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Lyrah - Stay Right Here
Lyrah's cracked, close-mic'd voice sits right up front on this one and it wrecked me a little. Wasn't braced for it. Fair warning.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Raphi - Head Spin
Raphi wrings a whole hook out of three words and a filtered synth stab. Head Spin is lean, punchy and built to stick in your head by the second listen.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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A Referendum She Doesn't Want to Win
Read more . . . →Two weeks from now Alberta votes on whether to begin the legal process of leaving Canada. The latest polls have separation at 22%. Danielle Smith, the premier who called the referendum, publicly said that number is “still too high for my comfort.” She doesn’t want it to pass. Sixty percent of Albertans will vote no. Half the province says the question is confusing. And yet here we are, burning public money on a vote whose entire purpose is to let Smith tell the loudest 22% of her caucus she tried. This is what happens when a politician runs out of...
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LUCKY - More Than A Feeling (feat. Emma Somi)
LUCKY goes big, bright and shameless on festival melodic dubstep, with Emma Somi's vocal doing the heavy lifting. Sometimes that's the meal you want.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Product Launch
Read more . . . →It’s a brick. On a pillow. And they’re clapping. The crowd is losing its mind over a construction brick on a velvet pillow. Mouths open, hands up, the full keynote hysteria. A man in a turtleneck holds it like he’s presenting a relic. Nobody has asked what it does because nobody in the front row was sent here to ask that. The pillow cost more than the product and the product is a brick and the brick just closed a Series B. Pre-orders ship Q3, the waitlist is four months long, and the brick does not charge wirelessly or otherwise....
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Laeko - DONT WANNA KNOW!!!
Laeko built a tiny hiccup into the bassline so the groove trips and catches itself every bar. That stumble is the whole reason this house track hooks you.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Jason Derulo, The Second Voice, Qing Madi - LET ME BE
Jason Derulo on an electronic music blog was not on my bingo card. Qing Madi and The Second Voice carry this dance-pop crossover harder than he does.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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This Week on coldplaysucks: Sep 27 - Oct 4
Read more . . . →Forty tracks in seven days. House, DnB and dubstep split the bill almost evenly, which never happens, and somehow none of the three genres blinked first. If you fell behind this week, start with the chart and work down. The Charts Isam Hadjih feat. Ormella - In My Dreams: climbed to the top after three weeks on the board, nudging Summer Jam aside. Listen → TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam: held the crown for weeks, now sliding to second. Still the track people keep coming back to. Listen → Seven Lions & Kill The Noise - I Need: locked...
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Moon Music Turns Two. Recycled in Every Sense.
Read more . . . →Two years ago today, Coldplay released Moon Music. It still sucks. The album was physically pressed on recycled plastic, which turned out to be the most honest creative decision on the entire project. Chris Martin spent the promo tour talking about sustainability while delivering ten songs so disposable they belong in the bin the plastic came from. “We Pray” featured four guest vocalists and still managed to sound like an airport departures lounge. The lead single was spelled as one long word because apparently spaces are too edgy for a band that hasn’t taken a risk since 2008. Caribou’s album...
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Burr Oak, Pythius & REEBZ - Black Tears
Burr Oak, Pythius and REEBZ pool their darkest neurofunk instincts and the first bass hit genuinely startled me. That almost never happens anymore.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
