James Blake's glowingly romantic new LP Assume Form is here, featuring a star-studded crew of collaborators, including Andre 3000, Rosalía, Oneohtrix Point Never, Metro Boomin + more. Some first impressions as you listen to the album:
Montreal's Chloé Soldevila and her band Anemone are gearing up to release their glorious debut LP Beat My Distance next month on Luminelle, and today the group shares another highlight from the record with the dreamy "Memory Lane". While Chloé says the song "is reminiscent of one's unrepairable distance from another", the Laura-Lynn Petrick-directed video, on the other hand, is a "magical friendship story" that radiates a more carefree vibe. She explains:
Presenting our final monthly mix of 2018, featuring some of the tracks that defined the year for us. This month's mix features songs from Tirzah, Men I Trust, Otha, Robyn, Lana Del Rey, SOPHIE, Helena Deland + more. Thanks for reading this year, and we'll see yall in 2019:
La Blogotheque once again illustrate why they've been the best at this kind of thing for almost 15 years, as they capture an absolutely enchanting performance from Helena Deland along the Seine and in a charming old librairie in Paris, featuring two gorgeous acoustic versions of songs from her "Altogether Unaccompanied" series. Shot at St Michel + Odéon in Paris in October 2018. Directed by Fanny Corcelle:
Presenting the list of our favorite releases from an overwhelming year, posted up way too soon like we always do:
Presenting our favorite songs of 2018*...
2018 has been such a bountiful year for incredible new music from favorites new and old that it's been almost impossible to keep up, but I'm doing my best...
We are beyond excited to announce our new endeavor Luminelle Recordings, a record label formed in collaboration with Fat Possum/House Arrest...
As the internet's collective attention span continues to dwindle away and the clickbait economy slowly ruins everything good, we made a conscious effort this year to spend more time listening to fewer things. Discovering new favorites will always remain a priority around here, but it felt good to devote more quality time to absorbing ambitious, flawed, elaborately nuanced and layered masterpieces like Dust, Quazarz, Party, and The OOZ. And the more immediate records that we fell in love with at first listen -- TOPS’ Sugar at the Gate, the super charismatic Carti mixtape, and Kelly Lee Owens’ enveloping debut full-length, to name a few -- felt more like all-time favorites with each spin. While anyone in our top 5 could have staked a legit Album of the Year claim depending on the day, we had to put the two EPs that announced the arrival of dance music's brightest new star in their rightful spot at the top of our list. Here are our favorite records of 2017:
James Blake's glowingly romantic new LP Assume Form is here, featuring a star-studded crew of collaborators, including Andre 3000, Rosalía, Oneohtrix Point Never, Metro Boomin + more. Some first impressions as you listen to the album:
Directed by Hannah Lux Davis:
Montreal's Chloé Soldevila and her band Anemone are gearing up to release their glorious debut LP Beat My Distance next month on Luminelle, and today the group shares another highlight from the record with the dreamy "Memory Lane". While Chloé says the song "is reminiscent of one's unrepairable distance from another", the Laura-Lynn Petrick-directed video, on the other hand, is a "magical friendship story" that radiates a more carefree vibe. She explains:
Tiny Ruins' new album Olympic Girls is out February 1st. Video directed by Martin Sagadin, and inspired by Kate Bush’s iconic "Cloudbusting" vid:
Portland's Body San is set to drop a new 12" next month via those most reliable purveyors of hypnotic late-night grooves and undisputed best bio writers in the game, 100% Silk. Hazily seductive, nocturnal new-age house vibes that the label has dubbed "Memphis design funk" and "skymall fusion", both of which feel somehow astoundingly accurate...
100% Silk shares the bright and glittery opening track and lead single from the stellar forthcoming posthumous 12" release from late electronic music producer/luminary Chelsea Faith aka Cherushii, and her dear friend and kindred spirit Maria Minerva...
Kelsey Lu follows up her lovely Joni Mitchell cover/Sampha collab with a sprawling, dreamily atmospheric rendition of "I'm Not in Love". Video by Alima Lee + Kelsey Lu:
Animation by Jack Marshall: