GORILLA VS. BEAR

Penelope Trappes shares the spectral first transmission from her forthcoming new album Heavenly Spheres, coming in April on Penelope's own, freshly minted Nite Hive Records imprint...

Video directed by Nia Archives + Delphino Productions. Nia's new Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP -- the follow up to one of 2022's best releases -- is out next month, pre-order the limited signed vinyl edition here...

Nearly two years on from her stunning debut single, METTE drops a second track, and it's another soaring, life-affirming pop banger.

Jonnine Standish of HTRK shares the self-directed video for her new track "Tea for Two (Boo)", a haunted and whimsical ghost story taken from Jonnine's new album Maritz, out later this month...

We were entranced by the excellent debut single from New German Cinema -- the solo project of Fear of Men's Jessica Weiss -- almost exactly one year ago, and today Jess graces us with another new one, and it was worth the wait...

Lindsey French aka Neggy Gemmy shares another vibrant club-pop banger from her just announced new album CBD Reiki Moonbeam, coming in April on 100% Electronica...

Westerman's new album An Inbuilt Fault is out in May...

Certified popstars and budding producers for famous rappers, LA's Mag Bay put a bow on the Mercurial World era, as the duo shares a trippy VHS video for the Spanish version of "Dominó"...

The dream team Polachek + Harle hook up again with magical results, and this time they brought bagpipes...

UK producer + singer and songwriter yunè pinku follows up one of last year's best EPs and subsequent ethereal banger "Fai Fighter" with a shimmering rave anthem about "a robot that essentially falls in love with the person who will destroy it"...

5 hazy new Dean Blunt tracks, quietly dropped earlier today on his label World Music's instagram...

Malibu continues to create some of the most ethereal and transcendent ambient music in the world, as she follows up last year's stunning Palaces of Pity EP by lending a proper new Malibu track to the epic new YEAR0001 compilation RIFT Two...

We've been in the Piper Kaplan fan club since the earliest days, and this sweet new track she just dropped under her current moniker Maraschino might be one of my favorite things she's ever done...

Toronto's Mandaworld and her partner + collaborator Matty Tavares continue their run of hits with new single "I ADORE YOU", taken from the forthcoming Mandaworld LP For Emotional Use Only...

Check Yachty's "Running Out of Time", co-written and co-produced by Mica + Matt of Mag Bay, below...

Sasha Spielberg aka Buzzy Lee comes through with an early video of the year contender, as she puts her actual search history on blast in the vid for her infectious and relatable new synth banger "Cinderblock"...

Karin + Olof Dreijer drop one of their balmiest, most sensual tracks since the Deep Cuts (which just turned 20!) days. Listen to the haunting tropical goth anthem "Kandy" -- an instant add to our Best Songs of 2023 playlist -- below...

Genre-defying producer -- and on this one, avant-pop singer-songwriter -- Avalon Emerson shares a dreamy, luminous new Bullion collab, under the moniker of her new, "ongoing, ever-shifting" collaborative project Avalon Emerson & The Charm...

Oslo's Marit Othilie Thorvik aka Jouska shares another enchanting electronic pop gem from her new album Suddenly My Mind is Blank, coming next month...

London's TYSON is off to a solid start in 2023, as she makes her second appearance on these pages in less than a week. First up was her dreamy duet with Coby Sey, and today we get a haunting collab with the legend Dean Blunt...

Taken from NOIA's debut LP gisela, coming in March on Cascine. Video directed by Erin Vassilopoulos...

A bit obsessed with and slightly shaken by this haunting new patten track, taken from his forthcoming LP Mirage FM, "the 1st album fully made from text-to-audio AI samples"...

The best song of 2022 gets a massive, life-affirming rework from Swedish producer/legend and the man responsible for two of last year's best albums, Axel Boman, with a brand new vocal performance from Panda Bear...

Oakland's Hannah van Loon aka Tanukichan shares an aching, wistful duet featuring Aramis Johnson of Enumclaw...