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11 There's An Angel In The Shower 7:34. 9 Dancing In The Smoke 6:22. 8 Falling Rizlas 2:26. 7 Runner 5:12.

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Record Label
Ninja Tune (USA)
UPC
5054429007565
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050180889

Product Key Features

Release Year
2017
Format
CD
Genre
R&B & Soul, House
Run Time
55 Mins 15 Seconds
Artist
Actress (Producer)
Release Title
Azd

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Distribution
Redeye Music Distribution
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Number of Discs
1
Reviews
Spin - "[I]f you're looking for the album that most fully encapsulates Darren Cunningham's vision -- with a sound that is more adventurous than HAZYVILLE and SPLAZSH, dancier than R.I.P., and more approachable than GHETTOVILLE -- AZD is it." NME (Magazine) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The more experimental side of the record is where things get really challenging. `Dancing In The Smoke' is Actress's very own sonic Pollock, a six-minute soundscape that's part deep house meditation, part Burial B-sides." Pitchfork (Website) - "While AZD moves between modes and styles, reaching deep into both Cunningham's clubbiest and most avant-garde impulses, it maintains a clarity of vision."
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Photographer: Mehdi Lacoste. The release of the bleak Ghettoville was accompanied with text reasonably read as an announcement of Actress' terminus, yet Darren Cunningham neither ceased using the alias nor took much of a break from it. Within three years, an EP, a DJ-Kicks mix (featuring a new Actress exclusive), some remixes, and AZD were all credited to Cunningham's primary handle. (Meanwhile, supplemental Cunningham work surfaced under five other names.) Word of Actress album number five spread with its own press release outlining the ways in which its content should be received as something other than just another hour's worth of avant-techno tunes. Some of the stated inspirations, such as early Detroit techno artists and fellow concept engineer Rammellzee -- the latter sampled in the dazzling, disorienting "CYN" ("NYC" backward) -- are perceptible. As for chrome, discussed as the album's theme, that's not so obvious beyond the cover's hand sculpture. Even "Faure in Chrome," a piercing track developed out of Cunningham's 2016 performance with the London Contemporary Orchestra, evokes twisting metallic scraps rather than a smooth reflective surface. Instead, the features of AZD are much like those of past Actress releases, grainy, bent, alternately muffled and prickly more than anything designed to soothe. Compared to Ghettoville, this is typified more by propulsion. Much of it is rhythmic in a legitimately danceable or foot-tapping fashion, exemplified by the vapor-cast crunch of "X22RME," the whip-cracking bleep of "Runner," and the entrancing trudge of "Dancing in the Smoke" (until the point where it's lasered into oblivion, at least). Splazsh and R.I.P. remain Cunningham's most novel and creative full-lengths, but this thrill-filled one, whatever it's about, is his most direct. ~ Andy Kellman

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