Steady Holiday aka L.A. artist Dre Babinski employs a French pop/post-Portishead frame to new track “Open Water”. Carried by Ms. Babinski’s quieting/effective vocal/melodic choices “Open Water” radiates an excellent sense of setting atmosphere. Think a 1960’s Paris metro photographed in black and white or a foggy pier-side late night in 90’s Bristol.
Out tomorrow on B3SCI is “All Night Every Night / State Of Your Soul” the debut AA-side single from HOST. Ben and Tommy, two friends who first bonded together over a mutual love of New Order and house producers like Phuture, record in both London and Berlin (where Ben has since re-located). The AA-side is out 4/8 on limited black 12″ vinyl and features a cover inspired the photography of Karen Knorr. You can sample both “All Night Every Night” and “State Of Your Soul” below and check for further details on 12″ at B3SCI Records
We are pleased to announce the release tomorrow (4/8) of L.A. via Texas singer Chelsea Lankes’ self-titled debut EP on our B3SCI Records. The EP available on limited 10″ pink vinyl features big hook break-up jam “Bullet” which has been co-signed by Fader, Spin, and KKS and glowing new mid-tempo single “Paralyzed”. Stream “Bullet” and “Paralyzed” from the EP below and navigate to B3SCI Records for further details on the release.
The UK twosome enter another soulful bit of modern pop to their already great oeuvre of tracks on new one “Shouldn’t Have Done That”. On the song, a focused central (and hypnotic) vocal hook (Shouldn’t of…) twists “Shouldn’t Have Done That” into a kind of melodic accessibility that should break open new listening territory for the quickly rising band. Spin “Shouldn’t Have Done That” below.
The Single Lock Records artist released his third LP in January. The title track “Cautionary Tale” melds 70’s pop fidelity and sonorousness with canyon-side/Western landscape atmospheres and A+ melodic writing. “Cautionary Tale” is one of our favorite songs of the year; do not sleep.
The Australian producer reworks the Life of Pablo track “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” into a Chi house-inspired late night groover we adore.
Chicago man Mick Jenkins turns to Kaytra & THEMpeople for a minimal production frame in which to spit an array of stylistically varied flows. The skittering creeper beat’s changing character gives MJ the appropriate chassis to cast a cool range of personas throughout the track. There’s a neat bit of narrative/symbiosis going on “The Artful Dodger” between the guise of each set of rhymes and its accompanying instrumental. Right. We like it.
The mellifluous Floridians return for pensive new sparkler, “Ivy”. Excerpted from the Orlando duo’s forthcoming debut LP (following “Big Sis” and “Jamz”), “Ivy” wins on its melodically cool sonically warm guitar work and its inventive (and pleasantly unexpected) turns of tune. We dig. Look for the new SALES LP on April 20th.
UK newcomers EAT FAST f/k/a EAT blend candy-sweet melodic sense with rapid fire guitars and laser beam-propelled tempos in crafting very listenable punishing pop tunes that sound not quite like anything else out right now. If you’re headed Great Escape-ward in May, EAT FAST play the Fishbowl on the 20th.
