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Hortlax Cobra: Stinging NettlesLikely for its brevity, or perhaps because it is merely obsolete, or, for the magic in the snap and pulse of Swedish collage-pop that “Stinging Nettles” is on track repeat. Despite his latest buzz track “Berlin”, John Eriksson, aka Hortlax Cobra, reeled us back to his early days with “Stinging Nettles,” a weighted compilation of mastered drum [...]
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Starfucker: Mona VegasBUY HERE BUY HERE Emerging from the sidelines after a pinwheel of projects in 2011, the noise-pop Portland four piece Starfucker (STRFKR) are about to release new material (knuckle taps ensue). After their debut album in 2008, Starfucker (Badman Recording), the talents cemented a place among neo-pop crowds with dance beats and introverted melodies. From [...]
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SoSo: Who’s Gonna Love MeBUY HERE With a caustic beauty in narrative, oriental soundscapes and vocal force kicking listeners to the edge, SoSo (Sophia Somajo) drops her debut album That Time I Dug So Deep I Ended Up In China (self-produced, Do It Yourself Bitch Productions) as the dominatrix in her mise en scène. Drenched in emotion, the Swedish bombshell collages an industrial [...]
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Stepdad: Must Land RunningBUY HERE In less than three and a half minutes, Stepdad wraps you in a cape and lofts you out a window with “Must Land Running”. The quintet will keep you soaring with their electropop energy as they unleash their debut LP “Wildlife Pop” (Black Bell Records) out June 12. A melting pot of creatives, [...]
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Wild At Heart: DarlingBUY HERE At the altitude of beat brilliance and lo-fi pop-tronica, Stockholm-based Wild At Heart (WAH) launches an unfulfilled love story in their latest single, “Darling.” The track, produced by The Sound of Arrows, carries underlying tones of MGMT, noting their cover of “Electric Feel” in 2008 (Ministry of Sound), which brought about widespread
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Minus The Tiger: Home Is Where The Heart IsListen to “Home is Where The Heart is” here BUY HERE For a split second the room fills with a tinge of Karen O. Then Minus The Tiger strikes you with their synth-pop single, “Home Is Where The Heart Is,” and you are pleasantly surprised. Then Anne Broekman and the family – Maarten Besseling (husband), Jesse Broekman (Anne’s sibling), [...]
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New Build: Finding ReasonsListen to “Finding Reasons” here BUY HERE The muscles of electro-rock are contracting under the epithet New Build. The anatomy: LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip. Al Doyle, Felix Martin and Tom Hopkins have rolled out their debut 12-track album, Yesterday Was Lived And Lost this month (mastered by New Build and Club Ralph). They further [...]
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Hot Chip: FlutesListen to “Flutes” here BUY HERE Hot Chip‘s last album release, One Life Stand felt more like a one night stand. We loved them and we never heard from them again. It has been two slightly painful years without the indietronica touch of Hot Chip’s deft rhythms, but Joe Goddard,
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Shadows On Stars: I’ll Be the LightListen to “I’ll Be the Light” Here In a coltish compilation of keys and chords, Randa Smith and Brian Vincent take Portland on a magic carpet ride that state has never seen before, with I’ll Be The Light. But it doesn’t stop there. Shadows On Stars take electro-dream-punk to cloud nine with their debut full album release, [...]
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Miike Snow Album Review: Happy To YouBUY ALBUM HERE Listen to “Enter the Joker’s Lair” here Electro-pop trio, Miike Snow are the fire and we are the moths. Like a twinkling toy, Happy To You –out today– is an album you want to play with. It is shiny and new (complete with a Lykke Li collaboration), and therefore is irresistible. Whisking [...]
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Beach House: MythListen to “Myth” Here “Driving in a van, arriving at a place, making a sound, going to sleep” is how the latest Beach House album, Bloom came to fruition as they relish in their career as musical vagabonds. Off Mistletone Records, co-produced by Beach House and Chris Coady (Blonde Redhead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Santigold),
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Django Django: DefaultListen to “Default” Here BUY HERE Edinburghers Vincent Neff (singer, guitar), Jimmy Dixon (bass), Tommy Grace (synths) and David Maclean of Django Django (no connection to Reinhardt ) just dropped their debut album You (on Because Music and produced by David Maclean) with a roundup of original psychedelic-pop beats. The quartet has been hard at work tie-dying sounds to