Laurel Halo follows up one of last year's most adventurous and brilliant albums with the soothing and meditative title track from her new record, out July 13th on Latency. Raw Silk Uncut Wood is made up of "six instrumental pieces featuring cello work by Oliver Coates and percussion by Eli Keszler"; Laurel says on FB: "Something expansive, meditative, lowkey, elsewhere". Listen below:
CHROMATICS share track 13 (of 21!) from Dear Tommy. Video by CHROMATICS:
Sweden's Studio Barnhus crew continues to kill it in 2018. Kornél Kovács' 3-song Metropolis EP, inspired by the producer's "years spent as an underage clubber in Stockholm, Sweden", is out July 6th on Unknown to the Unknown:
We're not quite halfway through 2018, but here's our annual recap of the albums + songs of the first half of the year anyway. I’ve excluded any records that we’ve released on our new label Luminelle Recordings; otherwise, the stellar new ones from Helena Deland, Anemone, and Hana Vu would have all figured prominently into both of these lists. Also, I guess a few of these aren’t officially out yet. Sorry!
We're psyched to debut this buzzing new track from Melbourne, Australia trio Primo, taken from the group's addictive debut album Amici, coming soon via Upset The Rhythm. The label says that Primo's deceptively minimal, alternately lilting/ripping post-punk jams sound like "the places you go when you’re working hard nine-to-five and can’t go anywhere," and the fleeting "Mirage" is a blistering intro to the group's detached urgency and infectious, almost gleeful cynicism, always sweetened just a bit by those disarming three-part harmonies...
With her lovely new record neoteny, New Jersey singer/songwriter/RN Lindsey Rae Radice aka PYNKIE just dropped one of the coolest, most infectiously charming debut LPs of 2018. I've had the first two tracks that PYNKIE shared from the record on repeat for a few months now, and now you can stream the whole thing in all its glory below...
Presenting our new monthly mix for May 2018, featuring some of the best new tracks we heard over the past month, from CHROMATICS, Tirzah, Otha, Playboi Carti, Beach House, Bella Boo + more. Thanks JJ for the cover image:
Ramona Gonzalez aka Nite Jewel brings the glittery disco-funk on her surprise follow up to last year's stellar Real High. Listen to "On Your Own" + "The Joke's On You", out today on Nite Jewel's own Gloriette Records:
LA's Hana Vu unveils the third stellar track from her forthcoming official debut EP How Many Times Have You Driven By, dropping in just about one month on our label Luminelle Recordings. This one already got some love today from the Fader and Pitchfork, with the former claiming that ripping new jam "Shallow" "proves the seventeen-year-old is cooler than you and me," and the latter calling Hana "one frightfully wise teenager...