“San Francisco”, the gritty, intimate, potent new track from LAUREL, is our favorite song of the week.
LAUREL
“San Francisco”, the gritty, intimate, potent new track from LAUREL, is our favorite song of the week.
Sample the dynamic whirl of jazzy chords/idioms set about “Talk To Me”, the excellent new bit of rhythmic pop from London-based Jordan Rakei.
Los Angeles-based AM channels mid 70’s soul-influenced AM pop (track reminds a bit sound and fidelity-wise of “How Long” by Ace or a way less hokey “Brandy” by Looking Glass) on coolly-produced “Precious Life” .
The Bay Area purveyors of Lusophonically-linked indie pop, Trails and Ways, mark out a strong return on “My Things”.
The BK brassmen Brasstracks team up with emcee on the rise Jay Prince for lush minor-keyed head-nodder “Good Love”.
Songwriter Guillermo E. Brown a/k/a Pegasus Warning tips a sublimely arranged melange of cool chord changes and breezy & visceral R&B melodies on “Come Close” from upcoming new LP.
The Kiwi brother-brother twosome Chaos in the CBD set a expertly framed dynamic of jazzy horns-washed house music on stellar “Global Erosion”.
Freshly inked to Mind of a Genius (Gallant, ZHU, THEY), Norwegian act Klangstof operate around a T-Yorke-ian idiom of majestic orchestration and vast song structuring on new on “Island”.
The Montreal artist heads up new 12″ “Beaubien Dream” (and the debut release of SOBO (Sounds of Beaubien Ouest)) with full stream of cooler “Closer”
“Late Night Swimming” is the debut single for London artist & Years & Years collaborator Anna Straker.
