{"title":"Asher White BUNDLE","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"8-tips-for-full-catastrophe-living","title":"8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Statue of Liberty is so hyperreal, so over-replicated in insurance ads and postage stamps and on the Vegas strip, that if you ever happen to be looking at her in real life, you won't see her at all. There she is on the cover of 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living, the new album by Asher White, in pieces but not destroyed -- in progress, being built, not yet complete. Scaffolding cages her body. Her torch is on the ground, her head somewhere out of frame. She's still in France. It's an old photo in faded sepia, but you can imagine her skin still gleaming: bare copper, no patina. Before she was a symbol, she was metal, and living, sweating people riveted her together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike White's previous album Home Constellation Study, 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living darts and weaves among boldly varied musical styles. Doom metal splits open into bossa nova; psychedelic rock and power pop flip into industrial techno. The record's quick turns and vivid contrasts reflect White's cultural voraciousness. A writer, painter, and sculptor as well as a musician, she gathers materials constantly, always digging for new ideas in every possible form. \"It’s forever collage, forever assemblage,\" she says of her music. \"To me, it has more to do with J Dilla, L.A. beat, and musique concrète than pop\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esongwriting.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe books, movies, and albums that White was taking in while recording 8 Tips percolate throughout the album. The films of Claire Denis, the novels of Clarice Lispector, and the memoirs of Eve Babitz all funnel into White's reflection of 21st century disaster capitalism. People have survived catastrophe before: the work they made of the ruins around them can offer tools to parse our own contemporary collapse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach song emerges from its composite parts in the studio: White doesn't draft or demo before recording, but builds out her pieces sculpturally, sound by sound. With 8 Tips, she stretched her ideas further toward their natural extremes, rather than sanding them down at the end as she'd done in the past. \"This is the first record where I was interested in more exploded and textural songcraft,\" she notes. \"It’s truly experimental in that it’s actually borne of experiments. Usually, I do the experiments and then I throw most of it away. This is the first time I’ve felt audacious enough to leave it all in.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living wrenches open the idea of apocalypse -- an abrupt, totalizing disaster rained down on uncomplicated innocents -- and peers inside at its bursting, devastated particulars. Apocalypse is slow. It's uneven. Some people survive it. Some don't. Nations falter and so do individual people, clinging fast to their old, dilapidated self-preservation strategies. What saved you in the past might destroy you in the future. Flip it around, shake yourself loose, ruin the person you've known yourself to be, and you might get the chance to become something else.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asher White","offers":[{"title":"Manic Magenta Vinyl + Digital (Download in WAV \/ AIFF \/ MP3)","offer_id":52143832203574,"sku":"JNR502_LP-C1","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD + Digital (Download in WAV \/ AIFF \/ MP3)","offer_id":52143832236342,"sku":"JNR502_CD","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition Test Pressing (Hand numbered out of 15 copies) + Digital","offer_id":52210104959286,"sku":"JNR502-test-pressing","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital (Download available in WAV \/ AIFF \/ 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unfailingly melodic and sweet, like if Elliott Smith wrote a full album of “Say \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eYes”s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e. music writers often mention the timelessness of her songs—“this could’ve been written at any point in the last 100 years”, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eetc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e—but the focus on the pastiche aspects of her music undermine the simple fact of her craft, which is awe-inspiring. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW34433013 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eon her debut record the moments of immediate melodic pop genius (“Half Twain,” “Titles Under Pressure”) are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003esort of Trojan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e horses for the songs that unfurl themselves more slowly or take a little longer to set in (“Casper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e”,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e “Midnight Wheels”).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e first found this album on the cusp of my 21st birthday, deep in the winter of 2021, and I would walk circular miles inside a bitterly cold and mostly empty Providence late into the night etching these songs deep into my brain, where they became seeds in a perpetual state of half-germination. at some point it became one of those records \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei’d\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e listened to so many times that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e would find myself unconsciously singing phantom harmonies alongside it, or hearing arrangements that didn’t exist; eventually the spect\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eer of these imagined arrangements became substantive enough that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e decided it would be a fun exercise to try and learn the whole record to actualize my fantasies. in 2023, as a procrastination tactic while finishing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eNew Excellent Woman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e learned the songs of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eJessica Pratt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e(by ear and with the invaluable help of some honorable anonymous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eUltimateGuitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e users and Youtubers) and began arranging \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eadditional\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e instrumentation for them, starting with the ones \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e had the clearest ideas for. