Much like its name implies DJ Koze's new song "Track ID Anyone?" is filled with bizarre landscapes that can leave the listener dumbfounded upon a full listen. Among the seemingly random components you can make out what sounds like a monkey's chirp and marimba that lay over top a chugging tech house drum beat. This all takes place before the songs climax, Caribou's Dan Snaith singing with his unique held back approach. Much like the material of the songs contributor, Snaith, while it may come off as random at first,...
Almost a year ago, the anonymous Chicago-based experimental artist, Ponchos, released his EP called Right Time. That collection landed his first appearance on EARMILK and today, we are premiering an upcoming track from Pretty Beats (EP set to be freed on February 12th). Ponchos is an excellent sound engineer with a distinctive way of implementing endless layers of personality into ambient music.That said, the song we are debuting is titled "Olympics". It starts off with a slow crawl and as seconds pass, the music...
Lose yourself in the low fidelity and distorted guitars of Zen Mantra's debut single "La La La La La". Zen Mantra is the brainchild of New Zealand's 17-year-old Sam Smith, who bedroom-produced his first album How Many Padmes Hum?, out now for streaming on his Bandcamp. The album is due for...
After watching Grizzly Bear's new video for "Gun-Shy" you will probably have more questions then you went in with, but as the saying goes somethings are better left unsaid. If there is anything to say about Grizzly Bear to this points it is that they are not to be questioned as whatever they are...
Reminiscent of what I would image an acid-induced John Connor nightmare would look like, here's Nightlands' epic video for "I Fell In Love With A Feeling". Coming from an act that was initially created from tape recordings that Dave Hartley made to document his dreams, the T-1000 reference may be...
Despite its title, the newest cut from Los Angeles's Local Natives seems to be wearing shoes made of helium, not concrete. Rolling snares and lilting harmonies share the air in "Heavy Feet", which saw the light of day for the first time recently on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. Now, Local...
To remain an outsider artist when the "inside" is as big as the next person's Twitter feed takes a special kind of work. Or maybe it doesn't--maybe the only way to subvert a world that's bigger than you can imagine is simply not to try. Claus Frøhlich--Danish pig farmer, anthropologist, and...
Miami experimental MC/producer SpaceGhostPurrp is back with an EP called B.M.W. (Black Man's Wealth) featuring members of his Raider Klan. B.M.W. contains 13 tracks of dark, cryptic undertones with his never abrasive but settle and bold rhymes and words. He dropped the release late last night via...