Sky Ferreira’s smash “Everything Is Embarrasing” has conquered iPods & Spotify playlists the world over, from your sister, to your brother, to your mom and grandma, everybody’s can find everything to be a little embarrassing at times. UK producer MK gets tapped for the official remix; taking the original on a smoothly sultry trip to the late night Tropics (a pretty cool place to go, we must say).
DJ MK 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.0426594
Late last year, we first clued you into to the beautifully ethereal pop sounds of Lovelier Other and their track “Leave This Behind”. While new track “Hidden Shelters” isn’t quite as immediately accessible as “Leave This Behind”, the new track is no less (if not more) beautiful. Many many lesser artists have tried to take the magic transportive soundscapes of bands like Sigur Ros (really there’s no “like” in this description, as there’s really nobody like them) and apply more traditional pop song structures to them with varying (usually tedious) results. Lovelier Other’s music is a truly outstanding realization of a long sought for sound that deserves your attention. Spin “Hidden Shelters” below.
Lovelier Other 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1020324
A pair of b3 favorites connect as Bondax exercise their fabulous remix hand to Maribou State’s great “Got Me Down”.
Maribou State – Got Me Down (Bondax Remix)Bondax (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
Finally! Longtime friends Theophilus London and Jesse Boykins III make it legal with new PARIS 96 collaborative project. First track “Afternoon” is the perfect mix of JBIII’s sophisticated R&B stylings and T. London’s percussive rhyming playboy thing. Expect an EP from these two in April. Psyched!
PARIS 96 (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
Johnbear & Bria out of Leeds UK offer a five-star 90’s house remix of Janet Jackson’s great “Someone to Call My Lover”. Big up.
Johnbear & Bria – Call Me Your LoverJohnbear & Bria (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
b3 faves The 1975 come through with possibly their most challenging track to date with “Head.Cars.Bending.”. The R&B influence hinted at in earlier songs like “You” & “Chocolate” is dialed up further here with the band embracing more untraditional song & rhythm structures for indie pop. “Head.Cars.Bending” is quite unlike anything we’re heard before (in the best sort of way) and we’re definitely co-signing this particular lane for the band. The 1975’s s/t EP is due March 3rd on Dirty Hit.
The 1975 (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
It’s Ghost Beach, duh! The great Shook takes “Been There Before” on the Caribbean cruise of its dreams; we’re talking co-ed competitive shuffleboard, tours of the captain’s bridge & quarters, waterslides, and all the conga lines to Buster Poindexter’s “Hot Hot Hot” one can handle.
Shook 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
L.A.-based Banks does dark pop to perfection on new track “Before I Ever Met You”. (And we mean this in the most complimentary way) If Fiona Apple were 15 years younger and just emerging into music right now, her sound likely wouldn’t be too far from Banks on “Before I Ever Met You”. We are in love.
Banks 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.6
R&B remixer of the moment Kaytranada tries his hand at a restyling the vocals of b3 fave Teedra Moses’ (Dear, Def Jam. Could we please get that MMG album of hers released? Thx!) track for “Be Your Girl”. Much in the same vein as his previous remix work, Kaytranada keeps it 3 A.M., soulful & A+. Get with it below.
Teedra Moses – Be Your Girl (Kaytranada Edition)Kaytranada 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
London-based Citizen drops off his latest, the soulful 90’s-influenced house of “Worship + Tribute”. Citizen will be releasing his Citizen Trax project on Love Fever Records at the end of the month. You know you want to dance.
Citizen (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Big Beast AM lets loose (what is presumably) the first leak off his upcoming For Professional Use Only mixtape which due two weeks from today (Feb. 19). AraabMUZIK is about as consistent as they come, and “The Prince Is Coming” is another high marks entry and valediction for the Dipset beatmaker.
AraabMUZIK 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
More like it. Pále, a producer out of Manchester, delivers what is no doubt the freshest bit of UK bass music we’ve heard so far this year. Believe it, we love the recent renaissance in garage-influenced music coming from both sides of the Atlantic but the sound overall (as is true with the rise and recession of any trend as the talented and the first adopters are replaced with the followers, hangers on, and wannabes) has definitely plateaued. Pále’s “Winder” track sounds new, old, different, unique, fresh et al, it demands attention. The execution, the bits of production skill on offer are of a first rate too.
Pále (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
