new music
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Burial and Four Tet drop a beautiful new collaborative track titled “Nova.” Of course, this isn’t the first time these two have put (amazing) material together, and let’s hope this track is one of many more collaborations to come. While the beat doesn’t vary enough to get
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A new track from dance rock outfit Turing Machine here. It’s from the forthcoming album, What Is The Meaning Of What, which will be the group’s first album in eight years. Look for it on Temporary Residence on May 8th. With this track, “Slave to the Algorithm,” the
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Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. drops a new mixtape of tracks titled 4evaNaDay. Considering his last mixtape was one of my favorite releases of 2011, I’m psyched to lay my ears on this thing. Let’s not forget K.R.I.T> also has his Def
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Teasing toward its 6th full-length album, De Vermis Mysteriis, which is dropping on April 3, High On Fire has released a new track titled “Fertile Green.” The album will be released through eOne. Though I don’t want to assume greatness for an album before I even hear it, I
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With a spunky house beat and busy footwork snares and claps, electronic music producer Romare builds a solid backdrop for a slew of samples related to African music. I say related because some of the clips here, and some aren’t. There’s a nice flute riff here, and a
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Gorillaz, James Murphy, and Andre 3000 go above and beyond in this 13-minute pop, rock, hip hop, and electronic epic. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Indie pop outfit Craft Spells writes another tune with its usual array of dreamy, lucid effects, and announces the release of a new EP, Gallery. The EP will be out via Captured Tracks on May 15th. Check a review of the band’s debut album, Idle Labor, here.
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M-Phases creates a fantastic remix of “I Never Learnt To Share,” which is one of my favorite tracks from the debut full-length of singer-producer James Blake. Rather than embracing the track’s original ambient atmosphere, Phazes samples numerous chunks of the song and turns it into a hard-hitting hip hop
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Here’s electronic music producer Nicolas Jaar‘s take on the Shlohmo track “Rained the Whole Time,” which comes off the Vacation EP I reviewed recently. Grab the EP now on Friends of Friends.
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Fine Before You Came is in Italian rock outfit, taking influences from the worlds of emo and post-hardcore to create its energetic and passionate songs. The group’s latest LP, Ormai, is out now via La Tempesta. Stream one of its tracks, “Dublino” above.