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e had about 40% of the reco\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003erd finished when \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e got distracted by other projects.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ein late \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eoctober\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e 2025 before a show \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e found myself at dinner with some representatives from my gracious label and the extremely skillful publicist they had somehow convinced and then hired to work on my album. this was the first (maybe last?) instance of such a Dinner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"none\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun Highlight SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e™\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e was momentarily allowed to pretend to be a Real Musician; slightly wine drunk and spurred by pre-show nerves and the desire to impress these kind and hardworking industry movers I boasted that I had covered Jessica Pratt’s first album in its entirety “many years ago” and that it was “locked and loaded, totally ready to go.” of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ecouwrse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e this was a lie but the delusion of being a worthy client was intoxicating. they reacted with surprise and told me \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e should send them the album ASAP; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e bargained that\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e needed to “re-mix it and add some flourishes”, which effectively bought me one month to record and mix the bulk of the album, which I proceeded to then do in a manic state of self-imposed frenzy. while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ei’m\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e sure the label suspects some misrepresentation or hyperbole on my end, they are only learning the extent to my embarrassing, needlessly stressful farce upon me \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003esubmitting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e this very text to them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003ethis is to say: my ability to hastily fashion together a working album from these songs is a testament to the music’s enduring power, its durability and pliability, its simplicity and sense of inevitability, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003eand also\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e just how much it has meant to me in my life. enjoy!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW34433013 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW34433013 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e- Asher White\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Asher White","offers":[{"title":"Digital (Download available in WAV \/ AIFF \/ MP3)","offer_id":53610529390902,"sku":"JNR522_digital","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/files\/JNR522-AsherWhite-Art.png?v=1769532518"},{"product_id":"love-aggregates","title":"Love Aggregates","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor any other artist, an album like Asher White’s \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove Aggregates\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e might come out of a conscious push to treat no idea as off-limits, to make something bold and new. Jubilant art-funk about cocaine addiction—absolutely. Swooning orchestral pop about Jerry Garcia—why not? Rippling electronic noise, jazzy brushed drums, an elderly motorcyclist with dementia, a profoundly emotional bass solo—put them all in one song. There are threadbare folk tunes, glammed-up power-pop bangers, “Sir Duke” horn charts, Morton Feldman string arrangements, layers of guitar feedback like violins made of liquid chrome. Yes, for another artist, \u003cem\u003eLove Aggregates\u003c\/em\u003e might be the most adventurous album in their catalog. For Asher White, it’s what passes for settling down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite is 25 years old and has been making records—writing, recording, producing, and playing almost everything herself—for over a decade. She’d released two dozen of them on Bandcamp before catching the indie-rock industry’s attention with 2024’s \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome Constellation Study\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and last year’s \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. The latter album, her first for Joyful Noise, zooms from strummy guitar songs to bruising drum’n’bass breakdowns to honest-to-god doom metal riffs. Its dizzy eclecticism and formidable craft landed her on \u003cstrong\u003eRolling Stone’s Future 25\u003c\/strong\u003e list with the likes of xaviersobased and Oklou, along with a slew of other accolades. That came as something of a surprise to White, who didn’t craft the chaotic \u003cem\u003e8 Tips\u003c\/em\u003e with a breakthrough in mind. \u003cem\u003eLove Aggregates\u003c\/em\u003e feels like a chance, for one of the most thrilling musical talents of her generation, at a more deliberate introduction.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe wrote and recorded her new album while her previous one was gathering momentum, tinkering in the DIY recording studio where she always works, acutely conscious now that people would be listening to whatever she came up with. At around the same time, her years-long romantic relationship ended in a flurry of betrayal and addiction, her first experience of devastating heartbreak. She was determined to present her new audience with an album that felt true to the whole of her artistry as she understood it so far, but also consumed with feelings of a sort that she had no previous cause to explore in her work. “It was the first time that I was like, \u003cem\u003eOh, someone is going to be hearing these songs\u003c\/em\u003e,” she says. “And also the first time that I was, like, actually upset while writing them.