Our pal Kanye is on the cusp of baby daddy-hood, but when he's not buying designer prams and tiny little Yeezy IIs, he laying down production on this creepy, barebones and bassy new Pusha T track. It rules:
Tell you what, this little treat, which young-based label GetMe have gifted us, reminds us of Cinematic Orchestra and Roots Manuva's All Things To All Men, a similar contemplative vocal line running through a delicate and quietly epic instrumental. Tinkles and sparkles, all the good things:
Man, we love Sasha Go Hard. Not cuz she's got great hair (she does) or exclusively cuz her tracks are all uniformly excellent, but cuz she makes her music videos down the bowling alley with her girls. Blowin' our MINDS Sash mate:
Imagine being serenaded in a nuclear silo just before a world-ending missile is launched into the stratosphere. Got it? Cuz that's sure what we get when listening to this creepily final new track from Mount Kimbie, moody and sad but accepting all at once. New LP Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is out next month (27 May).
TNGHT's bizarre new glo-stick prostate exam Acrylics reminds us a bit of Piddy Py's Giggle Riddim, in that it's similarly unhinged and bright. We don't really know what else to say about to be quite honest, judge for yourself. We're gonna get some water BRB (embed soon come, fear not): https://soundcloud.com/tnght/a crylics
Jessie Wubs and her mate Kate Moross have teamed up once again for the video for Imagine It Was Us. It looks like it's set in the Cirque Du Soleil after show party, and Jessie even gets and all-seeing-eye hand stamp (illuminati MUCH?!)
We don't hear a lot from Fabolous these days. Maybe we're just not paying close enough attention, it's possible, but he makes an appearance in this video for The-Dream's Slow It Down, which also features a man with some of the hairiest arms we've ever seen. We're talking Robin Williams hairy:
Three fashionable young gentleman have collaborated to create this baking, Egyptian-esque rap track, and we fell in love like Young Thug as soon as we heard it. The beat is by the first rapper Cito, and he, along with fellow spitter Rome Fortune and 2013 hispanic Nate Dogg Jgarc Beair, complete this exceptional tune:
The Child Of Lov has busted out of his anonymity phase and is now making tunes that wouldn't be out of place is some sort of futuristic circus. New tune Fly is intensely layered vocoder soul and bizarre to the ear (in a good way of course):
If you want to scare your own eyes out of their anglo (or otherwise) sockets then you best try and get your head around this, the new album by Scanda nuhttas The Knife, which is now available to stream. Those delights over at Pitchfork have it with their fancy million dollar streaming service where it makes you coffee and massages your lymph nodes.
Don't look now guys but the sky's blue and 'Zealia Banks has a new video for her squeaky tune No Problems, filmed in the almost palpably tropical Miama during the ultra music fest. It features cameos from Diplo (yaay) and Steve Aoki (booo) and is all ye got till the video for Yung Rapunxel comes out later this month (16):
To celebrate the upcoming mega-fest of Pleasure Principle next month, Hudson Mohawke uploaded and gave away the previously vinyl-only track Pleasure, which samples Janet Jackson and is brighter than the entire UK which we kind of need right now so we don't top ourselves:
Blludd Relations have a weird-ass new video for their equally strange tune Even Steven, with a green man, a coupla tellys, a shoe-less maid and a banana phone. Everything you want/ need:
The lovely trio that is HAIM have been real good to us this week, and, as if they read our minds, have given us this remix of their tune Falling by Psychemagik h'exclusively. It has a gorgeous analogue disco-funk thing going on, and we can see it being played as 'the last tune' at a rave (if DJs aren't being snobby (which they will be cuz you all know what they're like)):
Must be pretty weird being Baauer right now what with all that Harlem Shake business. But he's a professional, so is getting on with his day job, which we all know is remixing tunes and making them into dancefloor bulldozers. His latest work is an edit of AlunaGeorge's swish, clean pop track Attracting Flies, which he makes distinctly his own. The vocal chopping is really cool, too:
Now, we're not saying the subtlety of this tune is slightly ruined by the booming chorus of 'B-B-OM BOM SPECIAL DELIVERY!' on Annie Mac's show but... Well it is a bit. But you can still tell this new one from Ms. Ware, with help from Julio Bashmore, Hyetal, Brey and Jimmy Napes, is a classy banger just like you'd expect:
Jackmaster's show is keeping us in business today! Rustie did a minimix for Jack's show, around 24 minutes in, which features some secretive new material, bits and bobs, and tracks from Pharrell, Hit-Boy and his own hip hop edits. Check it out on the BBC website here .
A couple of Bristol #lads collided last night on Jackmaster's Radio 1 slot, which saw the premiere of bearded house boss Julio Bashmore and Kowton's tune Mirror Song. A tune made almost entirely of percussion, and a bit of vocal, it's, as Jack says, 'a certified belter':
Here's another beautiful tune by Fryars, with a video of some girls crying their poor likkle eyes out to accompany it. Yeesh Fryars m8, what did you do to these poor waifs?
Blaenavon are the Hampshire trio who slapped us right across the chops the other month when they released two excellently melodic and well-crafted tunes. One of those tunes, Into The Night, has a video, featuring a young girl going a bit mental and eating a ham and whipped cream sandwich:
Abeano Music
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action - Album Trailer
She & Him- I Could've Been Your Girl
Action Bronson - "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" (Official Video)
Kanye West - New Slaves
Neko Case Covers Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros imploran por días mejores en su nueva canción
On The Cover Of A Magazine
Daft Punk – Horizon (Japan Only Bonus Track)
