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Although we were certainly fans of her work in the "voguish summertime goth" new wave band Selebrities, Maria Usbeck's timeless solo debut LP is a somewhat unexpected, subtly dazzling triumph that registers as one of the most pleasant surprises of the year...

New Zealand dream-pop heroes Yumi Zouma have become one of our favorite bands over the last couple of years on the strength of two stellar EPs and their irresistible, dreamily danceable live show, and the group's long-awaited debut full-length Yoncalla is finally (almost) here, dropping next week via Cascine...

Toronto duo Prince Innocence drop another hazy slow-burner, this time for Cascine's always on-point singles imprint, CSCN. The group's Josh McIntyre says of new single "Polished":

Yumi Zouma follows up their glorious new single "Keep It Close To Me" with the lovely, tone-setting opening track -- and the group's first truly collaborative song -- from their debut full-length Yoncalla, out May 27th via Cascine. Listen to "Barricade (Matter of Fact)" below, and pre-order the record + get a limited 7" here...

"una mano, una cruz, un milagro, un sentido"

New Zealand's Yumi Zouma is the rare band that became one of our favorites on the strength of one perfect song: the timeless, swaying, instant soft-disco classic "The Brae", which we fell in love with upon first listen back in early 2014...

Here are four breezy unreleased deep tracks from Nashville purveyors of "difficult easy listening", Jensen Sportag: according to their label Cascine, each month the group will be "mining their archives and posting four tracks that were never officially released"...

Techno producer Malory Butler takes et aliae's D∆WN-featuring single "Sober" underground:

Here's another wonderful record that, like the Merely LP we mentioned earlier today, sort of came out of nowhere recently and just gets deeper and floors us more with each subsequent listen. Maria Usbeck's sublime debut full-length Amparo was "written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, the south of Flor

et aliae's beautiful Bach-referencing piano composition "Heaven" gets some soothing, Pure Moods-esque visuals, created by "motion fantasy" artist Kenaim. Kenaim says of the "moving artwork" he created for the song: