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Beck is back, and he’s got a new track to share that’s as short as it is strange, featuring some pitch-shifted vocals, a relaxed groove, and what sort of sounds like a vibraphone delivering an off-kiler melody. The track is now available on iTunes and Beck’s site.
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SBTRKT is working on a follow-up to his very good debut from 2011. No details of that have surfaced, but we do have this new track, which is dedicated to his late brother. “IMO” comes to us in “unmixed/unmastered” form, as such, this track does have room to improve
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Stream: The Field – “Cupid’s Head” A simple, repetitive beat. An interesting, chopped up vocal loop. Snail-paced, subtle alterations. In other words, it’s a new track from The Field. Helmer of the project Axel Willner has been pumping out this kind of music with awesome finesse for a few
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“I don’t recognize you anymore,” Sarah Barthel sings at the very end of Phantogram’s new single, “Black Out Days,” atop a surprisingly soft piano. I say “surprisingly” because the 3 and a half minutes that precedes it is a booming, electronic rock song with a hell of a
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As we’ve already mentioned, electronic music producer Four Tet has a new album coming out titled Beautiful Rewind, and there’s a new track from it streaming above. While it maintains the particularly rigid assembly of electronic sequences that have been prevalent in Tet’s recent works, it does
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Rhode Island sludge metal duo The Body have a new LP on the way in October via Thrill Jockey Records titled Christs, Redeemers, and the first track to drop from it is streaming above. Though The Body’s music still hangs within the realms of metal music, their sound feels
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Canadian indie rock heavyweights Arcade Fire return with a new, disco-infused single from their forthcoming LP, Reflektor.
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Stream: Holy Ghost! – Dynamics New York synth pop outfit Holy Ghost!’s new album Dynamics drops this month on DFA Records, and the band has made the album streamable in its entirety on YouTube this week. Give a listen to the closer “Cheap Shots” above, and hit the link for
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Have you been looking for a track that’s moody, sexually starved, bitter, and intensely passionate all at once? Of course you have! Stream the new Meg Myers single above for just that. With lyrics this bold, this West Coast singer-songwriter can’t stay obscure for long, can she? Enjoy!
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Stream: Man Man – Oni Pond Philly indie and experimental rock outfit Man Man brings another forlorn, eccentric, and instrumentally layered album to the table via Anti- Records, and it’s available for streaming in full on YouTube. Give a listen to the song “End Boss” via the song above, and
