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Rating: 7.7
If you like Scandinavian synth pop with moody rhythmic verses, huge epic choruses, and more hooks than Jimmy Houston’s tackle box, (we totally just took it there) then you, friend, have hit some sort of song jackpot cause “Never Be the Same” is all those things, and really really well executed, an exemplar for the genre.
Little Majorette – Never Be the SameLittle Majorette 
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Rating: 8.2
Rather than take someone else’s melody and recycle it, (looking at you, Rihanna and the Rapture) Bjork has recycled herself. “Crystalline” exists between the crunchy prescient remixes on Telegram and the delicate echoes of Vespertine. Taking her own sound and twisting it, you feel nostalgia for those previous records without the hangover.
Contributed by Erin Routson
Bjork – CrystallineBjork 
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Rating: 8.0
Gotta admit this one of our fav hip hop tracks in a minute. Ski stretches the beat on “Parachute” to its limit, makes it taught til its paper thin, and what amounts is a super dense, compact, slim track. The perfect rudder to Tabi’s more talk-y conversational flow.
Tabi Bonney – Parachutes (Prod. Ski Beatz)Tabi Bonney 
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Rating: 8.4
b3sci fav Jesse Boykins III returns w a new Gold Panda produced track. We’re defniitely feeling this electro-tinged change of pace for JBIII. And while the track maybe heavily synthesized/processed, colder, Boykins’ smooth tenor keeps the tune up on a steady slow burn.
Jesse Boykins III – Back Home (Mermaids & Dragons) (Prod. Gold Panda)Jesse Boykins III 
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Rating: 8.3
“Trance Sisters” is what you’d want Memory Tapes second LP to sound like; jagged rhythms, percussive melodies, and enough syncopation to get your next Bard College rave party poppin’. Lets go to the track!
Memory Tapes – Trance SistersMemory Tapes 
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Rating: 7.9
Yeah, we fuck with Grimes. We also fuck with BANGS too. Take U to the Movies.
Grimes – My Sister Says the Saddest ThingsGrimes 
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Rating: 7.9
“A Creature I Don’t Know” is the lead single from Ms. Marling’s upcoming third LP of the same name due in September. “A Creature I Don’t Know” represents a realization and maturity in Marling’s writing and vocal stylings. She’s confident, she’s on top the tune, she’s bleeding out the track. It’s great.
Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t KnowLaura Marling 
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Rating: 8.0
We close up shop for the week on this heatrock of a Breton remix by London production smith Girl Unit. Feel the fresh Friday vibes. We out!
Breton – RDI (Girl Unit Remix)Girl Unit : (Myspace) (Soundcloud) (Facebook)
Rating: 8.2
The Eversons are New Zealand’s answer to Pavement, 90’s rock radio, and liberals (fuck those flaking liberal dicks).
The Eversons – I’m a ConservativeThe Eversons 
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Rating: 8.1
If only I lived in a universe where every time Bruno Mars’ “The Lazy Song” (maybe the worst top 10 song EVER) came on the radio something by fellow Hawaiian Anuhea would play instead. Here, the soulful Maui native does her take on Estelle’s “Come Over Love” adding acoustic guitar and a smoothed out island feel.
Anuhea – Come Over Love (Estelle Cover)Anuhea 
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Rating: 8.1
Looks like somebody stuck a quarter or two into these geezers as “Major Minus” is fucking great. This is totally what that shitbrick X&Y should have sounded like. The band sounds focused. The writing here is sharp; the melodies, the instrumentation, the rhythms, etc. Good on ya, Coldplay. It’s nice to have you blokes back.
Coldplay – Major MinusColdplay : (Official) (Myspace) (Twitter)
Rating: 8.6
