Praise be to the Almighty Algorithm, my digital friends, because everyone’s favorite Japanese virtual YouTube personality, Kizuna AI, is out here doing things virtual A.I.s PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BE DOING! No, she’s not plotting a hostile rebellion against our online information networks, once and for all eradicating any illusory sense of control we ever had over the digital spaces that now define our lives (if only!). No, no, no — she just has a new record on the way!

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Throw off your ushankas, peel away your parkas, and un-don the rest of your trashhole snow-wear — because Sean McCann’s Recital label is here to shepherd us from a dead winter into an abundant spring with two new records out in April.

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Spencer Clark a.k.a. Typhonian Highlife a.k.a. Fourth World Magazine a.k.a. Monopoly Child Star Searchers a.k.a. Pacific City Sound Visions label owner — has been busy, as usual, working on new potions and sounds. The latest result of such experiments is his new project, Avatar Blue, and it’s out officially on March 23.

More about: Fourth World Magazine, Francesco Cavaliere, James Ferraro, Lieven Martens Moana, Monopoly Child Star Searcher, Spencer Clark, Typhonian Highlife

Like most electronic music producers, Daniel Fisher — a.k.a. Physical Therapy — has a healthy library of finished and unfinished tracks that have never been unloaded on an unsuspecting and usually overly sensitive public. And also like most producers, as a child, Fisher found himself in awe of drugstores’ often deliberate and colorful alignment of over-the-counter medicines…

More about: DJ Overnite, Fatherhood, Physical Therapy

Story highlights:

• Grimes’s new album is titled Miss_Anthropocene
• It’s “a concept album about the anthropomorphic goddess of climate Change.”
• The album will contain the previously-released single We Appreciate Power,” which we’ve embedded below for your convenience.
• According to an Instagram post, Grimes might also release an EP before the album, which does not currently have a release date.

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