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06/25/2024

"Grimier chords, longer and weirder freeform jams, utterly confounding rhythms, seismic heaviness, and profound humanity at its core... if jaw-dropping musicianship is a given by this point in Sumac’s career, what makes The Healer exceptional is its command of spatial presence and emotional weight"

We knew it was good, you knew it was good at first listen —
SUMAC's new album The Healer just got a glowing review, 8.4 score, and Best New Music rating on pitchfork.com!

Read the full review below, order a copy of The Healer, and catch SUMAC out on the road NOW!

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sumac-the-healer/

Order The Healer: https://thrilljockey.com/products/the-healer
See tour dates: https://thrilljockey.com/tours

Read Patric Fallon’s review of the album.

08/31/2023

With their new album Distorted Rooms out in just a couple of weeks, and with upcoming tour dates, Radian have joined Instagram! Go give 'em a follow, they've got more exciting news coming imminently > https://www.instagram.com/radianvienna/

Here's where you can catch Radian this fall:

Sept. 23 - Wroclaw, PL - Avant Art Festival
Sept. 28 - Poznan, PL - Avant Art Festival
Oct. 6 - Wels, AT - Schlachthof Wels
Oct. 21 - Fresnes-en-Woëvre, FR - Densités Festival
Nov. 23 - Vienna, AT - das Werk

03/22/2023

New York friends! Extremely excited to share that Matmos have been announced as one of the headliners for Outline Fest, which returns to the Knockdown Centre for this spring for its first edition of 2023. Get tickets here, you won't wanna miss this > https://link.dice.fm/matmos

Spanning two nights, Outline Fest straddles the seasons: on Saturday April 29, heavy experimental electronics and cutting edge dance take over indoors, while Friday May 13 opens the Ruins summer season with lush contemporary jazz-informed composition. Matmos will be headlining the April 29th show, with the full line-up getting announce Monday, March 27th at noon.

Outline returns to Knockdown Center with its most ambitious edition yet. Headliners announced on Tuesday March 21st. This is an 21+ event

10/31/2022

"One guitar, but so much creativity and sound!"

Marisa Anderson was featured on KUAF 91.3 Public Radio, the University of Arkansas' radio station and an NPR affiliate, ahead of her show at Clapp Auditorium in Fayetteville, AR on Wednesday. She participated in a brief but substantive interview with Kyle Kellams for the show Ozarks at Large. Check it out here:

Marisa Anderson will be at Clapp Auditorium Wednesday night with her guitar. One guitar, but so much creativity and sound!

10/28/2022

"The sound design is just magnificent here, elevating the hardcore and metal structures... It’s an excellent combination of genres and scenes that Persher achieve with Man With The Magic Soap, managing to conform the live instrumentation to the electronic narrative. While there are a number of artists out there that have performed the same alchemical process, Persher stand out with their exuberance and boundlessness."

Huge thanks to PopMatters for including Persher's Man With The Magic Soap in their Metal Matters list of the best albums of the month!

This month's best metal albums feature grind phenoms Cloud Rat, Faceless Burial's death metal recipe, and Desbot opening new pathways for post-metal.

10/26/2022

We're ecstatic to announce the latest project from Japanese experimental music legend YoshimiO - a new collaborative album with producer IzumikiYoshi. To The Forest To Live a Truer Life will be out March 24th - listen to hypnotic first single "mini yO" now, and grab the white LP from our store.

To The Forest... compiles some of YoshimiO's most surprising material to date. There’s still plenty of the same wild vocal acrobatics that longtime OOIOO and YoshimiO fans will instantly recognize, but the album finds YoshimiO playing piano for the first time since her youth. izumikiYoshi picks up those raw piano and vocal inputs and uses modular synthesizer to transmute them into expansive electronic atmospheres.
https://thrilljockey.com/products/to-the-forest-to-live-a-truer-life

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10/21/2022

Absolutely huge new release day here at Thrill Jockey - The Soft Pink Truth’s Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This, Douglas McCombs' VMAK

10/20/2022

10/19/2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: legendary quintet TORTOISE are coming to the west coast in March 2023 for a short tour!!! Their most recent tour was unfortunately cut short, but this tour will include rescheduled dates as well as new ones. Don’t miss it!!!

TOUR DATES:

Mar. 27 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
Mar. 28 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall *
Mar. 30 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
Mar. 31 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom *

* Rescheduled show

10/13/2022

Persher (Blawan & Pariah) recently did an interview with Shawn Reynaldo, free to read on substack for the next 24 hours before going behind a paywall. Be sure to give it a read today!

a.k.a. An interview with the duo about their new metal- and hardcore-inspired Persher project, what's happening with Karenn and the current state of techno.

10/13/2022

"Oozing Wound play violently abrasive music steeped in punk, metal, and noise. It’s gruesome and intense, like In Utero if Nirvana had taken the task of alienating frat bros a lot more seriously."

Thank you for the kind words Stereogum!

New album 'We Cater To Cowards' is coming in January.

10/10/2022

Dommengang start their European tour THIS WEEK, kicking off at Desertfest Belgium. They got merch, they got riffs, don't miss it.

More info and tickets > https://thrilljockey.com/artists/dommengang

10/10/2022

COMING SOON: we'll be releasing the second instalment of our Pelican reissue project on January 27th, with their classic album City of Echoes getting the expanded reissue treatment. Grab the limited-edition translucent blue 2xLP here > https://thrilljockey.com/products/city-of-echoes

Featuring absolutely gorgeous artwork and newly remastered music by Josh Bonati, the reissue also features a full LP-worth of bonus material, including original album demos, alternative takes, and pieces originally only available on the rare Pink Mammoth EP.

The lavender 2xLP limited-edition color pressing already sold out in mere hours (!), store now, and we've got the translucent blue pressing up on the store now. Given how fast the Australasia reissue sold out, these won’t stick around long, don't sleep on it.

10/05/2022

Factoryland by Dan Friel Photo by Mike Boyd Dan Friel’s pandemic-era record was inspired by, among other things, the construction sounds that drifted in through the walls and windows of his NYC home...

10/05/2022

8 track album

09/30/2022

: Marisa Anderson music’s “Still, Here” (Thrill Jockey Records). “‘Still, Here’ expresses the state of mind that evolves when stillness is enforced long enough for a person to process some circumstances.” Read our review: https://magnetmagazine.com/2022/09/30/essential-new-music-marisa-andersons-still-here/

09/12/2022

Many thanks to Jon Pareles and The New York Times for mentioning Marisa Anderson music, whose new record comes out Sep 23, in their most recent playlist!

Hear tracks by Blood Orange, Madison Cunningham, Yeat and others.

09/09/2022

New music from free-music provocateur Keiji Haino and post-metal titans SUMAC coming next week! In the meantime, here's a little teaser for you...

Keiji Haino & SUMAC's new album and third collaboration "Into This Juvenile Apocalypse..." is out October 7th, cop the limited-edition olive vinyl w/ black and white streaks. We've also got mailorder exclusive t-shirts designed by SUMAC's Aaron Turner, with $5 from each shirt going to Planned Parenthood.

09/06/2022

We are counting down the days until the September 23rd release of Marisa Anderson music's Still, Here! To hold you over, we're sharing our unboxing of Still, Here on sea glass colored vinyl, available now: https://thrilljockey.com/products/still-here

08/05/2022

We had the absolute pleasure of catching Matmos at Constellation Chicago this past Monday for one of the funnest shows we’ve seen in awhile, involving plastic, eggs, broken records, and more you will not be expecting! Don’t miss your chance to hang with Matmos on their tour throughout the US and Canada now through August 13th. Grab tickets for your city here: https://thrilljockey.com/artists/matmos

08/05/2022

One of four colors of Lightning Bolt's Oblivion Hunter vinyl reissue, you can find this rainbow splatter LP in store on August 19th! Watch our unboxing here.

Find Oblivion Hunter at Twist & Shout Records, Waiting Room Records, Reckless Records, Waterloo Records, Amoeba, Wuxtry Records-Athens and more! Head to your favorite local record store upon release to snag yours!

08/04/2022

THROWBACK THRILLSDAY: Pelican celebrates the release of Australasia at Bottom Lounge circa 2003. Having already played 2 shows that day with one more to come that night, morale was low (we can only imagine how exhausting 3 shows in 1 day would be!). After some rescue cake was brought in, the band's spirits were lifted and the album release celebration continued! We're still celebrating today with the reissue of Australasia out in just over 2 weeks! Grab yours here: https://thrilljockey.com/products/australasia

08/03/2022

Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden have just shared the second single from their upcoming album, I get along without you very well, out September 23rd!

