Titled after a Twitter meme, automatic smile by @ unfolds like a series of private jokes told between friends. These friends – Filipczak and Victoria Rose – started out as folk-pop pranksters, but when they debuted on 4AD, they became brain-rotten Rawlings and Welch. Before automatic smileyou’ll never hear Rose sing lyrics as heartfelt as “I don’t know how I belong to you, but I do somehow.” For the first time, the most ungoogleable band in showbiz seems barely legible.
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Avalanches: No bad memories (Modular)
Those of us over a certain age all have this jingle— a corporate ditty engraved in our memory like a painting in Lascaux. (Mine? Education Connection. My Gen The duo’s first real LP since the pandemic is inspired by lost jingles and now-defunct technology like these two pals pictured above. Elements of the 31-song project bring a similar “old is new again” spirit to the group’s anhedonic electronica, uniting legends such as Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Haruomi Hosono with fresher-faced experimentalists Portraits of Tracy. Who knew hauntology could be so fun?
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