Hoops' Routines remains one of our favorite records of 2017, but our intro to the group's warm and breezy guitar pop came via Drew Auscherman's beloved youtube-classic Tapes releases in late 2015 and early 2016...
Presenting our annual Gorilla vs. Bear Halloween Mix + haunted house/end of the world soundtrack. As always, play this one in the dark. Happy Friday the 13th.
Yaeji follows up one of our most listened-to records of the year -- and a string of stellar summer singles -- with her second EP for Godmode, out November 3rd. In addition to the intoxicatingly deep and lush new single "drink i'm sippin on", the EP also features Yaeji's gorgeous "Passionfruit" cover/re-work...
Norwegian experimental club-pop duo Henriette Motzfeldt + Catharina Stoltenberg aka Smerz share another sick track from their forthcoming XL Recordings debut. Check the shadowy Smerz-directed video for "no harm" below:
Johnny Jewel just dropped his sprawling, excellent (and frankly somewhat overlooked) solo LP Windswept on vinyl earlier today, and the "cherry" red first vinyl pressing sold out in a matter of hours, so he's just released a second limited edition of 1000 records on "milk" white vinyl here...
Austin's esteemed Holodeck label (S U R V I V E, Troller, Marie Davidson, etc.) just dropped the excellent debut EP from Austin-based Parisian Lou Rebecca over on their bandcamp page, and upon initial listens, it feels like quite the auspicious introduction...
Burial drops another surprise single, with a Kode9 remix of the title track on the b-side. The 10" is out next week, but you can listen to "Rodent" now below, and pick up some fresh official Burial slipmats here:
Carla Dal Forno's 2016 record You Know What It's Like was one of our favorite releases of last year, an unsettlingly intimate collection of ominous but intensely beautiful dream-pop dirges that we still can't seem shake in our darkest, most disquieting hours...
John Maus shares the majestically brooding synth-pop opener from his stellar new record Screen Memories, out October 27th on "TV snow" color vinyl via Ribbon Music. Video directed + edited by Tina Rivera: