One of our favorite tracks of the last few weeks has been Stevie Wolf’s midtempo jam “Who”. The midtempo number features a magnetic main hook, the ooh ooh ooh portion of which is nearly impossible to extricate from one’s head. Get into “Who” below.
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STéLOUSE covers one of 2017’s biggest tracks “Rockstar” by the dynamic duo of Post Malone and 21 Savage in the style of Soundcloud in 2014; adding woozy synths and a new vocal track (Still Haze is an MVP here) in making over “Rockstar” into a great big sounding club winner.
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Holy Motors, out of the Estonian capital city of Tallinn, stream stark Mazzy Star-like in aesthetic new track “Honeymooning”. With an emphasis on space in the arrangement, “Honeymooning” takes that reverb-heavy deep in the p.a. vocal style perfect by Mazzy or Chris Izaak, and more recently The xx, and casts a darker (slightly menacing) thematic tone. Holy Motors’ debut LP Slow Sundown is out February 9th.
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TDE’s next man up is SiR on the ScHoolboy Q featuring “Something Foreign”. Set to a Saxon-produced instrumental driven by jazz-referencing piano chords and rhythm structures, “Something Foreign” is a subtle standout.
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Mind of a Genius artist KWAYE nimbly channels the sound of multiple eras of R&B to a compact modernly arranged new track “Lost in My Boots”. A percussive main guitar, choral-reminiscent harmonies at the track’s most key dynamic points, and a cool neatly syncopated bassline frame up one of R&B (and indie music’s) best tracks of 2017.
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This Tuesday(!) B3 and Danger Village are back with a show at Dirty Laundry in Hollywood featuring a pair of L.A. pop acts, Still a Great Night and MRY. The free show jumps off at 10 PM this Tuesday. Be there!
The impeccable synth-pop of “Two Loves” is new from Manchester UK duo Koalas. Propelled from its start position by peppy minor chord synth stabs, a percussive main vocal melody and a kinetic rhythm track, “Two Loves” is magnetic from the off.
Koalas’ Samuel Jones adds about the track’s genesis and inspiration, ““We wanted the song to act like a modern Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams but written from a more positive perspective. I like the idea of a song alluding to themes around human love and kink but without ever being too obvious or explicit, demanding an emotional response and not just physical. Musically the track is a bit of a ride with stark contrasts in dynamics and density between the different sections of the song. It’s a favourite for us to play live as there’s probably the most room in this tune to go off map. ”
“Two Loves” is a component part of a new AA single from Koalas (with “Lover”) for label Low Four. Stream the B3SCI Premiere of “Two Loves” below.
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Talented Aussie Jack Grace dials up the neo alternative R&B sound in a new (via some very spacious broad-palette dance referencing) and very listenable way on “Us”.
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Brighton band Thyla close 2017 with another strong stream, “Tell Each Other Lies”. The band will play a few dates in Britain to round out the year and are included below.
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