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Oh, you….
Well folks, I don’t want to get too long winded on this one. There are few things more exciting than when one of your favorite artists remixes another, scaled infinitely when it turns out absolutely perfect. Chrvches remixing MS MR, to me, falls under that categorization. And if either artist is one you haven’t heard yet, this is surely your vehicle to doing so.
HOT DAMN THIS REMIX IS AMAZING. Just had to get that out of my system.
Someone didn’t hear about that whole No Doubt thing
Young Wonder is an electronic duo from Ireland who might instantly draw comparisons to Purity Ring. While they already have an interesting collection of productions under their belt through 2012′s eponymous release, with “Time” it sounds like they’ve hit their songwriting stride. Guest vocals from fellow Irish producer Sacred Animals provide a settling balance to Rachel Koeman’s sharp cries before giving way to lush synth patterns and pleasantly surprising delays.
There’s always that beautiful moment when experimental production stops becoming experimental and a gorgeous product emerges from the lab work. This is one of those moments.
How can a band look so sad, when their music sounds so glad?
Normally if you were to describe a song with the terms “catchy as hell” and “whistling” I’d start running for the hills but NONONO is Swedish so yeah duh, they get a pass. And holy shit, is “Pumping Blood” infectious, airy and impossibly uplifting. They’re Swedish, they make great pop music – honestly we just need to start leaving it at that for these kinds of artists. Enjoy having this on repeat for the rest of the day.
Trill-oncé
This isn’t the best time for new music popping up as most the industry is in a SXSW hangover, but Queen Bey clearly gave no fucks when she dropped this massive track yesterday. It isn’t clear if this is a 2-single mix or the whole track but what cannot be denied is this is the trillest we’ve heard her yet. Maybe all the recent Baauer madness led her to get trap nasty – but she’s from Texas and the South had a stranglehold on trap before white producers ever got their hands on it so I’m not going to place my bets on that just yet. Either way, hot damn. Bow down, bitches!
Soul power
Over the last year we’ve seen an extremely dynamic foundational shift in R&B as it converges on electronica in a way that hip hop has only comparatively flirted with. Brooklyn producer Arthur Ashin, known as Autre Ne Veut, has taken up the flag alongside contemporaries like Frank Ocean, Miguel and The Weeknd – moving from lo-fi experimental productions to full fledged R&B songwriting.
Loosely translated as “I Want No Other,” Autre Ne Veut’s latest album Anxiety channels wrenching, complicated emotions of disappointment and self-destruction through beautifully-layered yet dissonant electronic production, delivered in spectacular dramatic fashion. Luckily for those of us in San Francisco, we can catch him at The Independent on Monday, March 11th with openers Majical Cloudz and Bago.
