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Here's the second great single to be unveiled from Trust's forthcoming LP Joyland, a beautiful record that his esteemed label calls "an eruption of guts, eels, and joy". I feel like this is the moment they're referring to, specifically: on "Capitol", Robert Alfons' dark, ominously sulking synthpop explodes into a soaring chorus-of-the-year contender that's cathartic and life-a

Four Tet drops a throbbing extended rework of the title track from the forthcoming debut album by our beloved DIANA, as premiered by the great Rookie Mag. Download the track here. Perpetual Surrender is out August 20; pre-order here.

We've teamed up with our friends to the North at Silent Shout to co-present this rad official NXNE showcase on Saturday, June 15, at Toronto's Comfort Zone. Starring some of Canada's finest, including Tonstartssbandht, Prince Innocence, Jay Arner, Sexy Merlin, Petra Glynt, and Devan Boomen; get familiar below, and over at Silent Shout, of course...

DIANA's beautiful, basically flawless soft-focus dance-pop dream "Born Again" finally gets some appropriate visuals, directed by Geoffrey Pugen, and starring Carmen Elle and other assorted psychedelic jungle dwellers. In other exciting news, DIANA's exceedingly lovely and timeless self-titled debut -- without question one of the year's best -- is out August 20 on Jagjaguwar + on Paper Ba

Download 3 excellent, very different takes on Diana's "Born Again," re-worked by their friends Doldrums, Heathered Pearls, and Luke Lalonde of Born Ruffians. The original version + the Doldrums remix appear on the band's debut 12" single, out now on Forest Family...

Here's a new one from DIANA, a new Toronto group which counts Destroyer's sax player Joseph Shabason as one of its members. We're not about to call this chillwave, but the gauzy, soft pop/disco-lite gem "Born Again" does elicit some Causers of This vibes, and also works nicely when alternated on repeat with that new Moons single that we can't seem to stop listening to...