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Fractures - Block (I'm not what you need)
Read more . . . →When did Fractures start making music this openly heartbroken? Block, subtitled ‘I’m not what you need’, is the kind of electronic-soul record that wears its sadness on the outside, all cracked falsetto and a beat that drags its feet on purpose. The Australian producer has always had a voice that sounds a little bruised, and here he leans all the way into it over production that stays deliberately sparse until it doesn’t. The drop, if you can even call it that, comes at 2:05 and it’s less a drop than a swell, the whole track blooming outward for about thirty...
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Iaco & remy - I'm Not Going Anywhere
Read more . . . →Dim Mak is Steve Aoki’s label, which usually means cake-to-the-face festival maximalism, so “I’m Not Going Anywhere” from Iaco & remy is a genuine left turn. This is softer, more songwriterly, the kind of indie-leaning electronic record that sounds like it was built around an actual feeling rather than a drop. The title is a promise and the track treats it like one, circling back to that reassurance over a gently insistent groove that never quite explodes the way you keep expecting it to. That refusal to detonate is the whole charm. It builds tension and then just sits in...
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Ghosts - lose you
Read more . . . →Searching “Ghosts” on any streaming platform is a nightmare, so good luck, but the hunt is worth it for “lose you.” This is melodic electronic music with one foot in indie-pop and one foot on the dancefloor, and it never fully commits to either, which turns out to be the whole charm. The vocal is fragile in a way that feels real rather than performed for TikTok. Around the halfway mark the beat drops in and suddenly the sad little bedroom song becomes something you could actually move to, without losing the heartbreak underneath. That balance is deceptively tricky and...
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Drove - All Along
Read more . . . →Found this on MrSuicideSheep, which has a way of surfacing stuff that doesn’t fit cleanly into any genre box. “All Along” by Drove is one of those tracks where you’re not quite sure what category it lives in — it’s got the pacing of downtempo, the textures of something more restrained, but every time you think it’s going to stay seated it kicks back up again. The melodic line that runs through the whole thing is stupid simple. It works every single time. There’s a patience to how Drove builds this track that a lot of producers in this space...
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@We Are Chambord - Stay High
Read more . . . →Same duo, different track, same frequency. “Stay High” leans more melodic than “(I’m Not) Gonna Make It” but they’re clearly working something coherent here. Buy / stream this track → More like this @We Are Chambord - (I'm Not) Gonna Make It Unroyal - GHOSTS ZEP - FIGURE IT OUT
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Ego Inc. - Mantra
Read more . . . →Band called Ego Inc. drops a track called Mantra. CloudKid’s indie electronic rabbit hole goes deep and somehow they keep finding the good stuff at the bottom. Buy / stream this track → More like this Conrad the Clown - Carousel (feat. Confetti) DROELOE - Kings & Queens informal. - timeslikethis (feat. Alex Bone)
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Conrad the Clown - Carousel (feat. Confetti)
Read more . . . →Conrad the Clown and Confetti on a track called Carousel. I have no idea what’s happening but it works and I’ve played it twice now. Buy / stream this track → More like this Ashley Sienna - I Win Ego Inc. - Mantra Slow Magic & The Chain Gang Of 1974 - End Credits
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@RaphaelPalacci - 4 AM Jammin'
It's 4am and Raphael Palacci is jamming and this is exactly the energy you want at that hour. Kitsuné picked a good one.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Ashley Sienna - I Win
Read more . . . →CloudKid put out a winner. Ashley Sienna’s confident on this and it shows — short, punchy, doesn’t overstay. Buy / stream this track → More like this informal. - timeslikethis (feat. Alex Bone) Ghosts - lose you Drove - All Along
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RØUKH - Fever
Fever hits the sweet spot where it's too electronic for indie fans and too indie for electronic fans. RØUKH doesn't care. Good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
