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Art pop three-piece Future Islands is preparing to drop a new album titled Singles in March, and here we have the video for Singles‘ first single, “Waiting on You (Seasons Change).” The visuals seem as though they’d be better suited to a piece of americana, but strangely, they do
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You’ll be forgiven for not remembering who Throwing Muses are. A group of young alternative rockers that released a few pretty good albums in the 80s and 90s on 4AD–the first U.S. band to be signed to that label, in fact)–today they are much less active.
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Yesterday, Gang Gang Dance’s Brian DeGraw announced his full-length solo debut, SUM/ONE, under the moniker bEEdEEgEE. To coincide with the announcement, he shared the track “Bricks,” whose jagged synth patterns, colorful vocal samples, and warm, rising strings proffer one of the most insane beats you’ll hear all
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Deerhunter has made a music video for the breezy Monomania cut “Back to the Middle.” The grainy, mostly black and white video features a drag-clad Durassie Kiangangu lip-syncing the song and dancing, only cutting briefly to color as we see Kiangangu getting ready in his dressing room. Monomania is out
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This week, London electronic music producer Zomby is dropping his latest full-length album, With Love. It’ll be on 4AD, and features over thirty tracks that span two discs. As the track “Overdose” shows, this guy is really working to diversity his sound, trying his hand at some very atomspheric,
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Glasgow’s classy, catchy, and quaint Camera Obscura has a new album on the way titled Desire Lines, which is looking at a release on 4AD, and “Do It Again” is the first track to drop from it. It’s an incredibly sweet and fancy-free track that features an odd
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Deerhunter drops a surprisingly lo-fi single with the track “Monomania,” which is also the title of the band’s next album. The LP is set to drop on May 6th via 4AD. After releasing the well-recorded and colorfully produced Halcyon Digest in 2010, it’ll be interesting to see if
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inc. is the musical project of Andrew and Daniel Aged, and their debut full-length, No World is set for a Feb. 19th release on 4AD. This inaugural track is a subtly funk piece of smooth R&B with some great chord changes and sensual vocals.
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Hailing from London, Elena Tonra makes music as a part of a project that goes by the name of Daughter. “Smother” is their new 7″ single, and along with B-side “Run,” it was released digitally on September 3 and physically on October 1 via 4AD and Glassnote. Aside from this
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“Only In My Dreams” is one of those rare moments in the Ariel Pink discography where his melodic pop genius completely transcends any sense of irony or humor in the music or lyrics. It’s simply a really great song, with an unrelentingly catchy hook, hummable backing harmonies, and a
