{"id":42096,"date":"2018-12-06T16:04:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/angel-ho-announces-a-neo-pop-album-on-hyperdub\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:36:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:36:46","slug":"angel-ho-announces-a-neo-pop-album-on-hyperdub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/angel-ho-announces-a-neo-pop-album-on-hyperdub\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel-Ho announces a neo-pop album on Hyperdub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pam-featured-content\"  style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18777 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Listen to first single &#8216;Like A Girl&#8217;, featuring underground Asian American rapper K-Rizz.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Known so far as one of the founders of <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/non-worldwide\/\">Non Worldwide<\/a>\u00a0collective, alongside Chino Amobi and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/non-worldwide\/\">Nkisi<\/a>, Angel-Ho is back now on Hyperdub for her new album,\u00a0<em>Death Becomes Her.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The DJ and electronic music producer shifts things up to another level, describing &#8220;the record as her debut proper, a line in the sand, showcasing her as a performer, producer and lyricist, as well as a collaborator.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Taking\u00a0inspiration from\u00a0Lady Gaga, Missy Elliot, Bjork through to Kanye West,\u00a0<em>Death Becomes Her\u00a0<\/em>is a &#8220;radical album of neo-pop pushes the pop framework even further, often teetering on the brink of vertiginous chaos and dissonance, whilst slowly revealing its depth and grandeur once you settle into its sound world.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Lyrics talks\u00a0about love, sex, glamour and struggle, universal fantasies, treated<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">with an ambiguity, restructuring the narrative within a trans-identity.\u00a0Her choice of guest MCs also reflects this energetic queering with K-$ and Qweezy from Cape Town, plus\u00a0underground Asian American rapper K-Rizz, laying down assertive bars on the first single &#8211; listen below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/539676777&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Alongside a cast of collaborators that include French producer Nunu, South African producer Baby Caramel, Asmara Maroof from Nguzunguzu, Bon and Gaika, Angel re-orientates the usual trans-atlantic pop sound to encompass a brace of experimental, diasporic producers to create beats that alternate between angular, propulsive, murky, loose, abrasive and breezy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Death Becomes Her\u00a0<\/em>will be out on March 1st, 2019, via\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/hyperdub\/\">Hyperdub<\/a>. Pre-order the album on <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/angel-ho.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bonaventure-interview\/\">Bonaventure\u2019s DIY electronic music blending against all forms of oppression<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18781\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-hyperdub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-hyperdub.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-hyperdub-759x1139.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-hyperdub-661x992.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-hyperdub-465x698.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Angel-Ho-hyperdub-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to first single &#8216;Like A Girl&#8217;, featuring underground Asian American rapper K-Rizz. Known so far as one of the founders of Non Worldwide\u00a0collective, alongside Chino Amobi and Nkisi, Angel-Ho is back now on Hyperdub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4212,5461],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42096"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42096"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}