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Here's a moving new jam from Nicole Schneit, aka Air Waves, taken from her beautiful, long-awaited forthcoming full-length Parting Glances. In the past, we've used phrases like "casually poignant" and "world-weary" when describing Schneit's lovely way with melody, her familiar, worn-in voice, and her often subtly heartbreaking turns of phrase, and that all certainly applies on

In addition to her recent sound design work on Panda Bear's glorious animated "Boys Latin" video, and a forthcoming collab with electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani that we are now very psyched about, "modular synth sound sculptress" and composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has an entrancing new full-length of her own called Euclid due next week on Austin's Western Vinyl... Read M

Shabazz Palaces throw down their warped, futuristic murk over the new Heems-assisted single from Philly's Lushlife on this mind-bending new remix, featuring a revelatory verse from the head Palaceer himself. Check the Shabazz-appropriate title: "Hale-Bopp was the Bedouins (Shabazz Palaces remix feat the palaceer, fly guy Dai and Thadillac...

Western Vinyl recently sent over Feeling Today, the new 5-song EP from Weatherford, TX's Botany. Here's the glowing title track, on which he flips some "decades-old samples" into something new and engagingly warm, with the help of some lovely vocals from Ashley Rathburn: mp3: Botany's Feeling Today EP is due out next month on Western Vinyl, with a full-length to follow in spring 2011...

We've long been fans of J. Tillman's hauntingly stark and often mournful solo recordings -- even before Fleet Foxes drafted him as their secret weapon drummer/harmonizer/witty between-song banterer -- so it's pretty great to see his excellent discography getting some much-deserved increased attention as a result of his higher-profile day job...