Fort Romeau Remix // Alt-J + CYMBALS remixes

Everything Fort Romeau touches turns to genius, and his reworks of Alt-J's Something Good and CYMBALS' Like An Animal for their next single releases are no exception. Listen below, while you can pick up his own work 'Kingdoms' on 100% Silk now.





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Art Is Hard Records // Family Portrait

Earlier this year, Art Is Hard Records pulled together some of its favourite artists and like-minded thinkers, and got them to share a couple of original tracks. The result is the quite brilliant 'Family Portrait' EP.

Diverse despite evident similarities in approach and shared influences, the result is a cohesive record of UK lo-fi, from the reverb heavy, MBV stylings of Gum's Cherryade opener to the two minute alt-punk thrash of Playlounge's Revolution Summer.

Listen below, or by in any format you could dream of from the label's Bandcamp.



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Death Grips // NO LOVE DEEP WEB

What seems like, and in fact is, mere months after the release of 'The Money Store', the ever-generous Death Grips have offered up yet another long player of menacing, genre melding hardcore rap in 'NO LOVE DEEP WEB'. Do tracks like Pop and Hunger Games point towards a radio friendly, mainstream courting change of direction? Not. A Chance.



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Cold Pumas // Fog Cutter

Post punk can get awful repetitive at times, but when you are as adept at delivering looped drums and riffs with The Fall-like intensity then repetition becomes instantly alluring.

Fog Cutter, taken from Cold Puma's long awaited debut LP 'Persistent Malaise' fits this mould, almost four minutes of controlled yet unraveling aggression to blow out your mind and make you want to play it over and over and over and over.

Cold Pumas // Fog Cutter

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SFV Acid // SFV Acid #2

LA's Zane Reynolds (AKA SFV Acid) has pulled a stellar second record out of the bag in 'SFV Acid #2', full of fractured electronic beats that despite their destructive, discordant nature manage to come together as a realistic whole. It's even soulful at times, as on Chaco Love Steve+Happy Acid Kinesinte and Summers Vage Cloud. Take a listen to the full album below, courtesy of PPM Records.



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Frank Ocean // Pyramids

Man of the moment Frank Ocean has just released a video for standout 'Channel Orange' track Pyramids, an 8 minute short full of gun shots and strip clubs to accompany Ocean's modern soul vocal. Check it out below.



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Ombre // Believe You Me

Juliana Barwick and Roberto Carlos Lange are doing pretty exciting things on their own right now, but as a team they form Ombre, and have just released and album packed with electronic eccentricity, meditative loops and haunted house vocals. Not least on Dawning and Weight The World. Take a listen to the whole of 'Believe You Me' below, which you can own for your own at their Bandcamp.



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King Krule // Rock Bottom

King Krule's self titled debut EP from last year saw him carry the soulful surf melodies of his Zoo Kid days and bulk them out with full band backing and tight melodies.

This latest single Rock Bottom, released in September on Rinse, is further evidence that the combination of Spectrals, 60s rock & roll sound and realist, cockney-punk vocals work a charm. Have a listen below, and to a video sample of his set at Pitchfork fest.

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Jack White // Freedom at 21

For Freedom At 21's tale of addictive, violent love, Hype Williams has made Jack White even cooler thanks to a lime green muscle car, a fine selection of jewellery, the essence of Johnny Depp's Edward Scissorhands and Raoul Duke, and a rap exploitation femme fatale, all in White's new blue hue. And a Josh Homme to finish.



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How To Dress Well // Cold Nites

How To Dress Well has been slowly unveiling new tracks from his forthcoming new record 'Total Loss', and this latest, Cold Nites, is a sexual, emotional, fluid exercise in modern pop. You can also stream and download another track from the album, Ocean Floor For Everything, below.


 

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Gem Club // I Heard The Party

I Heard The Party from Massachusetts trio Gem Club is a deeply affecting, immersive piece of music, and while the video initially reminds us of the closing scenes of E.T., this is turned on its head by what comes later. Hardly Art's output is second to none right now.

 

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Deep Time // Clouds

Hints of Cat Power and nods to new wave royalty Orange Juice and Elvis Costello abound on this simply brilliant pop song from Austin duo Deep Time, formerly Yellow Fever. Their eponymous debut record is out now on Hardly Art. I suggest you get some.

 

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