new music
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Bones comes through with a brilliantly-titled dark banger featuring a verse from none other than Danny Brown! The track is featured on Bones’ new NoRedeemingQualities mixtape.
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In lieu of a mere single, here is the entire second chapter of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard‘s three-chapter concept album Murder of the Universe. This will be the psych rock experimentalists’ second album of 2017, following the great Flying Microtonal Banana, and the ‘gimmick’ this time around
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Denzel Curry and BADBADNOTGOOD each embark upon one of their most ambitious musical undertakings by reinventing banger-of-the-decade contender “Ultimate” with live instrumentation. I’m more surprised by the trippy video than I am the fact they pull it off. Feels like I dropped acid…or edited a thatistheplan video. Denzel
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Todd Terje teases toward his beautifully-titled sophomore album Numero Twomero with a lengthy cover of “Maskindans,” an obscure piece of ’80s minimal synth from fellow Norwegian dance music duo Det Gylne Triangel. Naturally, this new version is a lot brighter and dancier, but it also features new vocal contributions from
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The 20th anniversary reissue of Radiohead’s seminal album OK Computer is coming out later this month, containing of course a remastered version of the album, as well as a bonus disc of b-sides and previously unreleased material. The long passed-over “I Promise” is one of the three unreleased tracks
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LA-based hip hop collective/boyband Brockhampton is releasing its second mixtape, Saturation, next month. Coming off strong singles like “Heat,” “Face,” and now “Gold,” it’s become one of my most highly anticipated projects this year.
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Chromatics were featured in last week’s premiere of the new Twin Peaks series, and their soothing dream pop sound was just what viewers needed after two hours of Lynchian horror. Here’s the song they played as the credits rolled; it’s set to appear on the soundtrack Twin
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Omar Souleyman is dropping his new album To Syra, With Love on June 2 via Diplo’s Mad Decent label, and it’s great to hear the singer’s magnetic style of dabke continue to break through in the West. This latest single, “Chobi,” is probably his most techno-oriented offering
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Poppy has done the Poppiest thing imaginable and created a love song for her computer, and of course there’s a video attached to it that has that Poppy aesthetic. We’ve reached peak levels of Poppy, people. I love it.
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Guerilla Toss continues in the direction of catchy and jerky dance-punk with “The String Game,” the lead single from their new album GT ULTRA. This’ll be the band’s second full-length release on DFA Records, with a June 23 street date. The track’s quasi-lyric video is pretty cool,
