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We’ve added the ability to purchase your subscription in the app itself. Hopefully this will put an end to any confusion around sign-up and get people streaming more easily!

Current subscribers, you don’t need to do anything at all. But if you signed up via our site (which is everyone up until now) you will need to go back to the site (cantilever-music.com) to update your subscription, billing etc. and won’t be able to do this in the app — the two payment systems are entirely separate.

If you’re interested in exactly why we didn’t do this from the beginning, you can read this article titled “Apple’s 30% commission unfair, Spotify claims” in The Guardian.

You can now switch the order of albums on the home page to lead with the album with the least amount of days remaining — an oft-requested feature.

More feature updates coming very soon, stay tuned via this newsletter and let info@cantilever-music.com if you have any suggestions for where we can improve.

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…considered from another angle, the Rival Consoles project’s focus on sound design puts him in league with the neoclassical cohort, just through a different set of sounds and modalities. In fact, since the release of Persona, West has gone on to score a number of projects in a number of other mediums, including the ‘Black Mirror’ episode ‘Striking Vipers’, choreographer Alexander Whitley’s contemporary dance performance ‘Overflow’, and action-adventure video game ‘MindsEye’. But this feels like the record on which he fully developed the blueprint for what was to come. A beautifully crafted sonic reflection of an artist thinking deeply about how space, sound and internal states interact with one another.

Writing this record, I was completely immersed in childhood and the past. A lot of the songs are about exactly that. I spent a long time thinking about how I'd grown up, how I'd been involved with creative projects, and what it would look like to do something entirely by myself that was true to who I am. It did feel a bit like returning to being a child — that particular quality of independence.

Both artists maintain a kind of geographic outsider status: Spacemen 3 were based out of Rugby, Warwickshire, a town of fewer than 100,000 people, “we always felt that we were better off developing in isolation than being in a big city and part of some scene”, Kember said in a relatively recent interview. Animal Collective, on the other hand, were scene leaders in a large city - namely the New York noise scene of the early 2000s which also included Black Dice and Gang Gang Dance. Yet Lennox relocated from New York to Lisbon, Portugal exactly as the band were gaining traction in the mid 2000s, explaining that he preferred a slower pace of life in which to write and release music. For his part, Kember would move to Portugal in 2016, which was where the pair first connected and began collaborating: "The area I live, which is outside of Lisbon", he explained, "is magnetic towards people who like that [psychedelic experience], there is something about the place, which is magical, beautiful and a relatively unspoiled environment."

Starting his career mainly as a producer, Youniss has steadily grown into a songwriter and vocalist across his previous releases Youniss (2020) and White Space (2023). Much of Good Effort! was written in the margins of other projects from the Belgian alternative scene – particularly Youniss’ collaborations as a producer for Antwerp-based songwriters such as Porcelain Id and Pitou (who make appearances on Good Effort!) and his production work for electronic legends Borokov Borokov. As the listener moves through the tracklisting, this constellation of collaborators appears along the way, turning the album into a conversation rather than a monologue. The rhythm of late evenings and nights after long studio days quietly permeates Good Effort!. Many of its songs feel suspended in nocturnal hours, when the city slows down and reflection becomes inevitable. “When it gets dark outside it’s the only time things don’t feel mundane”.

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