Midsplit has released “Same Life,” the Montreal producer’s first single of the year. Driving guitar, scattered and panned beats, and warm synths sway from the background to the foreground. The EDM track is an upbeat mix featuring Wiz Khalifa. It’s a pop-infused bouncy house meant for fuzzy, sweaty nights.
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What a track. “G’Day For It” is new from Aussie trio Little Elizabeth. A slow simmering rhythm-driven midtempo track, LE prove superb stylists (and ostensibly also exhibit superb taste in turtlenecks) on “G’Day For It”; lacing deep in the mix reverb guitars to jabs of sax and bits of falsetto and harmony. Stream “G’Day For It” below.
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Liverpool-based jangle pop quartet SPINN sound like a band ready to make moves. “After Dark” is a big, accessible, expertly constructed song, ready to set SPINN of like a rocket into the UK indiesphere. Be there at the start.
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Out now on B3SCI Records is Ojai, the new EP from Dutch-born L.A. artist Nick van Hofwegen a/k/a Young & Sick. Anchored by title track “Ojai” which Stereogum called “a full-on dance jam” and featuring latest stream, the Complex-tipped “The Road”, “Ojai” was written and recorded during Nick’s travels throughout the American continent. Ojai is available now on limited three-color splatter vinyl B3SCI Records.
New York-based duo Memba have just dropped “Middle Man,” their first single to be released independent of any label. Chopped and screwed hip-hop gives a dark and misty feel when spun around bass-heavy electropop. Vibrant synths bounce atop vocals from British rapper Asher Don, the track’s featured artist. Bursting with battery-powered drive, the lyrics speak to the corruption of an industry of middle men profiting off hardworking artists.
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MTMBO, a London-based neo-soul singer/songwriter by the name of Richie Matembo, has released “Mottingham.” The single lives delicately on flower petals, swaying with falsetto vocals akin to a murky autumn evening. Lo-fi electric guitar and bass crowd the periphery. The singer’s voice takes on many forms in just over 3 minutes, swelling and subsiding in an earnest paragon of the mind.
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“Down In It” is brand new (premiere! premiere! premiere!) from French band CAPYAC. Vets of SXSW, Austin City Limits, Euphoria Fest, Sound on Sound Fest, the group traffic in expertly executed warm Francophone synth-driven textures and melodies. The track features vocalist Caroline Watson and may/may not be an insight into the direction of the band’s forthcoming EP “Who Is Donny Flamingo”. To quote (and follow carefully), “In 1612, on the 15th night of the first month, when the moon was half, centered in the sky and the village’s families in their beds, there was a local magistrate who pondered the great questions in his mind. He found his quill and his ink and began to, without filter, press his thoughts into the page. This is a similar feeling that we had writing the song “Down In It”. We want the page to reveal the shapes that correspond with letters and enunciations, corresponding to feelings that we’ve had and that the universal “we” have also had. There is no use rewriting the books, because we have printers. This gives you a glimpse of insight into our writing process. As a whole, how does this song fit into our next EP “Who is Donny Flamingo”? It remains to be seen. Certainly, Donny Flamingo is a curious character that is difficult to define, a complex villain, a tale as old as tails, so I don’t think we have the answers, not yet at least.”
Stream the B3SCI Premiere of “Down In It” from CAPYAC.
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Out today digitally from our B3SCI Records is “Hope” the new single from Glaswegian-origin duo LOVE SICK. The twosome, tipped by NME, Best Fit, Crack in the Road, and more following their debut track “Bullet” describe “Hope” as “a song about chasing your dreams envisaging them right in front of you mixed with the struggles and anxieties you have to overcome to get there, with the silver lining being the hope that one day you will.” LOVE SICK will play their first headline show in Glasgow on April 4 at Nice N Sleazys. “Hope” is available now digitally at B3SCI Records.
We like the chronologically-topical “January December”, new from Toronto artist TOBi. Pushed forward by clean guitar stabs and a easy-flowing school of Paak main melody, “January December” manages to be as (very) emotionally potent as it is magnetic and instantaneously catchy.
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Brisbane artist Emerson Leif has released “Hesitate” with his friend and frequent collaborator Golden Vessel. The static and sampled humming of the single falls on you like a warm blanket. Scattered drums and synths emerge from the periphery with a stealthiness that transfixes. Alternative R&B and indie pop are coalescing in the same fish bowl, and it couldn’t feel more natural.
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19 year old alternative pop singer Kailee Morgue has done it again. “Unfortunate Soul,” off her newest EP, Medusa, is definitely my fav. Morgue successfully navigates her way between clean guitar sounds and letting her hair down, pleading and shouting “I’m an unfortunate soul. It’s just the way that I roll.” And if that chorus doesn’t make you wanna embrace the teenage angsty girl inside you, I don’t know what will.
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