S.F.-based dream pop act Yassou Benedict release new single “The Cloisters”. Excerpted from the band’s forthcoming (July 2) “In Fits In Dreams” EP, “The Cloisters” dynamically builds across the track’s 3:48 duration with syrupy counter harmony and swells of clean melodic guitar lines adding panache. Of maybe most note though is the quality and conviction of singer Lilie Bytheway-Hoy’s vocal choices and performance.
Yassou Benedict 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.9
Texan synthpop crew Night Drive is releasing a new Remix EP for their latest single “Drones”. It’s a safe bet that you’ve already been (or at least should be) non-stop jamming to Bit-Funk’s stellar version of the track for the past week. Here’s your first chance to check out the full collection of dance floor bangers including additional remixes from Glasnost and Crystal Vision.
Also, below we’ve got the premiere for the superbly cut and visually stimulating music video for “Drones”. As the band puts it about their filming experience for the video, “We shot tons of footage over the course of 2 days, and at the end of the last day we were all pretty delirious. Rodney and I were lying down on a green screen and the crew started dropping pieces of paper on our faces. Jim filmed it and we ended up really liking it. Now we have all of this unused footage we plan to turn into a silent detective film.”
Night Drive (Soundcloud)
NIGHT DRIVE – DRONES (Official Music Video) from nightdrivemusic on Vimeo.
Rating 8.3
Love. Love. Love. Brotherly love by way of electronic production duo Love Thy Brother on this new remix of John Newman’s “Love Me Again”. The sample textures and vocal hook arranging make for a welcome sunny reinterpretation of this already stellar track. Lovely, isn’t it?
Love Thy Brother 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
Oh yes, we definitely love this. “Perrett’s Brook” is how the much-attempted in 2013 “hazy lo-fi rock w/ melodies” sound is supposed to be done. Meet Oliver Wilde. A Brief Introduction To Unnatural Lightyears is out July 22.
Oliver Wilde 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.6
Russians in Brooklyn On-The-Go, whom we covered a few times here at b3sci, release new single “Crumpled Memories”. As we aluded to in February, the blogosphere is totally blowing it with this band. Tracks like “Crumpled Memories” demand attention. Recalling a bit of bands like The National and Foals (dreamy, bass-driven, very melodic), “Crumpled Memories” is likely at least 10x better than just about anything else you’ll hear today. Don’t miss out.
On-The-Go 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Joey Bad doesn’t miss. ’95 Til Infinity”, the second release from J.B.’s upcoming Summer Knights LP, connects the Brooklyn-based rapper and a stack of fly a f rhymes with a fresh laid-back Lee Bannon instrumental. It’s a hit.
Joey Bada$$ 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
Toronto-based Nightbox excel on a tremendous melodic sense and a great feel for well hewn pop songwriting with new single “Utopia”. Bright synth lines, enough rhythmic pizzazz to get yr Grams stepping & a big shiny infinitely singable chorus highlight Utopia’s quality. The band will be dropping (and we’re definitely psyched!) an LP later this year produced by MSTRKRFT’s Al-P and DFA79’s Sebastien Grainger.
TOUR DATES
JUNE 14 – Grand Central – Miami, FL
JUNE 15 – The Social – Orlando, FL
JUNE 17 – Jack Rabbits – Jacksonville, FL
JUNE 18 – Vinyl Music Hall – Pensacola, FL
JUNE 19 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA
JUNE 20 – Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC
JUNE 23 – IOTA – Arlington, VA
JUNE 24 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
JUNE 25 – Middle East Upstairs – Boston, MA
AUG 02 – Summer In The Park – North Bay, ON
AUG 03 – Grove Festival – Toronto, ON
AUG 04 – Osheaga Festival – Montreal, QB
AUG 09 – Squamish Valley Music Festival – Squamish, BC
AUG 11 – Crankworx Festival – Whistler, BC
AUG 17 – Bootleg Theater – Los Angeles, CA
AUG 19 – School Night! @ Bardot – Los Angeles, CA
AUG 20 – Check Yo Ponytail @ Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
AUG 25 – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s
Nightbox (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
We’re pretty big stans for Detroit producer Sango. Here, Sango lets go a soft & subtle bit of (non-cliched) late-night R&B beats that would do sound right at home on the new Drake record.
Sango 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Ancient Mariner is the songwriting brainchild of Aurora, CO. native Gabriel Jorgensen. His new track, the pensive and beautifully conceived, “Child of Wrath” proudly bears Ancient Mariner’s knack for honest musical and lyrical expression. As Jorgensen himself puts it:
“In impatient desperation my mouth begins to water for seemingly sweeter tastes that would eat me from the inside out; my eyes are drawn to fantasies painted across desert horizons that will fade as I race toward them. I’m a child lead astray and ruined by my own wrath. May I be found, revived, and fulfilled by the only one who can reach me.”
Ancient Mariner’s forthcoming In Solitude EP was recorded in a cabin, tucked away within the Rocky Mountains. On “Child Of Wrath” the tranquil isolation bleeds through poetic lyrics driven by the many trials and struggles of life. B3SCI has your first listen at this stunning new track. Sample it below and be sure to mark July 2nd on your calendars for Ancient Mariner’s debut EP In Solitude.
Ancient Mariner 
(Official)
Rating 8.3
Lovelier Other do one better in approaching “B3SCI favorite band status” with the dreamy whimsical new song “Wonderkind”. Following up on the B3-approved “Hidden Shelters” and “Leave This Behind“, Wonderkind explores a bit more pop-centric side to the little-known-about band. We call it one of our favorite tracks of the week.
Lovelier Other 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
Spitta gets gritty or at least as gritty as an amorphous flume of smoke and panache can get. Not specifically attached to a project (yet), the reverb-splashed “Killer$” might be stronger than anything $$$ released on his latest New Jet City mixtape a few months ago. Also, there’s Trinidad Jame$.
Curren$y – Killer$ feat. Trinidad Jame$Curren$y 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Canadian band Dinosaur Bones hazy indie rock grooves along well enough; neatly tuned melodies contrasted w/ unkempt instrumentations and arrangements (something maybe out of the playbook of the early aughts). The real magic of “Spins in Circles”, what made us take notice, was the just perfectly executed to the vocal melody (beautiful) guitar playing of the track’s second half. A bit of credit there is likely due to Texas-based producer John Congelton who’s work with the sultans of 00’s jangly floater rock The Walkmen and Explosions in the Sky (self-explanatory). Check the “Spins in Circles” single below and look out for DB’s sophomore release Shaky Dream due August 6th on Dine Alone.
Dinosaur Bones (Official)
Rating 8.3
