Listen to Grimes' sweet theme song for Luke Pearson's enchanting new animated Netflix series Hilda below:
At the risk of sounding extremely biased, which, as a blog, I definitely am: if we're being honest, the 9 songs that make up the four collective volumes of Helena Deland's From The Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied”, while not technically intended to exist as a cohesive full-length album, is easily one of the best records of the year...
Saguenay, Quebec's Josianne Boivin aka MUNYA continues to regale us with her endlessly charming and dreamy "new synth folk" on "If I'm Gone Tomorrow (It's Because of Aliens)", her first release sung in English...
We're honored to debut the achingly beautiful new song and video from Brooklyn songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alex Toth, aka Tōth...
Men I Trust is back to ease us into the hazy shade of fall with some glowing end-of-summer nostalgia -- courtesy of Emma's soothing dulcet voice, another understated but irresistibly groovy bassline, and that shredding guitar solo -- on their lovely and timeless new Laurel Canyon-meets-Montreal smooth jam "Seven"...
After winning our hearts forever with their irresistible debut EP and a handful of unforgettable live performances earlier this year at SXSW, Montreal's Anemone return with a soaring new single. The group's dreamily sweeping psych-pop billows skyward like a wave of sunshine on their empowering anthem "Daffodils"; listen + check out the beautiful cover art that the band shot during a recent stop in White Sands, New Mexico, below:
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:
Listen to Grimes' sweet theme song for Luke Pearson's enchanting new animated Netflix series Hilda below:
Australian producer + DJ Jordon Alexander aka yung Mall Grab drops his new EP How the Dogs Chill, Vol. 1, on his brand new label Looking For Trouble. Check the entrancing EP opener "Liverpool Street in the Rain" below, and stream the whole EP (which also features a legendary Iron Mike sample) + pick up the limited 12" here.
At the risk of sounding extremely biased, which, as a blog, I definitely am: if we're being honest, the 9 songs that make up the four collective volumes of Helena Deland's From The Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied”, while not technically intended to exist as a cohesive full-length album, is easily one of the best records of the year...
Oxford's Kate Teague shares the third achingly pretty and wistful single from her forthcoming record, due sometime next year on Muscle Beach Records. "Gilly" is a warm and tender letter that Kate wrote to console her sister when she was dealing with tough times...
Just a couple weeks after gracing us with their new single "Seven", Montreal's Men I Trust share a beautifully fleeting and autumnal unfinished song:
Montreal's Chloé Soldevila and her band Anemone share the gauzy, dreamlike video for their new single "Daffodils", shot by Chloé and the group in White Sands, NM, before they got kicked out of the park for ripping so hard. Watch below, and catch Anemone live in Paris at Pitchfork Avant-Garde with Helena Deland, Kelsey Lu, Buzzy Lee, JPEGMAFIA, Let's Eat Grandma + more.
Stockholm duo Gustav + Vanilla aka Morabeza Tobacco follow up their instant chillwave classic "TTYL" with another hazy lo-fi jam, out today on Luminelle / Naiv Recordings. "Defenders of the Glam" starts off in full early-Ariel-Pink-homage mode, before becoming a duet on that soaring earworm of a chorus -- We could be happy and we could be fine, been waiting forever for you to come by -- and lifting off into a warped, glowingly romantic '80s disco-glam glitterbomb...
Written + directed by NEP SIDHU: