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I think the first time I heard Daniel Herskedal must have been on Mike Marshall's version of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" in the Last Black Man in San Francisco, though I didn't actually know Herskedal was on it until fairly recently. One of the distinctive things about Herskedal's music is his use of overblowing to effectively play a topline, so it makes sense that his style would work well for vocal music, as on Out of the Fog.

#Daniel Herskedal #Emilie Nicolas #Lost #Out of the Fog

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Still is gorgeous throughout, but "Lucky" really takes off, with the floatiest breakbeats I've heard in some time (and that little wobble in the bass).

#Erika de Casier #Lucky #Still

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Digital Heartifacts is a good name for an album and conveniently it is also a very good album, though I do think this, the lead track, is a clear standout (what does that juddering guitar line remind me of?). "Hater" is also very good, and not just for rhyming "hater" with "shaming my kinks till I'm straighter".

#L Devine #If I Don't Laugh I'll Cry #Hater #Digital Heartifacts

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It gives me no pleasure to inform you that this catastrophically stupid pop-D&B track from Tiësto is a banger.

#Tiësto #Rudimental #Absolutely #Waterslides

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#Georgia #Too Much Too Little

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#A. G. Cook #Charli XCX #Britpop

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MP3 nostalgia wouldn't be a bad name for this kind of mid/late-90s dance influenced pop. Expecially for the tracks drawing on UK Garage, which pretty much coincided with MP3's golden age (by which I mean Napster); maybe slightly anachronistic for the more D&B type stuff. "Selfish" by Maisi is less directly 90s-referencing but in a similar kind of orbit.

#Coupedekat #.mp3 #Ruhan #Lana Mac #Fireplace #Charlotte Plank #Rage #Maisi #Selfish

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"Yes, and?" and "We Can't be Friends" are the best songs from Eternal Sunshine and also not particularly representative of the rest of the album, but the rest of the album is also very good. I'm not really up with current trends in R&B so this probably has some "boss baby vibes" vibes, but the trap-ish drums remind me of Tink. More good R&B drums on "Poison" by Swamk Mami, excellent R&B guitar on Ryan Destiny's "How your Hands Feel". As it happens I've been rewatching Ryan Destiny's TV show Star, and the show's politics are as good as I remember, as are it's retro songs. FLO's "Walk Like This" and Tori Kelly's "Cut" would fit right in.

#Ariana Grande #Yes And? #We Can't be Friends #Eternal Sunshine #Swamk Mami #Poison #Ryan Destiny #How your Hands Feel #Star #Tori Kelly #Cut #FLO #Walk Like This

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TWICE single-handedly bringing back the generic dance remix package (or 18-handedly I guess)

#TWICE #I Got You #One Spark

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#Skylar #Suited n Booted #Boy in the Back

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A fun game to play is to see what line in this song you get to before you sigh, with exasperated realisation, "aah, Julia Michaels". For me it was "screaming 'yes' in quotations", but I imagine the real heads would have got it from the phrasing on "mathematical equation".

#Selena Gomez #Love On

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If fascism operates through seriality, as a politics that is both other-directed and in which horizontal relations are ones of pseudo-collectivity and pseudo-unity – where I interiorise the command of the Other as my sameness with certain others – then we should be wary of analysing it with categories that presume the existence of actual totalities or even coherent groups. This is why it is incumbent on a critical (or indeed anti-fascist) left to stop indulging in the ambient rhetoric of the white working-class voter as the subject-supposed-to-have-voted for the fascist-populist option. This is not only because of the sociological dubiousness of the electoral argument, or the enormous pass it gives to the middle and upper classes, or because of the tawdry forms of self-satisfied condescension it allows a certain academic or journalistic commentator or reader, or even the way it leads a certain left to indulge the fantasies ‘if only we could mobilise them’ and ‘if only we had the right slogan’. Politically speaking, the working class as a collective body, rather than as a manipulated seriality, does not (yet) exist.... Rather than thinking that a fully formed working class needs to be won away from the lures of fascism, we would do best to turn away from that false totality and rethink the composition of a class that could refuse to become the bearer of a racial predicate (white) or a national one (British). Class not as a carrier of the fascist virus, but its antibody.

Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism

#Alberto Toscano #fascism #class

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When shit hit the fan for Stewart, career prospects had nothing to do with it. Puberty did. “It’s as soon as I started to want to have sex,” Stewart specifies of the moment in sixth grade when she went from being like “everything’s fucking gravy” to suddenly feeling like “I can’t find the words and I want my face to be on the back of my head instead of the front.”

#Kristen Stewart

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I saw this in the room dedicated to punk at the Tate's Women in Revolt!: Art and Activism in the UK exhibition - it looks like it's scanned from a zine, but I didn't see a more specific attribution.

"If you're sulking at the moment, or if at any time you have sulked, write and let us know why, and we'll agree you were right"

#scowling as political strategy #Women in Revolt

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Daniel Marwecki describes the way that visions of Israel as a new embodiment of Jewish power awakened dormant German fantasies. A report by the West German delegation to the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961 marvelled at ‘the novel and very advantageous type of the Israeli youth’, who are ‘of great height, often blond and blue-eyed, free and self-determined in their movements with well-defined faces’ and exhibit ‘almost none of the features which one was used to view as Jewish’. Commenting on Israel’s successes in the 1967 war, Die Welt regretted German ‘infamies’ about the Jewish people: the belief that they were ‘without national sentiment; never ready for battle, but always keen to profit from somebody else’s war effort’. The Jews were in fact a ‘small, brave, heroic, genius people’. Axel Springer, which published Die Welt, was among the major postwar employers of superannuated Nazis.

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I spent upwards of ten minutes writing a post about the fusion of 90s beats and bedroom pop songwriting and piri just... tik-toked it out.

PinkPantheress obviously the queen of the genre, and it may be recency bias but Heaven Knows might be the album of the year.

But my favourite artist in the style is Memphis LK (who on "Closer to You" appears to have invented the hitherto unimaginable genre of bedroom donk), because of how brilliantly she reconfigures the elements of the genre - I never knew a d&b bassline could ache.

#Memphis LK #Whip #Closer to You #PinkPantheress #Heaven Knows #piri #advent calendar

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#Baby Queen #I Can't Get my Shit Together #Quarter Life Crisis #advent calendar