Le Couleur - Concorde

September 11, 2020

Montréal-based synth-pop trio Le Couleur’s new album Concorde is a technicolored tongue-in-cheek thanatopsis, a series of gothic ballads that glitter the beach before you because they are wrapped in a groovy dulcet dream of the 70s. Footprints in the sand guide …

Sovereign - 'Maara'

September 11, 2020

Newcomer Sovereign is here offering a new single, ‘Maara.’ The Latvian-born Brighton-based producer Toms Jankevics weaves sensual textures together with a tumbling, hard-edged danceability to create a climax nearing the peak of Everest. The track is built as …

Lxury - Trinity Lounge EP

September 11, 2020

Seasons have risen and faded, projects have been conceived and released, and time has made clear it won’t be stopping at any soon moment. So we turn our attention again to Andy Smith, the enigmatic Croydonian who produces enigmatic music as Lxury. …

Da Vosk Docta - DOCCI (3SR)

September 4, 2020

The sardonicism continues with Da Vosk Docta’s latest release, DOCCI; crunchy percussion and honey-dripped synth leads intertwine in this bawdy wonderland. The Docta doesn’t leave much room for rumination however, with raucous nights and fatigued mornings …

Laurence Guy - Your Good Time Will Come

September 3, 2020

Here’s an anecdote in the spirit of Halloween. I recently learned about dancing mania, a social phenomenon that occurred in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. Groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, would dance together through town and …

Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song

August 28, 2020

Various 2020-related delays, a common theme this month, have given up the ghost on Kelly Lee Owens’s Inner Song, one of My Most Anticipated Projects of this trip around the sun. The Welsh-born London-based musician has kept a …

Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess

August 28, 2020

Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen’s new album Whole New Mess is a whole new take on the body of work from her acclaimed 2019 All Mirrors album, and it’s more intimate, a return to how I like her best—minimal instrumentation, …

Disclosure - Energy

August 28, 2020

The Lawrence brothers are back from a brief but recuperating hiatus with Energy, their third full-length outing. Amidst several COVID-19 related delays, including Guy Lawrence contracting the virus, the pair steadily teased out …

Tame Impala - Is It True (Four Tet Remix) (3SR)

August 20, 2020

For those that hear a Tame Impala song and think, “This is good, but I wish it was even chiller,” Four Tet has answered the call. Sourcing from an artist whose sound is definitively unmarked and unmarred by grit, Four Tet …

Vincenzo Ramaglia ft. Laure Le Prunenec - La parole 6 (Shigeto Remix)

August 13, 2020

Detroit-based producer Shigeto has created a delightfully inky new remix of ‘La parole 6’ by Roman experimental composer Vincenzo Ramaglia featuring the voice of Laure le Prunenec (Igorrr, Corpo-Mente, Rïcïnn). Like walking a …