We know yr probably done with “Angels” (we thought we were too) but we can’t help but fall deeply in love with KOTKEE’s beautiful 3 A.M. re-imagining (and we stress re-imagining, as we’ve never heard the oft-covered track quite like this) of The xx hit.
KOTKEE – Angels (The XX Cover)KOTKEEE (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Mount Kimbie + King Krule = ?. Of course, “Took Your Time” is very very good. The only real negative here is that there’s only 5 minutes 16 of the track. The languid cymbal tap-driven electric organ-grind of Kimbie’s instrumental fits Zoo Kid’s guttermouth rapsinging to a T. We are very much into it.
Mount Kimbie 
(Official)
Rating 8.3
The team of Gallant and Felix Snow, who produced the crushing (& one of the year) cover of Ke$ha’s “Die Young” return with the equally strong R&B of “Please?”. Felix Snow’s production, again, should be highlighted here as the track is next level good. Ok, enough from us, we’re hitting the replay button again.
Gallant – Please? (Vignette) [prod. Felix Snow]Gallant 
(Soundcloud(/a>)
Rating 8.8
Splashh (their spelling, not ours) fuzz it up w/ the 90’s on “Today”, an unreleased B-side from the sessions of the band’s debut Comfort LP. With “Today” it is certainly a buyer’s market in the distortion department but in addition is a nice bit of tunefulness and melody which gives the track some extra replayability legs.
Splashh – Today (Fade Away)Splashh
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
MOKO, a 21 year old soul singer from New Cross, London offers up a proper debut track (she only uploaded her first song to Soundcloud 8 weeks ago!) in the form of the early 90’s house/school of Whitney Houston gospel-informed track “Hand On Heart”.
MOKO (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
“Going Home” is excerpted here from Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir Trausti’s debut English language EP, The Toe Rag Sessions. Just 20 years old but already a prominent commodity in his native Iceland (Trausti’s LP Dyrd i Daudathogn became the biggest selling dometic debut in the country’s history), an English language version of the entire EP is in the offing as well as supporting dates in the UK for Of Monsters And Men. “Going Home” is simply gorgeous and a definite gem of its genre that you should get ears on ASAP.
Ásgeir Trausti 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
The Australian electro scene has no doubt been producing some stellar exports as of late. Quasimo is the latest to hit our radar with his impressive intuition for rolling beats, laid-back synths and well inflected pitch and melody work. Judging by his first original, “We’ll Manage” and his bootleg of James Blake’s “Retrograde,” we’re looking forward to more to come from Quasimo.
James Blake – Retrograde (Quasimo’s Bootleg Remix)Quasimo (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Here is the latest from the French Express astronaut, Moon Boots. Fusing tropical disco with house, the low key producer has done it again with “Love Strong”. The consistent use of the different synth patches, mainly the xylophone, are really setting him apart from other producers of similar caliber. Keep ’em coming Moon Boots. By Brian Litwin
Moon Boots – Love StrongMoon Boots (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
MØ’s run will not stop. “Waste of Time” is the latest in her unblemished record of worldbeating electro-pop tunes. It’s MØ, no doubt, but “Waste of Time”‘s engine is gassed up on a few different types of sounds; namely some very sultry guitar leads and stuttering hip hop-schooled drums. Right, as if you need any more from us, anyway, it’s MØ, get to it.
MØ 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.6
Ah, Fenech-Soler, welcome back, boys, welcome back. “Magnetic”, the new signal from the band’s, September 2nd-due sophomore LP Rituals is no doubt the strongest track we’ve heard from Fenech-Soler since maybe “Lies”. Try not shouting out “It’s a FEeeeeeeeling” at 1:44 when the second chorus comes in. Yes, by chorus two you’ll be hooked; “And I neeeeeeed it”.
Fenech-Soler (Official)
Rating 8.4
Freddie Dickson. The name of West Londoner Freddie Dickson we project will line the coffers of Critics’ Bests of Lists in 2013 and beyond. “The End” is the sort of confidently-written accomplished dark pop that Mercury Prize nominations are made of (really). “Shut Us Down,” the debut four-track EP from Freddie Dickson, is due May 20th.
Freddie Dickson – The EndFreddie Dickson (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
