Submission and power.

Shlomo talks about working with Björk, being crowned the World Loop Station Champion, and writing a beatboxing score for The Little Mermaid.

“Beatboxing is a live art form in its nature, in that it’s more than just the music, and you have to witness it live to really get it. But it’s also prone to being seen as a gimmick or a novelty act.”

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Released September 29, 2013
Lava Diviner (Truestory) is an album of carefully crafted soundscapes woven together into a satisfying narrative.

“Twelve songs weave and contrast various textures and temperaments across the album, that is both playful and engaging.”

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Released November 1, 2013
Matangi sees M.I.A reasserting her own sound on her most joyous sounding album to date.

“Musically and rhythmically it references M.I.A.’s own culture as a London born, Sri Lankan woman and it’s this sound that is at the forefront.”

Spaces.

Andrew Darley talks to Glasser about making her second album Interiors, a record that explores the physical and emotional world.

“I think my first album came out wonderfully but sometimes I think about how simple the process was compared to this one. With Interiors, it was a much more complicated process and every single sound felt like a life or death decision.”

Literature and Music.

Laki Mera talk about their third album, Turn All Memory To White Noise, and the three words that describe their music: organic, emotional, electronic.

“Lyrically, Laura draws inspiration from many sources in everyday life including literature, art and design. Films can also be incredibly inspiring and make the imagination wander.”

Björk, ‘Pluto’

To mark LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari asked its contributors to recall a song that had an impact their own stories.

“The song’s metaphor of destroying oneself to start over brand new left a huge impression on me. I clung to the idea of being able to redefine your own identity and make new beginnings for yourself.”

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November 19, 2012

This album of remixes remoulds and reimagines the material Biophilia and pumps it full of new blood and beats.

“Some say that good artists borrow, great artists steal. If this is the case, each and every remix on here is a masterful product of thievery, as this compilation is exhilarating and outshines some of its source material.”

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Karin Park, May 30, 2012

Little Bastard falls for Karin Park, and finds that she is not just a singer but a force of nature.

“This is how it must have felt to see Bjork in the mid ’90s – urgent music with one foot in leftfield and the other foot stamping on the mainstream’s face.”