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Excommunicated – The Reclamation of Ethel Cain

Ethel Cain is dead. That is, Ethel Cain the alter ego. In the eponymous artist’s first studio album, Preacher’s Daughter, her narrative-insert-cum-possessive-muse escapes a strict religious upbringing (much like the real-life singer-songwriter, Hayden Silas Anhedönia), enters a whirlwind romance, is kidnapped, gets addicted to drugs, and is eventually murdered. Oh, and with that last one she g...

By @Ross H.

Talk To Barbenheimer

During the weekend of July 21st, folks all over the world, myself included, flocked to their local movie theater and did “Barbenheimer.” One would assume that Barbie and Oppenheimer's shared release date resulted from the usual summer blockbuster shuffle, happenstance, or even deliberate counter-programming. Some believe that Warner Bros. intentionally claimed the release for Barbie to draw bu...

By @Smple M.

Piercing The Manosphere (In A Dress)

Three men and I are struggling with a key. Our foe, a crescent door on a Tudor house, will not budge. “Bloody hel...

By @Joshua P.

When A Flag Keeps You Warm

Nationalism, as Albert Einstein once observed, is “the measles of humanity.” Of course, he was a crank beset by other illnesses like jaundice, stomach cramps and liver problems; he might’ve been projecting. But as an Englishman, I’m predisposed to agree, and as a soft liberal, I’m often encouraged to. Even saying “English” is odd. It rolls around my mouth like a granddad sweet, tart and pungen...

By @Joshua P.

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Music Submissions - Electronica, Lofi & Bedroom Pop Tracks Listen up, keyboard warriors! SMPLE is working with an affiliate record label (TBA) , and we’re looking for artists to join our first ever vinyl compilation. Whether you’re into ambient, techno, vaporwave, psychedelic maneuvers or anything that can half trash a party, we want to hear it. We will be cutting a select number of songs onto wax later this year or early 2023 and sign artists we love...

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Album Art Submissions Ever since we launched this platform, we’ve been astonished by the vivid, odd, beautiful visuals you guys are making. And we need one of you to blow our minds and eyes out once again . . . SMPLE working with an affiliate record label (TBA), which means we’re looking for an album artist. Your work will adorn our first ever LP collaboration– a compilation of rap, soul, electronica and ambient mu...

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Open Submissions - Write for us! Searing similes. Vivacious verbs. Trepidation with alliteration. Sound familiar? Show us. If you think you have what it takes to write for Smple, meld your style with ours. We’re looking for new essayists, journalists, poets and authors for regular work. This will be a group of people who collaborate remotely or otherwise, feeding an audience numbering hundreds of thousands across the world. Y...

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The Only Album That Ever Broke Me: Everywhere At The End Of Time

This is the story of how I listened to this six-hour work in one sitting, and came closer to existential dread than I think I will ever want to. Ever.

By @Smple M.

Breaking Through The Fifth Wall

It happens at once, together, like a murmuration of starlings changing course. There’s a young guy onstage, his face long and stabby and white as a...

By @Joshua P.

The Sad Truth About Frank Ocean’s Cock Ring

Getting screwed by an artist never felt so pricey. But one day, you may find yourself somewhere special with someone who can’t get their hand off your junk. Neither can you. Kissing and blind, you hush them off with a grin. They stop. You know what they’re thinking. It’s the first time they’ve been at your place, but they’re really knowledgeable about you. Sometimes you achieve radical insigh...

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Why Frank Ocean Matters

There are artists, and there are Artists. We sometimes have to catch ourselves even using the term at all, as pop music is such an ephemeral process.

By @Smple M.

Shiloh: Ghost Outside The Machine

That’s the curious pull of Shiloh Dynasty – we can’t square her in our heads because she is a somebody and a nobody all at once...

By @Smple M.

Unknown Pleasures: The Art Of The Secret Record

It turns our Earl Sweatshirt has created a secret album and to date, no-one has found this record...

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What Is Anti-Pop, Really?

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

By @Smple M.

Behind The Veil Of Godspousing

Tumblr page Heavenly Wings & Heart reveals that one spouse tapped into their past lives and discovered they had two children with Hermes centuries ago

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Still Animal: Francis Bacon

Bacon in his studio, Jane Bown ,1985 On an airless white soundstage, shutters scream up. A man steps in. He walks with brass dignity, a hand in his pocket, wearing the colours and contours of Berlin; black turtleneck, grey blazer; mouth ajar like the eyes above it have found something tasty in a trap. Another man waits for him, suited, with the aspect of someone who could wait forever. Not a w...

By @Joshua P.

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