No Pain In Pop

RIP: Natural Numbers

Bedford, Indiana’s Trevor Fitzhugh is retiring his Natural Numbers project. Eloquent, reasonable and perceptive suicide note below. The existential funk of a flannel shirt.

“over the past few months, i’ve been feeling increasingly like my popularity and interest in my music has just been a product of blogs looking for the next noise pop project — i don’t know any other way to put it than i am completely sick of the hype around this genre. just like every other underground music trend, it will be dead when music journalists migrate to the next “big thing.”

i hate feeling associated with that. i hate feeling like a hype artist. the subsubgenre that i feel pigeonholed into already has annoying conventions and stereotypes (punk has once again been co-opted into a certain sound and image, not a body of ideas and actions), all of which i hate the thought of being affiliated with.

i’m not quitting music, but i am moving on to other projects. my first 3 releases were born completely out of hate, and i want to move away from that. this was fun, but at the same time, i feel like it’s the right time to move forward.

RELEASES THAT HAVEN’T BEEN RELEASED YET:
they’ll be posthumous. this includes my splits with old blood and fungi girls. ocean ghosts will be re-written, re-ordered, renamed, and released under a new project.

i hope none of you feel like you’re being cheated out or anything, and if you do, i’m sorry, but it’s the right time for me to move on.

-trevor”

Tags: natural numbers, trevor fitzhugh

Dead Dove

Difficult to know where to start with this one. Temptation is just to post up every track he’s sent us so far, but we’ll make some vain attempt to pick out some specific choice cuts from Bournemouth bairn Ben Thomas. Having previously recorded under the names Rewolf and as Jackhigh (see his collaboration with future Brainfeeder rep Teebs), he’s not one to sit still. As 141 a sultry 2-step sass is eyed through the mist recalling old Ghost numbers that coincide with the release of Tempa’s El-B compilation. Mutant groove chronicles. We’re smitten. More to come.



MP3: 141 - In Out



MP3: 141 - One Sea

Tags: 141, ben thomas, jackhigh, rewolf, teebs