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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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How to Dress Well
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How to Dress Well is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Tom Krell. Krell was born in Boulder, Colorado, Krell graduated from The New School with an MA in Philosophy in 2009. He then moved from New York City to spend a year in Berlin, beginning in 2009, Krell started to turn out free EPs on his blog under the name How to Dress Well. He didnt release his name or his photo, but critics quickly picked up on Krells music, how to Dress Wells debut album, Love Remains, was released in 2010 on Lefse in the United States and on Tri Angle in Europe and Asia. The album assembled the best of Krells early EPs and garnered vast critical acclaim and it received a score of 8.7 and the Best New Music designation from music review site Pitchfork Media. Stereogum recognized How to Dress Well as one of its 40 Best Bands of 2010, spin gave the album 8 out of 10 stars, calling it as meditative as it is evocative. Conjuring fractured memories of Shai or TLC, in 2011, How to Dress Well released the Just Once EP — a four-song suite of Suicide Dream songs set against a string quartet. The EP collects two previously released tracks bearing the name Suicide Dream, adds a third with that title, the set was inspired by and is dedicated to a friend of Krells who died. Limited to 1000 copies, the 10 vinyl release donated $1 of every record sold to a working to raise awareness about mental illness. On the heels of the success of Love Remains, Krell signed a deal with Weird World Records, Total Loss was released on September 18,2012 in North America by Acephale Records and worldwide through Weird World Records. Krell wrote the album over the course of 15 months or so, in Brooklyn, Chicago, Nashville, the album received a “Best New Music” nod from Pitchfork Media, where Ian Cohen wrote that it is a work of poignant and devastating art. It was also named by Pitchfork as one of the Top 50 Albums of 2012, in April 2014, How to Dress Well released the first single off their forthcoming third studio album, Repeat Pleasure. The album was released on June 23,2014 via Domino Records / Weird World Records and was well received by music critics, earning an 8.8. Paste Magazine noted that “Krell has managed to indulge his experimental tendencies while at the same time achieve his most accessible sound to date. ”Capitalizing on the success of What Is This Heart, how to Dress Well embarked on a world tour, beginning in the spring of 2014. The tour started off with shows in Europe, and continued on to include stops in North America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and cities throughout Asia. The band performed at a number of major European, North American and Asian festivals, including Flow Festival, Hostess Club Weekender, on July 27,2016 How To Dress Well announced his fourth full-length album, Care. He also released the album’s first single “Lost Youth / Lost You” along with a music video. On August 30,2016 How To Dress Well premiered Whats Up on Zane Lowes Beats1 show, on September 19,2016 KCRWs Morning Becomes Eclectic premiered the next single Cant You Tell
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Alternative R&B
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Alternative R&B is a term used by music journalists to describe a stylistic alternative to contemporary R&B. Alternative R&B was once used by the industry during the late 1990s to market neo soul artists, such as DAngelo, Erykah Badu. There has been a variety of discussion about the differing genre terms, the term hipster R&B has been commonly used, as has the term PBR&B—a combination of PBR and R&B. The first use of PBR&B was on Twitter by Sound of the City writer Eric Harvey on a March 22,2011 post, three years later, amazed and distressed at how far the term—meant as a joke—had traveled, Harvey wrote an extensive essay about it for Pitchfork. The genre has sometimes been called noir&B, however, the terms are often criticized for pigeonholing artists into hipster subculture and being used in a derisive manner. Brandon Neasman of The Grio observes a changing of the guard in R&B, from the smooth, cool heartthrobs to these vulnerable, additionally, for the most part, it doesnt feel as if these artists are selling sex as their main entrée. Granted, they sing about the topic, and in explicit detail. You don’t get that same diversity in subject matter from the majority of modern R&B singers, hermione Hoby of The Guardian writes that the music is quietly radical and observes an ongoing, mutually enriching dialogue between indie and electronic musicians and R&B artists. Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times feels that the new movement feels like the most significant stylistic change in R&B since neo soul rolled around in the 1990s, janet Jacksons sixth studio album The Velvet Rope is cited as one the genres stylistic origins. Frank Ocean states that he does not like being called an R&B musician, how to Dress Well was not offended by the term PBR&B, but found it tacky. Miguel has said that he is comfortable with the term indie R&B because it insinuates a higher art, or a deeper or somehow more artistic delivery of rhythm and blues music. It suggests theres more artistry within a genre that has more of a cliche of itself. Eric Harvey, the writer who coined the term, wrote a response to its proliferation. FKA Twigs does not like the term, she told The Guardian Fuck alternative R&B. She finds the term racially charged, When I first released music and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like, Ive never heard anything like this before, and then my picture came out six months later, now shes an R&B singer. Stereogum described the genre as a fad that reached its point in early 2014. List of alternative R&B artists Hipster hop Neo soul Abebe, Nitsuh, PBR&B – A subgenre is born. Love vs. Money, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, and R&Bs Future Shock
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Experimental music
