Lord Flying Lotus evokes the otherworldly visceral quality of Donald Byrd’s version of “Cristo Redentor” distilled through modern beats music on “Coronus, The Terminator”. FlyLo’s You’re Dead! LP is due October 7th on Warp Records.
Flying Lotus 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
CRUISR is the latest find of the excellent Vagrant Records (The 1975, Active Child, Ben Leftwich, James McMorrow, etc). The Philly band traffic in forward-thinking and innovative indie pop as evidenced by the infectious but stylistically interesting “Don’t Go Alone”. CRUISR have an EP “All Over”, their debut, due next week on Vagrant (Sept. 23) and you can sample the B3 premiere of “Don’t Go Alone” below.
CRUISR 
: (Facebook) (Pre-Order ‘All Over’ EP)
Rating 8.3
The great Angel Olsen announces the deluxe edition of her Burn Your Fire For No Witness LP (one of 2014’s best albums) for Jagjaguwar with plaintive new track “All Right Now”.
Angel Olsen 
(Purchase)
Rating 8.1
UK band HONNE, authors of one of 2014’s best tracks “Warm On a Cold Night”, are back today with new one “Baby Please”. The soulful number “Baby Please” is another stunning (a word music blogs use a lot but warranted here) example of HONNE’s great and sophisticated R&B-influenced (but not alt-R&B) songwriting and again marks the band as one to keep on the radar screen into 2015. HONNE’s debut EP is out September 22nd on Super Recordings.
Honne 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
“Obsession” is the latest bit of inventive (and excellent) synth-tinged new-funk from rising Dallas, TX genre-hopper Johnny Stimson.
Johnny Stimson (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
L.A. band Street Joy debut new single “Wrong Cloud”. Distorted and chaotic and melodically unpredictable in engaging ways, “Wrong Cloud” as a tune and in terms of broader palpability is held together by it’s infectious writing.
Street Joy (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Zac Samuel, who’s remix of Kiesza’s “Hideaway” is off the chain, applies his piano-driven house-flavored sound to new Capitol-signee and X-Factor-alum Karen Harding’s current “Say Something” single.
Zac Samuel 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
The slow burning “Ease Away” is new from Melbourne AU band Leisure Suite. Hypnotic and visceral in that far off way that Sade has perfected, “Ease Away” exists in the context of a similar “Cherish the Day”-type DNA both in sound and content. Leisure Suite is Mitchell Wood, Su Zechen, and vocalist Bridgette Le.
Leisure Suite 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.8
Laurasia are Australia’s latest minimalist R&B-inspired exports. Led by vocalist Jessica Wigglesworth’s Ellie Goulding-esque melodic phrasing, “Rainmaker”, while certainly relevant to current trends, does well to carve out a unique path sound-wise (which is what drew us to the band in the first place).
Laurasia (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.8
Majestic Cas-genre beatsman Moods is back today with 2014 take on Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time” that is fantastic. Bolstered by subtle Kool & The Gang/Zero 7 synths and half-time counter-rhythms, “Flashback” plays as an excellent vibe-y update to the MJ classic.
Moods 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.49389
EL-P and Killer Mike’s announced today their second LP run today (the follow-up to their very acclaimed s/t first record) as Run the Jewels. RTJ2‘s first single “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry” again wrests the best out of one rap’s best beatmakers (and emcees) EL-P — “Oh My’s” booming backbeat is top notch; and one of hip hop’s greatest living rappers Killer Mike — Bigga’s bars are EXCELLENT. RTJ2 is out October 27th for FREE c/o Mass Appeal.
Run the Jewels (Official)
The Other Tribe a newish band out of Bristol UK signed to Relentless Records (Bondax, Chris Malinchak) succeed on the soulful house/R&B-inspired and quite infectious pop of “I Can Give You Anything”. The band is currently in the studio at work on their debut LP. Don’t sleep.
The Other Tribe (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
