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I’m pleased to say we’ve been working hard recently to push a number of updates onto the app. These are now available on iOS and will be on Android very soon.
Favourites: now work…! (And please continue to let me know if they don’t.)
Scrolling: a number of listeners have mentioned that they spent a long time scrolling on the app, we have now made the articles collapsable so you can more easily access the track-listing. Simply hit the arrow above the article to open and close it. There were some other glitches on the article view which have been resolved.
Autoplay: a number of users got in touch to say that they wanted to come to the app, listen to one album, and then leave again. With this in mind, you can now turn off autoplay in settings. It will remain on as standard, but the option is there.
Push notifications: for every time a new album comes onto Cantilever. If a push notification every three days is too much for you, simply turn it off in your settings or hit “deny” when the pop-up shows.
If you haven’t started a free trial, head here first and you will see the latest version linked.
https://www.cantilever-music.com/
If you have started a free trial, or are a paid subscriber, head here to download the updated version.
Android users, update soon!
An interview with the dubstep pioneer, who contributes vocals to every track on their Amapiano-inspired fourth solo album.
“What I love doing these days is taking a very low fee and playing a show that really matters where I can find all of my audience. And for me, that means playing more to my community, my queer community, my trans community, to POC nights. It keeps me making music.” — Ikonika
Henry Young on the political underpinnings of the Detroit post-punk band’s fourth record.
“On opener “A Private Understanding”, Joe Casey, who’s the son of a Detroit Water and Sewerage Department construction inspector, addresses the then-ongoing Flint Water Crisis, where the financially-stricken Michigan city changed its water source from Lake Huron to the corrosive Flint River, causing some 100,000 residents to be exposed to elevated levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin.”
Lottie Brazier teases out the various mythologies and influences behind this spellbinding record, including the philosophy of Georges Bataille which gives the record its title.
“The emotional and sonic picture that World of Work creates is potent with these ideas of magic and desire. Connelly was born in Fife, Scotland and moved to Copenhagen as a child. And so, influenced by both countries, Connelly’s album comes with a rich backdrop pre-Christian Nordic and Celtic mythologies.”
Lewis Todd on this mammoth live recording project, an assemblage of 4EPs of spontaneous jazz composition.
“Born in 1983, in Paris, to musical parents, McCraven developed an omnivorous spirit early on. His mother, Ágnes Zsigmondi, was a touring musician in the Hungarian folk group Kolinda, and his father a jazz drummer who played with luminaries like Marion Brown, Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp. The family moved back to Massachusetts before McCraven was five, and shortly thereafter he joined his father’s drum ensemble.”
Alice Boyd on the importance of landscape to Maria Somerville’s second LP.
“Its soundworld is defined by sweeping drones that feel like the larger elemental shifts of the west coast, from the slow turn of the seasons to the push and pull of the tides. Against these broader movements, Somerville creates small, precise changes in her production, such as a sudden shift from double-tracked harmony to a single lead vocal, or a phrase submerged in reverb and then brought into focus, echoing the hour to hour changeability of the landscape she’s drawing inspiration from.”
If you would like to write for Cantilever, we are actively seeking submissions. Drop us a line with a suggested record and a link to some example writing (doesn’t have to be published, doesn’t have to be about music!)
info@cantilever-music.com
All of the contributors who have written for Cantilever over the past two weeks are also musicians. Here’s some links to their profiles / music.
Big Huge New Circle (Lewis Todd)
Sports Team (Henry Young)
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