16-year old(!!) South Londoner Raye is impressive on sophomore track “Hotbox”. Featuring hushed drums, cool melodic instrumentation and Raye’s spotless cooed to the beat alto, “Hotbox” is the creative output of a serious talent. Listen.
Raye 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
Favorites of site 14th are back today with new music in the form of the garage-tinged pop of “Sweet Lies”. Ahead of their time in 2011, with their R&B/UK Beats-infused sound, 14th pick right back up from where they left with the head-nodding but still visceral “Sweet Lies”.
Rating 8.1
“Who U Are” is the third and final track from Duly Noted Records artist J Tropic’s debut “Love Up” EP. “Who U Are” rides a trendy break and varied instrumentation but really excels in the melodic writing department as the track’s phrasing hooks are like little tiny homing darts of tunefulness and excellence impossible to miss or resist.
J Tropic 
(Facebook)
Rating: 8.8
Mixtape by Veronica Alexander
GET READY TO GET SPOOKED! Halloween never looked ghastlier with these ghoulish love songs, brought to you by Fever Ray, Broken Social Scene, Portishead, Dead Man’s Bones and more!
1. Portishead – Strangers
2. Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
3. Chromatics – The Killing Spree
4. The XX – Blood Red Moon
5. TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me
6. Múm – The Ghosts You Draw On My Back
7. The Kills – Last Day of Magic
8. Sufjan Stevens – They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!
9. Dead Man’s Bones – My Body’s A Zombie For You
10. Radiohead – We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up)
11. Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks
12. Daughter – The Woods
13. Widowspeak – Harsh Realm
14. Bon Iver – Blood Bank
15. Broken Social Scene – Sweetest Kill
Oceaán is Brussels-bred now Manchester-residing artist Oliver Cean. “Grip” is Cean’s sophomore EP, following up his s/t debut from earlier this year. We’re pleased to announce Oceaán’s “Grip” EP as the newest release on B3SCI Records. You can pick up “Grip” on November 17th. If you’re in the UK look for “Grip” on 11/17 on the venerable Chess Club Records.
Oceaán : (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.6
Oui Oui Oui. French remix hot hand Darius adds his sophisticated French house stylings to Flight Facilities already sultry current single “Two Bodies”. Francophile mind blown.
Flight Facilities
(Facebook)
Rating 8.6
Sango marks 100,000 follows on Soundcloud with release of vibed down new instrumental.
Sango 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.9
UK R&B artist Liv follows up the great “Come a Little Closer” from earlier this month with the more straightforward soul of “Special”. Framed by low touch guitar strums and a crossover R&B-friendly rhythm track, “Special” succeeds on its believability and soul-soothing melodic quality.
Liv (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.8
One of the blogworld’s hottest remixers right now is WYLN. Here, the Montreal producer takes to Drake’s freshly leaked Jodeci-borrowing “How About Now” with a late 90’s R&B re-styling fit for ’98 Ms. Haughton or ’98 Ms. Knowles.
WYLN 
: (Facebook)
Rating: 8.7
Saje, the Parisian duo of producer Mazego and vocalist Vitesse practice well in one of their nation of residence’s most beloved exports, sexy low tempo R&B-inspired house. Sample “Take Care Of You”.
Saje 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
Leon Bridges of Fort Worth, Texas works out a stunning and remarkably real bit of Stax Records-inspired soul (threaded with a stitch of Sam Cooke) on “Coming Home”. A++++
Leon Bridges 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
