Stadiums & Shrines

Little

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Just a little, of what exactly is not entirely clear, but this something sounds like it’s exceptionally sweet… impossibly beyond grasp. Lost in Candyland. At least initially… though within a few pitched skips, baby coos and gummy bird chirps, the grounds of “Little” technicolorize into synthesized symphonic festivities. Of course it’s very much the right time for such a twist. Wildarms, that perennially positive pop dreamer, knows this. As do the fine folks at Cascine. So naturally, generously, seasonally… this also leads into a free EP, available for download December 17th.

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… But from here, across a barrier, through a window or a screen, in a dream, receiving the transmission with a diode sheen:

It’s unclear if the signal means, but certainly the beacon sings.

SNARLING

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In a very human way, “You” finds itself somewhere between assured and uncertain. It hesitates; it glides. It commands with baritone fact and rhymes with endearing naïveté. It flourishes in delay: in strums, elegant and ominous, in strings, fairytale-bound and nightmarish.

Givan Lötz masters this mood. Or rather, this cathartic junction of moods (“obsession, loneliness, desire, paranoia, tragedy, sensuality and melancholia”). Over the past four years, the South African artist has crafted four albums of slow-moving, ‘uneasy-listening’ material. The series is nothing short of overwhelming. And soon it will be available in definitive redux version as SNARLING, a limited cassette/digital release out December 17th through Other Electricities.

In the meantime, while Lötz’s overall creative output ranges wider than we can properly wrangle at the moment, the set below is a fitting entry point.
 

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