Newcomer rock band Kid Wave (who B3 featured in January with the 10 out of 10 track “Wonderlust”) enthrall with another incredible indie single, the poppy, catchy-hooked jangly-guitar tinged “Best Friend”. Both tracks are off of the UK group’s new “Wonderlust” EP which is out June 1. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Kid Wave 
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“Just Like Blood” is the dark and seductive, superbly melancholic, vocally stunning second single off the “I Don’t Want To Let You Down” EP from NY songstress Sharon Van Etten, which is out June 9th on Jagjaguwar Records. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Sharon Van Etten 
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Berlin deep house producer Ferdinand Weber turns in a new lustrous synth-lavished summertime dance remix of club heater “Silverlined”, the 2014 premiere single from UK DJ/Producer XYConstant off his debut “X=Y” EP (which has an unknown release date). Weber’s beautifully uplifting, floating-on-cloud-9 remix is out soon via Pete Tong’s FFRR label. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
XYConstant 
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Get into the smooth vocal dreamscape of pop track “Caught Up On You” from UK trio Shy Luv which is the joint collaboration between Future Classic producer Karma Kid, Armeria beat maker Jake Norman and vocalist Ryan Ashley. According to Norman in the Fader, Shy Luv wrote the opulent hip-hop leaning track within the frame of the new trio’s heat-of-the-summer head space during their first studio encounter last summer. “Caught Up On You” is available on June 8th. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Shy Luv (Soundcloud)
“Right Now” is a newest exercise in melodic sorcery/running laps around the competition from Aussie act Hopium. The Melbourne duo’s third track online, including breakthrough “Dreamers” which went to #1 Hypem, “Right Now” traffics in a similar type of sticky staccato instrumentation and tunefulness as “Dreamers” that marks “Right Now”s success as a viral hit all but certain.
Hopium 
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Surprise BBC Sound Poll winners Years & Years will release their debut Communion LP on Polydor July 10 and have a new single in tow in the form of the bouncy synth pop number “Shine”. Stream below.
Years and Years (Facebook)
World coolest human, the frontperson for recently reformed English band Ride, and bassist for Oasis Andy Bell does a rad 808s-assisted ?remix (who knew A. Bell did remixes???) for Irish now New York-based rap/dance trio Bon Voyage. Do that Andy Bell dance.
Bon Voyage (Soundcloud)
Experience the unabashed slow build and soulful deeply-entrancing instrumental breadth of compelling new gutteral techno dance-floor-stomper from Liechtenstein artist One Track Brain, “Stimulus”, which is the b-side track on the enigmatic new producer’s “Gefühl Operator / Stimulus” EP that recently released last month on OTB Records. Reviewed by Erin Shay
One Track Brain (Soundcloud)
Icelandic songwriter Axel Flóvent follows up his Hypem Top 10 track “Forest Fires” with piano-driven new one “Dancers”. Flóvent’s easy to harmony tenor is the spark of “Dancers”, as the young Trellis Records signee vocal oscillates steadily within a pretty frame of spacious acoustics and tight fidelity drums. Axel Flóvent’s “Forest Fires” EP is out May 25th on Trellis Records.
Axel Flóvent 
(Soundcloud)
Brighton-based new favorites Oslo Parks are releasing a new single on June 8th via X Novo Records. The first track to surface from the AA-side release is “Fiction”, a sunny synth-laden take on modern indie pop that in addition to being very very good takes cool risks in its arrangement (love those staccato piano stabs) and melodic choices.
Oslo Parks (Soundcloud)
Londoner Oscar announces new EP for Wichita Records with stream for title track “Beautiful Words”. The pop not pop sounds of “Beautiful Words” are highlighted by Oscar’s cool vaguely Morrisseyesque baritone and a very infectious chorus hook that will fixate in your brain nearly immediately. June 23rd is the date to know for “Beautiful Words”.
Oscar (Soundcloud)
The fabulous new bass laden male-vocaled deep house remix of Navajo’s excellent dance track “Elemental” is the latest feel-good production from Melbourne producer/DJ Dom Dolla, who is a featured artist at Vegas’ EDC music festival in June. Reviewed by Erin Shay
Dom Dolla (Soundcloud)
