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Kurt Vile – hit of the highlife

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date July 28, 2025
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Kurt Vile’s new EP with Luke Roberts is loose, low-key, and quietly pretty. It doesn’t try too hard. The two have been friends for years, and you can hear that ease in the recordings: songs that feel more like sketches than statements. hit of the highlife is the standout,and sounds unlike anything else Vile has produced. Dreamy and soft-edged, it drifts along at its own pace, all hushed vocals and meandering guitar lines, with just enough structure to keep it moving.

Tags alternative rock, kurt vile, luke thomas, new music

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Kokoroko – Da Du Dah

Jazz collective Kokoroko channel the greats of West Africa, building on the foundations laid by Fela Kuti, Tony Allen and Ebo Taylor and lacing together their influences into a soul shaking, horn-fueled sound. Taken from their new album Tuff Times Never Last, Da Du Dah is breezy, jazz-and-funk-laced soul ripe for BBQs and struttin’.

https://kokoroko.bandcamp.com/album/tuff-times-never-last

Tags funk, jazz, kokoroko, new music, soul

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Demdike Stare, Cherrystones – Thee Oath

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date July 17, 2025
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Described by the ever understated Boomkat as “up there with some of the most satisfyingly deep and frazzled gear this century”, I’m not sure whether I enjoyed or endured Demdike Stare’s new LP Who Owns The Dark?, but it certainly left an impression. A long-in-the-making collab with Cherrystones, it’s even sketchier and more unnerving than To Cut & Shoot from earlier this year, which is really saying something.

https://boomkat.com/products/who-owns-the-dark

Tags cherrystones, demdike stare, electronic, experimental, industrial, new music

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ØXN – Cruel Mother (Ben Frost Remix)

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date July 15, 2025
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The bones of ØXN’s folk-horror lament are still visible in this expansive remix – Radie Peat’s (also of Lankum) voice remains spectral and clear – but Frost drags the track into darker terrain, stretching and fraying its edges until it feels less like a song and more like a summoning.

Tags ambient, ben frost, experimental, folk, new music, oxn

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Purelink – Rookie feat. Loraine James

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date July 8, 2025
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Purelink embrace liquidity on their second album Faith, washing live instrumentation and exposed vocals over their patented cascade of dubbed ambience and ebbing rhythmic experimentation. With a vocal appearance from Loraine James, Rookie stands out even amongst all the other floaty excellence, her voice floating like smoke over pattering rhythms and airy synths

https://purelink.bandcamp.com/album/faith

Tags ambient, dub techno, electronic, loraine james, new music, purelink

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Durand Jones & The Indications – Paradise

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Post date July 7, 2025
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Breezy, sun-kissed soul from sexy crooner Durand Jones that owes a huge (and presumably knowing) debt to Sylvia Striplin’s seminal groover You Can’t Turn Me Away Taken from their new album Flowers, which is destined to soundtrack basically every BBQ I have this summer.

https://durandjonesandtheindications.bandcamp.com/album/flowers

Tags durand jones & the indications, funk, new music, soul

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Nilüfer Yanya – Kneel

Nilüfer Yanya returns with her new EP Dancing Shoes, out now on Ninja Tune. Dancing Shoes was written alongside a collection of tracks that Nilüfer re-approached with her creative partner Wilma Archer when she returned from touring her latest, insanely brilliant LP My Method Actor aka the best album of 2024. The project includes Nilüfer’s latest singles “Where To Look” and “Cold Heart”, as well as this previously unreleased beauty.

https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/album/dancing-shoes

Tags indie pop, indie rock, new music, nilufer yanya

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Orieta Chrem – KON

Fantologia I is a 17-track compilation curated by Quixosis and DJ +1, bringing together experimental electronic artists from across Latin America. The release explores themes of uncertainty and instability in the region, focusing on the idea of hauntology and the disappearance of promised futures. The music ranges from ambient and textured soundscapes to more rhythmic, club-influenced tracks, tied together by a shared sense of tension. Arriving at around the midpoint of the VA, Peruvian artist Orieta Chrem’s track KON blends Aphex Twin-esque disquieting synth lines with haunting vocals and clipped drums.

https://tambien.bandcamp.com/album/fantologia-i

Tags compilation, electronic, experimental, new music, orieta chrem

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Che Noir – Painting Class

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Post date June 24, 2025
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The opening track from Che Noir’s new LP The Color Chocolate 2 see the Buffalo-based rapper and producer in typically reflective form, with bars like “Family trees that we cherish with conviction / But the only thing that we inherit is addiction” passionately delivered over rich, evocative production.