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The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in North America. John Cage was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental musics primary innovators, utilizing indeterminacy techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. Also, in America, a distinct sense of the term was used in the late 1950s to describe computer-controlled composition associated with composers such as Lejaren Hiller. Harry Partch as well as Ivor Darreg worked with other tuning scales based on the laws for harmonic music. For this music they developed a group of experimental musical instruments. Musique concrète, is a form of music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. Elements of experimental music include indeterminate music, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. The Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrète, under the leadership of Pierre Schaeffer, publication of Schaeffers manifesto was delayed by four years, by which time Schaeffer was favoring the term recherche musicale, though he never wholly abandoned musique expérimentale. John Cage was also using the term as early as 1955, according to Cages definition, an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen, and he was specifically interested in completed works that performed an unpredictable action. Rebners lecture extended the concept back in time to include Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, nyman opposes experimental music to the European avant-garde of the time, for whom The identity of a composition is of paramount importance. David Cope also distinguishes between experimental and avant garde, describing music as that which represents a refusal to accept the status quo. That is, for the most part, experimental music studies describes a category without really explaining it and this was an attempt to marginalize, and thereby dismiss various kinds of music that did not conform to established conventions. In 1955, Pierre Boulez identified it as a new definition makes it possible to restrict to a laboratory. He concludes, There is no such thing as experimental music … and it is therefore not a genre, but an open category, because any attempt to classify a phenomenon as unclassifiable and elusive as experimental music must be partial. Furthermore, the indeterminacy in performance guarantees that two versions of the same piece will have virtually no perceptible musical facts in common. The term experimental music was used contemporaneously for electronic music, particularly in the early musique concrète work of Schaeffer, a number of early 20th-century American composers, seen as precedents to and influences on John Cage, are sometimes referred to as the American Experimental School. These include Charles Ives, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, Carl Ruggles, for this music they both developed custom-built musical instruments often characterized as experimental instruments. La Monte Young is known for using this technique when he began working on his minimal drone pieces which consisted of layers of sounds in different pitches
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Lo-fi music
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Lo-fi music are sound recordings that are of lower quality than the usual standard for modern music. The term was adopted in late 1986 by WFMU DJ William Berger, the music also refers to a movement which grew primarily from American underground music scenes in the early 1980s. Associated artists include Sebadoh, Pavement, Liz Phair, and Beck, allMusic writes, Throughout rock & rolls history, recordings were made cheaply and quickly, often on substandard equipment. In that sense, the earliest rock & roll records, most of the rock of the 60s. JW Farquhars home-recorded 1973 album The Formal Female is considered a forerunner to lo-fi artists such as R
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Domino Recording Company
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Domino Recording Company, generally known as Domino, is a British independent record label based in London. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, in 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press. Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and his partner Jacqui Rice, many of the early releases were by American artists who in the USA were signed to Drag City, a relationship which continues to this day. 2003 was the labels 10th anniversary, as well as new music, Domino have released produced compilations by British post-punk bands such as Orange Juice, Josef K, Fire Engines and Young Marble Giants
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Total Loss (album)
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Total Loss is the second studio album by American musician How to Dress Well. It was released in September 2012 on Acephale Records in North America, the track Cold Nites, which was co-written and co-produced by Forest Swords, was released as a single. Acclaimed by critics, the album was listed 33rd on Stereogums list of top 50 albums of 2012, how to Dress Well spoke about the influence for the album, Janet Jacksons The Velvet Rope. The main thing I took from her is sort of this self-trust, self-care, Velvet Rope is an amazing example. She set such an example for trusting yourself, and following that intuition wherever it takes you and she couldve made an entire record of Together Agains—eleven of those. But she made a sprawling masterpiece with a song from every genre. Because you see her discerning taste in every track, and every single track. Some songs her voice is all distorted, and in other songs its so close to the mic that it sounds like shes singing in your ear—you can hear her lip-smacking and its a total statement, This is me kind of record. And I like writing different kinds of songs, Total Loss is a bunch of different kinds of songs on it. I was like, Shit, how do I make this record, do I pick one and stick with it and write all those. No, that would be truncating this sense I have that all songs are special. And for me, Together Again is infinitely more special because its this little gem on that very different record. If it were a record of Together Agains, Id probably love the song. Ive loved The Velvet Rope since it came out and its been one of my favorite records for many years. I think when I started working on Total Loss and seeing like shit, and I kind of learned over the course of making my record, and really attentively listening to Janets record, that it had more of an influence on me that I had even realized. So like, its funny to learn through making a record that Ive had this record playing in the back of my mind for a decade. I mean theres some shit on The Velvet Rope thats absolutely next-level—still today, a cover of Janet Jacksons Again appears on a bonus 7 included with select versions of the album
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