Single Serving: Banks – Before I Ever Met You
March 19th, 2013
If you like falling in love, then I’ve got the perfect new artist for you. In fact, Los Angeles’ Banks is almost a sure bet to make your heart swoon. Her latest jam “Before I Ever Met You” blends strong, sultry female vocals with clean, percolating rhythms and crackling synth grooves. Imagine the marriage of [...]
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Single Serving: S O H N – Bloodflows
March 18th, 2013
I don’t know about you, but I like to ease into my Mondays nice and slow. And that’s why London-born, Vienna-based S O H N is currently on repeat over here. His passionate and exquisitely textured electro-soul jam “Bloodflows” sails in smooth and gentle before snapping into a beautiful, stuttering synth-cloaked groove. But this isn’t [...]
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Single Serving: Rhye – The Fall (Live)
March 15th, 2013
It’s only been a little over a year since Rhye first made us swoon, but it feels much longer ago. At the time we first made their acquaintance, I described their debut single “Open” as maybe “the sexiest song I’ve ever heard.” I still stand by that description. A year later the closest competition can [...]
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Single Serving: Gracie – Habits / Creature Pleaser
March 13th, 2013
If you haven’t heard it yet, Gracie‘s Treehouse EP is easily one of the best EPs you overlooked in the past twelve months. It’s simply oozing with lovely, slow-burning grooves that grow with each listen. Yet, as awesome as it was, it’s apparently only a taste of Philadelphia songwriter Andrew Balasia’s potential. In fact, the scope of [...]
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Single Serving: WALL – Left To Wonder
March 12th, 2013
I’m new to the music of producer/songwriter Lyla Foy who records under the name WALL, but if the rest of her discography is anywhere near as lovely as the single “Left To Wonder” then I’ve been missing out. This ballad floats along a gentle breeze while supported primarily by Foy’s soft croon. Elegant and restrained, [...]
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Musical Pairings: Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
March 11th, 2013
Admittedly, I’ve not been a Youth Lagoon fan for very long. In fact, until recently I’d pretty much (unfairly) written off Trevor Powers’ music. But that’s changed recently. After more or less immediately falling in love with the first single “Dropla” off his new album, I picked up his previous album The Year of Hibernation on [...]
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Single Serving: Halasan Bazar – Space Junk
March 8th, 2013
By pretty much all accounts, there is a lot of great stuff going on in the Copenhagen music scene these days. While a certain Danish electro-pop chanteuse has been getting a lot of attention, there are many equally awesome sonic experimentations being conducted on other ends of the indie music spectrum. Take, for example, the [...]
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Single Serving: Salt Cathedral – Take Me To The Sea
March 7th, 2013
Bogota’s Salt Cathedral are about to blow your mind. At least, “blown” was how my mind felt after digesting their debut single “Take Me To The Sea.” Built upon a foundation of clattering percussion and skittering bass, this jam just gradually builds before breaking into a stuttering, polyphonic orgy of clean sonic textures and weaving [...]
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TK018: GEMS – All I Ever / Never Age 7″
March 5th, 2013
It’s not uncommon for professional critics and music bloggers alike, myself included, to start a review by pointing out where the band’s from. I suppose (although I’ll admit to having thought about it less than I should) that we’re implying that the music is informed by the city where it was born. In fact, I [...]
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Single Serving: Empress Of – Systems
March 4th, 2013
Empress Of’s debut single “Champagne” was one of my favorite vinyl singles of last year. So I’m thrilled to see she’s prepped a new 12″ of material for Terrible Records/Double Denim Records. The first track from the 12″ is the warm and hypnotic “Hat Trick” which you can stream below. I’m sold. Preorder the limited [...]
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