FOLLOW THE CYBORG REMIXES EP – OUT NOW
WITH NEW REMIXES BY GILLA BAND’S ALAN DUGGAN-BORGES, ARON KOBAYASHI RITCH, YAZ LANCASTER, PHONG TRAN, NYOKABI KARIŪKI + MORE
DEBUT ALBUM – FOLLOW THE CYBORG – OUT NOW
MISS GRIT – New York-based, Korean-American musician Margaret Sohn (they/she) – releases a new 7-track EP of Follow the Cyborg Remixes today on Mute.
The Follow the Cyborg Remixes EP collates 7 brand new remixes of tracks from Miss Grit’s recently released debut album, Follow the Cyborg – one of Rough Trade’s Albums of the Year, out now on Mute on smokey marbled vinyl, CD and digitally. The remix EP features reworkings and remixes from Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan-Borges, who reworks the Korean language version of ‘Follow The Cyborg’; NY-based producer, and composer Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma); New York-based transdisciplinary artist, Yaz Lancaster (they / them), who recently performed with Miss Grit on their Stephen Colbert performance; Brooklyn-based composer and visual artist Phong Tran, who recently performed with Miss Grit on their European tour; Kenyan composer and performer Nyokabi Kariũki; and NY-based hyperpop artists torr and Cyber Fairy.
FOLLOW THE CYBORG REMIX EP (CAT # STUMM483)
Perfect Blue (Aron Kobayashi Ritch Remix)
Nothing’s Wrong (Phong Tran Remix)
Lain (phone clone) [Yaz Lancaster Remix]
Follow the Cyborg (CyberFairy Remix)
사이보그를 따라와 (Gilla Band / Alan Duggan-Borges Remix)
Like You (Nyokabi Kariūki Remix)
Syncing (torr Remix)
Across their debut album, Follow the Cyborg – featuring the acclaimed singles ‘Follow the Cyborg’, praised by Pitchfork for its “adrenaline high” and “electronic dissonance.”, ‘Nothing’s Wrong’, ‘Lain (Phone Clone)’, and the “beguiling and elastic” (Stereogum) single ‘Like You’ –
Miss Grit (they/she), pursues the path of a non-human machine, as it moves from its helpless origin to awareness and liberation. At times gentle and sparse, at others volatile and explosive, Follow the Cyborg occupies a sonic world of electronic experimentation and stirring electric guitars. It was recorded mostly in solitude in Sohn’s home studio, with the exception of a few guest collaborators joining: Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint, Aron Kobayashi Ritch of Momma, and Pearla.
Miss Grit’s impetus to conceive an album about the life of a cyborg stems from their own connection to this way of existing. As a mixed-race, non-binary artist, Sohn has always rejected the limits of identity thrust upon them by the outside world, in favour of embracing a more fluid and complex understanding of the self.
Hailed by Rolling Stone as an “inventive, incisive singer-songwriter”, their process is introspective, their vision precise. In their exploration of the life of a cyborg, they subtly and overtly refer to films, including Her, Ex Machina, and Ghost in the Shell, as well as essays by Jia Tolentino (from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion) and Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto.
Follow the Cyborg Remixes release is out now: https://mute.ffm.to/missgrit-ftcr
Follow the Cyborg is out now on smokey marbled vinyl, CD and digitally: https://mute.ffm.to/missgrit
FOLLOW THE CYBORG TRACKLISTING
1. Perfect Blue
2. Your Eyes Are Mine
5. Buffering
7. 사이보그를 따라와
8. Like You
9. The End
10. Syncing
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