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Plus Sky Ferreira, girlpuppy, Madi Diaz, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 06, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week, due to the Thanksgiving break, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More
Her First Single for Fire Records
Dec 04, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian) has released a new song, “Digital Gravestone.” It’s her first single for the British record label Fire, which has just announced that they’ve signed her. More
Plus Madeline Kenney, CJ’s Mirra Maze, Sparks, Youth Lagoon, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
May 12, 2023
By Mark Redfern (with Caleb Campbell)
Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week we had an obvious #1, a clear highlight to top the list. But there were plenty of other solid tracks too, including three from newly announced albums. More
Ticket to Fame Due Out June 9 via Fire
May 09, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Decisive Pink, the new project from Angel Deradoorian and Russian musician Kate Shilonosova (aka Kate NV), are releasing their debut album together, Ticket to Fame, on June 9 via Fire. Now they have shared its latest single, “Dopamine.” The song satirizes consumerism and online shopping addiction, as does its music video. More
Plus Blondshell, Girl Ray, Little Dragon, Dawn Richard, Indigo De Souza, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 14, 2023
By Mark Redfern (with Caleb Campbell)
Welcome to the thirteenth Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was on a brief vacation (it was my daughter’s spring break), so this week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks. Any song first released between April 1 and April 14 was eligible. Hence we have a supersized list week—22 songs is probably the most we’ve ever had in one Songs of the Week main list, but it breaks down to 12 songs from this week and 10 from last week. More
Ticket to Fame Due Out June 9 via Fire
Apr 14, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Decisive Pink is the new project from Angel Deradoorian and Russian musician Kate Shilonosova (aka Kate NV). They are releasing their debut album together, Ticket to Fame, on June 9 via Fire. Now they have shared another song from it, “Ode to Boy,” via an ’80s influenced music video (think Robert Palmer). More
Find the Sun Due Out September 18 via ANTI-
Aug 05, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian) is releasing a new album, Find the Sun, on September 18 via ANTI-. Now she has shared another song from it, “Mask of Yesterday,” which means that now half the album has been shared prior to its release. More
Find the Sun Due Out September 18 via ANTI-
Jun 24, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian) is releasing a new album, Find the Sun, on September 18 via ANTI-. Now she has shared another song from it, the sparse “Corsican Shores.” More
Plus Khruangbin, Sad13, Sondre Lerche, Owen Pallett, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
May 22, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small)
Welcome to the nineteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. This week we were quite indecisive about our favorite songs and even polled our readers on Facebook and Twitter, which helped a little. More
Find the Sun Due Out September 18 via ANTI-
May 19, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian) is releasing a new album, Find the Sun, on September 18 via ANTI-. Now she has shared another song from it, “It Was Me,” via an animated video for the track. More
Plus Car Seat Headrest, Everything Everything, Jessie Ware, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 24, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie)
Welcome to the sixteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. More
“We have many leaders in place who ignored the warning signs and now the people are paying gravely for it.”
Apr 22, 2020
By Mark Redfern
We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian). More
Find the Sun Now Due Out September 18 via ANTI- Due to COVID-19
Apr 21, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian) was releasing a new album, Find the Sun, on May 22 via ANTI-, but now she has pushed back its release date due to COVID-19 and shared another song from it, “Monk’s Robes,” via a video for the track. More
Plus Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Vundabar, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 13, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s been a scary week thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus, which meant the postponement of Coachella, Record Story Day, various movie releases, sporting events, and more, as well as school closings and a stock market crash. More
Find the Sun Due Out May 22 via ANTI-
Mar 11, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian) has announced a new album, Find the Sun, and shared its first single, the seven-minute long Krautrock-inspired “Saturnine Night.”
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Eternal Recurrence Due Out October 6 via Anticon
Aug 29, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Deradoorian (aka former Dirty Projectors bassist/vocalist Angel Deradoorian) has announced a new mini album, Eternal Recurrence, and shared its first single, “Mountainside.” Eternal Recurrence is due out October 6 via Anticon. Below is “Mountainside,” followed by the EP’s tracklist and cover art. More
Eucalyptus Due Out July 21 via Domino
Jun 06, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Animal Collective member Avey Tare (aka David Michael Portner) has officially announced his new album, Eucalyptus, after recently teasing it via jigsaw puzzles sent to fans. Eucalyptus is due out July 21 via Domino. More
The Expanding Flower Planet Due Out August 21 via Anticon
Aug 05, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Angel Deradoorian, perhaps best known as the former bassist/vocalist in Dirty Projectors, recently announced the release of her debut solo album, The Expanding Flower Planet, due out August 21 via Anticon and to be released simply under her last name. More
The Expanding Flower Planet Due Out August 21 via Anitcon
Jul 22, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Angel Deradoorian, perhaps best known as the former bassist/vocalist in Dirty Projectors, last month announced the release of her debut solo album, The Expanding Flower Planet, due out August 21 via Anitcon and to be released simply under her last name. More
The Expanding Flower Planet Due Out August 21 via Anitcon
Jul 08, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Angel Deradoorian, perhaps best known as the former bassist/vocalist in Dirty Projectors, last month announced the release of her debut solo album, The Expanding Flower Planet, due out August 21 via Anitcon and to be released simply under her last name. More
The Expanding Flower Planet Due Out August 21 via Anitcon
Jun 04, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Angel Deradoorian is perhaps best known as the former bassist/vocalist in Dirty Projectors. She’s also performed in Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks and collaborated with Flying Lotus, Vampire Weekend, Björk, Matmos, The Roots, and more. More
Interviews
Changing Your Paradigm: The Full Interview
Sep 18, 2020
By Jasper Willems
Angel Deradoorian’s new album, Find the Sun, invokes very different imagery compared to her aptly titled solo debut The Expanding Flower Planet. The sensual dance macabre of “Saturnine Night,” the mantra-like repetition of “The Illuminator,” the marching menace of closing track “Sun”; though created with improvisational abandon, these songs are imbued with the tactile quality and purpose of ancient artifacts. More
“We have many leaders in place who ignored the warning signs and now the people are paying gravely for it.”
Apr 22, 2020
By Mark Redfern
We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Deradoorian (full name Angel Deradoorian). More
Reviews
Oct 10, 2017
By Matt Conner
Angel Deradoorian’s latest solo release, the six-song mini-album Eternal Recurrence, feels like a sonic exercise. In a way, the EP is a series of six meditative song cycles, minimal compositions that explore darker (and narrower) textures than her previous solo album, 2015’s The Expanding Flower Planet. More
Aug 27, 2015
By Billy Hamilton
When a record is pushed as a ‘cosmic ideal’ by its PR team, you expect something different. And when that record has been produced by Angel Deradoorian, famed for her work as vocalist and bassline creator for New York progressives Dirty Projectors, there’s a pretty good chance it will be. More
Aug 14, 2009
By Laura Leebove
It’s too bad that Dirty Projectors singer and bassist Angel Deradoorian must have wanted her debut EP, Mind Raft, to go unnoticed, as she released it only a month before the Projectors’ newest LP Bitte Orca. Throughout the modest five-track set, Deradoorian (she takes just her surname for the record) often plays off of clashing harmonies and stream-of-consciousness verses that evoke the EP’s title and prove her talents as a solo artist. More
