More gorgeous music from these wizards of pop. It’s like the sweetest kiss from the best John Hughes film (your choice, of course…).
Tea Leigh & Luke Reed - Surrender
…a perfect combination of Ruddyp’s hard hitting beats, and Taquwami’s soaring emotive cuts.
Ruddyp & Taquwami - Hold
Estère is the latest MPC mistress, laying sultry and head-lolling rhythms under empowering and post-soul vocals.
Estère - Culture Clash
…on par with the year’s best shimmering froth from those who dare step into the dream pop ring.
Altar Eagle - Parallel Lives
Some very smooth rolling beats…
swing delux - Triple Water
…so tantalizing and romantic thanks to Tessa Murray’s lush and luring vocals, slithers along slowly, pulsating in dramatic fashion, essentially swallowing everything in its path in the best possible way.
Still Corners - Fireflies
Music made for those dusk hours of a road trip to welcome in the solidarity of the night-time drive.
The Great American Canyon Band - Tumbleweed
…this sounds so much so like the best elements of Memory Tapes, Toro Y Moi and Neon Indian that…basically, I’m digging it a bunch.
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD - All
…a party tune that bounces all over the place and is best consumed at high volumes.
Jamaican Queens - Kids Get Away
a delicately crafted, annoyingly catchy piece of melancholic, intelligent pop music, creeping up on you with a haunting chorus and a dreamy build-up of vocal magic.
S O H N - The Wheel
a beautifully layered track which combines a somewhat funky beat with a soft soul vibe
Rhye - The Fall
…flutters of melancholic synths backed by a steadied afro-inspired backbeat topped off by a goose-bump inducing vibraphone solo…
Magical Mistakes - Always At The Best Part
…a serious wall of sound that crushes around the 2:30 mark.
Lapalux - Forgetting And Learning Again feat. Kerry Leatham
I am continually enamored with the golden synthetic melodies that David Douglas makes.
Mensenkinderen - Blauwe Maandag (David Douglas Remix)
It will steal your heart with it’s hopelessly romantic beat.
Twin Cabins - LakeLove