Songstress Neon Hitch returns with a dope as f, ska horns-driven must listen cover of Mike Will Made It’s “We Can’t Stop”. Tfw… la da di da di we like to party.
Neon Hitch 
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Rating 8.4
Songstress Neon Hitch returns with a dope as f, ska horns-driven must listen cover of Mike Will Made It’s “We Can’t Stop”. Tfw… la da di da di we like to party.
Neon Hitch (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
“Peer Pressure” is the lead single from Kiwi duo Jupiter Project’s debut “Zeus” EP. Infinitely catchy and emphatically in the “feel good record” category, the especially strong nu disco of “Peer Pressure” is a very pleasant surprise from the New Zealand duo. “Zeus” is due Friday (9/13)
Jupiter Project 
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Rating 8.2
Active Child, one of indie music’s biggest success stories of 2011 built in great part because of the strength of his “Playing House” single and You Are All That I See LP, unveils a new sound with the Mikky Ekko-featuring “Subtle”. The beats are beefed up and more muscular, the vocals fuller, the prevailing sound of the track starker and definitely influenced by current trends in mainstream & major indie hip hop and pop (Clams Casino, A$AP Rocky, etc). “Subtle” is taken from Active Child’s upcoming “Rapor” EP for Vagrant that’s coming out October 22.
Active Child 
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Rating 8.1
2013 darlings London Grammar turn in a sublime lights down low re-imaging of La Roux’s breakout hit “In For The Kill” for Radio 1’s Live Lounge. A+. Stunning.
London Grammar 
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Rating 8.3
“All We Can” is new from Brighton UK artist Yumi and the Weather. The deeper tones of Yumi’s (real name Ruby Taylor) vocal as well as her melodic choices work quite well w/ “All We Can”‘s mid-tempo bounce. That, and the track’s nice blend of accessory instrumentals; including deep-in-the-verb XX-style guitars and kinetic horn lines. We’re into it Look for an EP also titled “All We Can” from Yumi and the Weather on 10/21.
Yumi and the Weather (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
“Cry No More” is the debut track from London-based Vaults. “Cry No More” built initially on a neat interplay of a repeated bells figure and a simple bit of piano chords morphs a bit in sound and theme in its later half as synth swells move in and out the mix to expand and contract tension. Well done.
Vaults (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Today marks the North American release of The 1975’s self-titled debut and full-length album. The album has been a favorite of ours at b3HQ (you can stream the LP here), therefore when the band asked us to take part in their series of artwork premieres (there is a different piece of artwork for each song on the album) for their song “An Encounter”… of course we were more than obliged. “An Encounter” is a sort of compositional adhesion that, while short in length, paints a bridge of allure between musical statements. As frontman Matty Healy best puts it…
“An Encounter” acts as cinematically paced scene change that ushers in the album’s second phase, our personal ode to an eighties movie. Symbolising the moment the two characters from “Robbers” meet for the first time, “An Encounter” is a hopelessly romantic soundtrack to our Bonnie & Clyde’s first encounter …
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