Harry Tafoya

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Harry Tafoya

Lauren Duffus is an astronaut lost in inner space. In the video for “N.U.M.T.E.”, the artist moonwalks through South London in a Ralph Lauren spacesuit, navigating packed dancefloors and streets as cold, empty, and unforgiving as the far side of the moon. Apart from a quick smoke break, she’s hermetically and emotionally sealed off from the city around her, adrift in her own orbit.

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Harry Tafoya

Spare, gestural, and enamored with open space, Beatrice Dillon’s work defies easy categorization. The British producer’s latest piece, “Basho,” is longer than most EPs, with a conceptual open-endedness that makes its beginning and end feel slightly arbitrary; the crackling energy she summons could very well last until the end of time.

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Harry Tafoya

At the beginning of PinkPantheress’ new mixtape, Fancy That, the 24-year-old singer and producer has just been hit by the full force of an absurdly potent strain of weed and is starting to feel the world tilt off its axis. “Illegal” swerves straight into peak time, growing more massive and colorful as it crashes through the speakers. If the record’s first seconds are slightly disorienting, it hardly seems to register for the singer—she has to be the most poised stoned person on the planet.

1 month ago | papermag.com | Harry Tafoya

Arts editor-at-large Harry Tafoya recommends Michael Armitage at David Swirner, Rachel Harrison at Greene Naftali, Salman Toor at Luhring Augustine, Oscar yi Hou's "Deviations" at James Fuentes and much more.

2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Harry Tafoya

Like a feather in the wind or the global stock market, all of us are subject to stochastic drift. Originating in advanced statistics, the term refers to the way in which randomness works upon a system, how the trajectory of a line sways as it’s affected by unanticipated events. For Sam Barker, the metaphor of a winding path has been meaningful in recent years.