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TRACKADEMIA: “Costume” – Mila Culpa
New York-native Mila Culpa returns with her blissfully crunchy and digital shoegaze on “Costume,” her third single of 2026. It blasts in with huge swells of guitar and synthesizers at times, but also knows when to be delicate and intimate, leaving the listener with only an acoustic guitar and the…
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TRACKADEMIA: “Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems” – Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou
Touch the breeze of the wailing ocean, heed the cry of the whale’s song, and get intrigued by the mythical deep with Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou’s Reflection Vol. 3: Water Poems. Atkinson and Vantzou create a composition that feels like cool water lapping your toes. Its ambient, trancy synths…
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TRACKADEMIA: “Claws In Me” — Skinny Dyck
Self-professed “adjacent country music” specialist Skinny Dyck (the crudely witty alias of Canadian countryman Ryan Dyck) returns with new single “Claws In Me,” his first release since the serene 2025 album More Easy. In the style of Dyck’s lighthearted twang, this latest track is a sweet addition to his jangling…
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TRACKADEMIA DOUBLE FEATURE: Movable Parts Chapter 2 – Robert Hood, Нежность – Lida
Stripped back, driving Techno flashes back to Detroit’s heyday of minimal production in Robert Hoods’ reissue of 1997’s “Untitled (Movable Parts Chapter 2).” Alongside Jeff Mills and Mike Banks, Hood’s productions as part of the Underground Resistance label blended acid leaning texture and industrial touches into a scaffold of Chicago…
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TRACKADEMIA: “Is This All There Is?” By Anna Calvi feat. Matt Berninger
The closing title track on Anna Calvi’s EP, “Is This All There Is?” featuring The National’s Matt Berninger, is a soaring number fit for the end credits of a teen coming-of-age film which, depending on your disposition, is either high praise or mildly offensive. Calvi, having always moved in rarefied…
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TRACKADEMIA: “rich and famous” by Llondon actress
Llondon actress thrives off imitation, but his newest single “rich and famous” shows signs of moving past an era of mimicry. From an early whiny-voiced catalogue that felt ripped straight off an unreleased Bladee album, to recent glitchy, dream-like tracks that evoke shades of recent UK underground graduates Fakemink and…
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TRACKADEMIA: “Portland Town” – Heavenly
Twee bubblegum-pop forerunners Heavenly returned last Friday with a new album, Highway to Heavenly, after disappearing for thirty years. Yet somehow, front woman and lyricist Amelia Fletcher managed to remain with the same spunky jangly-ness as she had at the beginning of her career. With the increased slew of peppery…
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TRACKADEMIA: “It’s You (Underscores’ “It’s U” Remix) – Ninajirachi & daine
After two months of successful remixes for “I Love My Computer,” including collaborations with Frost Children, horsegiirL, and Effy, it’s safe to say that Ninajirachi’s brand of girl EDM is still going strong, and it’s only right that her hot streak continues with help from Underscores. Beyond mutual collaborators like…
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TRACKEDEMIA: “With My Eyes” – Paul Johnson
By 1997, when he was first in line to be name-dropped in Daft Punk’s “Teachers,” Paul Johnson had already seen several waves of Chicago’s bustling house scene come and go. Making it onto the scene just in time to experience Marshall Jefferson’s game-changing “Move Your Body,” Paul Johnson would go…
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TRACKADEMIA: “Convocación “Banger/Diffusion” – Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton’s new album Anata radiates a fleshly vitality that makes it difficult to comprehend that these sounds were recorded in a studio. Crampton’s solo work leans even heavier into cathartic spiritual ecstasy in an attempt to evoke the ceremonial traditions of the indigenous Aymara people than his work…
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TRACKADEMIA: “no One is Coming” – ADULT.
The electro-punk duo from Detroit ADULT. have returned with a new single after a two year hiatus. In anticipation of their new album Kissing Luck Goodbye, artists Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller dropped their first single, entitled “No One is Coming.” ADULT.’s detached tone and raw rhythms have made…
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TRACKADEMIA: “Bota” – Ludmilla, Emilia, Latto
TRACKADEMIA is STATIC’s weekly track review column, covering everything from the underrepresented to the overwhelming. Unfortunate! Though LUDMILLA sets up Emilia, Latto, and herself for success on “BOTA”, she’s the only one that follows through. A collaboration between a Brazilian iconoclast like LUDMILLA, one of Latin pop’s biggest ladies of…
