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AUDIO: Raury – Cigarette Song
‘Cigarette Song’ is the latest track to surface from Atlanta wonderkid Raury, whose really made a name for himself over the past few months. Driven by an elegant guitar melody, the song (co-produced...
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LP: Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty (Album Stream)
Shabazz Palaces produced one of my favourite hip hop album of recent years with 2011’s Black Up; An album that represented what I felt many hip hop albums have lacked – genuine experimentalism and...
View ArticleVIDEO: We Are Shining – Hot Love
We Are Shining show up in a corner shop to perform their afrofuturisic new funk-opera ‘Hot Love’ while hypnotic beauty and rising model Adwoa Aboah loses herself on the desolate streets of North-East...
View ArticleAUDIO: FKA twigs – Pendulum
FKA twigs follows up the her vivid ‘Two Weeks‘ single with ‘Pendulum’, the second track from her hotly anticipated debut album LP1 (out August 11 via Young Turks). Twigs shrouds her typically leftist...
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LP: Adult Jazz – Gist Is
Adult Jazz are perhaps the most exciting band to have burst onto the scene since alt-J, and their debut album, Gist Is, exemplifies why. The four-piece from Leeds begin proceedings with the...
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AUDIO: alt-J – Every Other Freckle
Only a band like alt-J can make a line like ‘I wanna turn you inside out and lick you like a crisp packet’ sound so very… appealing. It’s from the trio’s latest tune ‘Every Other Freckle’, taken from...
View ArticleVIDEO: Shabazz Palaces – #CAKE
I don’t think anyone can release a better album this year than Shabazz Palaces, at least not for me anyway. Everything about Lese Majesty is supreme – from the endless influences they pack into every...
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AUDIO: BOOTS – Mercy
BOOTS has been on a break since releasing his brilliant WinterSpringSummerFall mixtape earlier this summer, but the silence is broken with new number ‘Mercy’. As with previous releases, BOOTS...
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AUDIO: Willow Smith – Easy Easy (King Krule Cover)
Willow Smith is making a habit of surprising us. It’s easy to forget how bewildering it was when she first smashed into our consciousness with ‘Whip My Hair’, but since then her team (which already...
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AUDIO: Sakima – Energy
Introducing London based singer and producer Sakima, and his brilliant debut single ‘Energy’. His deep and endearing vocal seamlessly transitions between the woozy soundscape consisting of powerful...
View ArticleVIDEO: FKA Twigs Performs ‘Two Weeks’ Live on Later… With Jools Holland
Mercury Prize nominee FKA Twigs performed her single ‘Two Weeks’ on Later… With Jools Holland last night – take a look at her ambrosial performance up top. Can’t not love the Rick James hair-homage.
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LP: Pearl – Open (Stream)
Keeping on trend with many producers these days, Pearl is releasing music in near-total anonymity; there is at present little to no information on the web about him. What is known however is that he...
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AUDIO: Aquilo – I Gave It All
Having mesmerised with their fantastic self-titled EP back in April, Silverdale duo Aquilo return with ‘I Gave It All’ another upstanding ballad. Filling the soundscape with soft piano chords which...
View ArticleVIDEO: FKA Twigs – Video Girl (Dir. by Kahlil Joseph)
Kahlil Joseph directs the dramatic and utterly riveting new video for muso-darling FKA Twigs‘ single ‘Video Girl’. Shot on gritty black and white film, Joseph’s muse delivers an impassioned...
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AUDIO: SZA – Sobriety
TDE’s first lady returns with a woozy new track produced by Thundercat, Chris Calor, Cody, LoveDragon and Sounwave, seemingly featuring an obscure sample (astutely observed) from Welsh producer Ifan...
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