Check out the final number in our series of Ungirthed remixes - the #1 chart-burning smash Purity Ring being melted down and re-sculpted in gold by rising Luxembourg-based beat-maker Sun Glitters. The "Ungirthed" 7" is out now and moving fast. Grab it here Purity Ring - Ungirthed [Sun Glitters Remix]
Vondelpark does his wistful, sombre night-light soul thing to Austra 's recent jam "Beat And The Pulse" with beautiful results - mellowing the vampy, doomed digi-goth of the original into some gorgeous, gauzy ambience pushed along on a loafing 2-step drift. Austra - Beat And The Pulse [Vondelpark Remix]
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Here's an unofficial video for Maria Minerva 's cosmic ode to dancefloor dejection "A Little Lonely" - director Pat Fairbairn getting the jam's mood spot on with his removed, disorientating images of other people's ecstasy. Maria's "Tallin At Dawn" LP is out now through Not Not Fun.
Whilst we wait irritably for their debut full length to emerge, Portland's finest Kiwi psych-punk savants, Unknown Mortal Orchestra , keep our tongues well and truly lolling with this Little Dragon remix, treating the Scandi-pop troupe's wholesome original to some of the deft gooney groove and blown-out, dosser disco touch last seen on the undeniable hits that were How Can You Luv Me and "Ffunny Ffriends"- the result is equal parts creepy as fuck and totally inescapable like some twistedly handsome pervert drawing you in as the lights come up. [...]
Pumped to finally share some more of the latest 7" on Transparent - "Ungirthed" by Purity Ring. Regular readers of these pages over the last few months will be no stranger to the much celebrated song, in all it's gleeful ghostliness and brave sub-bass bounding and we've enjoyed stretching and contorting its elastic with the help of edits by friends Christian Aids and Deptford Goth in the run up to its physical release next week, Monday 18th April. Ahead of that though, here's the slower, meditative future-ballad that is "Lofticries", [...]
We've not heard from Salem for a minute, since last year's monumental King Night rose above the internet like a great funeral pyre ash cloud puffed from God himself's wheezing lungs, but the divisive Chicago screw disciples are back here with a typically booming, looming take on the debut single by emerging British electro-pop songstress Charli XCX - binding her wide-eyed vocals to a crimson bed of endlessly thick, gloopy synth drone and bone-shuddering 808 clatter like only they know how. The song's called "Stay Away" and whilst Charli's original seems to yearn [...]
Persistent presence on these pages (and in our affections in general) Keep Shelly In Athens return once more with another golden remix, working their ever-evolving, mercurial magic on Canadian producer Blood Diamonds and his shimmering, sun-rise dance-romance "Lasting Love" - coming up with something altogether more off-kilter than we expected, closer to creepy London night bus than idyllic Grecian stroll. Blood Diamonds - Lasting Love [Keep Shelly In Athens Remix] "Lasting Love" is out now digitally on [...]
Long term firm Transparent homeboys Pure X have just announced their long-awaited debut footlong. "Pleasure" is set to be released by Acephale on July 5th. It's been easing into our imaginations gradually and gracefully on several late-afternoon rural train journeys recently which is pretty appropriate given its slow, alone-on-the-prairie punk and icy country groove, singer Nate Grace sounding just as believable and handsome as the first time we fell for him a few years ago - a lionhearted Hank Williams riding high on holy noise in pursuit of unbroken backyard romance. Whilst [...]
Two of our very favourite outer-reaches pop pin-ups, Maria Minerva and Zak Merking of Raw Thrills / The Sweethearts join in holy union in this transatlantic cosmo-ballad, like a Kiki Dee and Elton John for the acid age.
Wise Blood serves up an intriguing teaser of his much-anticipated Dovecote LP in the form of this lonely "night-in-the-life" style home-taping. A shaky camera-hand follows Chris Laufman intermittently trudging wearily round the rougher edges of whatever city his nomadic lifestyle has him in currently and whiskey-glugging hunched at the wonky old piano from which he coaxes the clips accompanying song - an appropriately boozy, delinquent soul jam that hints at a slight move away from the sample-heavy material he's released previously. Remind yourself of some of that with our 7" from last year [...]
