Big Thief drummer and producer James Krivchenia has announced a new experimental solo album. It’s called Blood Karaoke and it’s due out April 15 via Reading Group. He’s shared the lead single, “Emissaries of Creation,” which you can check out below.
Krivchenia created Blood Karaoke by sampling unwatched YouTube videos found through random online generators. (The generators found clips of Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations, video game walkthroughs, old local news clips, and more.) “It was a very iterative, long process, lots of editing and putting together little moments or 10 second chunks with lots of samples. The music was conceived to be a somewhat unbroken 40 minute long composition and I think of the singles as excerpts,” he said in a statement.
Big Thief released their fifth album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, last month and and are currently on tour in support of it. In addition to his work with the band for that LP, Krivchenia released his own solo full-length, A New Found Relaxation, back in 2020.
Revisit Pitchfork’s feature “Big Thief Can’t Stop Moving Forward.”
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Blood Karaoke:
01 Emissaries of Creation
02 Null States
03 Culture Complex
04 Calendrical Rot
05 Artifact of Error
06 Inherited Forms
07 The Trackless Way
08 Scaleable Future Self Continuity Interventions
09 Sub-Creational Reality
10 The Science of Imaginary Solutions
11 God In Every Way
12 Styles of Imprisonment
13 Exaptation
14 Wall Facer
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