DOWNLOAD: Small Black - Search Party
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There are no guitars on the majorly good and majorly slept-on (by us) “Search Party,” so it’s especially impressive how Small Black manages to pull off such palpable rockness therein. It’s also the most lucid and polished glo-fi we’ve seen from the band. A heads up: don’t get too comfy with the rump-shaking pads and sparkly patina—this one’ll still blow out your ears if you plug in at full volume. It’s maybe our favorite yet from the band’s debut on Jagjaguwar.
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DOWNLOAD: BRAHMS - Another Time (Laurel Halo Remix)
BRAHMS burst forth on our collective radars earlier this year with their misty dreamwave debut. Then, they re-appeared on this site with cumulous refits of Neon Indian and ARMS and now, here they sit, having been remixed themselves into the (mildly discordant but nonetheless pleasing) ether by one Laurel Halo. The circle is complete, but more importantly, you’ve got a lot of free BRAHMS music.
BRAHMS - Another Time (Laurel Halo Remix)
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PREMIERE: Active Child - When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx Remix)
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Active Child's Eighties synthpop obsession has always bordered on the ultra-smooth, and here Classixx tips things over the edge, serving up a remix of "When Your Love Is Safe" that would sound most at home on one of the mix cassettes my mother made when I still spent most of my time crying and covered in my own snot. 'Plus ça change, plus c'est même chose', as they say.
Active Child - When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Marina And The Diamonds - Oh No! (Active Child Remix)
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It was Marina's "serious pipes" that moved Pat Grossi to remix "Oh No!", turning the brash, chart-bound original into something far more private and maudlin. No shock there, I guess, given that privacy and being maudlin are things that seem to happen to Grossi whenever he enters Active Child mode. Glo-fi's saddest kid? Yes, but he can bring his Polaroid to our beach party anyways because that sadness inevitably turns into tracks as beautiful as this one. "Oh No!"'s out August 2.
Marina And The Diamonds - Oh No! (Active Child Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Active Child - She Was A Vision
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It's easy to be sad - anyone who isn't is fighting against it - but there are enough tinges of ecstasy in Active Child's mope to suggest that joy may be imminent, turning "She Was A Vision" from something defeated, into something heroic. Active Child's debut EP, Curtis Lane, is out now.
Active Child - She Was A Vision
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DOWNLOAD: Wild Nothing - Chinatown
On the cusp of June we may only be, but unless someone figures out how to turn sound waves into golden cars or aquaparks, there's no way at least two Wild Nothing songs aren't gonna feature in my own, personal End Of Year Top Ten. Virginia's Jack Tatum is as young and heartbroken and dreamy as I am conceited, "Chinatown" revelling in the solemnity of guitars that sound played by Johnny Marr with shards of that aforementioned gold for ten young men and women pining for 'the one'. Obviously, then, his new album Gemini comes hugely recommended–pick it up imminently from Captured Tracks.
PREMIERE: The Longcut - Repeated (Toro Y Moi Remix)
Rather aptly, the latest place chillwave/glo-fi/dream-sponge heartthrob Toro Y Moi has turned up is on an EP named Broken Hearts. The 7-song release features remixes and edits of tracks found on the last album from Manchester's The Longcut - named Open Hearts. You see what they did there, right? It's pretty obvious what Toro Y Moi's gonna sound like at this point, too - synths'll flutter, vocals will be driven halfway to euphoria by summer party beats - but we still can't get enough. Want more of this ilk, head here, where you can get Broken Hearts for the largely inconsequential sum of £4.
The Longcut - Repeated (Toro Y Moi Remix)
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PREMIERE: Chapel Club - Five Trees (Memory Tapes Version)
Epic rock Londoners Chapel Club have yet to release their debut, but as it happens with this interwebs thing, they’re already huge. This morning brings another incarnation of “Five Trees,”—their forthcoming Paul Epworth-produced single featuring a mix by The Horrors and this watery flip via Memory Tapes. That means a drowsy electronic spin until the 2:24 minute mark, when Dayve Hawke bursts forth like the righteous, new-wave Phoenix that he is. “Five Trees” will drop in the UK at the end of this month.
Chapel Club - Five Trees (Memory Tapes Version)
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