Team Bondax return today with the more early 90’s dance-leaning sound exhibited on recent singles on “All I See”. A well-executed modernized version of that Bush I-administration sound, we expect to hear “All I See” to bumping out our nearest H&M or Zara all summer long.
Bondax 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
“Say Yes To Ewans” is excerpted here from Bristol UK artist Oliver Wilde’s upcoming Red Tide Opal LP. An able blend of romantic shoegaze-y themes and space-zone guitar textures that sound freshly wrested from the 24th Century, “Say Yes To Ewans” is equally and expertly rhythmic and tuneful and unlike anything out right now. We absolutely love “Say Yes To Ewans”. Howling Owl Records is the label to know for the July 28th release of Red Tide Opal.
Oliver Wilde (Official)
Rating 8.2
Snakehips continues to produce tracks at a very high level with latest collaboration. On “Days With You”, the semi-anon UK producer duo is joined by the quickly rising Sinead Harnett who’s impressed recently on vocal features for Rudimental and Ryan Hemsworth. “Days” operates within a 2014 sweet spot zone of a hip-hop referencing rhythm track outfitted with warm house instrumental textures and a female-led R&B-styled vocal. “Days With You” is out on August 25th on new label Hoffman West.
Snakehips (Facebook)
Rating 8.2123
“Hunger of the Pine” is the return single from Alt-J, one of 2012 indie music’s biggest breakouts (winning the Mercury Prize, etc). The new track is of a similar plodding and obtuse ilk as much of debut LP An Awesome Wave but also like that record is buoyed by Alt-J’s penchant for tunefulness and strong writing. This Is All Yours Alt-J’s sophomore release for Canvasback Records is slated for a September 22nd release.
Alt-J (Official)
Rating: 8.8
Australian-based producer Guerre offers the inventive and low touch dance track “Tuk”. The superbly styled song rests on an axis of unique for its genre (non-cliched) drum tones and a stunning architecture of vocal and minimal synth layers. “Tuk” is the second single from Guerre’s Ex Nihilo LP out July 4 on Yes Please / Remote Control.
Guerre 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Brooklyn band Salt Cathedral do well to blend current trends in dance music (including R&B-infused beats and heavy use of syncopated vocal samples) with an indie pop melodic sensibility on the very good “Tease”.
Salt Cathedral 
Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.3
“Summertime vibes”, one of the music blogosphere’s favorite (and most used) turns of phrase in any season. Pomo, the project of Canadian producer David Pimentel, evokes those said “summertime vibes” in a most major and impressive way on new single for the awesome HW&W label. Look for “Start Again” on Pomo’s upcoming “The Other Day” EP.
Pomo 
: (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.7
Wildcat! Wildcat! impress on maybe their best single to date with the indie pop perfect “Hero”. Taken from the band’s August-due LP No Moon At All finds the band adeptly pushing their sound into a more spacious, broader frame while maintaining the strong pop songwriting that W!W! have earned their bread on. Spin “Hero” below.
Wildcat! Wildcat! 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
The Great Jessie makes her return with “Tough Love”. Ware, who broke-out in 2012 on the strength of her top-to-bottom strong Devotion LP, maneuvers in a bit less direct space on “Tough Love”. While the impact of Jessie’s great diction and visceral quality is still very much at the forefront with the new song, “Tough Love” the minimal vocal + beats approach from LP 1 is less at the fore. We like the slight turn in sound and are of course excited for what is next in new material from Jessie Ware. “Tough Love” is out August 3rd on PMR.
Jessie Ware (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
New Irish band SPIES tap the wide aether of big UK (& Irish) rock history with the enormous sounds of single “Moosehead”. “Moosehead”, as a track, is constructed around a booming rhythm track, and delay-washed guitar-riffing threaded with just enough melodic energy and infectiousness to give the track a right set of marching orders (and relevancy). We absolutely love it.
SPIES 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 9.0
“Sweat”, the new one from Aussie in L.A., RY X is an unmixed acoustic demo that is contains one of our favorite sets of melodies this year. The stunning tune seemingly pours out from RY X in a plainly beautiful sweep of soft guitar strums and cinematic themes.
RY X (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
Bora York, a new husband/wife duo out of the Twin Cities, ably compete in the genre of “impeccably crafted female-led indie pop” with the electric & hook-laden “Let Loose”. Do not sleep.
Bora York 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
