Toronto’s Still Life Still deliver some exalted pop on their new track “Burial Suit“, which will be on the band’s August 20th LP Mourning Trance, due out on Arts & Crafts. According to singer Brendan Saarinen this track was written in the dead of winter, after a year of demoing and scraping songs. Acting as a real starting point for [...]

A gorgeous, rural ambience drones from Date Palms‘ “Yuba Reprise“, and one has the feeling of watching a giant glowing sun set as Marielle Jakobsons‘ violin and Michael Elrod‘s tanpura radiate a majestic calm. Like some sort of crepuscular raga, the track is imbued with a sense of the organic as it’s drones create wide rolling spaces for sun-soaked melodic [...]

More exquisite magick from Julia Holter this week! The artist is preparing to release her third LP Loud City Song, via Domino Records on August 20th. This will be Holter’s first studio recording, and we are told that the nine songs on the new record pre-date those on her 2011 debut Tragedy. Inspired by Collette’s 1944 novella Gigi, she uses [...]

Marcus Lambkin’s Shit Robot project returned last month to drop the Feels Real 7″ (DFA Records), with it’s title track delivering 8-minutes of slinky, funked out disco featuring impressive, diva-style falsetto from The Rapture’s Luke Jenner. Today we have the new video for the track directed by Charlie Doran, who also VJs under the name Cool Hand Loop. Focusing on [...]

Julia Holter‘s stunning 2011 debut Tragedy gets a vinyl-only release by Domino Records today. The 2xLP was initially released in two batches of 500 by the LA label Leaving Records, and Holter’s exemplary and unique work, inspired by Euripides’ Hippolytus, utilized an impressive palette of electronic and acoustic instrumentation that included, “voice, synths, drum machines, piano, cello, saxophone, samples, vocoders, [...]

Dirty Beaches‘ new 2xLP Drifters/Love Is the Devil (Zoo Music) hits stores tomorrow in the US (out today in the EU/UK). In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Alex Zhang Hungtai told Larry Fitzmaurice that his 2011 debut LP Badlands was a “meticulously researched” album that aimed to create a self-mythlogized world “…that doesn’t exist”. That well-coiffed gypsy exhaling smoke on [...]

Baltimore’s William Cashion (Future Islands) and Bruce Willen (Double Dagger) started their minimal, ambient project Peals back in early 2012, recording in Willen’s living room, and this week they released their debut LP Walking Field on Thrill Jockey. Eschewing bass and drums, but utilizing a sonic palette that included acoustic and electric guitar, keyboard and toy piano, as well as [...]