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Overmono Made the Album of the Summer and It's Forty Minutes Long
Read more . . . →Three days with Pure Devotion and I’ve stopped opening Spotify for anything else. Overmono’s second album landed last Thursday — eleven tracks, forty minutes — and it rearranged the rest of my August. Their debut was a controlled detonation. This one is looser, warmer, and it wins every argument the first record started. 1. Overmono - Knight In Shining Prada (feat. John Joseph Holt) BBC Radio 1 gave this the Hottest Record tag and for once the hype was underselling it. John Joseph Holt sings over a beat that lands somewhere between 2-step and a headnod nobody’s named yet, and...
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Five Lanes, Five Tracks: Your Summer Subgenre Primer
Read more . . . →When did the dancefloor split into five dancefloors? Sometime between June and now, electronic music stopped being one genre and became a whole continent. The Beatport charts look like a census. Every festival stage is its own country with its own dress code. Here’s one track from each lane the summer is running on, for anyone who keeps hearing names they can’t place. 1. Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind Prospa’s live rig meets Cloonee’s low end and what comes out is four minutes of your brain stem being politely relocated. The vocal loop is two words and they...
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Luvstruck x Leena Punks x Ethan - In My Heart
Read more . . . →Big, dumb, and completely irresistible. “In My Heart” is the kind of hands-in-the-air dance record I have zero defenses against. It runs on a piano riff that could power a small town and a vocal hook clearly engineered in a lab to be stuck in your head by lunchtime. Three names on it, all obviously on the same mission: maximum serotonin, minimum fuss. The drop is pure sunshine, the sort of thing that would sound faintly ridiculous in a dark room and absolutely perfect at a festival at golden hour. There’s a breakdown where the piano goes solo for a...
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D.O.D & Izzy Bizu - Careful
Izzy Bizu's husky vocal reframes her completely on D.O.D's Careful — grown-up house that still remembers how to have fun.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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BEANIE, Lauren Nicole, Gray Hoek - Groovy Chick
Read more . . . →Heard this blasting out of a passing car before I ever saw the title, which is the correct way to first encounter a track called “Groovy Chick.” It’s an NCS release, that copyright-free pipeline that soundtracks half the internet without ever getting a credit, and every so often something on there is genuinely great rather than merely useful. This is one. The groove is exactly what the name promises: a bouncy, slap-happy bassline and a vocal from Lauren Nicole that struts more than it sings. BEANIE and Gray Hoek keep the production clean and punchy, all air and snap, nothing...
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House Party: Three Grooves for the Bad-Decision Hour
Read more . . . →We started the week sensible and it didn’t stay that way. Closing it out with three house records for the hour when the group chat says one more and everybody knows it’s a lie. 1. Dom Dolla, Daya - Dreamin Dom Dolla again, because the man is having an entire summer to himself. Daya’s vocal is all longing, the groove underneath is all confidence, and the two of them together sound like texting someone you absolutely should not be texting at 1am. The bass has that Dom Dolla bounce that makes standing still physically impossible. 2. Chris Lake x Abel...
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After Hours: When Summer Gets Dark and Weird
Read more . . . →Golden hour ends and the good part begins. Three tracks for the stretch after midnight, when the melodic techno crowd takes the tent and everyone’s already made at least two choices they’ll be explaining on Monday. 1. Anyma & Grimes - Welcome To The Opera This is what the after-hours stage sounds like when it fully commits to the bit. Grimes floating over Anyma’s production is genuinely eerie, and the drop arrives like a cathedral being pushed over slowly. It’s built for the 3am version of you, the one that thinks the giant robot visuals are speaking directly to your...
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Golden Hour: Three Tracks for the Best Sixty Minutes of Summer
Read more . . . →The best hour of summer is the one right before the sun clocks out. Nobody’s peaking yet, everybody’s grinning, the drink is still cold. Here’s what that hour sounds like when you get it right. 1. Barry Can’t Swim - Dance Dance Dance! Barry Can’t Swim makes music for exactly this window, that gold-light stretch where the day hasn’t decided to become a night yet. The piano loop is stupidly joyful and the whole thing swings instead of thumps, which is a harder trick than it sounds. Twenty seconds in and your shoulders are already gone. 2. Jamie xx -...
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Gryffin, BUNT., Inéz - World Away
Read more . . . →The banjo-adjacent pluck that runs through “World Away” is the thing that makes it. Strip that texture out and you’ve got a fairly standard Gryffin builder; leave it in and the track suddenly has an organic ache most festival-melodic stuff can’t fake. BUNT.’s folk-leaning touch gives the whole thing roots, and Inéz’s vocal carries real hurt in it, not the workshopped kind. It builds exactly the way you’d expect and the drop at 1:20 hits exactly the emotional note it’s aiming for, and honestly, knowing the mechanism doesn’t stop it from landing. That’s its own kind of craft. It lives...
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Galantis - Do You Mind
Read more . . . →I have complicated feelings about Galantis and this track did nothing to simplify them. “Do You Mind” is exactly the sort of gleaming, hyper-produced pop-EDM they’ve built an entire career on, and I keep bouncing between thinking it’s a bit much and then catching myself humming the hook three hours later. The chopped vocal in the drop is pure Galantis, pitched up into that chipmunk-euphoric register that either delights you or makes you want to launch your phone across the room. Today it delighted me. There’s genuine craft in how the whole thing is stacked; the pre-drop around 1:05 builds...
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