Name a song “Cherry Blossom” and you can either be sexually crude or weave in musical homages to Japanese music. Erica Quitzow does the latter on debut single “Cherry Blossom,” a glitzy dancey single from the New York-based artists who goes by her last name alone. The east Asian scales are most obvious in the “ahhs” of the post-chorus but they’re really incidental. There’s so much going on here you don’t miss a proper bassline. That’s an accomplishment for a dance track.
Classic girl group-inspired vocals and distorted disco collide on Parallels‘ “Find the Fire.” This track may not be the actual discovery of fire, but it’s a sultry little discovery. And for some reason the chorus of “take it from me tonight…” sounds like it was pulled from a missing 90s Britpop band. Like.
During the chorus of “Cascade,” you could swear you’re listening to Siouxie Sioux and it’s 1985… or at least what I imagine 1985 was like. It’s actually Deluka‘s frontwoman, Ellie Innocenti, who struts her stuff in the UK band’s debut single. Despite the line “my heart beats like a drum,” it’s not a drum beat as much as an 808/synth/cymbal pulse that injects this 80s-soaked pop gem into your blood. There is also some hand clapping. Yesss!!
In this tech savvy age, it’s thrilling to see how quickly media can reach us: we can download a song in mere seconds, an entire album in a flash, and buy tickets to an upcoming gig via text. Yet taking in the vast sea of blogspots, tumblrs, and twitters can be overwhelming, especially when discovering new music (there’s always this beautiful site though, duh!). We have two handpicked tracks from promising newcomers in line for this week’s weekend anthem. The first is “Lost Love” by Sensual Sports, a sexy hum of synths and guitar licks that can set the perfect mood for a low-key night in. For those of us yearning for something a little more upbeat there’s ”Living in America” by Dom, a tribute to the sex appeal of American life that plays like something Neon Indian would produce, but dipped in glitter. Ahhhh, glitter.
Kid Cudi is not the magic ingredient here; Dan Black’s chorus of “give me give me symphonies” and the violin swooshes from the original still reign supreme in between an aggressive Dada Life reworking of this tune. This track, along with remixes by Chris Lake and Passion Pit, will appear on a Symphonies EP, due this June. Dan has just announced some new tour dates in North America with more to follow. Cop the track, check the dates below.
Trees, a woman in a fur coat, a drag queen in a fur coat, and all the ways these things can be translated sonically appear in Trentemøller‘s “Sycamore Feeling.”
This song is just excellent. It will put you in a good mood and I think it might be about sex? The thirty second intro is ballsy and pretty unheard of in these times. Then there’s the instrumental bridge that’s so relaxed and retro in its arrangement but totally modern and electric at the same [...]
Gadi Mizrahi is half of underground label and production duo Wolf + Lamb. Here, Mizrahi teams with Soul Clap on “Beautiful Thang,” and specifically Soul Clap’s Cnyce on the vocal track (the six notes of vocals that exist). A nice housey beat and fun laser sounds make this a perfect pre-summer tune.
In this tech savvy age, it’s thrilling to see how quickly media can reach us: we can download a song in mere seconds, an entire album in a flash, and buy tickets to an upcoming gig via text. Yet taking in the vast sea of blogspots, tumblrs, and twitters can be overwhelming, especially when discovering new music (there’s always this beautiful site though, duh!). We have two handpicked tracks from promising newcomers in line for this week’s weekend anthem. The first is “Lost Love” by Sensual Sports, a sexy hum of synths and guitar licks that can set the perfect mood for a low-key night in. For those of us yearning for something a little more upbeat there’s ”Living in America” by Dom, a tribute to the sex appeal of American life that plays like something Neon Indian would produce, but dipped in glitter. Ahhhh, glitter.