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The Haxan Cloak: "The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)"
A sliver of the Haxan Cloak's "The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)" crept out toward the end of last year, via a short clip from Bobby Krlic's new label home, Tri Angle. It was an appropriate way for...
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My Bloody Valentine: "Only Tomorrow"
If you spent Saturday night watching your spouse, child, or other loved ones sit in front of their computers refreshing mybloodyvalentine.org for literally hours, I'd like to apologize on behalf of all...
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Chvrches: "Recover"
Chvrches have a knack for ambitious electro-pop familiar to fans of the Knife-- it's no coincidence one of their songs is named "The Mother We Share"-- and the Scottish outfit's latest single,...
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Julianna Barwick: "Pacing"
"Pacing" is a unique track from vocal abstractionist Julianna Barwick; while the gorgeously tangled compositions found on 2009's fine Florine and 2011's quite excellent The Magic Place almost...
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James Blake: "Retrograde"
Up to this point, James Blake has gone to great lengths to prove he's a fighter, not a lover. Or, at least, someone who can see battle lines in any artistic pursuit-- in between "CMYK" playing chicken...
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Youth Lagoon: "Mute"
Front page photo by Josh DarrAt six minutes, "Mute" is the longest song we've heard from Trevor Powers' Youth Lagoon project, and it makes the most of its verging-on-epic length. There are multiple...
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Kurt Vile: "Wakin on a Pretty Day"
As a song title, Kurt Vile's "Wakin on a Pretty Day" is on-the-nose, a mood/weather-changing call for "Serenity Now" that'll either get your mind right or encourage you to call in sick. It's just that...
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KEN mode: "The Terror Pulse"
"The Terror Pulse" is not an instrumental, but I'm willing to speculate KEN mode would've kept the same title even if it was. The Winnipeg band isn't looking to capture fear, or some kind of...
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Rhye: "Open (Jeff Samuel Faded Mix)"
Slow-soul duo Rhye's music has proved to be good remix material. It could be that the band's singles are softly and cleanly constructed, their basic elements easy to suss out after just one or two...
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Hackman: "No More"
Photo by SnowSkullAscendant Brit Hackman is part of a young generation of producers keen on erecting standard structures-- in this case, pro forma four-on-the-floor house-- and paneling the sides with...
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Young Galaxy: "Pretty Boy (Peaking Lights Remix)"
Young Galaxy's "Pretty Boy", a track from their forthcoming album Ultramarine, is an us-against-the-world anthem, with lines like "When we were lost we found each other" and "We were each other's only...
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Jackson Scott: "That Awful Sound"
Jackson Scott's Soundcloud page has three songs and not much more. We know he's from Asheville, North Carolina; there's also a link to his Tumblr, which hosts a faded Polaroid and absolutely nothing...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Sacrilege"
Front page photo by Dan Martinson"Maps" celebrates its 10th birthday this year, so it's worth remembering how long Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been working the same M.O.: temporarily stun listeners with an...
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AlunaGeorge: "Attracting Flies"
Each new single released ahead of AlunaGeorge's debut album, Body Music, has sounded stronger and slicker than the last. Their latest single, "Attracting Flies", finds the UK duo crystallizing their...
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Joey Bada$$: "Wendy N Becky" [ft. Chance the Rapper]
Front page photo by Erez AvissarIn the past couple of months, Thelonius Martin has proved to be a reliable provider of nostalgia-inducing boom-bap, most notably with Action Bronson's "Blackbird". He...
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Rustie: "Slasherr"
When Rustiespoke with us last year around the time he unleashed his astounding BBC Essential Mix, the Glaswegian producer claimed the music he'd been making since 2011's Glass Swords, was "sort of...
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Big Black Delta: "Side of the Road"
Former Mellowdrone frontman Jonathan Bates has spent the past few years churning out shapeshifting, phantasmagoric electro under the name Big Black Delta. Previously, his sound's leaned toward the...
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Drake: "5AM in Toronto"
Goddamn, Drake's glad y'all set it off. No matter how many people still took issue with the very public details of his unconventional past, the insistent hook from "Started From The Bottom" did nothing...
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Smith Westerns: "Varsity"
Front page photo by Sandy KimSoft Will is Smith Westerns' third LP, so you figure that their age should no longer be a main talking point-- and yet, here's the lead single, "Varsity". Even getting past...
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The Knife: "A Tooth for an Eye"
Front page photo by Alexa VachonSince Silent Shout, the Knife have become the standard reference point for any act with dark synths or weird vocals. Every successive single from Shaking the Habitual,...
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Wavves: "Demon to Lean On"
The first proper single from Wavves' forthcoming LP Afraid of Heights, "Demon to Lean On", is a power chord-stacked anthem that, if it were 1995, would easily be found on any modern rock radio...
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Justin Timberlake: "Suit & Tie (Four Tet Remix)"
The original version of Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie" is a relaxed, fundamentally happy song, full of sounds that sound like they just returned from a particularly restorative stay at an Italian...
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Ciara: "Body Party"
Ciara's oozy new single "Body Party" may technically be about her courtship with rapper Future-- he co-write the song and coos in the distance-- but the mojo here is all Mike Will Made It's. Count this...
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Earl Sweatshirt: "Whoa"
Until we hear Doris in its entirety, every Earl Sweatshirt track is going to feel like a comeback, or at least a reintroduction-- and as Tyler, the Creator helpfully reminds us at the top of "Whoa,"...
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DJ Rashad: "Let It Go"
Chicago's DJ Rashad is improving. It's a normal enough thing for an artist to do, but improvement and progression are funny concepts for a sound such as footwork, which is often content to spin in...
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