Over the past decade, A. G. Cook’s hyperpop label PC Music has helped change the face of pop. And yet, one of the company’s final new releases, British singer Hannah Diamond’s Perfect Picture, is representative of its position squarely outside of the mainstream.
Diamond is a meta-pop star for the 21st century, a visual artist whose heavily retouched images dovetail with the content of her music. She’s certainly committed to the bit, creating club-friendly bangers with unpredictable melodies and vocals that are chopped up into a robotic stutter that suggests the imperfection of humanity. Lyrically, the songs on Perfect Picture find her in a constant state of anxiety about her looks and public perception.
On the title track, the word “click” has a clever double meaning: the act of taking a photo and strangers viewing it (and judging) it. Diamond recognizes the commodification of our insecurities,...
Diamond is a meta-pop star for the 21st century, a visual artist whose heavily retouched images dovetail with the content of her music. She’s certainly committed to the bit, creating club-friendly bangers with unpredictable melodies and vocals that are chopped up into a robotic stutter that suggests the imperfection of humanity. Lyrically, the songs on Perfect Picture find her in a constant state of anxiety about her looks and public perception.
On the title track, the word “click” has a clever double meaning: the act of taking a photo and strangers viewing it (and judging) it. Diamond recognizes the commodification of our insecurities,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Steve Erickson
- Slant Magazine
PC Music, the influential record label and collective A. G. Cook founded in 2013, won’t be releasing new music past 2023, according to a statement on their website.
“After a decade of activity, 2023 will be PC Music’s final year of new releases,” a message reads on the label’s website. “Following that, the label will be dedicated to archival projects and special reissues. We have an undisclosed number of new albums and singles coming very soon.”
To mark the occasion, PC Music has also shared a playlist of “10 x 10 minutes of content from the past, present & future” featuring contributions from Cook, Easyfun, Ö, Grrl, Kane West, umru, Datalord, caro♡, Bopples, and Dux Content.
Cook started PC Music in August 2013, releasing free music on SoundCloud that quickly accrued an underground audience. The label’s first proper paid release came in November 2014 with Hannah Diamond’s “Every Night,” followed shortly thereafter by...
“After a decade of activity, 2023 will be PC Music’s final year of new releases,” a message reads on the label’s website. “Following that, the label will be dedicated to archival projects and special reissues. We have an undisclosed number of new albums and singles coming very soon.”
To mark the occasion, PC Music has also shared a playlist of “10 x 10 minutes of content from the past, present & future” featuring contributions from Cook, Easyfun, Ö, Grrl, Kane West, umru, Datalord, caro♡, Bopples, and Dux Content.
Cook started PC Music in August 2013, releasing free music on SoundCloud that quickly accrued an underground audience. The label’s first proper paid release came in November 2014 with Hannah Diamond’s “Every Night,” followed shortly thereafter by...
- 6/26/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
“Looking for Subculture?” asks a bouncer at the L.A. club Catch One. “In more ways than one,” I reply as I pull out my ticket to the hyperpop rave happening inside. As a turquoise band is wrapped around my wrist, an artist named Babylungs, who’s dressed like a cybergoth hosting a Pride party at Chuck E. Cheese in the year 2040, walks to the front of the line. Their makeup includes abstract graphics painted above and below their eyes, and two of their pink braids stand erect on top of their head,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Cassidy George
- Rollingstone.com
100 Gecs have recast the classic cat and mouse chase as a bonkers fever dream in the new video for their remix of “Hand Crushed by a Mallet” featuring Fall Out Boy, Craig Owens and Nicole Dollanganger.
The animated video — directed by Dario Alva and written by Weston Allen — boasts an aesthetic that feels ripped straight from the kind of blacklight poster one might find at a head shop. In the clip, a mouse steals a precious key from a mushroom-headed creature, kicking off a wild pursuit through a surreal, multi-faceted...
The animated video — directed by Dario Alva and written by Weston Allen — boasts an aesthetic that feels ripped straight from the kind of blacklight poster one might find at a head shop. In the clip, a mouse steals a precious key from a mushroom-headed creature, kicking off a wild pursuit through a surreal, multi-faceted...
- 8/20/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
To say Charli Xcx took a six-year “break” between her sophomore breakthrough Sucker and her latest, Charli, is a little misleading. Over those six years, the “Blame It on Your Love” singer released two lauded mixtapes, an Ep, and a few singles. She also stayed busy writing songs for other artists, including Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s Number One hit “Señorita” and spent most of 2018 opening for Taylor Swift on the star’s global Reputation trek. Ending her album dry spell meant that Charli Xcx, now 27, had to get...
- 9/24/2019
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
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