Cold Specks’ cover of Swans “Reeling The Liars In” has found some heavy rotation since we got our hands on her recent Dancing Coins RSD release. Get familiar below.
Cold Specks – Reeling The Liars In (Swans Cover)Cold Specks 
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Rating 8
Cold Specks’ cover of Swans “Reeling The Liars In” has found some heavy rotation since we got our hands on her recent Dancing Coins RSD release. Get familiar below.
Cold Specks – Reeling The Liars In (Swans Cover)Cold Specks (Facebook)
Rating 8
Brooklyn rockers Fast Years will release their debut EP Women on June 25. The EP starts out on a tear with the guitar-driven “Young Heart” which certainly packs a jangly punch. Women then segways nicely into the incredibly hooky surf tune, “Let Me Try”. Things mellow out on the next few tracks giving the album a nice flavor. “Fall For Me” is an exceedingly dynamic, but pleasantly tight track where nothing is wasted. The melodies are woven masterfully with a true knack for Pop – something that Fast Years seem to do effortlessly. “Like It Or Not” is more nostalgic and without doubt leaves me with a John Frusciante sort of feel (this song is really a delight). The album takes another turn with “Stolen Love”, which delivers a vibrant and energetic track. The closing number, “Happy Hour” offers up some healthy refrains and more of those guitar sounds that are so distinctive to Fast Years. Highly relatable lyrics is another quality that makes this EP ever more relevant and significant to the listener – spurring periods of pondering, reflection, and maybe even preparation for some looming event that might just be meandering beyond your awareness. – By Trevor Meyer
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Rating 7.7937
Ursh has us feeling all adult contemporary conscious on new ballad heater “What Happened To You”. Syrupy, smooth, and melodic in all the best ways, “You”‘s got us ready to throw on that knit cap, and those “thoughtful shades”, and make love to y’all’s minds. Conscious. Looking 4 Myself is out today.
Usher 
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Rating 8.2
Another Friday heater to lose your shit to c/o Yuksek and Stephen Fasano. Get with it.
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Peter & The Magician – Memory (Le Crayon Remix)
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Rating 8.2
Xaphoon blends St. Lucia’s excellent “We Got It Wrong” with Madeon’s edit of Yelle’s “Que Veux Tu” to forge a five alive party record. You’ll know your at the cool party when you hear this shit come over the speakers.
Xaphoon Jones – Oui Got It Wrong (St. Lucia/Madeon)Xaphoon Jones 
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Rating 8.2
Ocean knocks another one down with latest track “Pyramids”. FO’s just announced Channel Orange LP drops July 17.
Frank Ocean 
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Rating 8.2
By Bruce Rave
In Our Heads is the new Hot Chip album and it drops next week. “Motion Sickness” leads off the record and it will definitely get you in motion. It’s got those lush Hot Chip synth parts and a fine groove. After early listens, I’m not sure this album is their best effort as many of the tracks have more of a mainstream dance feel, but the album definitely has it’s highlights and this is one of them.
Hot Chip — Motion SicknessHot Chip (Facebook)
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FJ drops off his latest remix package with fresh spins on Stevie Wonder, Toro y Moi, Corinne Bailey Rae and more. Freddie’s sublime lush take on Telepopmusik’s 2005 track “Brighton Beach” is our pick from the set.
Telepopmusik – Brighton Beach (Freddie Joachim Remix)Freddie Joachim 
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Rating 8.4
Blackbird Blackbird delivers maybe his strongest track yet with “Happy With You”. A bit more conventional to traditional pop songwriting structures, the new track adeptly mixes some neat synth atmospheres, great counterrhythmic programming and smart melodic elements and bends them through that new structural focus to deliver a most excellent song.
Blackbird Blackbird (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
Beef Boy Jens is back with “Erica America”. The track which is excerpted from the due in September LP I Know What Love Isn’t gathers the best of ’70’s jazz-influenced Dad Rock (hands clenched, shoulders braced for that sizzling sax solo) with more modern melodic textures.
Jens Lekman 
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Rating 8.2
The 4AD creepers join up with fellow SoCal soul resident Dam-Funk to release a pitch perfect weirdo cover of Donnie & Joe Emerson’s ballad-y 1979 track “Baby”. “Baby” will serve as the lead single to Ariel Pink’s upcoming Mature Themes LP, due Aug. 21.
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Baby (Feat. Dam-Funk)Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
“If Only We Remain” is the second single from Two wounded Birds’ forthcoming self-titled and debut album. The track showcases the quartet’s unmistakable knack for brit jangle (that you know we love) and appreciation for classic American pop. The video for the song was premiered this morning via FILTER. Grab the album June 26th.
Two Wounded Birds – If Only We RemainTwo Wounded Birds 
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Rating 8.1