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch more than anger, or even sadness, \u003cem\u003eLove Aggregates\u003c\/em\u003e sounds like the flickers of wild possibility that you may receive from time to time in the midst of despair, the glimpses of future freedom on the horizon. CitiBikes floating at night in “White castle sad”; the singer’s hair fluttering “like receipts in the wind” in “Reverie for work.” The \u003cem\u003eAggregates\u003c\/em\u003e in the album’s title has to do with White’s sense of love as a continuum, and can be taken either as a verb or a plural noun. “It’s a reminder that new love happens, and it does not replace nor censor the old love, it just aggregates and aggregates,” she says. “And now you have this record that has snapshots from various stages of various loves, from totally abysmal open wounds to adolescent horniness and whatever else. The songs are aggregates of all of it.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe wanted to write songs that stood on their own two feet, prioritizing sturdy construction over dazzling surface effects. And while she was accustomed to approaching her lyrics with a certain literary distance, now the words were rushing out with newfound pain and anger. White, a musician with a critic’s knowledge of pop history and a writer’s aversion to cliche, was now rushing headlong toward—the horror!—\u003cem\u003ethe most stripped-down and personal album of her career\u003c\/em\u003e. But one listen to \u003cem\u003eLove Aggregates\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear that it’s something very different from the self-consciously raw Authentic Statement that its backstory might lead you to expect. For starters, there is its sheer sonic variety: “My day at the casino” is all ping-ponging strings, horns, and distortion-fried drums; “Atoll,” with its patiently interlocking keyboard arpeggios and wintry string section, has as much to do with contemporary classical music as the singer-songwriter tradition. Even in the album’s sparer moments, there is always the possibility of some new sound to unexpectedly rotate a song’s feeling by a few degrees, like the piano line that falls like a scarf in the wind on “Health techniques,” or the scraping like a rusty old swingset that echoes throughout “Come 2.” Compared to White’s earlier willfully jarring shifts, \u003cem\u003eLove Aggregates\u003c\/em\u003e is unified by a certain prismatic quality, its spectrum of color seeming to emanate from a single point of light.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the album-opening “Reverie for work,” a song White ostensibly wrote about a day job as a barista, we get lines like “If my sweat is just grease in a one-wheeled machine\/then I bet I’ll forget when the oils pooling gleam\/and I’ll wonder what you mean.” But she’s not too precious to follow those lyrical backflips with a straightforward come-on: “Is it snowing there in Flatbush?\/Are you looking for a bed tonight?” goes the song’s lilting refrain. She painstakingly revised the words as she worked, seeking to channel her rawness into writing that lived up to her usual richly suggestive standard. “I was thinking, \u003cem\u003ehow can I dull the emo blade?\u003c\/em\u003e” she says, self-deprecatingly. “There’s nothing worse than, ‘\u003cem\u003eShe wrote this album after a hard breakup\u003c\/em\u003e.’ I tried to treat it like any other new influence in my life. It’s embarrassing to be like, \u003cem\u003eI just learned about jazz, so now all my songs have saxophones\u003c\/em\u003e. Or, \u003cem\u003eI just got my heart broken, so now all my songs have me crying\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was bitter at first, but set against making a bitter record. “My day at the casino,” the song that addresses the specifics of her breakup most directly, contains its fair share of barbs, but its emotional climax is an expression of tenderness for a self-destructive loved one: “We are on your side, baby,” White sings in delicate harmony. “Come outside to greet the day.” She probably couldn’t have made a bitter record if she tried: her melodies are too exuberant, her voice too companionable. Her compositions carry an implicit optimism about the power of music itself: no true cynic could write a tune as crammed with giddy inventions as this,even if its subject matter is addiction and the nihilism and deceit that come with it.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite happily acknowledges her inspirations for the song, which include Queen’s early-’80s funk experiments and Ghostface Killah’s “Wildflower,” a self-flagellating diss track aimed at an ex. She’s drawn to the latter less as an unfettered outburst of rage than for the subtle ways it expresses its anger through writerly craft: outlandish imagery, a thread of regret that emerges gradually alongside the vitriol. It may seem an unlikely influence on White’s multicolored indie pop, but it’s an instructive one: \u003cem\u003eLove Aggregates\u003c\/em\u003e is an album not about wallowing or seething, but making use of those impulses as raw materials in work that transcends the specificity of its origins, fashioning them into something surprising and new. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asher White","offers":[{"title":"VIP","offer_id":54145575846198,"sku":"JNR523_VIP","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dextroamphetamine Blue Vinyl + Digital (Download in AIFF\/MP3\/WAV)","offer_id":54145575878966,"sku":"JNR523_LP-C1","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD + Digital (Download in AIFF\/MP3\/WAV)","offer_id":54145575911734,"sku":"JNR523_CD","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital (Download available in WAV \/ AIFF \/ MP3)","offer_id":54145575977270,"sku":"JNR523_Digital","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/files\/JNR523CoverArtPhysical.jpg?v=1782234492"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com\/collections\/asher-white-bundle.oembed","provider":"Joyful Noise Recordings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}