Not many producers take on remixes with a hunger like Sun Glitters'. This week, the beat-wielding tastemaker trains his eye on Italian dream-pop project Diverting Duo. With his signature prismatic rhythms and vocal thrums, Sun Glitters transforms the slow swell of "Outset" into a breathy mosaic — always squirming, always reaching, never settling. It clicks to a stop only to blossom, the edges of words smearing each other under an off-color haze. We don't know if it's sunrise or sunset, only that the light's changing...
To celebrate its 10th year, Canadian label Arts & Crafts — home to indie dynamos like Stars and Broken Social Scene — asked the members of its distinguished roster to pair off and record collaborative tracks for an anniversary collection. Can-indie veterans Still Life Still teamed up with London five-piece Zulu Winter for "Era", a track that buries its melancholy beneath ripples of carbonated synths. Warm, clean bass murmurs through lapping static as the track rolls toward its finish, legs kicking in the...
With its anti-gravity vocals and jet-engine synths, "Aurora" might incline toward the upper atmosphere, but a ripe post-punk bass line and a spiky industrial beat keep things tethered to the ground. The opener to A Grave With No Name's upcoming third record Whirlpool marks a tonal shift toward the...
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Some bands surf their own synthesizers. Jesse Ruins dodge them like characters trapped in a video game. A brand new signing to tastemaking label Lefse Records, this Tokyo three-piece wind deceptively innocent pastels around ripcord Cure bass lines. "Talk To Alicia", the second track to be unveiled...
Not all math hides from the sun. Ireland's Enemies uncage technical guitarwork from esoterica, marrying it to lighter sounds to play what they call "mathpop". This new-minted hybrid combines Lightning Bolt jitters with spacey Hum tone, then winds it all through an Animal Collective...
"Infusion" evolves like a landscape outside the window of a cross-country train. This seven-minute electroacoustic voyage pairs citric synths with earthy guitar, syncopated beats with weightless, wordless vocals. Hailing from Nantes, France, producer Fabien Dortel collages these longer-form...
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For Washington, DC's Drop Electric, middle volumes are a barren land. The band's new single "Little Sister" breaks from bare bones to full-on crescendos without once pausing to consider the in-between. Tinny electric piano rattles against Kristina Reznikov's powerful voice until a surge of...
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Icelandic foursome Bloodgroup cut icy melodies through the steam on their third record Tracing Echoes, released last month via Sugarcane Recordings. We heard the single "Disquiet" ahead of that release, and now the band returns with a new video for single "Fall", streaming exclusively in the U.S....
