The newly released self-titled debut from Brooklyn’s Amiture Music is a confluence of abrasive power and precision. The album’s new reveal “Last Summer,” follows up the first taste “Mountain”. Focusing on the psychology of a person who falls from grace out of boredom, this new single from the band once again animates the contradiction of ‘new enough’ and ‘classic forever,’ shifting from heady avant-garde to old fashioned, thrashing rock n’ roll.
“‘Last Summer’ is inspired by the film of the same name by Catherine Breillat. We wanted to capture the feeling of speeding in a car with your arms wrapped around someone who compromises your life.” – Jack Whitescarver of Amiture Music
“designed for you to mosh with your shadows” – Pitchfork
“from genre splicing into something standalone and eminently replayable” – TheFADER
Experimental music is playful at its core—a venturing out that is necessarily optimistic in its belief in the potential goodness of the new. For Jack Whitescarver, this ‘play’ is rooted in a pursuit of beauty in the unlikely site of rock music—particularly within the genre’s angularity and deconstructive tendencies. Underneath the hard edge, there is a coy expression of query that animates his process. On Amiture Music, such adventure had to be balanced with getting-the-feeling-across.
Amiture Music‘s Whitescarver began making dark, synth-heavy pop as Amiture in 2018, releasing “The Beach” (2021) before pivoting to the experimental trip-hop of “Mother Engine” (2024). Drummer Justin Fossella, bassist Max Berine Shafer, and multi-instrumental Allie Wrubel joined Whitescarver later in 2024, and the project blossomed in character and scope from textured experiments in songwriting and genre into a fully-fledged band, Amiture Music.
With this new name comes a move toward a collectivist approach. No longer just Whitescarver, Amiture Music is the sum of its parts, four distinct perspectives working in tandem to write adventurous yet accessible songs that are based on a shared belief in using dissonance to transcend rather than transgress.