Moses Sumney, an alum of our B3SCI Presents shows in L.A., releases latest track “Dwell in the Dark”. The pensive, beautifully constructed “Dwell” is one of our favorite of the year thusfar. The song is so melodically perfect it’s as if some greater emotional truth (it’s that heavy) about music, life, the artist, etc is revealed with each successive listen. Capital P phenomenal.
Rating 8.5
“Evergreen”, excerpted here from Philadelphia band Market East’s new Children of Summer EP, ably blends 60’s pop & the more pop-leaning tracks of great British Invasion bands (without sounding kitschy or tired) with a tremendous conveyance of melody, harmony & soul. Soul, that’s “Evergreen”s weapon, the track will immediately get at the most visceral parts of your music listening palette.
Market East 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
The super sultry-voiced UK R&B songstress follows up her great Dev Hynes collaboration “Unravel” with the doubly strong and infinitely sexy “Cold Front”.
Laura Welsh 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
“Betwixt”, new from UK 18 year-old (1) OMN (Ollie McKendrick-Ness), reminds a bit (to us at least) of great Icelandic bands like Sigur Ros and Mum while morphing the sonorousness of those sounds with more modern beats, programming, and atmospheres. We are into it.
OMN – BetwixtOMN (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
Newcomer Jaymes Young delivers a sharp blend of disparate yet complementary influences and highly skilled melodic phrasing with his piano-driven track for “Wondering”.
James Young 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
FYFE, a/k/a former David’s Lyre frontman Paul Dixon, is name on the lips, tweeters, spotify playlists of seemingly all the world’s music bloggers/tastemakers/rigmarole, on the strength no less of just two (VERY VERY GOOD) tracks. “Conversations” is FYFE’s latest and is neither a departure in quality nor progression for the UK-based artist; as both “Solace” and “St. Tropez” have been uniquely engaging in sound, such is the slightly more hip-hop/beats-tinged “Conversations”.
FYFE (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
New vibes from Thelonious Martin and the fresh subterranean sounds of instrumental track “Mirage”.
Thelonious Martin 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8
Check out the well-heeled and globally-influenced deep house sound of German artist Ferdinand Weber and his track “Told You”.
Ferdinand Weber – Told YouFerdinand Weber 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.10785
New York rapper Blitz The Ambassador pays tribute to one of the greatest shot-blockers (& index finger wavers) in NBA history with this heatin’ up send up to Dikembe Mutombo. DIKEMBE! Blitz’s Afropolitan Dreams LP is due later this year.
Blitz The Ambassador 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
You already know what this is. Listening to Joey Bad rhyming about Metatron, fuck yo couch, & George Pataki over a top of his class jazz piano-inflected Statik Selektah is something akin to flying or teleporting or something else equally bangin. “Summer Knights” drops June 12.
Joey Bada$$ (Facebook)
Rating 8.5
The girl Ellie shows out for all the Alt-J fanboys and fangirls on the interwebs with this 100% spotless vibed-out sax-featuring cover of “Tessellate”.
Ellie Goulding (Official) (Purchase Halcyon on iTunes)
Rating: 8.8
We just got smooth and sophisticated w/ Knxwledge and his sax positive waterbed-wave spin on N.E.R.D.’s (& Kanye & Lupe & Pusha T) “Everybody Nose”. We’re riding those waves.
Knxwledge (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
