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Track Reviews

The Night Cafe – You Change With The Seasons

Young Liverpudlian four-piece The Night Cafe follow up Radio 1-playlisted winner “Mixed Signals” with excellent crossover-ready new one “You Change With The Seasons”. TNC are touring throughout Britain in Decemnber beginning in Liverpool at the Arts Club on December 3.

December 3 | Arts Club, Liverpool
December 5 | The Bullingdon, Oxford
December 6 | Louisiana, Bristol
December 7 | Old Blue Last, London
December 8 | Bodega, Nottingham
December 9 | The Cookie, Leicester
December 10 | Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham

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11-22-16

Molly Burch – Try

Molly Burch announces signing to the great Captured Tracks and details of debut LP Please Be Mine with stream of first track “Try”.

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11-18-16

Kllo – Walls To Build (Mall Grab Remix)

Two of our favorite emerging artists out of Australia Kllo and Mall Grab link up for an after hours remake of “Walls To Build”, from Kllo’s “Well Worn” EP. Kllo will play North American dates with Rufus Du Sol later this month and into December including December 4th at Multiply in L.A.

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11-18-16

William Bolton – Change

William Bolton’s latest track “Change,” produced by himself, has an astounding message that’s definitely appropriate for America’s mixed responses to the election results. Bolton describes how he’s found a bright light within himself and how he’s reached a place of contentment and happiness within his own life. This song is a great reminder that change is possible and that it’s up to each of us to create positive energy within ourselves first before larger positive change can be made.

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11-11-16

STéLOUSE – Been So Long (Feat. Nick Leng)

Denver producer STéLOUSE links up with B3SCI Records alum Nick Leng and his out-of-this-world vocal prowess for great new rhythm-driven track “Been So Long” for Casablanca Records.

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11-11-16

PLAZA – Youth

Hartlepool UK’s PLAZA stream third single online “Youth”. Constructed over a rudder of UK shoegaze’s more illustrious moments (the timbre of Slowdive particularly comes to mind here), “Youth” ably applies the gaze idiom into a modern gruffer frame that we’re digging.

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11-10-16

Trudy and the Romance – Sandman

The Liverpool maniacs Trudy and the Romance latest exercise in melodic chaos is the cool as hell new track “Sandman”.

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11-10-16

Geowulf – Don’t Talk About You

The UK “Saltwater” hitmakers, Geowulf, follow-up their breakthrough with track of equivalent blissed-out brilliance. The beachy, dreamy number “Don’t Talk About You” sonically picks right up where “Saltwater” last left us, excelling through a tuneful surrealistic vibe long on great pop songwriting skill. Stream “Don’t Talk About You” below

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11-10-16

Goldlink – See I Miss Pt. 2 (Feat. Marsha Ambrosius)

DMV man Goldlink marks one year gone since the release of his And After That We Didn’t Talk? project with a re-worked version of jazzy track “See I Miss Pt. 2” with a new vocal from Marsha Ambrosius (Anderson Paak’s feature is still there too).

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11-08-16

Angharad Drake – Baby

Brisbane AU 24-year old Angharad Drake impresses on sullenly beautiful new one “Baby”. Gifted with an evocative vocal with a unique affecting timbre, Ms. Drake effectively communicates a narrative of some of love’s more isolating passages on “Baby”.

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11-08-16

Bruno Major – The First Thing You See

The impressive “The First Thing You See” is the third entry in Northampton UK native Bruno Major’s 12 month release project. Fresh from a supporting stint for Lianne La Havas, the quickly rising Major draws from a creative palette of James Blake/Jamie Woon-styled electronic-aided eclecticism crossed with a deep internalization (very clear melodically on “The First Thing You See”) of melodic prime movers like Chet Baker and Ella Fitzgerald. We love “The First Thing You See” and we love Bruno Major. Listen.

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11-04-16

Rodes Rollins – Young & Thriving

A sublime and magnetic vocal, an evocative and transportive tranche of a production choices and instrumentation, and a run of melodies and tunefulness that is just wrecking to one’s central viscera (enough hyperbole for you?), Rodes Rollins’ “Young & Thriving” is some very very good dark pop. One of the best debut tracks of the year.

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11-04-16