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Black Noi$e – Glitch feat. duendita

Nova Scotia-born and Detroit-raised producerBlack Noi$e put out his debut album OBLIVION last week on Earl Sweatshirt’s Tan Cressida label which, over the course of an extremely lean 24 minutes, is packed with some pretty punchy features, including Danny Brown, Mr. Sweatshirt himself, and my personal favourite, duendita. Glitch is moody and sinister, built from tight loops and even tighter drums, with duendita’s vocal moving from low drawl to soaring melodies absolutely effortlessly.

https://blackxnoise.bandcamp.com/

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All We Are – Beauty In Loss

A little peek behind the curtain of The Predatory Wasp: I have had a pretty testing week to say the least, for a variety of reasons – some of them heat-based, some of them not. So to wake up to a new album from one of my very favourite bands was a very welcome way to usher in the weekend. I’ve seen All We Are live a few times now and they are amongst the most compelling, energetic bands out there. Like a lot of their music, Beauty In Loss is strikes a brilliant balance between being poignant and funky as fuck, and I can’t wait to get back in a club/basement/field with them.

https://www.thisisallweare.co.uk

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Oklou – Fall

There’s not a lot to Fall – the opening track on Oklou’s new EP Galore – but what’s there is really rather special: subdued synth line, gently swelling pads and the hushed, intimate vocal. It must have taken a lot of restraint not to push everything into overdrive in the final third, but it works so well. The below video is from her recent Colors show and further highlights how much can be achieved with so little.

https://soundcloud.com/oklou93

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JPEGMAFIA – ROUGH 7 feat. Tommy Genesis

ROUGH 7 rolls along with a stumbling rhythm that – like a lot of JPEGMAFIA’s music – seems to be doing it’s very best to trip you up, briefly heading down tangents for a few bars before turning back, or stopping altogether, glitching back to the backbone of the track with a jarring quality that makes his music quite unlike anyone else working in rap. It’s unsettling, brilliant and sleazy as fuck.

https://www.jpegmafia.net

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Quicksails – Melrose Move

Quicksails is the recording project of Chicago-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Billington, and Melrose Move is taken from his latest album, Blue Rise. Starting life as a relatively ominous, almost funereal three-note bassline, it quickly transforms into something celestial and expansive; like a fountain of glittering stars shooting upwards from the dank earth before gently fading into hazy-white oblivion.

https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/blue-rise

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Anderson .Paak – Lockdown Remix feat. JID, Noname & Jay Rock

At time of writing it’s a steamy one billion degrees and London is slowly losing its mind, suffocating: pedestrians melting into pinkish-red puddles on searing hot tarmac or quietly expiring in dimly-lit rooms with the shades pulled low, fans on full blast doing precisely nothing to mitigate the searing heat. So thank fuck for Anderson .Paak who rolls through with an all-star lineup and a fresh take on last month’s Lockdown. It’s literally all I can handle listening to today, and even writing this is taking up way too much energy. Enough is enough.

http://www.andersonpaak.com

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Automatic Tasty – Ballad For a Modern Man

Automatic Tasty is Ireland’s Jonny Dillon, an electronic music producer who specialises in squelchy acid and electro, while also releasing various experimental acoustic guitar pieces under his own name. On the surface his latest EP A Farewell to Reason is the most overtly ‘poppy’ thing he’s produced – almost saccharine in its happy, open chords and bubbling synth lines – but there’s a darkness to a lot of the lyrics, not least on Wake Up Dead which lists various things you shouldn’t worry about as there’s a chance this will be your last day or earth. My pick of the bunch is opening track Ballad For a Modern Man though, which pairs a chunky bassline alongside beautifully billowing melodies and Dillon’s intimate, closed-mic’d vocals.

https://wrongisland.bandcamp.com/album/a-farewell-to-reason

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Thanya Iyer – I Forget to Drink Water (Balance)

Spellbinding experimentations in rhythm and tone here from the Montreal-based singer-songwriter and violinist (and band) on one of the early stand-out’s from her new album KIND. I Forget to Drink Water (Balance) has so much going on, but it’s all hushed, subdued and innate, as if it’s music that has seeped up from the earth rather than been actively performed.

https://thanyaiyer.bandcamp.com/

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trayer tryon – new forever ft. Julie Byrne

new forever is the lead single from Hundred Waters producer and multi-instrumentalist trayer tryon’s forthcoming album of the same name, and it’s absolutely wonderful. Less restrained by traditional structures than much of his work with Hundred Waters, it drifts gently – at times recalling the crackling ambience of The Caretaker – with warped vocal textures complimenting beautifully shimmering piano lines.

https://www.instagram.com/trayert/

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Wye Oak – No Place

I really love Wye Oak, and posting about No Place – which is taken from their latest EP, No Horizon – also gives me a valid reason to talk about one of my favourite songs of the last few years, It Was Not Natural: if you haven’t heard this, go and do it right now. It’s one of the most passionate delivered, inspiring records I’ve ever heard and makes me so happy every time I hear it.

Anyway, back to the present: No Horizon was recorded with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus contributing to every track, which lends the entire EP a spectral, quietly disorienting quality especially when paired with the rolling polyrhythms on No Place.

https://wyeoak.bandcamp.com