UK bass vet Jakwob jumps on Dan Croll’s latest w/ this lush, way too good new mix for “In/Out”. Get it girl/boy.
Jakwob 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
UK bass vet Jakwob jumps on Dan Croll’s latest w/ this lush, way too good new mix for “In/Out”. Get it girl/boy.
Jakwob (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
The new look Yuck knock another A+ single between the posts w/ the superbly executed romantically detached gazewave of “Middle Sea”. The Yuckers new record is to be titled Glow & Behold and will get a release via Fat Possum on Oct. 1st.
Rating 8
The Phoenix hommes link up w/ their bro Robert Kelly (you may remember their impromptu collab at Coachella) for this new “Trying To Be Cool” remix and as you may have suspected, it’s awesome. Nobody gets rich off the remix like The R.
Phoenix 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Easy Lover is a Brooklyn-based duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Wimmer and singer Kali Holloway. New song, “The Sweet” begins a gentle pulse and darkly glittered atmosphere carried along by Holloway’s lush melodic vocal, which unexpectedly strolls into pop song territory (of worthy replay value) with a triumphant brass lead refrain. The track is premiered here from the band’s forthcoming self-released and sophomore EP, The Night We Breathe.
As singer Kali Holloway eloquently puts it:
“There’s something about a pop melody, the way a classic pop melody can prop up a whole song. Even when it’s covered in dust and haze and warped by the lolling sounds around it — and we like all those things, too, very much — you can still hear it underneath in our songs, I think. It’s just such a nice sound to wrap yourself in.”
Easy Lover 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.8
Stunning. Painstakingly stunning. “Chokehold” is the new track from London-based Alanna McArdle a/k/a Ides. The mix of the near, intimate lyrics and content of the track set against the bare, intense but still arm’s length solo electric guitar instrumental is special is just about every way.
Ides (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
The great Misun return today w/ a kinetic, Morricone-as-distilled-through-a-mirrorball new song “Hills and Trails”. On the track, a country & western-inspired two-step buoys reverbed-out guitar strums and melodic 8-bit synths and singer Misun Wojick’s great multi-speed vocal stylings. A++
Misun 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
New B3 fave Josh Record delivers an intimate, heartened, tasteful version of Lana Del Rey’s now in pop radio rotation lugubrious paean “Summertime Sadness”.
Josh Record (Facebook)
Rating: 8.3
Kasket Club & Kid Astray, two acts from the world’s #1 most livable nation Norway, connect here on this brand new bit of electro bounce that is KC’s great remix of Kid Astray’s hit track “The Mess”. Also, we are quite pleased to have the track’s worldwide premiere!
Pick up Kid Astray’s debut EP Easily Led Astray out September 23 via Splendour.
Kid Astray 
(Facebook)
Kasket Club (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Sample below the hooky killer chorus’d “Greenlight”, new from Atlanta-based band MammaBear and look out for their debut (and amazingly named) Vol. 1, Birds of Paradise LP which is due this Thursday, August 15th.
MammaBear – GreenlightMammaBear 
: (Facebook)
Rating: 8.0
The most perfect summertime at the beach dream you don’t want to wake up from is here in the form of UK-based artist Hannah Rodgers and “I Wake”. The single will see a proper release on September 2nd but until then you can stream it below.
Hannah Rodgers (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
Of course, the dark guitar pop of Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band’s “The Blast, The Bloom” is right up our alley. Very muscular and rhythm-driven for a track that’s been arranged actually quite delicately (there’s an intricacy in the noise of this record that’s really rather stellar), “The Blast, The Bloom” fills well the current dearth of indie bands peddling engaging visceral guitar music. We love it. HWBMB is a project of a dude called Tunde Adebimpe from some band named TV On The Radio and their debut EP is out the 1st of October.
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band (Facebook)
Rating 8.5
With tracks like the immensely catchy soul-leaning indie pop of “Twisted” (excerpted here from his debut “Say What You Want” EP), newcomer London-based artist Breen is poised to be a pretty big deal. Soulful without sounding hokey and a million times modern, the entire four track “Say What You Want” EP comes highly recommended from your friendly b3 crew, stream it here.
Breen (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
