Alexandra Drewchin aka EARTHEATER shares the fathomless lead single from her new Trinity mixtape -- a collection of what Drewchin calls "gushy wet love anthem(s)” -- coming soon on her own newly minted Chemical X imprint. Listen to the beautifully cavernous and romantic "High Tide", which Drewchin co-produced with Acemo, below:
Two of our favorite songwriters/voices team up for a haunting version of Amen Dunes' sprawling and emotional Freedom highlight "L.A.". Listen below:
Taken from Sorry Girls' debut LP Deborah, coming 10/18 on Arbutus. Video directed by the group's Heather Foster Kirkpatrick with Lara Olanick, "shot on an iPhone6 and inspired by the Magritte painting Les Amants":
Presenting our latest mix featuring some of the jams we've been listening to a lot this summer, including favorites new and old, feel-good end-of-summer vibes, twinkling late night house gems, and towering pop bangers refracted through misty waves (both chill and vapor). Starring 박혜진 Park Hye Jin, Baltra, Carly Rae, Mag Bay, Project Pablo, A. G. Cook, Jai Paul, the latest from the Mood Hut crew, and much more. Listen + download below:
LA duo Magdalena Bay follow up the hottest 12 minutes of the summer with a shimmering, apocalyptic summer bop that's easily one of our favorite tracks of 2019. Mag Bay's proper new single "Venice", officially out today on Luminelle, is the duo's way of "coping with the ever-increasing ways that the world may end", and it's an absolutely glorious way to go out when global warming finally gets us all or the Russians burn this shit to the ground, whichever comes first...
As if Madlib + Gibbs haven't blessed us enough with enough heat in 2019 by dropping the rap record of the year so far, the duo hooks up with Oh No on a new one for Adult Swim, on which Freddie Gibbs remains the best basketball-referencing rapper alive with the dope Billy Hoyle mention. Listen below:
Melbourne's Sui Zhen shares another glimmering track from her stellar forthcoming LP Losing, Linda, out next month on Cascine. According to Sui Zhen, "Matsudo City Life" was inspired by "Annie Lennox in the Eurhythmics 'Love Is A Stranger' era, The Cranberries' 'Dreams' and 'Linger' era, and Japanese City Pop of the late 80s", and like the delightfully whimsical lead single "Perfect Place", this one was an immediate favorite: an elegant, dream-like, and distinctly modern distillation of some of our favorite things...
Jenny Hval shares the Kylie Minogue-inspired (at least in part) new single from her incredible new album The Practice of Love, coming next month on Sacred Bones. Listen to "High Alice" below + pre-order the record on limited sand-colored vinyl (250 hand-numbered copies) here...
Video directed by Andrew McGlennon:
Big Thief announce their second full-length of 2019 Two Hands -- the "earth twin" sister to this year's brilliant U.F.O.F., the "celestial twin" -- coming in October on 4AD. The label says about the new record:
