{"id":2827,"date":"2023-06-16T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2023-06-16T23:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T21:38:37","slug":"astra-king-first-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2023\/06\/astra-king-first-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Astra King: First Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2828\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2828\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2828\" src=\"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/astra-king-first-love-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Albumcover Artwork im Stil eines Kinderlexikons\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/astra-king-first-love-cover.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/astra-king-first-love-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/astra-king-first-love-cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/astra-king-first-love-cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork: Remote Channels<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Neues aus dem Hause PC Music: Am 7. Juli erscheint das Mini-Album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/astraking.bandcamp.com\/album\/first-love\">First Love<\/a><\/em> der Singer-Songwriterin Astra King. Dass unter A. G. Cook und seinem Label seit mehreren Jahren die mitunter spannendste Popmusik ver\u00f6ffentlicht wird: eh klar, und Astra Kings Single-Auskopplung <em>Make Me Cry<\/em> ist ein sch\u00f6ner, mit Synths aufgeladener Gegenpol zum Hyperpop-Genre. Besonders toll: Das Album-Artwork, das sie im Stil eines Kinder-Lexikons zeigt. Diese Art Direction kam mir bekannt vor, und dann fiel es mir wieder ein: Der Visual Researcher Evan Collins sammelt unter dem Begriff \u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/www.are.na\/evan-collins-1522646491\/utopian-scholastic\">Utopian Scholastic<\/a>\u00ab seit einiger Zeit Beispiele und beschreibt die Bildwelt treffend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In some ways this aesthetic is the \u2018kids version\u2019 of Frasurbane, with an emphasis on scholastic endeavors, \u2018edutainment\u2019, and an \u2018end-of-history\u2019 approach to learning. It uses the same classical and \u2018timeless\u2019 typography and imagery with Frasurbane, adding in the aesthetic of \u2019stock photography collage\u2019 depicting the most basic and identifiable depictions of forms and concepts for quick comprehension. This reliance on this style of collage is predicated on two factors in the era; the proliferation of stock photography collections, and the development of desktop publishing &amp; graphics-editing software in the 1980s. Images of flora &amp; fauna connect this aesthetic to the second wave of environmentalism in the late 80s-late 90s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Das Cover stammt aus der Feder von Remote Channels, zu denen ich online absolut nichts finde. In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass viele der PC-Music-Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen eine sehr klare und polierte visuelle Sprache haben, k\u00f6nnte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmthyl.uk\/PC-Music\">Timothy Luke<\/a> dahinter stecken, der auch jahrelang f\u00fcr die ausufernde <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmthyl.uk\/Charli-XCX\">Creative Direction<\/a> von Charli XCX zust\u00e4ndig war (oder es immer noch ist).<\/p>\n<p><em>Astra King: First Love erscheint am 7. Juli 2023. Man kann es auf Bandcamp <a href=\"https:\/\/astraking.bandcamp.com\/album\/first-love\">vorbestellen<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neues aus dem Hause PC Music: Am 7. Juli erscheint das Mini-Album First Love der Singer-Songwriterin Astra King. Dass unter A. G. Cook und seinem Label seit mehreren Jahren die mitunter spannendste Popmusik ver\u00f6ffentlicht wird: eh klar, und Astra Kings Single-Auskopplung Make Me Cry ist ein sch\u00f6ner, mit Synths aufgeladener Gegenpol zum Hyperpop-Genre. Besonders toll: <a href=\"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2023\/06\/astra-king-first-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Astra King: First Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[48,17],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ueber-medien","tag-design","tag-musik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}