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when I’m making something and I’m really getting down to it i begin to feel like tom and elis seem to here in this video at around 2:50. i want the music to make other people feel like that. above all i hope to share that feeling. the portuguese language promotes rhythmic phrasing that feels unwieldy and unnatural in english (not impossible its just not what feels easy)...

i heard this on the radio a couple months ago while i was washing dishes. after half a minute or so i just kind of stopped working and listened. like the best music it took me over. the video here is a live version and i love the way they’re all listening to each other and reacting to each other...

Shout to Bea Arthur. Visuals by Celeste Potter + Passion Pictures / Suren Perera. Painting With is out Friday:

Our SiriusXM show airs today and every Thursday at noon EST + again at midnight, on channel 35 SiriusXMU. Today's special Albums of the Year edition features selections from our favorite releases of 2015, including tracks from Grimes, Panda Bear, Jamie xx, Erykah Badu, Beach House, Vince Staples, and more. Listen here + check the full playlist below:

We feel pretty confident proclaiming 2015 the best year for new music this decade, and we'd even go so far as to say it's been arguably our favorite year in the history of this site. So many stars seemed to serendipitously align this year — our 10th as a blog — for sounds that veered right into our own personal, sometimes insular little lane: the triumphant return of Grimes; the improbable meteori

Animal Collective unveil the opening track and lead single from their forthcoming album, the ecstatic and kaleidoscopic Avey Tare + Panda Bear duet "Floridada". The new LP Painting With, which features contributions from John Cale and Colin Stetson (and a dope Bea Arthur sample, RIP), is out February 19, 2016, on Domino...

Directed + edited by Mount Emult. Creative director: Sonic Boom.

Panda Bear low-key dropped a bumping new bonus track that's only available on the digital download card that's packaged with the physical version of his awesome new Crosswords 12" EP, out this Friday on Domino. Listen to the swirling, classic-breakbeat-driven "Lisbon Zoo" below + pick up the 12" here...

Our SiriusXM show airs today and every Thursday at noon EST + again at midnight, on channel 35 SiriusXMU. Today's show features new jams from Grimes, Panda Bear, Ellie Herring, Erykah Badu, Abra, Forever, Memoryhouse, Anna Von Hauswolff, and more. Listen here + check the full playlist after the jump…

"Swallow at the Hollow is a mix of things I made around the same time as all the Grim Reaper tracks. They kind of feel like scribbles or doodles and for some reason or another I couldn't find my way of singing with them. Some of them just stuck out like sore thumbs...