Steve Lacy has shared a new track, “N Side.” It’s the first new music we’ve heard from the Internet member since his 2017 solo debut Steve Lacy’s Demo, though he’s kept plenty busy in the meantime.
After growing up in Brooklyn, singer and producer Grace Ives bounced around East Coast colleges before landing at SUNY Purchase, where her Roland MC 505 groovebox distinguished her from the plethora of guitarists hoping to follow the path of alumna Mitski.
“Dead of Night” is stoic and understated, with hazy lap steel guitars transporting you directly to the heart of the Nevada desert.
Indiana singer/songwriter Omar Apollo has shared a new single called “Ashamed.” Watch the new music video for the track below. It’s Apollo’s second song of 2019, following last month’s “Trouble.” In 2018, he dropped his debut Stereo EP.
Wiki partnered with two Brits for his latest single “Elixir,” which premiered today on BBC Radio 1Xtra. The track pairs the Brooklyn rapper with a smoky percussion-heavy beat and a soaring patois hook from singer Obongjayar, evoking some of the breakout work by Wiki’s group Ratking.
In a Crate Digging feature with fabric late last year, Daniel Avery named his top tracks of 2018, including Marie Davidson’s ‘Day Dreaming’ within that haul.
London’s 0171 understand that communication can be tricky. Who among us has not, at some point, not replied to a text or an email? Exactly. “1000 Words” gets at the deeper meanings behind this through the medium of a Glass Candy-esque piece of seductive electronic pop, complete with a stream of conscious vocal delivery.
The incantation that begins Octo Octa’s “I Need You,” 30 seconds of euphoric moaning, could introduce any number of songs. A post-yoga chant could develop with layers of blissed-out voices and the hum of a harmonium. A ’90s house sound might emerge, with a diva calling the shots over groovy drums.
Here’s something weird! Billie Eilish is a 17-year-old pop singer with weirdo aspirations and with a massive online fanbase. Roma, on the other hand, is a slow, lyrical, beautiful Mexican art film about the life of a domestic worker who lives with a relatively wealthy family in Mexico City in 1970 and 1971.
The Afrobeat-infused disco project Ibibio Sound Machine, based in London and fronted by Nigerian native Eno Williams, impressed us with last year’s Eiyo EP and the single “Basquiat.”
So his debut, X100PRE, at first seems like an odd concession to the old-school from an artist who made old-school look thoroughly obsolete — if singles are enough to get you into the studio with Drake, why bother with a full-length?
Dev Hynes has returned to Negro Swan – the latest album under his Blood Orange moniker, released back in August — for a remix of “Smoke,” the project’s closing track.
Foxing vocalist Conor Murphy laughs when I say his band’s strange, glittery, and stunningly produced new album, Nearer My God, sounds like they went for broke. “I think we literally went for broke.
Planningtorock has a brand new album coming our way in November called ‘Powerhouse’, and this week she is giving us just a tiny taste of what we can expect with the smooth, gooey sounds of ‘Much to Touch’.
