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PIXX – SMALL MERCIES OUT NOW
Small Mercies, the latest record by the singularly idiosyncratic artist Pixx, is out now via 4AD. Hannah Rodgers’s second studio record is a series of poetic examinations of love across the experiential spectrum, set to a soundtrack that mixes electronic pop and grungy guitar rock with aplomb.

Small Mercies follows the 24 year-old’s debut album, The Age Of Anxiety (2017) – an unsettling synth-pop record fueled by Pixx’s own debilitating experience of angst – and 2015’s forlorn and folk-edged Fall In EP. Co-produced by Simon Byrt (who worked on both her EP and debut album) and Dan Carey, it sees Pixx assuming different personas to examine the damage done by religion, gender-based power hierarchies and stereotypes, the tipping point of Earth’s destruction and love.

“Pixx digs deeper...

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MAY 29TH, 2019 – - – The Beggars Group of Labels has expanded their US office with the addition of two staff members in newly created roles. BRANDON BECKER joins as Head Of Streaming, and JONATHAN GOLD joins as Director of Human Resources. Both roles are based in the New York office.

Brandon Becker was previously Head of Digital Accounts for Domino Recording Company. Prior to that, he was a Digital Sales Manager with The Orchard. Before the creation of this position, Beggars was managing streaming via the sales and marketing staff in conjunction with UK staff. We are excited for Brandon to take full reigns of the US holistic streaming strategy and communicate with our digital music partners ensuring optimal coverage for our artists.

Jonathan Gold was previously a People & Culture Business Partner at Kobalt Music Group. In this new position, he will be...

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FKA TWIGS RELEASES “CELLOPHANE, LIVE AT THE WALLACE COLLECTION”
In April, FKA twigs returned with her first new music in over three years in the form of new single “Cellophane.” The song, her most vulnerable and connective to date, was accompanied by her most ambitious and powerful video yet, in collaboration with director Andrew Thomas Huang. Together they provided an enticing glimpse of what to expect of FKA twigs’ second album; the follow up to her Mercury Prize and Brit Award nominated LP1.

“twigs’ delicate voice is just impossibly moving here. In between short gasps, she sings uncomplicated words that seem drenched with complicated feelings…. But by the end of the song, her falsetto soars, calling upon a philosophy that twigs has often invoked in her...

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