"'Never near' was the last song to be composed for the album and the writing process differed quite significantly from how we worked with the rest of the songs. I remember it being a very intuitive process, basically us trying to follow the momentum of the chord progression’s “elastic” quality which together with this kind of eerie melody line it seemed to follow its own particular logic. We asked the other musicians to “mimic” the melody in real time while recording without them having heard the song in advance, something that both enhanced the tension between the musical elements while simultaneously weaving them together. I think this song offers a contrasting layer to the record as a whole, perhaps an alternative point of entry to the music." - Johan Graden

"Never near" is streaming now: https://thrilljockey.com/products/i-get-along-without-you-very-well

08/03/2022

We are very excited to announce the latest news from Dan Friel - new album Factoryland out August 19th! The release is part of our 30th anniversary series and is available on super limited cassette now. Snag yours here: https://thrilljockey.com/products/factoryland

Alongside the announcement Friel has shared the album's blistering first single "Thrash Compactor". Demonstrating his preternatural ability to warp ugliness into rapturous beauty, here Friel inverts his usual process of distorting pop until it becomes noise, instead chopping up searing feedback into samples that he arranged into the track's delectable pop hooks. You can listen to “Thrash Compactor” here: https://thrilljockey.com/products/factoryland

08/02/2022

08/02/2022

Need some new threads? We've got you covered! Or rather, SUMAC does! Check out these new tees designed by Aaron Turner.

Black shirts are exclusively available on our site here: https://thrilljockey.com/products/into-this-juvenile-apocalypse-our-golden-blood-to-pour-let-us-never
Yellow shirts are available on our site & Bandcamp for EU shipping - https://sumac.bandcamp.com/

$5 from every shirt will be donated to Planned Parenthood

07/29/2022

The Soft Pink Truth's Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? is out October 21st! Check out our unboxing of the translucent green 2xLP here! You can reserve your copy for October now: https://thrilljockey.com/products/is-it-going-to-get-any-deeper-than-this

07/28/2022

We've been on the edge of our seats waiting to announce this one! SUMAC & Keiji Haino have reunited for a third collaboration, Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never, out October 7th. Snag yours here: https://bit.ly/3zevs4d

The record captures Haino and the 3 members of SUMAC live on stage, navigating a series of spontaneous compositions in front of an attentive audience, with no prior discussions or planning involving the direction of the music. Recorded on May 21, 2019, at the Astoria Hotel on Vancouver BC’s notorious East Hastings Street as a one-off performance during a short North American tour for Haino, the 6 compositions showcase a musical unit bouncing unfiltered ideas off of one another, mining a trove of textures and timbres from their armory to buoy and bolster these living and breathing pieces.

Don't miss SUMAC on tour! Get your tickets here for the following shows: https://thrilljockey.com/artists/sumac

August 8 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
August 9 - Detroit, MI - The Sanctuary
August 10 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace
August 11 - Montreal, QC - Les Foufounes Electriques
August 12 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
August 13 - Brooklyn, NY - The Market Hotel
August 14 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
August 15 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
August 17 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
August 18 - Durham, NC - The Pinhook
August 19 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
August 20 - Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR
August 21 - Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups

October 1 - Stockholm, SE - Gloomy Days Fest
October 2 - Helsinki, FI - Tavastia w/ Pharaoh Overlord
October 3 - Copenhagen, DK - Vega *
October 5 - Antwerp, BE - Trix *
October 6 - Tilburg, NL - Hall Of Fame *
October 7 - Metz, FR - Les Trinitaires *
October 8 - Monthey, CH - Pont Rouge *
October 9 - Zurich, CH - Rote Fabrik *
October 11 - Barcelona, ES - Sala Bóveda *
October 12 - Madrid, ES - Mon Live w/ Deafheaven
October 13 - Porto, PT - Amplifest

* w/ Patrick Shiroishi

PC: Matty Harris

07/28/2022

ICYMI: Pelican's Australasia is available now, out August 19th! Check out the remastered deluxe double LP on orange with black and yellow swirl vinyl in our unboxing video here.

Reserve your copy here: https://thrilljockey.com/products/australasia