Sasha Geffen

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Darlings on the split screen: 'Pavements' explodes the music movie

3 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Sasha Geffen

About halfway through Alex Ross Perry's film Pavements, the Stranger Things actor Joe Keery shows his vocal coach a photograph of Stephen Malkmus' open throat.
PinkPantheress - Fancy That · Album Review ⟋ RA

1 month ago | ra.co | Sasha Geffen

Listen to it via your preferred platformOn her bold new mixtape, the breakbeat-pop star shakes off old wounds, reintroducing herself with newfound confidence. PinkPantheress always made hurt sound sweet. Four years ago, the UK artist spread across TikTok on the strength of a phone-screen confessional called "Pain," where she mused about the ambiguity of an on-again, off-again relationship over a dusty garage loop.
Model/Actriz: Pirouette

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Sasha Geffen

In E.M. Forster’s gay coming-of-age novel Maurice, the title character walks around his college campus after dark, peering into the lit windows of his fellow students’ dorm rooms as they go about their evenings. Holy shit, he thinks (I’m paraphrasing), other people are real. They think and feel. They have insides. “But, O Lord,” he narrates to himself, “not such an inside as mine.” On “Baton,” the closing track to Model/Actriz’s second album Pirouette, Cole Haden has a similar revelation in reverse.
aya: hexed!

2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Sasha Geffen

When Aya Sinclair was a teenager growing up in Huddersfield—a town in the north of England between Manchester and Leeds—she felt herself come to life in the swell of Christian rock. Someone sang about the Lord and blissful frisson radiated through her. Sinclair believed that feeling was the Holy Spirit. She joined a Pentecostal church. She worshiped. Then she felt another stirring.
Logic1000 - DJ-Kicks: Logic1000

Mar 28, 2025 | ra.co | Sasha Geffen

Logic1000 knits together resplendent trip-hop, downtempo and ambient, capturing the ephemerality of all good things. Samantha Poulter is one of a growing number of house producers who use the dance floor as a metaphor for gestation. Like Sofia Kourtesis' Madres LP and Eris Drew's Mystery of the Motherbeat mixes, Poulter's debut full-length as Logic1000, Mother, meditated on the flow between individual embodiment and communal movement.
venturing: Ghostholding

Feb 14, 2025 | pitchfork.com | Sasha Geffen

When there’s nothing all around you, you might need to make a lot of noise to fill it up. There are so many kinds of nothing in this world and so many kinds of noise. In physical space, there are just over 150 miles between the tree on the cover of 1000 Gecs (543 E Algonquin Rd., Des Plaines, IL) and the house on the cover of the first American Football album (704 W High St., Urbana, IL).
Ethel Cain: Perverts

Jan 13, 2025 | pitchfork.com | Sasha Geffen

Listen back to Ethel Cain’s 2022 debut Preacher’s Daughter and you’ll hear glimmers of the bold turn into dark ambient she has now taken with Perverts.
Porridge Radio: Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me

Oct 21, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Sasha Geffen

A certain kind of pain ends up making you feel invincible if you carry it long enough. Dana Margolin howls from that unstable station on “God of Everything Else,” which is not a breakup song so much as it is a hurricane rippling the surface of an open wound. “Don’t need to know where you are/You’ll be hit by a wave of me/I’m the god of everything else/You’re the god of losing me,” she seethes. She’s not just stepping out of a relationship that’s run its course.
Rahim Redcar: HOPECORE

Sep 28, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Sasha Geffen

Across his decade-long body of work, Rahim Redcar—the artist known until now as Christine and the Queens—has tangled in the interplay between sexual and spiritual surrender. A dynamic, expressive singer, he’s nurtured a perennial fascination with the ways those experiential extremes play out across the body—how the diaphragm lurches when an encounter with the divine drops you to your knees, how the thrill of an irrepressible attraction can catch in your throat. He’s no stranger to being overcome.
潘Pan: Pan the Pansexual

Jul 16, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Sasha Geffen

For 潘PAN, the body is a bomb about to explode. On the 2015 Grimes track “Scream,” her voice fluttered across Mandarin lyrics about howls packed deep in the lungs like gunpowder; between delicate rap verses, she let those subdued screams erupt. The Taiwanese musician born Pan Wei Ju, previously known as Aristophanes, has toyed with the boundary between composed beauty and volcanic monstrosity ever since.