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Maria Usbeck follows up her impossibly charming and transportive 2016 debut LP Amparo with a long-awaited and absolutely wonderful new single, out today via Cascine + Labrador. There's an infectiously bouncy, almost whimsical playfulness to "Bosque De Bambú" (reflected in that amazing cover art seen below), a dazzling synth-pop jam that Maria says "should be played anytime you feel

Maria Usbeck's Amparo is out today on Cascine.

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...

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

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

As we continue to celebrate the 5th anniversary of one our favorite labels in the world, we've lovingly and carefully curated this perfect (in our opinion), hour-long Cascine 5YR mixtape, made up of some of our personal favorite tracks from the label's deep and consistently stellar catalog. Featuring classics from Korallreven, Yumi Zouma, Keep Shelly in Athens, Lemonade, Airbird & Napolian +

Here's the starry-eyed, unabashedly romantic new single from Selebrities, taken from the Brooklyn group's forthcoming LP Lovely Things, out June 25 on Cascine.

Here's the new single from Brooklyn's Selebrities: the group accurately describes their stylish, brooding electronic pop as voguish summertime goth, and "Night Heat" is a coolly distant, darkly cinematic gem that would have sounded right at home on the Drive soundtrack...

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