DOWNLOAD: Surfer Blood - Miranda (School Of Seven Bells Remix)
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The skewering of power-pop outfit Surfer Blood’s “Miranda” by School of Seven Bells is one of the lushest and sweetest whippings we’ve seen. Because the newly-infused mechanical clanks and demonic synths actually open a dimension in which the breathy, nostalgic rock vocals calling out for love lost are magnified until they become sublimely exalted. Dreamy, for sure, and rather unlike the original, which lives on Surfer Blood’s latest—the Tarot Classics EP on Kanine.
Surfer Blood - Miranda (School Of Seven Bells Remix)
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PREMIERE: Active Child - Playing House (feat. How To Dress Well)
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Active Child and How To Dress Well sound like the immaculate offspring of a seraph and James Blake’s spirit animal in their immensely gorgeous bedroom-pop collaboration “Playing House.” Not sure if it’s the somber beat, the lovelorn R&B-leaning lyrics, the winged synths, their raw and wavering duets, or all of the above. Whatever it is, these men are making some of the most angelic music the world has known, and this track should be the first song on each of their greatest hits albums, years and years from now. Until then, find it here and on AC’s upcoming album, come August 23.
Active Child - Playing House (feat. How To Dress Well)
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PREMIERE: Active Child - Hanging On
After listening to his latest song, it’s our assertion that Active Child’s talents extend to controlling forces of nature, because “Hanging On” pulsates with both winter chill and summer scorch. Here lies a weathering bit of beautiful—harps, electronica beats, angelic cries and monkish chants cumulate with a gentle power. We've waxed hyperbolic before, but really, if you buy no other album this season to take you into the next, let it be You Are All I See, the astounding offering from dreampop’s most interesting act, through Vagrant on August 23.
PREMIERE: Superhumanoids - Malta (Kisses Remix)
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To those of us who came of age in the Tri-State, California still secretly emotes a kind of giddy ‘90s wondervibe—sex wax, straight teeth, agile guitars and neck tattoos. But then we hear ethereal bands like Superhumanoids and Kisses, and we're faced with how off we've been (stet the agile guitars). Twilight meets late-summer longing on today's sulking redo of “Malta,” and the dawning that this thing called chillwave has blown away all stereotypes with one woozy sigh. Californians: they’re just like us! Stumbling love-drunk into the mist. Except they’re tan while they do it (that broad stroke stays).
Superhumanoids - Malta (Kisses Remix)
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PREMIERE: Superhumanoids - Malta (Lesands Remix)
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Lesands’ fat ‘80s bass and cloudy guitars don’t fully transform Superhumanoids’ “Malta” into a gossamer pop confection, but considering the weight of Cameron Parkins’ vocals, it’s pretty impressive how close they come. If Morrissey is ever elected prom king, this will play as he’s handed his crown. The original can be found on Parasite Paradise, available digitally and on vinyl.
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PREMIERE: Alex Winston - Choice Notes (Labyrinth Ear Remix)
When someone sings a melody that doesn't have any words you often feel they're trying to communicate something utterly, transcendentally primal, but here Alex Winston seems happy enough just guiding "Choice Notes" through its natural lulls and apexes. There's never any doubting her voice is special, though—raised on Detroit's Motown tradition, Winston coos through this like a happy animal, Labyrinth Ear turning Motor City soul into a rainbow cloud castle of glistening, Balearic pop. You're into rainbow cloud castles, right? So put some pennies away in a jar and don't open it 'til Winston's debut album arrives later this year.
Alex Winston - Choice Notes (Labyrinth Ear Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Trouble
Mazzy Star chanteuse Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig are back as Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions after an 8-year break to deliver a sophomore dose of wandering, disembodied melodies. “Trouble” is the dimly-lit stage in a smoke-stained lounge, where the air is heavy and each note is a blissful narcotic. Through the Devil Softly drops today on Nettwerk and is awash with gauze-wrapped chords and misty vocals invoking a sparse landscape of love and loss. Get busy getting lonely here.
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Trouble
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