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Taken from EVA's new EP, coming this fall. Directed by Courtney Brookes:

As we approach the midway point of 2019, here's our constantly evolving recap of our favorite albums, songs, and videos from the first half of an already insane year. In an era when truly special new records seem to evade or evaporate from the internet's collective consciousness at an unsettling rate -- in many cases before they're even officially released -- it's not easy to keep up, but I've don

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Erin Elizabeth Birgy's wonderful avant-pop group Mega Bog share the Vanessa Haddad-directed video for "Truth in the Wild", one of the highlights from their new record Dolphine, coming later this month on Paradise of Bachelors. Haddad says that the video "melds inspiration from early Top of the Pops-style live-music performances and the science-fiction worlds of Ursula K...

Emily Cross shares a lovely, meditative new track, "inspired by a visit to an overstimulating Mexican street market teeming with people," taken from the forthcoming self-titled Cross Record LP, the follow-up to 2016's stellar Wabi-Sabi (one of our favorite full-lengths of that year). Cross Record is due in August on Ba Da Bing. Video shot by Emily Cross + Marjorie Bailey:

Stockholm's Kornél Kovács shares the visuals for one of our favorite songs of 2019, the glowing opening track from his new album Stockholm Marathon, out now on Studio Barnhus. The dream-like, balmy summer night jam "Purple Skies", which features vocals from Rebecca & Fiona, gets a fittingly romantic and surreal video from director Alexandra Dahlström, starring Ruben Menninger + Manue

Norway's Birgitta Alida follows up her soaring, timeless chamber-pop gem "Glory" -- one of our favorite songs of the year so far -- with a delightfully warm and breezy new summer jam, out this Friday on Bergen label Blanca Records. Inspired as much by the classic girl groups and yé-yé singers of the '60s as the irresistible modern pop flowing out of her native Scandinavia these days, the

Austin band Holy Wave share the new video for "Crys", a dreamily hazy garage-psych nostalgia trip taken from their album Adult Fear, out now on Austin's The Reverberation Appreciation Society and on limited cassette via southern California label Burger Records...

Montreal songwriter and visual artist Ada Lea shares the haunting lead single from her excellent forthcoming debut LP what we say in private, coming this summer on Saddle Creek. "the party" is a stark and intimate introduction to Ada Lea's vivid, often mercurial sound, starting and fading out with a whisper-soft ASMR-inducing white noise, as Ada's hushed lament for an elusive love softl

Copenhagen's Erika de Casier shares the dreamy video for her intoxicating new single "Good Time", taken from her forthcoming debut LP Essentials, coming May 16th on Erika's own label Independent Jeep Music. The smoldering, Bossa Nova-inspired, El Trick-produced track sounds a bit like a modern update of "Ordinary Love", if Sade became a member of Smerz -- who Erika is tight w