Spend a moment or two on these truly elegant, intimate live videos from Oupa + Porcelain Raft + A Grave With No Name - performed recently on the beautiful piano at Daniel B's Stoke Newington bolthole. Three of the best songwriters out going b2b in the heartbreak stakes. previously: Yuck - Despite Everything [Porcelain Raft cover] Porcelain Raft - The [...]
Check out this edit of Becoming Real 's "Closer" by Chicago based producer Stalker - the menacing, glacial grime imaginings of the original slowed into a colossal, slugged-out industrial monster of dance-drone - brutally heavy and oppressive but with glimmers of fragile beauty to be found beyond its fog. Becoming Real - Closer [Stalker Remix] The "Closer" 12" is out now through Becoming Real's own Cold World [...]
Lonely Galaxy returns with another bruised, beyond-the-brink ballad full of late night contemplation and rued romance. "Strawberry Adore" arrives as part of a new Tough Love compilation, out today and available here and sees Harry GH building on the delicately beautiful bedroom orchestrations of EPs 1 and 2 (both still available through yours truly) - delving into territory that's a little more brooding and foggy sonically but nevertheless just as raw and unfiltered in its emotion. Lonely Galaxy - Strawberry Adore [...]
Montreal producer D'eon is back with more liquid gold following last year's beautifully enveloping "Pallinopsa" LP. This sparkling new jam picks up where that record's ultra-smooth, half-dreamt R&B melodies and half-cut 2-step shudder left off, forging an idiosyncratic brand of ultra-modern dance groove, full of wacked-out, G-funk romance and half-time bump-n-grind. You wanna be high for this, but if not, it might just do it for you anyway. d'Eon - Transparency [...]
London-based young buck producer Will Archer AKA Slime , who became the object of much affection with his Vondelpark collaboration , just stepped out the shadows to hit our inbox between the eyes with "Caffeine"; a gently meandering, pitch-bending collage of self-recorded/produced instrumentation that Archer ambitiously sculpts into his own perceptive, outsider beat-ballad. Keeping us up all night. Slime - Caffeine
Following up on their release of Transparent sweetheart Uknown Mortal Orchestra , our friends over at Sound Of Sweet Nothing just sent over a track plucked from their newest output, the debut EP from Californian sextet Whirl . "Leave" pounds along on a Cocteau-stained trail of dead-eyed, open chorded distortion and heart-bruising, rag-tag romance. Hit up bandcamp to order "Distressor" on 12" vinyl or digital download. Whirl - Leave
Hot on the trail of our recently announced (now almost sold out) Hauntin' Me 7", another blood-shot, wind-down pop lounger from our perennial favourite Grecian pop outfit Keep Shelly In Athens emerged today - this time taken from their forthcoming cassette release for awesome new Japanese label Sixteen Tambourines . Stream below and cop the tape, just in time for these forgiving, balmy spring nights we're being blessed with, in IRL here. Keep Shelly In Athens - Yellow Man
Our man Holy Other back in the biz with "Touch", this gorgeous, cavernous new haunting from his forthcoming "With U" EP - due soon through our friends at Tri Angle . Building on the red-lit, other-worldly sexuality of the We Over / Yr Love 7" we issued last year, "Touch" delves even deeper into the heart of the night, with all its desire and fear, than ever before. Keeping it locked devotedly for the other new W/U songs to drop in June. Last few copies of our "We Over" 7" [...]
Devastatingly poignant, moody fan-vid clip for Oupa and Forget - the first song to emerge from Daniel B 's forthcoming solo record. Taken from a selection of Stan Brakhage shots, the clip's vivid nightmare hues and sense of troubled sexuality / mortality perfectly compliment the after-hours solitude and swallowed pain of such a beautiful, spectral ballad. The "Forget" LP by Oupa arrives in June.
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