We’re into the strong hazy synth-driven pop from NJ producer Blood Cultures. Sampled below is the excellent “Detroit” from Blood Cultures’ forthcoming debut Happy Birthday, out July 21.
We’re into the strong hazy synth-driven pop from NJ producer Blood Cultures. Sampled below is the excellent “Detroit” from Blood Cultures’ forthcoming debut Happy Birthday, out July 21.
Belgian quartet Felix Pallas turn in stylistically varied new one “Similarities”. Mixing elements of newer waves in dark pop and R&B, the four-piece cooly navigate a sound on “Similarities” both immediately very listenable and potentially quite accessible too. “Similarities” is out now on Disco Naivete Records.
The DC-origin duo GEMS continue their Every Full Moon series with a new entry marking the July 9 full moon in Capricorn. “You In My Dream” puts the twosome’s knack for melodic writing at the fore, the track’s tuneful sweep adeptly suited together to spare drums and guitar. Stream “You In My Dream” below.
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Now living in England, 21-year old PARKER spent her formative years in Australia. For PARKER, new track “Runs & Rides” is thematically a re-animation of that time in her life,
“Runs and Rides as a phrase, conjures up ideas of escapism for me. As a child it was riding my bike around these bumpy small town backstreets and then as a teenager, it was speeding around in cars with the music turned up loud, driving nowhere in particular…we’d sneak out on the weekends and drive around, go to parties, drink on the beach, fall in love. I just really romanticise those years in my head, so I wanted to capture them…it all feels so much more exciting the first time around.”
The track is a sleek turn of chunky inventive rhythm structures, a cool percussive vocal melody, and a sheen on top of reverbed guitar jabs and synth menace. We’re very pleased to B3 premiere “Runs & Rides” new from PARKER for Killing Moon Records.
“Reset in Colour”, new from UK band LOYAL, springs out from that elusive intersection of accessibility, a great tune, interesting non-contrived production and some sense of meaning/weight to it. There’s no limit for LOYAL.
“Sad Boy” is the debut track online for songwriter Gabriel Black. The spare “Sad Boy” spins about a lone electric guitar grind with lo-fi drums and occasional additional vocal tracks to beef up the song’s more dynamic moments. It’s a great first track. Listen to “Sad Boy” below.
With gestures at other fellow Sweedish artists like Neiked and Zara Larsson, “Out Of Love” by INDIIA is a sharp pop track that’s just what I needed to hear today. It’s groovy, expansive, and surprising. “Out Of Love” is INDIIA’s first track released on Soundcloud, so I’m definitely look forward for more from this duo.
We’re into “Sweetness” the first track from L.A. artist Jaja Bu. A cool blend of late hours R&B production swerves and a slick bit of neatly phrased melodic lines, “Sweetness” is a strong debut.
The great Cathedrals are back with new music in the form of expansive, hooky, midtempo track “With You”. “With You” follows on from “Try to Fight” released earlier this year, and the two tracks are Cathedrals’ first new music since the release of their s/t EP in 2015. We dig “With You” and you can dig it too below.
UK singer SASHA authors one of the best forward-thinking pop tracks of the year thusfar with the stylistically varied “Picking Flowers”. Intimate and magnetic like a great acoustic guitar-driven song but shined up and arranged in a way where wide radio accessibility is possible, “Picking Flowers” accomplishes this intimacy and accessibility without being tired or obvious about either. Great song.
