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Grand Rapids synth-pop artist and producer Marley Ferguson aka marsfade (fka FADE) follows up that gorgeous + super dreamy "do u know what i mean" video from a couple weeks back with another emotionally exposed new single...

Hana Vu drops her most Hana-y -- and thus, her best -- video yet with the dream-like, Peter Ferris Rosati-directed visuals for emotional new single "Outside". The vid was premiered today by REFINERY29, who said that, despite the song's undeniable tinge of melancholy, Hana's songs "don't stay sad; they swell and compress likes the waves in the ocean." Hana Vu's Nicole Kidman / A

Montreal's TOPS shares the interactive version of their beautiful video for "Outside", our favorite song from one of last year's best records. Directed by Fantavious Fritz; watch it here. In other exciting TOPS news, the band is coming to Dallas on March 12 for our GvsB-curated Red Bull Sound Select show at Three Links in Deep Ellum...

It's inspired by videos by Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Anna Domino, Berntholer, Suzanne Vega, @devhynes @robynkonichiwa ... I could go on ... — 大☼ℙS (@TTTOPSSS) October 7, 2014

Montreals TOPS unveils the softest, most pillowy of jams, our current favorite from their stellar new album (although it could just as easily have come from the Top Gun soundtrack). Picture You Staring is out September 2 via our friends at Arbutus...

CFCF's new Outsiders EP is the rare collection of b-sides + remixes that feels like an essential release, thanks to two gorgeous, previously unreleased tracks that could stand alongside anything on the original release, and a handful of inspired, dramatic re-imaginings like that Huerco S...

Montreal producer CFCF's bleary, gently drifting Outside highlight "Transcend" gets a quietly lurching, almost ominously peaceful extended re-work from Huerco S. The soothing remix is taken from CFCF's new Outsiders EP, which also features the lovely, previously unreleased b-side "Windswept", is out this week on Paper Bag...

Some vintage NFB greatness from the man Norman McLaren, who was a big spritual influence on my 2012 EP 'Exercises' -- CFCF

Peter Gabriel is a crucial influence in the making of 'Outside'. I tried to imbue most of the songs with a bit of his essence and take cues from some of his techniques as a way to guide myself in developing my song writing, which was a new way of working for me...

As promised last week, we're handing over the keys to Montreal's CFCF for the day to mark the release of his stellar new full-length, Outside. Stick around for some of the sounds that influenced Outside, as well as remixes, rarities + possibly even a few exclusives, and stay up on all of CFCF's posts throughout the day right HERE...