McArthur

by Frankie & Kelman Duran

McArthur cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 January 2026
  • Label: Rhino, Grateful Dead
  • Country: Germany, Dominican Republic
  • Length: 27:14
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The debut collaboration 'McArthur' finds vocalist FRANKIE (Franziska Aigner) and producer Kelman Duran creating a dialogue between rhythm and resonance, inspired by Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. The album merges avant-garde electronic experimentation with Caribbean-rooted rhythms, with Aigner鈥檚 incisive vocals filling the negative space in Duran's bold, deconstructed beats. Lyrically, the project explores themes of migration and diasporic identity, resulting in a sound that is both cinematic and improvisational, embracing contradiction and tension.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, electronic, minimal, club, repetitive, experimental, deconstructed, vocal, collab

Tracklist

  1. GRAYT (03:02)
  2. Bitch I鈥檓 scared (03:12)
  3. No Gods (03:06)
  4. Icecream (Interlude) (02:11)
  5. SLINKY (03:14)
  6. BWV 639 (04:08)
  7. Techno 127bpm (03:20)
  8. Medicine (02:49)
  9. McArthur (02:12)

Credits

  • FRANKIE - composer, vocalist, cello
  • Kelman Duran - producer, electronics, composer
  • Iris Moldiz - pianist
  • Zhang Hungtai - trumpet

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