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WHYT 083TR-LP
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Limited 2025 repress; double LP version. Transparent vinyl. New York-based artist James K returns with Friend. This album is full of electric pop anthems that blends ear-worming melodies with peak-time breaks, buzzing powerpunk guitars and a classic rave pulse, with K's signature enchanting vocals playfully spitting emotion. It's a hallucinatory pleasure, tearing through your body and mind. "Play" rushes with a rebellion of friends -- an electro fever daydream waking up everywhere you go. Hot off extensive tours worldwide, playing the likes of Pitchfork Festival, Dekmantel, iii Points, and Mutek, following in the footsteps of her last two critically acclaimed singles Friend comes on AD 93. RIYL: Cocteau Twins, Yves Tumor, Prodigy, Oklou, Grimes.
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INCIENSO 016LP
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Originally released in 2022. James K debuts on Incienso with sophomore album Random Girl. What's gathered at first is a heterogeneous mixture of intimacy and sore, collected between 2014-2018. As if in a cruel playground game, K breaks a tracklist full of complex soundscapes, voice manipulation, and dazzling shoegaze with a self-built noise box, stethoscope throat-voice and a cellphone recording from a fake tropical island on ecstasy. Consequently, Random Girl is a voice against infantilization of girlhood, a decisive refusal of integrity, fighting what can be understood as the death of expression. Take a sip of water before your memory error blinks. Dial to K. Listen to the disfragmented territory and the cast of it she's making. It might not be what you will have thought tomorrow. Featuring Stefan Maier and Drew McDowall.
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DIAL 035LP
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New York native James K has spent the 2010s quietly honing her sound and peculiar aesthetic; equally organic and electronic, her sound is a combination of odd dreams, industrial beats, and vocals, both incomprehensible and appealing, with a thick layer of glitter on top. James K is a concentrated dose of emotion mixed with sorrowful iciness, which in turn ties together ripped, broken, morphed, and enchanted samples. James K stands for a fusion of visual and sonic elements, deeply rooted in both conscious art practice and downright freak-out. James K creates a mythology of her own. Her debut album, Pet, is a co-release by Dial and her own label, She Rocks! In James K's words, "The underlying desire of Pet divides into two parts: an escape into ethereality and a mischievous denial of my own experience. It narrates my search for honest expression by means of the premature denial -- a childish excursion into a world of monstrosity and innocence. Pet reflects my mental state during its production -- as a person, I was owned, objectified and hurt by other, and that wound I then unwillingly internalized. I turned to my music as a way to dissect these thoughts. The product became my possession, or 'pet.' In retrospect, this process gives me strength over myself; love -- knowledge and wisdom enacted. The arrangement of the music and the Pet itself relates to my endless struggle, namely, my attempts to reclaim myself." Pet follows James K's appearance on Dial's 2015 15th-anniversary compilation All (DIAL 032CD) and a 2015 mini-LP from her noise-pop project Seth (with producer Gobby) released on 1080p. Includes poster.
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