Health is back, and they’re taking it easy on the noise this time around, favoring a fusion of electronic dance music and pop on many tracks here.
Deerhunter has adopted a bayou aesthetic for this new single/video “Snakeskin,” taken from the band’s new album Fading Frontier, out October 16 on 4AD. Review of 2013’s Monomania:
Sleep Quarters by Sage Caswell Here are a couple of cuts from LA producer Sage Caswell’s new EP Sleep Quarters, out August 21 via Spring Theory. They ought to do something for you if you were into US progressive house and synth acts toward the end of the noughts.
UK art pop artist FKA twigs drops a stellar EP outta nowhere.
Earlier this year, Diplo, CL, RiFF RAFF, and OG Maco came together for a hot single called “Doctor Pepper.” Now it has a suitably wild video.
Free jazz/improvisation titans Akira Sakata, Jim O’Rourke, Chikamorachi (Darin Gray + Chris Corsano), and Merzbow are teaming up for Flying Basket, a double LP out September 18 via Family Vineyard. You can check out the trailer above, though it’s safe to assume this will be one intense experience.
Here’s a fun and sort of oddball piece of synthpop from The Great Void (Brooklyn producer Josh Ascalon). “Shift Age” is the title track of his new album on Olde English Spelling Bee, which will receive a digital release September 8. If you dig what you’re hearing, try
FKA twigs has just released her new EP M3LL155X out of the blue with a characteristically outlandish set of visuals. Check it out above and enjoy!
Deathgrind outfit Cattle Decapitation’s latest record is a deadly combination of technical extremity and human touch.
NPR Music is now streaming Mick Jenkin’s follow-up mixtape to last year’s The Water[s]. Wave[s] will be released August 21 via Cinematic Music Group.
