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It’s an album full of life and energy, and like his live show as disobedient as it is heroic in its pursuit of liberation. All the truest pop music speaks to us of escape and through this new album Apostille allows its transformative power to fully manifest. He dialled down the clown, built up a new-found confidence in his voice and melody in general and began to feel more at home in the refuge of pop music (with a capital P). ‘ Choose Life‘ (his most recent album on Upset The Rhythm) is both the album Apostille chose to make and had to make. At once minimal and courageous with intent to connect, Apostille songs race off with unchecked abandon, skittering drum machines, thick walls of sequenced synth and decidedly elastic basslines.
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His audacious 2015 debut album ‘ Powerless‘ self-released through Night School set the template by hooking up his honest delivery to some manic expositions in electronic pop. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture, Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. Alongside running his own DIY record label, Glasgow native, Michael Kasparis has spent the last few years making forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. ĪPOSTILLE is a man who’s torn through enough sound-systems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Its title is a moving target, probing questions about the realities and mythologies of America in 2019 without giving in to easy answers. It is dark and glittering, though there is still something fantastically off about it, decadent and uneasy at once. New single, ‘ The Seduction of Kansas‘, is Priests’ purest pop song to date. A band on its own label jolting the greater music world with early releases by Downtown Boys, Snail Mail and Sneaks, they are living proof that it is still possible to work on one’s own terms, to collectively cultivate one’s own world. Jaguar remain an inspired anomaly in modern music. Entering their eighth year as a band, Priests drummer Daniele Daniele, vocalist Katie Alice Greer, and guitarist G.L. This April they return with their second album ‘ The Seduction of Kansas‘ out on their own imprint Sister Polygon Records. With fireworks of noise and arresting melodies both, Priests’ 2017 debut album ‘ Nothing Feels Natural‘ feels urgently present for an album heralded as a modern punk classic. The high-wire physicality of their live shows and their commitment to cultural, political, and aesthetic critique have all made Priests truly subversive in a literal sense, doing things you would not expect. Bred in punk, Priests play rock’n’roll that is as intellectually sharp as it is focused on pop’s thrilling pleasure centres, that is topical without sloganeering.
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On December 12, 2019, Priests announced that they were going on an indefinite hiatus, releasing a statement reading in part, "We aren’t in a place to write another album together right now, and feel like each of us would be better served pursuing individual projects for the time being." They clarified that they did not intend to break up, saying that they were "not closing off the option of playing together in the future at some point if it feels right, but not for the foreseeable future.PRIESTS are a group of rock iconoclasts from Washington, DC. Rolling Stone described the band as "forging jagged incantations that challenge norms ranging from the driving forces of capitalism to punks own chest-beating macho traditions." On inauguration day, just days before the release of the album, the band played an event which they helped organize called NO: A Night of Anti-Fascist Sound Resistance in the Capital of the USA at the Black Cat. expressed their commitment to "do it yourself" approaches in creating exposure for corporately marginalized music, "Its important to try and make safe and supportive art spaces in communities that are very much community oriented." In 2017, Priests released their full-length debut LP Nothing Feels Natural which found itself on several best albums of 2017 lists including Billboard, NPR, the Atlantic, Wills Band of the Week, and Pitchfork. In an interview with the Diamondback, guitarist G.L. Strong proponents of DIY ethic, Priests have autonomously released three EPs through their independently run label Sister Polygon Records, as well as tapes and singles from acts such as Downtown Boys, Snail Mail, Shady Hawkins, and other local D.C.
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Formed in 2012, the band is composed of Katie Alice Greer, Daniele Daniele, and G.L. Priests are a post-punk band from Washington D.C.