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As originally published by Calum Slingerland on Exclaim!Nearly three years removed from sharing his sophomore album Skin, Flume has returned with a new mixtape.Titled Hi This Is Flume, the Australian producer's latest can be heard in the players below. The 17-track release features contributions from SOPHIE, JPEGMAFIA and more, and arrives alongside a visualizer created by Johnathan Zawada.Following the release of Skin in 2016, Flume delivered a pair of Skin Compani

As originally published by Tom Beedham on Exclaim!Hashed out in the same years that she was rushing between gigs abroad in Europe and filing away chapters of her risk assessment thesis on the health effects various chemicals have on orcas residing off the coast of Vancouver, this debut full-length from DJ, producer and label founder Jayda G takes academic pursuits to the dance floor, spinning environmental consciousness into dance floor politics in funkified house sequences. Named for the m

As originally published by Patrick Cardenas on Exclaim!"Dusty early '90s mixtape nostalgia." That is how UK jungle and drum & bass producer Alex Eveson describes the music released under his Dead Man's Chest alias. Maybe in an attempt to conjure up the euphoria of past raves, his production has consistently recalled the legendary Dreamscape events of the early '90s, now immortalized on cassette recordings. This revival continues in this new release brought to us by Dead Man's Chest &

As originally published by Calum Slingerland on Exclaim!Kelsey Lu made her debut with the six-track Church EP back in 2016. Now, the cellist/vocalist has lifted the curtain on her first full-length album.Titled Blood, Lu's latest arrives April 19 through Columbia Records. Thirteen tracks in length, the album features production from Jamie xx, Skrillex, Adrian Younge and Rodaidh McDonald."Blood is a recognition of the Pain, the Horror and the Beauty of finding the ability to o

As originally published by Calum Slingerland on Exclaim!On the heels of announcing her new album Miss_Anthropocene, Grimes has expanded on the album's concept, her personal life and more in a new interview.Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, the artist born Claire Boucher (who asked to be referred to as c) elaborated on Miss_Anthropocene's conceptual ties to climate change, having previously revealed the narrative of "anthropomorphic Goddess of climate Change.""I want to make c

As originally published by Calum Slingerland on Exclaim!As the Bug, Kevin Martin's recent work includes collaborations with the elusive Burial and drone metallers Earth. Now, the producer is set to drop the alias to deliver a new solo LP under his given name of Kevin Richard Martin.Titled Sirens, Martin's latest will arrive on June 7 through Room40. As label head Lawrence English explained in a press release, Sirens "documents the intensities surrounding the delivery and early day

As originally published by Alex Hudson on Exclaim!Grimes has been talking about her new album(s) for a while now, and her LP finally has a title. The Canadian pop experimentalist has revealed that the album will be called Miss_Anthropocene, and she has shared more details about the forthcoming collection.In an Instagram post, Grimes revealed that Miss_Anthropocene is a play on the words misanthrope (someone who dislikes humanity) and Anthropocene (the current geological time period during which