The ever consistent Knocks deliver a further solid outing w/ new track “Comfortable”. Featuring BK risers X Ambassadors, “Comfortable” strides an accessible line between 80’s pop hedonism and modern indie breaks (your weird creepy uncle that was big in 1985 and girls in Bushwick that weird dresses w/ bird patterns on them now share a new favorite song). The ineffable Neon Gold will be releasing a new Knocks EP on Feb. 18.
The Knocks 
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Rating 8.1
“Love Letters”, the title track to Metronomy’s upcoming follow-up to 2011’s The English Riviera, is the London-based band’s latest single. Today the band confirmed on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show that a video for the manic kinetic track will be directed by Michel Gondry. Love Letters is due March 10.
Metronomy 
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Rating 8.3
Ed Thomas, the songwriter behind Bondax’s “Giving It All”, reveals a new track in the form of the spare, rhythm-driven R&B-tinged pop of “Hurt”. Closely packed, condense, an efficient machine, “Hurt” succeeds on both its imagination (the nexus of vocal, beat and atmospherics created on the track is next level) and its simplicity (the track’s spaces are magnetic).
Ed Thomas 
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Rating 8.4
