Death by Algorithm

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This is like Talking Heads covering an LCD Soundsystem track. The new album can’t come soon enough!

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I’m always a sucker for some good gang vocals, and the end of this track explodes with them. Particularly drawn to one of the vocal takes that’s higher and sounds detuned (it’s in the first chorus as well), which adds a lot to the emotion and uncertainty of the song. Little details make all the difference.

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The beats on here pulse with energy, as if they’re in sync and breathing with the vocals, which paint pictures of relationships and the intimate moments they hold.

Recommended For Fans Of: Jai Paul, Blood Orange, Paul Institute

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I can’t help but be reminded of SZA’s early projects when listening to this. There’s a particular honesty and vulnerability in the lyrics that wouldn’t be possible without the overthinking this project is named after.

Recommended For Fans Of: SZA, Mariah The Scientist

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For the most part the pop tracks on here keep the production minimal, making an example of how to say more with less.

Recommended For Fans Of: Ian Sweet, Half Waif, Kalbells

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If there’s one thing you need to know about Kevin Holliday’s music, it’s that it’s always going to have a groove.

Recommended For Fans Of: Ric Wilson, Pharrell

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Jealous describes their sound as, “70’s Glam rock, Punk, Garage, Country, and Post-punk, with a touch of 90's Riot Girl,” and it’s hard to deny that concoction sounds accurate.

Recommended For Fans Of: L.A. Witch, Low, Boy Harsher

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As a band, Black Haüs cultivate all sides of rock music from alt-rock, surf rock, punk rock, pop rock, while even throwing in some R&B/House influenced tracks like So Slow and Rich Petty.

Recommended For Fans Of: Spencer., NNAMDÏ

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Perez pulls from salsa inspired percussion, pop and shoegaze tinged acoustic guitars, samples that sound like they were plucked straight off a vinyl, and much more for this self written, produced, and recorded sophomore album.

Recommended For Fans Of: Body Meat, Slauson Malone

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Simple yet full production provides the backdrop for this lovely R&B EP that’s more colorful and vibrant than the name would suggest.

Recommended For Fans Of: bLAck pARty, Steve Lacy, Q

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While both are obviously very talented and accomplished producers, I personally find James Blake to have a much more interesting and versatile sound than FINNEAS, especially when it comes to their respective solo releases. That makes it all the more interesting (and funny, which was probably the point) that Blake would even compare himself or get jealous at all.

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The fact that this feels fresh today in terms of what’s coming out in hyperpop and adjacent music, while also sounding like it could fit right into either of Sleigh Bells’ albums from 2010 or 2012 just proves they were ahead of their time.

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As a band, gnawing describe themselves as “a loud rock and roll band that wishes they were a country band.”

Recommended For Fans Of: Dinosaur Jr., Neil Young, Yuck

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Taphari, the Brooklyn artist who’s earned the nickname Rap Alien, gives us his first full length release here with Blind Obedience. 

Recommended For Fans Of: Bbymutha, Pink Siifu

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Teamonade’s Bandcamp bio describes them as follows: “u ever go to mcdonalds and your beverage of choice would always be the sweet tea mixed with the minute maid lemonade and one day they just got rid of the lemonade so now you're just filled with rage”

Recommended For Fans Of: Bartees Strange, Alex G

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John Glacier takes their debut album to cut lo-fi vocals through warm and glitched out electronic production.

Recommended For Fans Of: Madlib, Vegyn, Shygirl

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It would be a waste of time to try to box Keeton into just one genre.

Recommended For Fans Of: Paris Texas, Tyler the Creator

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