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Four Tet has released a new remix of British-Armenian producer Hagop Tchaparian’s single “Round.” The original track was issued in August via Four Tet’s label, Text Records, which is also releasing Tchaparian’s debut album later this month. Check out “Round (Four Tet Remix)” below. Bolts, the full-length debut album from Hagop Tchaparian, is due out October 21. The album was recorded over the course of 15 years in which Tchaparian collected field recordings from all over the world. In addition to “Round,” the LP features the singles “GL,” “Raining,” and “Right to Riot.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

Richard Dawson has announced a new album: The Ruby Cord is out November 18 via Domino subsidiary Weird World. The album is billed as the final installment in a trilogy that began with Dawson’s 2017 album Peasant and its 2019 follow-up, which is titled 2020. Ahead of the full release, the English songwriter has shared a trailer for a film set to the opening track, a 41-minute song called “The Hermit.” The full film will screen in some UK cinemas later this year. In a press release, Dawson said that the album, after the historically-set Peasant and the present-day 2020, was informed by futuristic science fiction and social collapse. “So many of us are moving into these fantasy worlds,” he said. “Whether it’s actual constructed virtual realities, computer worlds, or retreating into even more ...

Jared Leto is set to star as Karl Lagerfeld in a new biopic about the late fashion designer, WWD and Variety report. Leto’s production company with Emma Ludbrook, Paradox, is making the film, though no director is yet attached. “Karl had a career that spanned 50-plus years so both personally and professionally he was close to a number of people,” Leto told WWD. “I can say we are going to home in on key relationships that convey different parts of his life.” Lagerfeld’s fashion house has endorsed the film, and three executive producers who were close to Lagerfeld are on board. Leto added that “Karl has always been an inspiration to [him],” describing the controversial designer as a “true polymath, an artist, an innovator, a leader and, most importantly, a kind man.” What Makes a Great Super...