Psyched to introduce the lovely debut release from Austin's Alex Rose: "Grandmothers" is a disarmingly beautiful and bittersweet gem that Alex says is "a rumination on the nonlinear and linear aspects of time," with vivid lyrics that manage to feel both surreal and very sincere and intimate, while the modest, hushed folk of the virtual flip-side "Coattails" is a heartfelt lament/lullaby for an ending relationship...
Laure Briard follows up last year's lovely Révélation with the sublime and classic-sounding lead single from her forthcoming new LP, recalling the '60s golden age of vintage French pop. Sur la Piste de Danse is out June 24th on Paris label Midnight Special. Video by Michelle Blades. You can check the album's closing track "Laure" (shades of Gainsbourg et Birkin) below as well:
Toronto duo Phèdre and the HATAW interpretive dance crew/"CYBORGS" get a little bit surreal at a carnival midway in the vibrant video for the group's frenetic, genre-defying new single "ZASTROSZY"...
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"...
Listen to our March 2016 monthly mix, featuring new tracks from the past month by Negative Gemini, Merely, Maria Usbeck, Mall Grab, Japanese Breakfast + more. March was a particularly good month if you like to dance:
Sam Perry of Yumi Zouma shares the warped and woozy first single from his solo psych-pop project Zen Mantra: “Second Skin” elicits an eerie nostalgia and the inescapable tinge of vague melancholy that tends to go along with that, but there’s a brightness that comes from Perry’s pop sensibility shining through the song's dark undertones. Sam says of the new record:
Cindy Lee, the experimental pop project from former Women guitarist/singer Pat Flegel, follows up one of the best albums of 2015 with MALENKOST, an 11-song cassette release on Vancouver label Isolated Now Waves...
Thanks to Josh for the heads up on this sprawling, ominous new track from Russian underground dance-pop producer/singer Kedr Livanskiy, inspired by "the otherworldliness of Russian winter", "the feeling of impending death and transition to another state when winter is over", Laurel Halo, Autechre, Inga Copeland, and Mazzy Star, among other things...
Fledgling Brooklyn label 100% Electronica continues their streak of releasing some of the most exciting and substantial pop music around these days, with the glorious new single from producer and future future-pop star Lindsey French, aka Negative Gemini...
Of all the wonderful new music that Skylar Spence introduced us to during his site takeover on Friday (there was a lot), George Clanton and his brilliant new record 100% Electronica stood out as our absolute favorite...