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WHYT 079LP
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RELEASE DATE: 9/20/2024
Formed in Bristol, four-piece Lice have become one of UK experimental rock's most inventive and ambitious outliers. Their second album Third Time At The Beach is a three-part epic exploring the struggle to better understand the world. Darting between minimalism, rock, techno and more, it sends listeners hurtling through time and space: featuring a cast of astronauts, cavemen and dinosaurs. This follows Lice's internationally acclaimed debut album WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear (2021). Third Time At The Beach's concept is expressed through three movements. The first ("Unscrewed," "White Tubes," "Red Fibres") presents the child being introduced to the world, hammered into shape through prevailing culture, and realizing they have reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world. The second ("To The Basket," "Wrapped In A Sheet," "Scenes From The Desert," "Mown In Circles") is a disorientating, alien sequence: reevaluating fundamental concepts including money, time, nationhood and language. In the third ("Fatigued, Confused," "Third Time At The Beach," "The Dance"), the individual embraces these new ideas -- granting them a changed understanding of the world, and more agency in the path they take through it. Everything is always changing in Third Time At The Beach. The album shifts from lush piano balladry to crushing industrial, and from swampy avant-garde compositions to triumphant rock freakouts. Employing vocal manipulation and field recordings, as well as cutting together studio recordings and home demos, the band produces a spatially elastic, collage-like effect. The album, like the ideas being reached within it, presents a work-in-progress. Lyrically, the record employs a scattershot style to present the experience of learning (or "unlearning"). The listener visits ancient civilizations, the Industrial Revolution, outer space and the land of the dinosaurs: encountering mediaeval farmers, silver miners, cavemen, Napoleon and Satan. Speaking on the record, the band say: "This album's about trying to understand the world and everything in it: history, science and the way we explain it all to each other. It's a celebration of feeling confused or intimidated by the processes that shape our lives."
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WHYT 077LP
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$28.00
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RELEASE DATE: 6/28/2024
Meaning shifts throughout Martha Skye Murphy's debut album Um with songs that meld moments of baroque beauty with crashes of electronic noise, employing textures that are by turns organic and artificial, hi-fi and lo-fi. Collaborations with the likes of Claire Rousay and Roy Montgomery are finely intertwined with the fruits of rigorous studio sessions with producer Ethan P. Flynn. Lyrically Martha conjures images inspired by everything from Ancient Roman hand-binding torture to a Fred and Ginger tap routine. The listener is catapulted across landscapes and left disoriented. "First Day" consists of individual notes recorded remotely on different instruments across Texas, New Zealand and London, coalescing into one hovering chord around a field recording Murphy took while wandering New York. It's telling that when Marta Salogni, who mixed the album, first heard Um, she commented that it was like experiencing a memory of an experience that hadn't yet happened. As a vocalist Murphy has a rare talent for transformation, from her intimate, cracked whispers over the hypnotic drift of "Theme Parks," to her piercing disembodied wails as "Kind" implodes into a cataclysm of electronic noise. Elsewhere, she offers little more than a distracted hum. In the studio, she and co-producer Ethan P. Flynn focused on maximizing those vocal capabilities by teasing out different personas. On the crystalline "Pick Yourself Up," part of which she wanted to sound like a lullaby, she cradled objects as she sang in order to draw out the maternal. It would be an oversimplification to say that Murphy inhabits different characters on the record. Rather, she extracts different characters from the depths of her own psyche who gesture towards the fact that "the self" is ultimately a vague and impermanent thing. She can be both exorcist and orator.
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WHYTBLU 007EP
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Two tracks aimed at the floor, with a running theme being the human voice, from screaming to singing and laughing. Happa: "Vocals aren't a rarity in dance music obviously, but I wanted to experiment with them in a more instrumental and textural sense. Plus, I think you don't hear enough kinda weird shit in the more formulaic dance tunes -- only on the more experimental edges of club music ya kno?"
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WHYT 024EP
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Inspired by cosmology and ancient mythology, the Anunaku project is a continuation of TSVI's debut album Inner Worlds (2018) and aims to explore the use of various drums from around the world combined with elements of UK underground club music.
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WHYT 023EP
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Carl Gari are a trio of German musicians made up of Jonas Yamer, Till Funke, and Jonas Friedlich. Abdullah Miniawy is an Egyptian musician and poet, currently based in France. Whities share their latest release with you, a six-track extended EP, The Act Of Falling From The 8th Floor. A meditative and provoking listen, focused around the poem in "B'aj بعاج" that forms the lyrical centerpiece of the record. In this song, Abdullah is the protagonist, jumping from the eighth floor of a building in Cairo. While falling he describes a unique scene happening on every balcony, painting a dark picture of Egyptian society. Carl Gari produced and mixed the record, providing a melancholic backbone for Abdullah's lyrics and melodies.
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WHYTBLU 005EP
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Forest Drive West debuts on Whities with two sub heavy rollers perfectly crafted to move human limbs.
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WHYT 020LP
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Made up of six tracks but presented as two 17-minute pieces, Leif's Loom Dream meanders through warm chord-scapes, glistening synths, and loose live percussion, woven together with field recordings and ambience. Loom Dream invites the listener to peacefully reconnect with the living world by placing one amongst lush sonic verdure.
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WHYTBLU 006EP
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A three-tracker by Pugilist that explores cross sections of bass, breaks and techno. There's real variation to the styles here but all have the Australian producers signature mastery of rhythmic low end.
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WHYTBLU 003EP
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Netherlands' Upsammy shares 12" space with the UK's BFFT. Whities were glued to Upsammy's release on Nous'klaer Audio from first listen; we were delighted to work with her on Blue 03. The Dutch producer and De School resident has provided two tracks, "Vacate Or Annihilate" and "Warm Puddles", the first of which is cathartic expulsion of energy stemming from a transitional period in Upsammy's life, the second a contemplative, balmy antidote to the tension. Stoke-born Leeds-based BFTT contributes the bass-heavy "Kueen" with an intricacy, preciseness and evolution; "Enin" is a driving but delicately hypnotic track with a melancholic leaning.
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WHYTBLU 004EP
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Blue 04 is two strong cuts by E-Talking and Ilian Tape's Laksa!
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WHYT 017EP
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Repressed in Whities house sleeve. Nathan Micay (formerly Bwana) steps out under his own name for the first time with a pair of glistening panoramas well-primed for those exultant hours of the early morning. In Nathan's words: "These are without a doubt the most personal tracks I have written to date. I made them as a sort of exercise in self-therapy during my first few months in Berlin. As time has gone on, more meanings have unfolded with each listen. For me, these tracks are a rebuttal to the endless churn of negativity in the news and online."
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WHYTBLU 001EP
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Blue 01 comes in the form of a split 12" release from Tessela and Lanark Artefax. It features Tessela's "Glisten", a track we've loved and coveted since Joy Orbison slipped into his essential mix in 2016. Alongside that is the "Intimidating Stillness Mix" Of Lanark's "Touch Absence", which was first released as a limited edition Whities dubplate back in 2016. It has been remastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven; artwork designed by Alex McCullough.
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WHYT 014EP
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Whities 014 is by Londoner and master digger, Jules Venturini. It's a three-track 12" of discordant choral euphoria. Artwork by Alex McCullough.
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WHYT 012EP
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Minor Science returns with more genre defying bass experiments on this two-track Whities 12". The sleeve designed by Alex McCullough, is a 12" accurate scale reproduction from Willem Claeszoon Heda's painting "Still Life With Gilt Cup" (currently hanging in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum).
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WHYT 011EP
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A skyscraper extending its fingertips upwards, outstretched and pointing towards an unmarked ceiling that extends even more itself, spinning and slicing its way through the horizontal and the layers that are see through and infinite and stacked one on top of the other.
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WHYT 005EP
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After a cool 2015 debut on Pinkman, here's Reckonwrong with more experiments -- this time on Young Turks sub-label Whities.
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WHYT 003EP
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Terron is back on Whities. This four-track EP features two lead singles -- "N° 29 Pareto 20/80" and "N° 34 Dove [Part II]" -- and a continuous piece of music running across three tracks on the B-side. Hand-painted sleeves.
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