Actress - Statik (LP)

Actress - Statik - new album out 7th June (smalltownsupersound.com)

new album out June 7th. 

Actress — the moniker of British electronic producer Darren Cunningham — announces his new album, Statik, out July 7th via Smalltown Supersound, and shares singles “Dolphin Spray” & “Static.” Cunningham’s latest studio album is imbued with a sense of freedom and stillness. From conception through creation and release, Statik has been blessed with an almost unnatural ease. For Actress, who wrote the majority of this  record in an extensive flow state, the celestial and expansive project serves as a testament to artistic liberation. “Static,” a shadowy and buzzy ambient track released quietly last week, sets the stage for the bouncy and twinkling “Dolphin Spray.” 

Once ‘inside’ the Statik experience, listeners may well find themselves newly calm and meditative. Of course, those well-versed in Actress’s works are well-traveled when it comes to fantastical flights of the mind. Transportive sonics that spark inner-voyages – whether through nocturnal cityscapes, or far above and beyond, through Saturn’s rings and past Pluto’s moons – are prime Cunningham terrain. Yet while Statik is unmistakably an Actress LP, it’s also distinctly aquatic and subtly primordial, and so offers his audience novel elemental atmospheres to flow through. Listening closely, influential visions of aqueous realms, such as the mythic Atlantis, and evocations of ancient ceremonies as well as flying birds (and, perhaps, humans) may reveal themselves. No matter if Statik inspires you to soar above or below the horizon, Actress and Smalltown Supersound promise you a safe and transcendent journey.

Statik Tracklist:

1. Hell
2. Static
3. My Ways
4. Rainlines
5. Ray
6. Six
7. Cafe Del Mars
8. Dolphin Spray
9. System Verse
10. Doves Over Atlantis
11. Mello Checx

System Verse was on the first LXXXVIII w/ Actress mix for NTS btw!

I am beyond excited for this! LXXXVIII (the album) was one of the best of last year for me and LXXXVIII (mixes) were even better!!!! Won't listen to any of the singles leading up to the release.

Statik | Actress (bandcamp.com)

bandcamp pre-order up now

This guy is creative as fukk lately?

I tried to explain his music to my friends as dude on drugs in the park that feeds ducks  and then goes home to make a track out of it

a nice surprise. smalltown supersound on some good shit lately. 

Right on! Always interested to hear new Actress.

  On 4/25/2024 at 4:06 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

This guy is creative as fukk lately?

I tried to explain his music to my friends as dude on drugs in the park that feeds ducks  and then goes home to make a track out of it

jfc lmao this is perfect

edit: He is always hit and miss with me but I am really digging both of these new tracks quite a bit

Hell yeah

Fuck yeah

Shit yeah

Balls yeah

  On 4/25/2024 at 3:30 PM, X4creek said:

System Verse was on the first LXXXVIII w/ Actress mix for NTS btw!

I am beyond excited for this! LXXXVIII (the album) was one of the best of last year for me and LXXXVIII (mixes) were even better!!!! Won't listen to any of the singles leading up to the release.

Very much this...listening to the NTS again this afternoon, so fucking good.

Psyched for the new album, the guys been on fire recently and was already one of my fav artists.  Big up the duck feeding crazy dude  

Is this music now inspired by the world  of poverty and hunger?
Im waiting for that one  

https://de.ra.co/podcast/938

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Another hour (nearly) of unreleased Actress. The guys on  recently and cant wait for the new album!

https://ra.co/podcast/938?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-resident_advisor&utm_content=later-43262268&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

Def make some time to read that interview. 

More previews for Statik up at Honest Jons:

https://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Actress/release/Statik

Fuckk this got me even more excited. it sounds like Dolphin Spray is one of the less exciting tracks which is great.

Hell and Six especially sound goooooooood

This will be perfect for the summer. Very fizzy and dusty as always

Nice, 'Hell' gives me Ghettoville vibes!
The last album didn't do it for me, for whatever reason. This seems to have the nice rainy day melancholy thing going on, which is a-ok.

Not gonna check the previews but i'm happy to spend some monies on this new album, actress is one of the greatest.

Bring it!

Actress - Statik · Album Review ⟋ RA

Oh Actress you did it once again. This is such a beautiful, aquatic, meditative, pretty album. It sefinetely soothes the mind. Just lush sounds all around. This might end up being better than LVXIII or however you spelled that (which is also still lovely so thats saying something) 

There is just something so nice about the simplistic beauty of most of these songs.