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Drawing inspiration from personal experiences and societal issues, her lyrics delve deep into the human condition, provoking introspection and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsher's talent extends beyond music; she is also an accomplished visual artist. Her artwork often reflects the same experimental nature found in her music, exploring themes of identity, perception, and the intersection between reality and imagination. Through her multidisciplinary approach to creativity, Asher invites listeners to embark on a journey of self-discovery through sound and visuals.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-excellent-woman","title":"New Excellent Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsher White’s music is a complex and heartfelt reaction to the churn of our modern world. With tender intimacy and resounding anxiety, White takes a wide view through the lens of her own queer sexual politics and transgender identity; what does it mean to renew, to progress, to transform? What is lost, gained, or irreversibly altered?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 22 years old, White has developed a massive self-released discography: over a dozen albums since 2015, each one started the moment the last one was finished. \u003ci\u003eNew Excellent Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a distillation of these experiments and discoveries, a new achievement in songwriting that stands astride the cracks in the earth and lopsided ground. Songs jump between styles like a pubescent sex drive, all locked together by White’s ability to pull melody out of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Excellent Woman\u003c\/i\u003e wanders a meticulous cut-and-pasted path paved by forebears like The Books and Animal Collective. It sounds like a live band, bursting with kinetic energy, but the album was constructed alone in her Providence, RI studio, where she arranged, performed, recorded, and mixed the record herself. The ingenuity of Dirty Projectors is laced with the catchiness and warmth of The Kinks, and maybe a dash of Elephant 6. It’s like an ADHD party and you’re the first to arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Excellent Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is built from detritus, often quite literally: from the thrift store amplifiers and scavenged keyboards she uses to her penchant for discovering and sampling obscure YouTube videos into her songs. The thick fog of “Bedsong” is made up of little more than a Hammond organ found on craigslist and a few muffled drums piled with rags; opener “Ptolemy” uses a seemingly random video of teenage boredom as its textural and rhythmic backdrop. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ceaseless march of our modern world can feel both awe-inspiring and abysmal. New highways and condominiums are erected in a matter of weeks as historic burial grounds are demolished. Even short TikToks seem to expire in real time. 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Her meticulous chamber pop has given way to resplendent swells of horns and squeals of noise, throbbing bass and queasy orchestral loops. The cover, painted by White, frames a burst of flowers against a dark blue abyss, mimicking the music: over frenzied sambas, bleary slacker rock, hushed ambient meditations, and surprisingly slick disco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe past year has found the prolific Providence-based singer-songwriter ascending through her city’s fertile experimental rock scene alongside the breakout synth-punk act BabyBaby_explores and her labelmates Or Best Offer. Live, White’s band plays riotous, unpredictable noise rock that nods to their city’s storied DIY scene; on \u003ci\u003eHome Constellation Study\u003c\/i\u003e, mid-album highlights like “Downstate Prairie” and “Hymn” nod to Providence’s bands of yore with their blistering sheets of feedback and pummeling drums, placing White, improbably, within the lineage of local heroes Les Savy Fav or the broken pop dispatches of Black Pus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its core, however, \u003ci\u003eHome Constellation Study\u003c\/i\u003e is the product of studied, monastic auteurism. Like \u003ci\u003eNew Excellent Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, it was arranged, performed, recorded and mixed by White alone in her basement studio in Providence. “Happy Birthday” is an earnest psalm, a paean of devotion and remorse to God a la Beverly Glenn-Copeland that drifts along with Panda Bear haziness.  White’s concept of “toxic femininity” undergoes further investigation on “Good luck!” and “Runes,” both with Elliott Smith-like chord changes and the barbs of cynical romantics like Aimee Mann. Asher White’s vision has never been so expansive and unpredictable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ba Da Bing!","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50446742192459,"sku":"2209832","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Home_Constellation_Study_dc910ae3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727062715"},{"product_id":"tropical-odds","title":"Tropical Odds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTropical Odds\u003c\/i\u003e is the second album by White Sea, the solo alias adopted by gifted American singer, songwriter and producer Morgan Kibby. Born in Alaska, and now a resident of Los Angeles, Morgan fronted The Romanovs before joining acclaimed electronic music group M83 in 2007, co-writing, arranging and playing keyboards on the albums \u003ci\u003eSaturdays = Youth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHurry Up, We’re Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as completing several world tours. As White Sea, her first solo album \u003ci\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/i\u003e arrived in 2014, a dramatic debut praised by Billboard for its ‘canyon-sized hooks, knowingly grandiose melodies and succulent vocals’ and judged ‘pop’s newest break-up classic’ by Flavourwire. Outside of M83 Morgan has also collaborated with artists such as Greg Kurstin, Panic! at the Disco, Mark Ronson and School of Seven Bells, remixed Ellie Goulding and Britney Spears, and composed the award winning soundtrack to Eva Husson’s provocative 2016 movie \u003ci\u003eBang Gang \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eune histoire d'amour moderne)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eNew album\u003ci\u003e Tropical Odds\u003c\/i\u003e stems from an interactive project launched via White Sea’s website featuring digital singles and videos released at regular intervals throughout 2015 and 2016. Explains Morgan: ‘Generally being able to create and mix and master my solo material within days has given me the direct freedom to share songs I want people to hear. 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Her torch is on the ground, her head somewhere out of frame. Before she was a symbol, she was metal, and living, sweating people riveted her together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spirit of de\/construction characterizes 8 Tips, White’s 16th LP overall and first since signing to Joyful Noise. Like White's previous albums, \u003cem\u003e8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living\u003c\/em\u003e darts boldly among varied musical styles. Doom metal splits open into bossa nova; psychedelic rock and power pop flip into industrial techno. Each song emerges from its composite parts in the studio: White doesn't draft or demo before recording, but builds out her pieces sculpturally, sound by sound. \"It’s forever collage, forever assemblage,\" she says of her music. \"To me, it has more to do with J Dilla, L.A. beat, and musique concrète than pop songwriting.\" The record's quick turns and vivid contrasts reflect White's cultural voraciousness. 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Rippling electronic noise, jazzy brushed drums, an elderly motorcyclist with dementia, a profoundly emotional bass solo—put them all in one song. There are threadbare folk tunes, glammed-up power-pop bangers, “Sir Duke” horn charts, Morton Feldman string arrangements, layers of guitar feedback like violins made of liquid chrome. Yes, for another artist, Love Aggregates might be the most adventurous album in their catalog. For Asher White, it’s what passes for settling down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite is 25 years old and has been making records—writing, recording, producing, and playing almost everything herself—for over a decade. She’d released two dozen of them on Bandcamp before catching the indie-rock industry’s attention with 2024’s Home Constellation Study and last year’s 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living. The latter album’s dizzy eclecticism and formidable craft landed her on Rolling Stone’s Future 25 list with the likes of xaviersobased and Oklou, along with a slew of other accolades. That came as something of a surprise to White, who didn’t craft the chaotic 8 Tips with a breakthrough in mind. Love Aggregates feels like a chance, for one of the most thrilling musical talents of her generation, at a more deliberate introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe wrote and recorded her new album while her previous one was gathering\u003cbr\u003emomentum, tinkering in the DIY recording studio where she always works, acutely conscious now that people would be listening to whatever she came up with. At around the same time, her years-long romantic relationship ended in a flurry of betrayal and addiction, her first experience of devastating heartbreak. 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