If you dig NME/Guardian/Q-lauded melancholic UK rock (clearly we do) then new band Let’s Buy Happiness and their single, the stunning Daughter-esque “Run” should be right up your street. Preview “Run” below and look for LBH’s Chants for Friends LP later in the year.
Let’s Buy Happiness 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
Brooklyn songstress Justine Skye hooks up everybody’s fave Joey Bada$$ (& apparently 90’s MC AZ, although it’s unclear just where he appears on the track) for the electro-tinged mid-tempo jam “Messing With You”. Justine’s “Everyday Living” EP is due next week, August 20th.
Justine Skye 
(Tumblr)
Rating 8.2
UK producer T. Hemingway lays some thick as day old molasses smoothness on Gold Panda’s track for “Reprise”. Been a long week? Let this be your reward.
Gold Panda 
(Official)
Rating 8
You may recall Bo Saris from his 2012 gem “She’s On Fire“–if not then it’s best you hit that link now and familiarize yourself. Today, Bo dropped his next ace “The Addict” which is like “She’s On Fire” rooted in the same golden Detroit Hitsville sound, except “The Addict” turns down the lights a touch while upping the heat with a notably darker tone that’s no doubt smooth enough to make our man James Brown (a very good litmus test) ‘feel (very) good’.
Bo Saris 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.49389
“She” is the latest from North London bruise crew Wolf Alice. Effortless in its execution, Wolf Alice could seemingly write a track like “She” in their sleep or in the curry parlour; not that that’s necessarily a bad thing (some of rock’s greatest tracks have been conceived within the confines of the Great Indian Restaurants of London). Anyway, blah blah blah, Wolf Alice are great, “She” is as good if not better than the previous single releases “Bros” and Fluffy” and you should be thoroughly pumped for WA’s “Blush” EP release on October 7th via Chess Club.
Wolf Alice (Facebook)
Rating 8
Wymond Miles guitar player for the awesome Fresh and Onlys makes his solo debut (on B3 at least) w/ new track “Passion Plays”. Somewhere between the music of his day job band and early Interpol “Passion Plays” is the sort of guts-driven post-punk we can only dream that Banks & Co. are capable of now. Very very nice.
Wymond Miles 
(Purchase)
Rating 8.2
Shy Nature a newish London band do the singalong-able UK effects/fuzz rock thing quite well w/ new track “Washout”. Equal parts blister and dreamy (almost Parachutes-era Coldplay-esque), Shy Nature work a nice balance between the track’s two very different dynamics and score a very strong song in the process. Look for a self-titled EP from Shy Nature due September 16th.
Shy Nature (Bandcamp)
Rating 8
