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  • 6 days ago | pitchfork.com | Ben Cardew

    What would it take to make you return to the one place you never wanted to go back to? To embrace the thing that everyone thinks they know about you? For Beirut’s Zach Condon it took a circus—specifically, the Swedish troupe Kompani Giraff, which commissioned the 18 tracks on A Study of Losses for a stage show of the same name.

  • 3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Ben Cardew

    If DJ Python wants to tell us something important on his new EP, then he seems a little shy about spitting it out. The record’s title is a declaration—or the start of one?—hedged in lowercase letters, offered without further explanation. Buried among the EP’s invited guests, the producer sings for the first time on a solo Python record, like a reluctant child being pushed into the spotlight.

  • 2 months ago | djmag.com | Ben Cardew

    This feature was originally published in 2019. Borrowing has long been at the heart of British music. The Beatles did it by weaving US R&B into wonderful new forms in the 1960s; David Bowie did it by subsuming everything from disco to drone into his individualistic musical world. In the ‘90s, Leftfield did it too – their mighty debut album ‘Leftism’ united the musical melting pot of post-rave Britain under the steady thump of the house beat.

  • 2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Ben Cardew

    Wile E. Coyote stops and looks at the camera, a resigned expression on his face. For an agonising second his feet scramble to gain purchase on solid air, the cliff edge now meters behind him. Then he plunges to his (temporary) doom.

  • Jan 21, 2025 | pitchfork.com | Ben Cardew

    The radio session might as well have been invented with idiosyncratic but influential post-punk shamblers Television Personalities in mind; the format gave prolific bandleader Dan Treacy an opportunity to record his latest songs quickly, efficiently, and without any of the industry conventions—like rehearsing—he apparently despised. In turn, radio loved them back.

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Ben Cardew
Ben Cardew @bencardew
11 Nov 24

My guest on @LineNoisePod @RadioPrimavera_ Sound this week is @tsha909, whose new album Sad Girl is out now on @ninjatune. We spoke about wedding DJs, being sad, Cher’s Believe and so much more. I hope you enjoy it. https://t.co/fnunTPvXSv

Ben Cardew
Ben Cardew @bencardew
8 Nov 24

Who does the UK press for Beck? Anyone know? Or US? Thanks and sorry for being so boring.

Ben Cardew
Ben Cardew @bencardew
8 Nov 24

RT @salicrunette: El sector de la música gravada de Catalunya premia les botigues de discos en la 3a edició de @FonogramaBCN, setmama de la…