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Showing posts with label indie dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indie dance. Show all posts
Jul 15, 2023
Mar 4, 2023
SWIMM • Talk To Me • 2023
| "As the beautiful track progresses, two theatrical characters explore their own identity and their feelings for one another. It’s a pitch perfect pairing of audio and visual artistry." - COOL HUNTING "A delight, the smile one gets after taking the first sip of beer out of a cold can on a hot June afternoon. It should be on the soundtrack of your next pool party, and if it’s not, leave." - Hollywood Life "Achingly romantic melodies and a pulsating, sexy beat that make it a perfect ode to new love." - mxdwn "SWIMM once again constructs a pillowy world of psychedelic melodies and vibrant production." - Under The Radar |
May 19, 2022
lullahush • Our Glass Lake • 2022
lullahush draws inspiration from the lilted beats of Mount Kimbie, Four Tet and Floating Points, the hushed ambience of Mary Lattimore, the attention to detail of Japanese composers like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nobukazu Takemora and Aoki Takamasa, and the old school lyricism of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. He synthesises these influences to breathe human life into electronic machine sounds, holding the inherent chaos and awkwardness close.
"Dublin poet/producer's slow builds and subtle surrealisms arrive above layered, minimal, collages of bells, skew-whiff beats and found sounds" MOJO
"Thoroughly unique, as beautiful in writing as it is to listen to" The Line of Best Fit
"Deftly original and innovative" Nialler9
"Frantically beautiful" District Magazine
Jun 22, 2021
Busy P feat. Haich Ber Na & Shay Lia • Track of Time • 2021
He teams up with Haich Ber Na, one of the most promising emerging artists out of the UK, and Shay Lia, Kaytranada’s protégé who’s based in Montreal. Resolutely pop, while naturally incorporating some glitchy French Touch vibes, the track is sonic sunshine and perfectly suited to soundtrack summer barbecues in the months ahead.
Jul 24, 2020
Tilly and the Wall • I Want to F*ck It Up: Tilly and the Wall 2002-2013 • 2020
three singers, a tap-dancer, three songwriters and songs meant to be thrust into the sky with joyous punches. Recorded in a basement by Conor Oberst, the album’s danceability and “f*ck it up” chants, it’s sorrow and punk, dress up brawling and bottled call to friendship and grab-it-off-the-shelf folk was like nothing that had ever come before. It took indie pop and kissed it on the forehead leaving a glitter smear. It stomped on hate and refused to be part of any scene that wouldn’t let every single kid in the door.
Sep 20, 2018
Nov 19, 2017
Golden Teacher - No Luscious Life - 2017
Mixing raw-edged house, leftfield disco, syncopated percussion, and odd-ball experimentalism with a serious party attitude, Golden Teacher have made their mark as one of the most exciting groups to emerge from the Scottish underground. The sprawling six-piece has released acclaimed records on Optimo Music, Sounds Of The Universe, and Rough Trade.
Sep 26, 2017
Intimate Strangers - EP - 2017
The EP finds its footing in a groovy fusion of disco, house, and 80s boogie, all illuminated with numerous vocalists in the realms of soul and R&B. The release has found a fitting home with Brooklyn tastemaking label Bastard Jazz who are behind the release.
Aug 17, 2017
Aug 5, 2017
Jul 2, 2016
May 28, 2015
How Sad - Indian Summer EP - 2013
Laura Finally a professional recording from this incredible band that never ceased to amaze me from the first time I heard them live. Light, 'poppy', well-crafted sound coupled with lyrics that break your heart only to leave it wide open.
May 15, 2015
Tanlines – Highlights - 2015
Say this for Tanlines: They're committed to the bit. To premiere their forthcoming second album, Highlights, for fans and press, the Brooklyn dance-pop duo chose a highly unusual medium: a dial-in conference call, that bane of all corporate drones and a medium that boasts the general audio fidelity of two cans and a string. RSM
Apr 25, 2015
Death And The Maiden - Death And The Maiden - 2015
On their debut album, Death And The Maiden craft a shadowy sound world, filled with melancholic synth arpeggios, reverb-drenched guitars, and sighing vocal melodies. The combination is both hypnotic and devastating, exploring themes of love, loss, and decay, wrapped in tactile electro-acoustic languor. A party record for heartbroken romantics.
“The combination of drum machines, amniotic synth wash and guitars evoke select Hacienda-era Factory bands and the Sheffield Sound (think Section 25 or Chris & Cosey), while Lucinda King’s haunting, reverb-drenched vocals generate an incantatory power...” [The Corner]
Dec 29, 2014
Sep 7, 2014
Playlists: Harvest Records - Mixtape - 2014
Harvest Records is pleased to present our first mixtape, featuring 12 songs from 12 Harvest artists. Harvest is dedicated to true artist development, with a diverse roster, spanning all genres of music, from every corner of the globe. We hope you enjoy and discover some new music that you love as much as we do.
BANKS - This Is What It Feels Like
Syd Arthur - Ode To The Summer
Arthur Beatrice - Carter (Cut)
Glass Animals - Psylla
White Lies - First Time Caller
Beady Eye - Iz Rite
together PANGEA - Offer
The Preatures - Is This How You Feel?
The Olms - On The Line
Bootstraps - Sleeping Giant
Young & Sick - Continuum
D.A. - Glowing
Aug 28, 2014
crowdsource - Bit Rot Blues EP - 2014
'Bit Rot Blues' is the debut EP from crowdsource, a new solo alias of North Carolina-based author and electronic musician Phil Torres. Previously releasing three albums of intricately detailed folk/electronic/pop under the guise Baobab, crowdsource strays from these prior musings in favor of a brilliantly nuanced-yet-giddy turn towards the dancefloor. Layers upon layers of propulsive house-leaning rhythms, expansive instrumentation, and vocal samples both obscure and unexpected are thrown into the mix, yielding an exuberant and kinetic sound that’s deceptively complex – to be expected from the author behind the philosophical work 'A Crisis Of Faith: Atheism, Emerging Technologies and the Future of Humanity.' With its wide-eyed, anything-goes, sample-happy mentality, 'Bit Rot Blues' provides a refreshingly celebratory take on intelligent dance music.
Aug 6, 2013
Jul 31, 2013
Reptile Youth - It's Easy To Lose Yourself - 2012
WOW!
The Danish act get remixed by a whole host of producers with wildly divergent results. There's a huge distance between the Slow Hands take on "Fear"with its contemplative piano lines and 'woo woo' vocals stretched out over slow beatsand the Broke Party Anthem remix of "Fear"a big room trance affair that would make Tiesto proud In between these extremes Terranova delivers a fine tribal house take on "Black Swan Born White"; Smash TV dish out a bubbling stripped back version of "Speed Dance" and Peaking Lights turn "Be My Yoko Ono" into a frenetic punky strutreplete with lo-fi synths.
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