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KITTYGATO – I Don’t Know (What To Do With You)

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L.A.-based duo KITTYGATO debut w/ the melodically very special single “I Don’t Know (What To Do With You)”. Excerpted from the band’s BREEZE EP, “I Don’t Know” is beautifully tuneful, immediate and really quite catchy. There’s a realness/intimacy too to “I Don’t Know” that feels somehow like the band’s performing directly to you (like inside your headphones) every time the play button is pressed. All and all, a very strong track from a band to definitely keep ears on. Well done.

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Rating 8.2

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08-19-13

Empire Of The Sun – Alive (Gold Fields Remix)

Empire Of The Sun - Alive (Gold Fields Remix)

Following up last week’s quite good remix for Chela’s “Romanticize”, the Gold Fields boys do their fellow Oz compatriots EOTS several magnitudes better on this floor filling J. Bashmore on a bender house take on the hit track “Alive”.

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Rating 8.3

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08-19-13

Set Sail – Hey!

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Another winner from the Land of Oz is the sunny indie pop of Sydney-based band Set Sail and their catchy track for “Hey!” (exclamation point included). We’re especially digging the inventiveness of the multi-part harmonies in the middle bit of the track; as if “Hey!” hadn’t put us on a beach already. Hey!

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Rating 8.3

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08-16-13

Let’s Buy Happiness – Run

Let's Buy Happiness - Run

If you dig NME/Guardian/Q-lauded melancholic UK rock (clearly we do) then new band Let’s Buy Happiness and their single, the stunning Daughter-esque “Run” should be right up your street. Preview “Run” below and look for LBH’s Chants for Friends LP later in the year.

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Rating 8.1

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08-16-13

Justine Skye – Messing With You (feat. Joey Bada$$ & AZ)

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Brooklyn songstress Justine Skye hooks up everybody’s fave Joey Bada$$ (& apparently 90’s MC AZ, although it’s unclear just where he appears on the track) for the electro-tinged mid-tempo jam “Messing With You”. Justine’s “Everyday Living” EP is due next week, August 20th.

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Rating 8.2

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08-16-13

Gold Panda – Reprise (T.Hemingway Remix)

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UK producer T. Hemingway lays some thick as day old molasses smoothness on Gold Panda’s track for “Reprise”. Been a long week? Let this be your reward.

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Rating 8

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08-16-13