If life is a cabaret, youth is a shadow play. Light and dark are separated by sharp edges in dramatic high definition, and you discover that it’s effortless to run your hand through both extremes. …
Read MoreDog Blood - Turn off the Lights (3SR)
As busy as Skrillex and Boys Noize must be, ‘Turn Off the Lights’ wastes no time slicing up a merciless groove with harsh percussion and chopping synth hits. Broken vocals and false drops make this single a captivating listen, …
Read MoreMr. Oizo - Rythme Plat (3SR)
The 20th anniversary of the French Pillar of Production Mr. Oizo’s internationally renown track, ‘Flat Beat,’ a track whose video is listed in Maxim’s list of the “Best Puppets in a Music Video,” has been commemorated down to the …
Read MoreTame Impala - Patience (3SR)
‘Patience’ from Tame Impala comes along with a classic modern thrust on dreamy seventies pop rock. Trevor’s reverbed treble voice, threaded plaintively through the body of the track, finds little moments for brief hooks giving …
Read MoreMary Lattimore and Mac McCaughan - New Rain Duets
Music is nature.
Before everyone gets hung up on that statement, and I get an influx of “I’m not naturally gifted at music,” “I can’t make anything musical,” “I’m tone deaf,” “I have no rhythm,” and “Does that make me an alien?”—hear me out, …
Read MoreFlume - Hi This is Flume
That feeling you get in the middle of a set where you’re not sure where the music—the atmosphere, is going to go next, but your gut does and so you get that sense of wonder at the same time as a sense of knowing satisfaction. …
Read MoreTierra Whack - Unemployed (3SR)
Tierra Whack’s newest single, “Unemployed” hunkers down in trap, further exposing her dynamism. In this song she is mostly mean—real mean, clip your pet bird’s wings while you’re at work mean—and it’s tempting to place that in …
Read MoreElliot Adamson - TiHKAL
Premier Taste Maker and Quality Content Creator Elliot Adamson has released an album on his very own IDEA imprint. Things I Have Known and Loved comes to us atop a wave that Adamson has been slowly building up over the …
Read MoreGesaffelstein - Hyperion (3SR)
Here it is, the main course offered to us by Chef Lévy, Hyperion, and the best I can say is that it is short and it will be forgotten about, or at least it will provide contrast between the work that came before and the work that came …
Read MoreOcto Octa - For Lovers EP (3SR)
Octo Octa’s new short project For Lovers continues her path indoors to housier and housier music and enjoying some metaphysical milieus, which make themselves known in the titles and in the layering repetitive structure often …
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