The latest installment in Ryan McGinley's get naked and hit the road summer serial, Moonmilk, is mind-shakingly gorgeous and surreal. Go spelunking with a handful of beautiful, lanky friends whom you picked up at a Whole Foods Market, have them get naked and blanket the cavern with colored lamps. It's so painfully simple, right?. The above photo comes from last year's vernal celebration of youth, beauty and landscapes, which is more speedy and sexually charged than Moonmilk. Do yourself a favor and check out his entire body of work (minus some of the advert stuff, which is less weary of visual cliches).
This week in music starts with a sweet, disco of rapturous love, but all good things end, and your trajectory turns downward, touching on pessimistic realism, before reaching an open-eyed nadir. After lingering in the depths of loneliness for the better part of an unhealthy year, a twinkle in the eyes of a passing stranger awakens your primal spirit once again. Spring has arrived with a cleansing violence to take you to the other side, where you can start again, a little older and a little wiser.
Villa - Agneta (Villa Edit)
Ali Love - Diminishing Returns (Extended)
Girls - Lauren Marie
Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
A few bonus tracks for you. Crazylamps favorites, Classixx, with a spaced-out take on Ladyhawke's "Magic", and yet another Lemonade remix. More citrusy goodness to ward off the scurvy. And last, but certainly not least, "Deadbeat Summer" by Neon Indian, the soundtrack for that moment in your drunken weekend of Super Mario Bros. 3 when you're waiting for your runaway girlfriend to return with a dime bag.
Ladyhawke - Magic (Classixx Version)
Lemonade - Blissout (Espimas Remix)
Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
