“Hunting” is the third single from Canadian band The Darcys upcoming Warning LP on Arts & Crafts. An engaging mix of visceral, punch-you-in-the-guts rock and roll immediacy and more artful bits contained in the neat harmonic voicings across the tune and in the instrumentation. The anticipated Warning is due Sept. 17th on Arts & Crafts.
The Darcys 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
Washington D.C. producer/DJ Caleb L’Etoile gets deep on the Zane Lowe ‘Next Hype’-minted Thunderbird Gerard x FTSE produced jam, “Firewurx”. The result is a grooved out daytime disco gem, well deserving of any indian summer pooltime playlists. Caleb L’Etoile will keep heating things up with a new two song EP due out next month, so mark your calendars. Here’s your premiere for his remix on “Firewurx”.
Caleb L’Etoile 
(Soundcloud)
Thunderbird Gerard 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
UK dance producer Skanky breaks off a bit of proper anthemic house w/ the limitlessly buttery and soulful new “One More Night”. Grown folks hands in the air.
Skanky 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins links up w/ new Fools Gold-signee High Klassified for production on “The Water”. The lead and title track from Jenkins’ upcoming mixtape, “The Water” finds the CHI rapper easy gliding all over H.K.’s cooly-tipped after hours-styled production. A++
Mick Jenkins 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.4
We are loving the Dice Raw (The Roots)-produced new track from soulstress/songwriter Tess Henley. A bit different look for Ms. Henley from the sunny warm R&B sounds of “Daydreaming” that we featured a little while back, “Who Are You” is that cool, neatly harmonized minor-keyed soul that we go totally nuts for here at B3. Check “Who Are You” below and look for Tess Henley’s High Heels & Sneakers LP out now.
Tess Henley 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
“All We Can” is new from Brighton UK artist Yumi and the Weather. The deeper tones of Yumi’s (real name Ruby Taylor) vocal as well as her melodic choices work quite well w/ “All We Can”‘s mid-tempo bounce. That, and the track’s nice blend of accessory instrumentals; including deep-in-the-verb XX-style guitars and kinetic horn lines. We’re into it Look for an EP also titled “All We Can” from Yumi and the Weather on 10/21.
Yumi and the Weather 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
“Cry No More” is the debut track from London-based Vaults. “Cry No More” built initially on a neat interplay of a repeated bells figure and a simple bit of piano chords morphs a bit in sound and theme in its later half as synth swells move in and out the mix to expand and contract tension. Well done.
Vaults (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
“Deeper” is both the newest track and the title of an upcoming EP (due 9/24) from Freddie Gibbs & Madlib. Another instant classic in the MadGibbs canon, “Deeper” again showcases the nearly perfect dynamic/symbiosis (why not?) between Madlib’s steady soul-driven production hand and Gangsta Gibbs’ A+ diction and rhyme schemes.
Freddie Gibbs 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.9
Today marks the North American release of The 1975’s self-titled debut and full-length album. The album has been a favorite of ours at b3HQ (you can stream the LP here), therefore when the band asked us to take part in their series of artwork premieres (there is a different piece of artwork for each song on the album) for their song “An Encounter”… of course we were more than obliged. “An Encounter” is a sort of compositional adhesion that, while short in length, paints a bridge of allure between musical statements. As frontman Matty Healy best puts it…
“An Encounter” acts as cinematically paced scene change that ushers in the album’s second phase, our personal ode to an eighties movie. Symbolising the moment the two characters from “Robbers” meet for the first time, “An Encounter” is a hopelessly romantic soundtrack to our Bonnie & Clyde’s first encounter …
The 1975 (Official)(Facebook) (Read more about The 1975 on B3SCI)
The 1975 have offered up a full stream of their most excellent self-titled debut album in anticipation of it’s release this coming Monday (9/2). In a recent interview with frontman Matt Healy, the Mike Crossey co-produced album is aptly described by the singer as a ‘culmination of a life’s work’. And, as with any true album, there is a tangibility to The 1975. The lyrical ebb and flow of memories of youth, lust, and all the experiences they come with, is here captured by a new generation of pop music appreciators, with an incisive blend of fluidic R&B rooted rock. After all, it’s not every day that a new British band merits a lasting impression on the North American conscience.
The 1975 (Official)(Facebook) (Read more about The 1975 on B3SCI)
German producer takes JMSN and Ab-Soul really really deep like Mariana’s Trench inside a singularity deep, that and he manages to horn in that “hOoowwww” vocal sample from Cam’ron’s “What Means The World To You”. If you’re like us and that’s absolutely your lane than best to be getting familiar below. Singularity/Cam’ron.
IAMNOBODI 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.10
Very new artist, as in there’s little to zero information out there about dude on the interwebs, Mirror Signal a/k/a 19-year old Suffolk songwriter Steven Barker crushes B3SCI world w/ the very very soulful, (let the fact that bro is just 19 blow your mind again as you listen) “Broken Soldier”.
Mirror Signal (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
