I’m back and ready for action! What an awesome week it’s been. I’m super pumped to share all these new tunes with you guys.
First: TOPS. Montreal band, friends with Mac Demarco (veeeerrry good friends), fronted by Jane Penny. They’ve got the riffs of a Real Estate song, the groove of an Unknown Mortal Orchestra song, and the mellowness of a Mac song. Their album Picture You Staring has been on my queue all week. Check it out below.
Next up, some more neo-soul. Two neo-soul guys actually. First, Chris McClenny, 21 year old Baltimore native with crazy piano and production skills. This guy writes great songs, makes killer remixes, and has BEAUTIFUL arrangements of classic songs. He’s got a J Dilla/D’angelo/Stevie Wonder vibe to him. He’s releasing his first LP pretty soon, but he’s put out a ton of individual tracks that are fantastic. Classical songs, to jazz, to soul, to funk-it’s all there.
Another soul great- Jordan Rakei– friends with Tom Misch, Alfa Mist, and the friends. He’s a London artist with a silky voice, and always jazzy background instrumentals. His album Groove Curse is full of just great dance-y, smooth, funk vibes. It has a powerful sensuality, but also a gentle rhythm that keeps the grooves flowing from track to track-it’s just awesome. He just released a song called “The Light”. You won’t regret the listen.
Now for something a little different. Just discovered this band called PWR BTTM. They’re on Father/Daughter records (think Diet Cig, SPORTS, EX HEX), so they have a solid fuzzy, soft-punk, college-rock sound. Stereogum just called them one of the top 50 new bands of 2015, so that’s pretty sweet. They’re a New York based duo featuring a female drummer and male guitar/vocalist, which we really don’t see a lot of. They’ve got a little Viet Cong in them, maybe a little American Baseball, but more punk and a little more accessible. But they’ve got a really fun, unique, sound. Definitely give these guys a listen. Here’s the title track to their Release from September:
Lastly, a fun, but surprisingly honest party song. Snakeships (whom I really don’t know much about), this week released a song called All My Friends- no relation to LCD Soundsytem. It features verses from Chance the Rapper and Tinashe. I’m really not a party anthem girl myself, so I was pretty impressed by how much I actually liked this song. I’m sure it’s mostly to do with how relatable the song is, “well, we’re at a party again… everyone’s drunk…again…. so I guess here we go.”
Hope you enjoy!
Have a great week everyone!!
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