Kwaidan Records will release on June 8th Opium, the 10th album from Swedish songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson. Stream the slow dance on a warm summer night sounds of “NDE” below.
Jay-Jay Johanson 
(Soundcloud)
Kwaidan Records will release on June 8th Opium, the 10th album from Swedish songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson. Stream the slow dance on a warm summer night sounds of “NDE” below.
Jay-Jay Johanson (Soundcloud)
Polyvinyl-signed band from Louisville KY White Reaper share irreverent track “I Don’t Think She Cares” from forthcoming debut LP, White Reaper Does It Again. Clanging bass, protopunk half-time drums and the controlled chaos of neatly dynamic distorted guitars, “I Don’t Think She Cares” has our attention.
White Reaper 
(Facebook)
The hooky acoustic-driven track “Swing” is the debut song online from UK-based 25 year old THØSS. We’re into it.
THØSS 
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Patrick Loggins aka Atlantan turned Brooklynite Time Wharp will release his eponymous debut LP through Astro Nautico this month. The cosmic whirl of “Cole Dub” is the LP’s latest stream and will be included in the LP’s 12″ vinyl release.
Time Wharp 
(Soundcloud)
HAELOS are an extraordinary new act out of the UK, the band’s penchant for harnessing broad in scope sound and cinema in their tracks (reminding aesthetically a bit of Massive Attack) within the frame of minimalist engaging composition is outstanding. Each new track from HAELOS is an EVENT! for us as listeners and fans. The band have just signed to Matador to release their debut EP which will include this spectacular new cover of 1990 track “The Sun Rising” by The Beloved.
Montreal outfit Seoul readies new I Become a Shade LP with stream of dreamily textured new single “Haunt a Light”.
Seoul
Newcomer rock band Kid Wave (who B3 featured in January with the 10 out of 10 track “Wonderlust”) enthrall with another incredible indie single, the poppy, catchy-hooked jangly-guitar tinged “Best Friend”. Both tracks are off of the UK group’s new “Wonderlust” EP which is out June 1. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Kid Wave 
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“Just Like Blood” is the dark and seductive, superbly melancholic, vocally stunning second single off the “I Don’t Want To Let You Down” EP from NY songstress Sharon Van Etten, which is out June 9th on Jagjaguwar Records. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Sharon Van Etten (Official)
Berlin deep house producer Ferdinand Weber turns in a new lustrous synth-lavished summertime dance remix of club heater “Silverlined”, the 2014 premiere single from UK DJ/Producer XYConstant off his debut “X=Y” EP (which has an unknown release date). Weber’s beautifully uplifting, floating-on-cloud-9 remix is out soon via Pete Tong’s FFRR label. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
XYConstant (Soundcloud)
Get into the smooth vocal dreamscape of pop track “Caught Up On You” from UK trio Shy Luv which is the joint collaboration between Future Classic producer Karma Kid, Armeria beat maker Jake Norman and vocalist Ryan Ashley. According to Norman in the Fader, Shy Luv wrote the opulent hip-hop leaning track within the frame of the new trio’s heat-of-the-summer head space during their first studio encounter last summer. “Caught Up On You” is available on June 8th. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Shy Luv (Soundcloud)
“Right Now” is a newest exercise in melodic sorcery/running laps around the competition from Aussie act Hopium. The Melbourne duo’s third track online, including breakthrough “Dreamers” which went to #1 Hypem, “Right Now” traffics in a similar type of sticky staccato instrumentation and tunefulness as “Dreamers” that marks “Right Now”s success as a viral hit all but certain.
Hopium 
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Surprise BBC Sound Poll winners Years & Years will release their debut Communion LP on Polydor July 10 and have a new single in tow in the form of the bouncy synth pop number “Shine”. Stream below.
Years and Years (Facebook)
