Beyonce wasn’t the only one with a surprise album release today. Seattle’s The Physics dropped their new Digital Wildlife LP earlier. The album is an excellent listen and frames everyone that prematurely made “Best of 2013” lists in Mid-November as pretty foolish. It seems the Physics have taken a turn towards slick R&B here, as Digital Wildlife yields some […]
Lorde dominated 2013 pretty hard and didn’t really need to toss anything else on her to-do list for the year. But she’s dropped a new track, titled “No Better”, today. I think anyone that heard Pure Heroine all the way through knows that the 17 year old isn’t just a “Royals” one-hit wonder. But “No Better” […]
Phantogram will return with their third full length album on February 18. After a self-described “label bidding war”, the NY band settled on Republic to release Voices. The track list is below, album art above. Additionally, you can stream the slick new single “Fall In Love”. Watch out for tour dates soon too. Phantogram Voices Tracklist 1. […]
Trails and Ways have rolled out another cover, following their recent take on Frank Ocean’s “Lost“. This time they interpret Jorge Ben’s “Taj Mahal”. T&W describes the original (embedded below) as “a retelling of a classic Indian love story in Portuguese”. They’ve handled the translation for us, as their new version is in English. The accompanying […]
Sweden-via-Rhode Island artist Mapei is set to drop a new album via Downtown Records next year. No official release date or album title yet. But her new track “Don’t Wait” signals it should be an LP worth watching out for. The sparse arrangement, effects and haunting melodies remind me of Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek“.