Låpsley, fresh from her breakthrough single “Station” from a couple weeks ago, links up with Belgian producer BABEL for a soothing bit of heavy on mood/atmosphere deep house. That we all love, BUT THEN, there’s this sax-driven break that crashes into the track at around 2:20 and pushes “Life Of Eve” into a fifth or sixth gear of sorts that is just simply euphoric. “Life Of Eve” is excerpted from BABEL’s “Matthew I” EP. (HD)
BABEL 
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Rating 8.0
“Distance” is new from veteran New York soulstress Emily King. On the track, the piano-driven easy sounds of “Distance”‘s slow dance-ready instrumental well complement Ms. King’s sweet, playful, thematically perfect vocal. We like it a lot.
Emily King 
(Official)
Rating 8.2
L.A.-based low-tempo producer Shlohmo is the latest A-list collaborator (TEED, SOHN) for current top of the indie heap songstress BANKS. Shlohmo’s soft-touch, languid, churning palette is a nice match here on “Brain” for BANKS’ hazy pop-cognizant alto.
Banks 
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Rating 8.6
The eminent and distinguished Washed Out spins a stunning world-beating rework of Moby & Damien Jurado’s “Almost Home” single. Mr. Greene’s mix captures a sound that (at least in my mind) would soundtrack some sort of super well-shot of great importance travelogue on the BBC, probably narrated by David Attenborough or Michael Palin or someone of equal worldly stature and status. The shimmering temples of Bagan, the Villa of Diocletian in Croatia, the stone churches of Lalibela, all flying by in 10000p definition to the magisterial tones of Washed Out’s mix. Moby’s Little Idiot label will be putting out the “Almost Home” single on 02/24.
Washed Out 
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Rating: 8.0
The very consistent Communion Records latest release is “Floating Arks”, new from Kent UK band STORY BOOKS. Previewed from the band’s forthcoming sophomore EP “From Post to Post”, “Floating Arks” is made up of all the component parts of a track that can flat out level Radio 1; including: a great melodic tune, just the right dashes of hope and melancholy, and a pitch perfect piano-tinged instrumental. “From Post to Post” gets a March 17th release on Communion.
Story Books 
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Rating 8.4
L.A.-based trio and B3SCI Presents alums Incan Abraham share single #1 from their debut Tolerance LP. “Concorde” navigates a neat balance between a very current indie sound (you may hear hints of bands like Grizzly Bear and PAPA) and a (in a good way) melodic accessibility that gives the track a quite powerful magnetism and charisma that helps to separate it from other bands/songs that just have the “very current indie sound” component of that equation. Tolerance is out April 8th on White Iris Records.
Incan Abraham (Info)
