Good music blogs get flogged with emails every day from music marketing firms or labels hyping this artist or that artist with paragraphs saying that they are the next best thing blah blah blah. Then once in a while, somebody tries a marketing technique of literally sending no information about the artist or song, and sometimes it works. I have absolutely no idea who NO CEREMONY/// is, and I am intrigued. “Hurtlove” is a mysteriously beautiful electronic masterpiece, backed with a piano tune and distorted, chopped vocals. If you’re into M83, James Blake, or ambient dance music, you’ll be into this. Props to No Ceremony for doing nothing to get noticed, and getting noticed. MORE
