OMG! The xx beatmaker goes in on the Adele song of the year candidate. So legit. CDQ soon.
Adele – Rolling in the Deep (Jamie Xx Remix) (Radio Rip) via Keshia BeeAdele Purchase / Info
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rating: 8.4
OMG! The xx beatmaker goes in on the Adele song of the year candidate. So legit. CDQ soon.
Adele – Rolling in the Deep (Jamie Xx Remix) (Radio Rip) via Keshia BeeAdele Purchase / Info
Jamie Xx Purchase / Info
rating: 8.4
Christina Aguilera has arguably the best pipes in the business. Nary the (at least memorable) rap feature she’s done up to this point in her career. But wow what a turn, she sounds phenomenal here on the hook for “Castle Walls”. T.I. too sounds pretty phenomenal, rhyming here over what amounts to the best or at least most commercial hip hop radio friendly track so far from No Mercy. Christina, girl, get at us. We want to write you songs. We’ve got ideas. Tons of ‘em. We’re talking Album of the Year type shit. It’d be awesome! Call us!
T.I. – Castle Walls (Feat. Christina Aguilera)Rating: 8.2
Big tune here from Irish trio Funeral Suits. We heard “Colour Fader” on Zane Lowe’s show the other night, and wow, what a song. There are obvious influences here, MGMT, Temper Trap, (as cited by Zane himself) Blur, Smiths (Dudes are working with the Stephen Street! The bloke who produced Parklife!), but what a super exciting mix of sounds. And it sounds different! And from a new band! Love it. Can’t wait to see what more is in store from these guys.
Funeral Suits – Colour FaderRating: 8.5
Skinner’s back, and this time it’s personal! After recently dropping a few opening salvos via twitter, Skinner let loose yesterday on the first single from dude’s supposedly last LP. (We’re calling bullshit.) Have to say, at least musically, this song is a bit unexpected. Not like that really matters. But the guitar backed track sounds fucking great anyway. Skinner, himself, sounds at the top of his game. Flowing seemingly effortlessly on the track. He could do this in his sleep. Mike, Twitter us!
The Streets – Going Through Hell via Details of My LifeRating: 8.3
Gotta give it up to Chris Martin & co. “Christmas Lights” is great. It has all those components that make for good holiday music, feelings of nostalgia, feelings of warmth, and feelings of familiarity. “Christmas Lights” sounds familiar, probably cause it is, after all, Coldplay. “Christmas Lights” feels warm, it feels like a reminder. I put the tune on earlier for the first time, and I can’t front, I was skeptical I thought Coldplay doing a Christmas single, how many times shlocky will this end up being. But by the fifth or sixth listen (I had lost count), I was hooked. I was practically ready to trim the tree and all that by the end of the afternoon. Check it below.
Coldplay – Christmas Lights
Rating: 8.0
Seattle-area producer 10.4 rog flips The Great Dane Duo’s “Average Fruit” with pretty phenomenal results. This remix takes on a bit more synthetic tone with 808-sounding drum tones and layered keyboard flourishes but feels possibly more than the original track (which is saying a lot cause the original is sick). There’s so much soul and real emotive quality poured into this mix that you just sort lose yourself in it. Try it.
Quadron – Average Fruit (10.4 rog Gradeschool Crush Version) via SOULBOUNCEPurchase /10.4 rog Soundcloud / Quadron Info
Rating: 8.1
So its been a big couple days for our man Raheem DeVaughn, first he releases this, then he’s a trending topic on this and……. on top of that, drops a pretty sick mixtape, Jackin 4 Beats. The tape has on it a mix of new songs (including four produced by Karma Music), and Raheem versions of (which basically translates to straight vocal murder) big tracks from 2010 (including Kanye’s “Power” Chris Brown’s “Deuces” and Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie”).
DeVaughn’s version of MBDTF’s “Runaway” is our choice track from Jackin 4 Beats. The timbre and tone of “Runaway” sits right in Raheem’s melodic sweet spot, with the D.C. singer running laps up and down the Kanye beat. Fellow D.C. native Phil Ade plays Pusha T, jumping on the latter third of the track and smoothing out some solid verses.
Raheem DeVaughn – Runaway (Feat. Phil Ade) (Stella Edit) Raheem DeVaughn – PowerPurchase / Info / Free Mixtape
Our girl with the golden pipes UK singer-songwriter Jessie J links up here w Bobby Ray for this jangly piece of feel-good pop. Jessie’s got it locked talent-wise. That’s without question. She’s a star. Can she be Kate Nash big? Duffy big? Lily Allen big? Totally can! Work it, girl.
Jessie J – Price Tag (Feat. B.o.B.) via music-mashsRating: 8.2
“Exit” is the lead track from electronic artist Dorian White’s new Holding a Ghost EP. “Exit” plays almost like hymn, like something sacred, if sacred music could be ported over 808s.
Dorian White – Exit via ISO50Rating: 8.2
Beard Sam Beam and his band of noisemaking folk dudes have a new LP coming your way called Kiss Each Other Clean. “Walking Far From Home” serves as a first introduction to the album and perhaps a preview to a sound slightly diverged. The track features a vaguely gospel-sounding electric organ-driven feel laced with a “Tempted By the Fruit of Another”-esque melodic line. We think the tune’s pretty ace and we’re pretty psyched to hear what more is in store on this project.
Iron & Wine – Walking Far From Home
Rating: 8.3
Sheffield has done it again, if you like the Libertines, and our new faves Summer Fiction, then you’ll LOVE The Crookes. Shouts to Can You Hear This for the heads up on these guys… Check it below!
The Crookes – Chorus of Foolsrating: 8.5
The first leaks off Jamie XX’s Gil Scott-Heron remix project. Can you say exciting as fuck? Jamie remixes all 13 tracks from the legendary singer/activist’s lauded 2010 “comeback” LP for the upcoming We’re New Here project. What a brilliant combination. We can not wait for this to come out.
Gil Scott-Heron – NY Is Killing Me (Jamie XX Remix) via mu-sique