Jacques Greene presents "a series of official remixes alongside a full library of stems from the record for free download - a token offering to a more free and democratic www, where so many of his original samples were found"...
Shlohmo drops his new, self-described "big heat wave lounge style music" mixtape FOR THA SUMMER for Sneeze Mag, featuring laid-back re-works of only the hits from Thugger, Future, Rae Sremmurd, Migos, Mobb Deep + more, with woozy samples from "old Japanese and Korean soul records" deftly weaved throughout...
Kedr Livanskiy shares the dreamy title track from one of our most anticipated full-lengths of 2017, the follow-up to her brilliant 2016 debut EP January Sun. According to her label 2MR, the new record was inspired by "the Izhevsk (sometimes referred to as "the capital of Russian electronic music") sound of the 80s", and album-opener "Ariadna" is a perfect, glimmering union of Yana Kedrina's melodic, otherworldly dream-pop sensibilities and her thumping and hypnotic underground club music, and it's probably the most accessible track she's released to date...
The shapeshifting and ever-evolving Laurel Halo will officially release her brilliant and immersive new record Dust this Friday on Hyperdub, but you can spend the rest of the day listening to the record now below. The whole thing is a breezy, mesmerizingly weird and beautiful trip, but start with the infectiously playful summer jam "Moontalk", one of our favorite tracks of 2017:
Zone out to some dreamy, warped lo-fi deep house from Hiroyuki Tanaka, aka Charles.A.D, taken from his super limited new 熱い海 (Hot Sea) cassette, out now on Dream Raw. Warm and fuzzy hypnagogic vibes for balmy summer evenings:
Washed Out shares another absolute gem from his new visual album Mister Mellow, out later this month on Stones Throw. "Hard to Say Goodbye" is an infectious jazz-inflected summer jam with a disco groove and a breezy, luminous vibe that belies Ernest Greene's darker, wistful lyrical sentiment...
LA-based duo/married couple Indra Dunis + Aaron Coyes, aka Peaking Lights, are set to release their sprawling, vibrant 80-minute dub-pop disco journey The Fifth State Of Consciousness this week, just in time to soundtrack your psychedelic summer...
Japanese Breakfast follows up one of our favorite songs of the year with another absolutely lovely jam from her forthcoming LP Soft Sounds From Another Planet, due next month on Dead Oceans. Michelle Zauner says about the acerbically romantic and very classic-sounding "Boyish":
Our album of the summer is here: Montreal's TOPS drop their best full-length yet, a timeless collection of breezy, instantly familiar pop jams (see "Petals", "Cutlass Cruiser"), intoxicating slow-burners that only reveal their true magic after you've earned it with your time and undivided attention, and a few stellar tracks that defy either of these classifications ("Dayglow Bimbo", "Topless")...
Norwegian dream-pop duo Anna of the North shares the balmy, glowing title track from their beautiful forthcoming LP Lovers, coming this September: