No Pain In Pop

You do want your pulse to flutter, don’t you?

Photography: The Man With No Name

Telepathe’s debut full-length Dance Mother was released Monday. To celebrate one of No Pain In Pop’s most cherished? Pulled from a Merok-commissioned remix series presented by the frontiersmen at XXjfg, The Oscillation’s take on Telepathe’s ‘Devil’s Trident’ burns slow and stealthy, like a plot waiting to unravel in muted gunfire and screams too distant for ears to trace, though we always saw Telepathe with knives: lurkers who came to rest one night in the shadow of the unsatisfied rich; pale, dub-eyed squatters in the tower of Babel.

And those gleaming eyes were odd, languishing in basements with rave stitches and blade bruises, membranes slum hardened into impenetrable purple. The select troupe gathered there nightly, skulking the secret route traced on maps in deserted playgrounds, the call rang out to inverted navigators: start at ‘You Are Here’ and follow the eastward arrows west, southern // north.

As the workers at the summit built for the Gods they were the shadows cast on neglected floors, the left young; a darkness gaining close and just behind, to one night emerge into the moonshine and commence the silent slaughter of those sleeping from their day in the sun.



MP3: Telepathe - Devil’s Trident (The Oscillation Remix)

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Rainstorm Rattle

Busy somewhere once in the sun-blind folds of Johannesburg, BLK JKS conjured rumbling post-rock storms and then punctured them with polyrhythmic flashes and brittle, malleable melodics. Their second EP is soon to released on the ever dependable Secretly Canadian. “Down by the lakeside / A paramedic threw up his hands / To nurse a broken legion / Oh, where did it all go wrong…”

Just another rainy day in Essex.



Stream: BLK JKS - Lakeside

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