Com Truise // Open

 This new, old track from Com Truise's forthcoming compilation of early material 'In Decay' is filling my ears with joy. It's destined for a cosmic science fiction soundtrack, or the intergalactic national anthem from the future based on the tight electronic funk come-to-bed sounds of the eighties.

The album in full is due for release on July 17th.
 
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Jens Lekman // Erica America

Jens has made people wait a while for a follow up to 2007's 'Night Falls Over Kortedala'. Not that he hasn't been busy in the meantime, with his 2011 'An Argument With Myself EP' the most recent in a string of minor releases.

Erica America is a first taste of what to expect from his forthcoming 'I Know What Love Isn't' LP, with his wistful folk and melancholic, absorbing pen as sharp as ever. Check out the video below.

 

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Arthur Beatrice // Not Without Thinking

Not Without Thinking, B-side to their second single Charity out next month, is another in an incerasingly long line of superb, rousing singles from Arthur Beatrice.

There's something nape-ticklingly wonderful about the shifts in tone and tempo, as well as Ella Girardot's impassioned yet macabre vocal, that sets this band apart from much other indie around, and we can't wait for the debut record proper.
 
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jj // High Summer EP

Swedish duo jj have just dropped a free five track EP, 'High Summer', for your listening pleasure, a record of lush, angelic electronica interspersed with lyrical profanity and paranoia. In lieu of a new record proper (jj no. 4) this will most definitely do nicely thanks.

'High Summer EP'
jj // High Summer
jj // 10
jj // My Name
jj // Big Hearts, Big Dreams
jj // Times

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Baio // Sunburn Modern

Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio has turned out the most aptly named track of the year so far in Sunburn Modern, taken from his debut record for Greco-Roman, and now has a bizarre yet transfixing and confusingly erotic stop-motion video to go with it.

 

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra // I'll Come Back 4 U

Premiered on Lauren Laverne's show this morning and forming part of Adult Swim's Summer Series is this utter joy of a track from Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

I'll Come Back 4 U's popping, funky bass and indie lo-fi vocals prove a winning, off-beat, summery combination, and considering this is a freebie makes you wonder how good the stuff you have to pay for is. Download below.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra // I'll Come Back 4 U

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Lemonade // Softkiss

Summer has finally arrived in the form of San Franciscan trio Lemonade and their new, David Franklin directed video for Softkiss. The band will be in London on July 3rd, for a set of R&B influenced tropical dance-pop, so if you're after a charmingly hedonistic departure from the London gloom, you could do a lot worse.

 

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New Look // New Look

Nothing whatsoever to do with the high street fashion chain, New York / Canadian duo New Look have their self-title debut record re-released to the world today, and to mark this occasion and spur you into parting with your money, here are a selection of the band's choice cuts.

The Ballad's Lynchian take on Joy Division meets power ballads is stunning, while Teen Need's functional groove and the Sade meets house Nap on the Bow are clear stand-outs. Have a listen below.







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Shine 2009 // Our Nation

In these past weeks of patriotic celebration, the UK has opted for fervent flag-waving, confusing dress-up and a combination of the archaic and abysmal as representations of our national pride. The Scandinavians, predictably, do things in a much more stylish and believable manner.

Finnish duo Shine 2009's Our Nation is a early 90s house ode to their homeland, while the video offers some mildly psychedlic facts and sloganeering in support. Having watched it, I think I feel prouder of Finland than I do England. The band even show their generous side, offering you a free download of the track too.

 
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Dirty Projectors // Dance For You

"I boogied down gaaaargoyle streets, searching in every face for something I could believe". Just one of the many beautful, vivid, unusual, dramatic and evocative refrains in this new track from Dirty Projectors.

It's simple, compact and just couldn't have come from any other band. Their new record, 'Swing Lo Magellan', is out July 9 / 10 on Domino Records and, if it's anything near as good as Dance For You suggests it will be, it's going to be our record of the year by a length.

 

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Echo Lake // Wild Peace

Ahead of the July 25th release of their debut record 'Wild Peace' on No Pain In Pop, Echo Lake are offering some free streams to whet our whistles for the full album.

The title track below is typical of the band's glimmering shoe-gaze, hushed, chamber vocals and looped basslines, while the video for earlier track Even The Blind gives the perfect, blurry visual accompaniment to their sound.





Full tracklisting for the album will be:
Further Down
Another Day
Wild Peace
Even The Blind
Monday 5AM
Young Silence
In Dreams
Last Song Of The Year
Swimmers
Just Kids

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Furrow // Field Study

Describing themselves as 'Field-Gaze Punx', West Felton two-piece Furrow may well be the first band to ever fuse geography trip countryside sounds with lo-fi grunge. You have to congratulate the Shropshire lads for working with what they have.

While Field Study A and Field Study B are not likely to change your world, Shred and Speak in Tongue are untidy blasts of garage-punk joy from their new EP, coming quick on the heels of their self-titled April release 'Furrow'. Enjoy both below.

 



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Jaill // House With Haunting

To celebrate the release of 'Traps', Jaill's brand new record on Sub Pop, here's the video for album track House With Haunting, a Weezer / Real Estate-esque slacker pop anthem. What do we learn? Never leave your girlfriend alone with ghosts.

 

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