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Author: The Predatory Wasp
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Kazra – Welcome To My Stream
Kiwi-French artist Kazra makes his TPW debut with new single, Welcome To My Stream which serves as the opening track from his upcoming debut album Reconnected. Influenced by iconic rap stars like Travis Scott and Post Malone, it strikes just the right balance between chest-puffing aggrandising and floating, nihilistic melancholy, especially in the glorious mid-section.
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Penelope Trappes – Red Yellow
With both the overwhelming grandeur of Sevdaliza’s bombastic, electronic-inflected pop and the hushed intimacy of Portishead, Penelope Trappes’s new album Penelope Three which landed on Houndstooth last week is not to be missed. This collision of the extra and introvert are perfectly realised on Red Yellow, a sparse, delicate and extraordinarily punchy highlight.
I mean COME ON. How much insane talent can you pack into a single track. It’s amazing, because obviously it is. Absolutely ridiculous.
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D’sinatra – Virgil Abloh
I can find out absolutely no information whatsoever about D’sinatra online except that’s he’s from Toronto, but this is a fucking brilliant, moody, atmospheric hip-hop track that more people should be listening to, so here you go.
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Poolside – High Season (with Buscabulla)
High Season is the title (and final) track from Poolside’s new album which landed last week, and features a load of pretty diverse collaborators including Satin Jackets, everyone’s favourite garage OG Todd Edwards and – most excitingly for me – Buscabulla, who can basically do wrong as far as I’m concerned. This is a perfect lazy summer BBQ jam, so couldn’t have been timed better for anyone living the UK.
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Loscil – Lumina
Loscil has been making consistently brilliant, deeply atmospheric electronic music for two decades now, and over the course of 15 or so albums has established himself as a producer with a clear and precise vision. Lumina is taken from his latest album, Clara, which came out last week, and is a perfect example of his patient, haunting approach to production, with reassuringly warm, sweeping pads accompanied by a winding, bubbling synth line that both soothes and invigorates.
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Paper Dollhouse – Sapphires
Paper Dollhouse have been responsible for a staggering amount – and variety – of extraordinary music over the years, so it’s a real shame the project is coming to an end. Released today, Claiming The Sapphire To Liquid Return is a collection of previously unreleased or rare recordings that acts as the final statement: a moving epitaph for a band that I genuinely love and will miss. Despite essentially being a collection of scattered, disparate recordings, it holds together remarkably well, sounds like a properly coherent album, and includes this title track which has to be in the running for the most heartbreakingly beautiful song I’ve heard all year.
https://paperdollhouse.bandcamp.com/album/claiming-the-sapphire-to-liquid-return
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Eager Atom – Ambient I
Eager Atom is the latest musical project from Dutch producer and composer Gydo Keijzer, and Ambient I is taken from his new album Extrastatecraft. It’s a powerfully cinematic slice of ambient that could just as easily soundtrack the most unsettlingly poignant moments of a lo-fi Adam Curtis’s documentary as it could the final, cathartic , “tears in the rain” scene of a multi-million dollar sci-fi epic. Both of which are compliments, just in case I lost you at “ambient”.
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Cody Uhler – Fairy Tech
My obsession with video-game inspired/evoking music continues unabated, and Cody Uhler’s debut single Fair Tech is the latest in a long line of tracks to scratch that particular itch. This is taken from his forthcoming LP Darbo’s Island, which Uhler bills as “the greatest video game that never existed”, and like the very best video games, it’s fun, slightly puzzling and relentlessly addictive.
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