British avant-techno producer Actress has returned with his first new solo album in two years. Radical Frame is out September 18 via Ninja Tune. He’s also sharing the new single “Overchord” with a trippy music video by Anna van der Velde featuring a series of white rooms with a puppeteering contraption, deconstructed sculptures, and hundreds of pieces of paper flying around. Check it out below.
Radical Frame is Darren Cunningham’s 10th solo studio album under his Actress moniker, excluding 2018’s Lageos with the London Contemporary Orchestra and his collaborative album with Suzanne Ciani, Concrète Waves, from earlier this year. The eight-song tracklist includes two guest features: CasIsDead on the previously released single “Live by You,” and Rainy Miller on the album closer “Sheets.”
In November, Actress will perform at Pitchfork Music Festival London. This year’s lineup boasts Avalanches, Ear, Tortoise, Aja Monet, Los Thuthanaka, Olof Dreijer, Tortoise, Noname, Radio Dept, and many more. Tickets are on sale now.
Read about Actress in Roll Over, Beethoven: A Brief History of Dance Producers Going Symphonic and his album Statik in The Best Electronic Music of 2024.
Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified which festival Actress would be performing at; it’s Pitchfork Festival London not Paris.
Radical Frame:
01 The Experiment
02 Gimme Tha’ Fuckin’ Money Man
03 Live by You [ft. CasIsDead]
04 Overchord
05 Cosmo
06 Withending
07 Paris
08 Sheets [ft. Rainy Miller]
