“Settle Down” - Kimbra.
This.
“That Man” - Caro Emerald
Toe-tapping. Bright. Fun. Love it. (Bonus! Saul Bass-y video!)
“Found Love in a Graveyard” - Veronica Falls
Stumbled across their self-titled in Spotify’s “What’s New” tonight and I dig the whole album. “Found Love in a Graveyard” might be my favorite track, though; it’s got kind of a classic back beat and I don’t even mind the vocals sometimes overwhelmed by the guitars.
Yowza. That is damn near Burial-like. I dig it. Don’t miss the original, though; there’s no denying the F+tM wall of sound. So good.
Zane Lowe just premiered The Weeknd’s take on Florence + the Machine’s new single Shake It Out. It’s very dark and sexy, obviously. No singing from Abel’s part (unfortunately), just additional producing and baller beats by the xo-crew.
“Seamonkey” - Moderat
Wait for the drop. It helps to turn the volume u-p. (:
“Lost in Tokyo” - Koreless (from Jamie xx’s Essential Mix)
Entering the 12th hour of work, it’s turned chilly in Seattle, and we’ve 2 more hours of work to go… this is lovely.
“I Was Broken” - Marcus Foster
Marcus Foster—and especially this single—now resides in the neighborhood (in my head) established by Damien Rice and Ray LaMontagne. Good friends with melancholy, this one, but not… weepy.
That said, don’t miss his love letter to the ’60s, “Rushes & Reeds”. I dig it.
“Fall Creek Boys Choir” - James Blake & Bon Iver
I like The Fader’s description:
Two sides of the same coin, except somehow half that coin is made out of computers and the other half is made out of the forest.
Hee.
“Game Time” - Zomboy (EP at Beatport)
Love it. Clocking in at just under 4 minutes, sporting a melodic hook, keeping its twitchy segments in check, and featuring “peanut butter jelly time”? Come on.
(Um, also adorbs zombie avatar.)
“Medicine” - We Were Promised Jetpacks
Yes! (:
Update: drat, the track seems to have been pulled from SoundCloud.
“Untitled (Knight One Remix)” - LeBatman (via Knight One by way of Jason)
Hee, le batman! No, but seriously: damn. I dare you to try to sit still. You can’t do it!
Otomata is my new favorite Internet thing. There are other flash-based sequencers, but this is my favorite one, so far. Its killer feature is the way cells will turn clockwise when they run into an obstacle. That changes the whole dynamic and while I haven’t figured out how to recreate one I’ve made, it’s a damn lot of fun. (:
WWPJ 1. Thus begins the way-too-long wait for We Were Promised Jetpacks’s new record.
“The Beautiful Ones/Sex on Fire” - Beyoncé at Glastonbury
Damn, lady.
So… no one else should bother covering “Sex on Fire”, right? What would be the point? (:
And I’m pretty sure this performance is a direct descendent of Diana Ross’s 1983 Central Park concert. Awesome.
“Schoolin’ Life” - Beyoncé (from “4”).
Shut. UP. There is nothing about this that isn’t awesome. All that late ’80s synth punctuated by horn blasts and cymbal crashes? Love it.
