Editor's Picks (April 11, 2024)

Metalabel is a new space for co-releasing and collecting great creative work.

Metalabel helps creative people come together as labels to co-release work and support the values they share.

Collectors get specially curated bundles, individually numbered editions, and the joy of supporting artists and scenes they care about.

This week we’re pulling back the curtain and allowing people to release work on their own on Metalabel for the first time. Alongside this, we are honored to introduce four exceptional premieres by some of the greatest artists in the world.

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NEW RELEASES

HARD ART
Featuring Brian Eno, Es Devlin, Jeremy Deller, Cornelia Parker, and many more

RELEASES
Introducing Hard Art (Manifesto)
The Fête of Britain (Event)
Open letter to people of conscience in support of the HSBC 9 (Open letter)
The Work We Need To Do (Zine)

Hard Art are a cultural collective whose members include the musician Brian Eno, designer Es Devlin, artists Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker, and a host of artists, activists, community and faith leaders brought together by a shared desire to shift the cultural direction of the UK. 

This week Hard Art makes its public debut on Metalabel by publishing four releases that express their shared values and public output to date. We recommend starting with Introducing Hard Art (Free collect, open edition) to hear from the group in their own words and to watch a video of Brian Eno talking about scenius.

Also recommended: The Work We Need to Do — a limited edition physical zine by artist Jeremy Deller (Pay what you want / Limited to 200 editions) and The Fête of Britain release, which showcases talks, performances, and artworks from the group’s four-day event in Manchester (Free collect, open edition).

SHANTELL MARTIN
Bad Ideas
Vinyl, digital download, and signed and numbered print
$150 | 200 editions

Shantell Martin is a visual artist whose iconic black Sharpie lines have graced museum walls, global stages, and collaborations with everyone from Vitra to Kendrick Lamar.

Recently Martin began making music, experimenting with new ways to express and tell stories in her unmistakable style. The results are somewhere between the new Kim Gordon album, Yeezus-era Kanye productions, and the overlooked but wonderful Life Without Buildings. Punchy, crunchy, rhythmic. Yes!

This Metalabel release marks the world premiere of Shantell’s Bad Ideas available in both beautifully designed vinyl and a digital download, exclusively for collectors. The bundle also includes an individually numbered and signed Shantell print.

$150 | 200 editions

CRISTINE BRACHE
Goodnight Sweet Thing
anonymous Publishing (aP)
Poetry book
$20 | 500 editions

Cristine Brache is an artist and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions like Berlinische Galerie and ICA Miami and critically reviewed in places such as The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. 


Goodnight Sweet Thing brings together a compelling second collection of poetry by artist and filmmaker Cristine Brache. Through concise, powerful lyricism, Brache unapologetically reconstructs her inner life with poems about mortality, power dynamics, and constructs of the female body and psyche. This edition also includes her out of print debut poetry collection, Poems (2018), previously published by Codétte.

This Metalabel release marks the world premiere of Brache’s new work.

$20 | 500 editions

JOSH CITARELLA
Class Fantasy
Tabletop game
$60 | 500 editions

Joshua Citarella is an artist and internet researcher with a deep curiosity for understanding the many political subcultures and beliefs that thrive on the internet. In his longrunning portfolio of work, Citarella has amassed a deep knowledge of hyper-specific internet-based political beliefs, documenting them in weekly newsletters, Twitch streams, and more in-depth work through his collective project Do Not Research. 

In Class Fantasy, Citarella has designed his first-ever tabletop game where players can play as various political identities, gaslight, power-grab, and do whatever else their lore tells them they must. 

$60 | 500 editions