 有用 CurtÎs 2022-06-06 20:03:00
想弄得很艺术,但是好杂