12"

Here's an otherwordly new jam from Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, taken from Dark Bloom, Boucher's forthcoming split 12" EP with her Montreal homie d'Eon. The soaring "Vanessa" represents the bolder, slightly more polished version of Grimes' cosmic "space-station pop" that wowed just about everyone who caught one of her transportive sets at SXSW earlier this month... Read Mo

Here's a new one from Manchester producer/apparition Holy Other, taken from his forthcoming With U 12" EP. "Touch" is a spectral slow jam that's a bit sexier and not quite as suffocatingly sad as last year's devastating "Yr Love" (also on the EP), but still feels haunted by the same feelings of yearning and regret: mp3: Holy Other's With U 12" EP is out June 6 on Tri

New Burial jam, taken from the A-side of his instantly sold-out forthcoming split 12" with Thom Yorke + Four Tet, out this week on Four Tet's TEXT label: Burial, Four Tet + Thom Yorke :: Ego ____________ Update: Here's the flipside, which is reportedly the Thom Yorke / Four Tet collab, but honestly it sounds like all three are collabing on both of these: Burial, Four Tet + Thom Yorke :: Mirr

Newly recorded version -- more bass clarinet! -- of one of our favorite dance jams of 2010, taken from the new 12" EP from Portland psych-house group Miracles Club: mp3: Miracles Club's A New Love 12" is out now on Mexican Summer...

The Samps have a new 12" (pictured) due at the end of this month from our friends at Japan's Big Love. The Bomb Squad-inspired crew flips samples like no one else, as heard on this bent, floating space-funk jam, which the group posted to their Facebook page a while back...

Honey Owens' psych-house project the Miracles Club dropped one of our favorite jams of early 2010 way back in January, and now the song finally gets a proper vinyl 12" release, courtesy of our friends at Mexican Summer. The label says the record is reminiscent of "the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, big pants, Soul II Soul, shopping at the Gap, Coogi sweaters," and "Lisa Stansfield’s sp

We are extremely proud to welcome enigmatic Grecian duo Keep Shelly in Athens to the Forest Family, beginning with the release of their magical In Love with Dusk 12" EP, the duo's physical debut. The group's sexy smooth "beach-House" vibes have been described by Pitchfork as "downtempo, Balearic-tinged sounds that sound like what would happen if someone tried to remake Air's

The Toro Y Moi side-project/alter-ego that we mentioned back in the summer of '09 finally sees a well-deserved proper release on Carpark. LES SINS' Lina/Youth Gone 12" drops on November 9. mp3: LES SINS :: Youth Gone

New psych-pop retrofuturism from Gary War's perfectly-titled forthcoming 12" EP Police Water, which comes out in October on the great Sacred Bones. The sinuous, new wave-y "Born of Light" has been on repeat all day, and is recommended for fans of holograms, early '80s dystopian sci-fi flicks, and this jam/vid...

Listen to a short preview of both sides of the new Arcade Fire 12" single after the jump... ******