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Song Picks of the Day 16.3

1. In Isolation 2. EXES 3. Georgia Mae 4. Philco Fiction 5. The Vagary 6. Leiik

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NEW ALBUM: Galapaghost - I Never Arrived

After having listened to the hauntingly beautiful and pretty melancholic Science of Lovers, the first single of Galapaghost‘s upcoming album, I have been waiting for the record to drop. A week ago, January 9th 2016, I could finally listen to all twelve songs on I Never Arrived, the third

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PHOTOS: Sofi Tukker heats up Baby’s All Right

It was a big night at our favorite venue, Baby’s All Right: The Knocks were headlining a bill together with Cardiknox and Sofi Tukker. We went to the show mostly for the latter: their first two songs Drinkee and Matadora are refreshingly new takes on dance-oriented electro-pop and we

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SONG PICK: Leiik - Words over Yours

Our Song Pick of the Day Words Over Yours comes from the London duo Leiik. It starts slow, just with minimal instrumentation and Amy Spencer’s haunting vocals and builds slowly up. Beautiful.

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LATE NIGHT: pr0files - Like a Knife

L.A. duo pr0files released a new single from their upcoming album Jurassic Technologie, due on February 23rd. Like a Knife gets you immediately with that bubbling bass line before Lauren Pardini’s dreamy vocals set it. Perfect for a Saturday night in the city.

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SONG PICK: The Vagary - Your Lover

What a fantastic up-beat electro-pop song Your Lover is. For me, this is New Order meets Phoenix, with Thijs Havens’ killer vocals thrown in and Vagary, hailing from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, are onto something here! Listen to Your Lover now and tell me if this is not one super-catchy tune!

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VIDEO: Letters to Nepal - Loosing Now

Booklyn electronic duo Letters to Nepal has just released a video for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Watch Anton Fadeev hammering the beats into his Maschine controller, while Evgeniya Kusnetzova is singing, playing the theremin and doing the special effects. It is all live and recorded in one take. We

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SONG PICK: Philco Fiction - Runimals

To get into the mood for the weekend, here is our Song Pick of the Day, the bouncy Runimals by the Norwegian duo Philco Fiction: it sounds like they have hired an entire brass orchestra. Their second album is coming out later this month.

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NEW ARTIST: L. $hamPain

I don’t know much more about L. $hamPain than that she is from Texas and records all her music alone in her bedroom. That narrative matches her music: listen for example to Take Me Out Tonight on her EP Turtles all the Way Down where she coos “Take me

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SONG PICK: Georgia Mae - Keeper of the Key

I’m staying a bit longer in Australia, musically that is, and head over to Brisbane where Georgia Mae can be found, when she’s not in Sydney. Keeper of the Key is a sweet, slightly melancholic, simply beautiful song. It just has the right amount of tension and build-up

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VIDEO: Vallés - Sorrow

You might ask where is the sorrow here? French artist Vallés seems to have a good time here, following a beautiful woman through a beautiful mediterranean landscape (the Spanish island of Ibiza, maybe, Vallés home). Wait a little and you’ll see that it doesn’t work out so well.

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PHOTOS: Lantrns bring their dark electro pop to Palisades

Last Saturday, a great lineup gathered for a daytime show at Bushwhick DIY venue Palisades. We arrived in time for a song by Exiles and the whole set of Dream Parrot, two bands we will look out for. But we were here for Lantrns, a Brooklyn three piece comprised of

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3 Is A Band: DMA's

Yesterday, while listening iTune’s alternative radio, a song came up that sounded familiar and that I instantly loved (again). Checking the song Laced and the band DMA’s, I remembered that I came across them last year already. Then a few hours later, the 3rd round of announcements for

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SONG PICK: Exes - Grey

Last week, we saw an episode of the TV show “Nashville” and and there a band consisting of two of the ex-boyfriends of the third band member named themselves “The Triple-Exes”. Our Song Pick of the Day comes from the real world EXES who are from L.A. and their

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NO WORDS: Jeztls - Should City

There are actually a lot of words in this releaxed instrumental by the young North English artist JEZTLS: beneath the track you can hear voices in a room full of people. That gives the track a very comforting vibe – something you may want to put on while dozing off into

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SONG PICK: In Isolation - Elder Statesman (Tribute to David Bowie 1947-2016)

The Song Pick of the Day I’d originally chosen for today would have been Parlance, by the English three-piece In Isolation. Having read the band’s bio and listened to their tracks online, there’s no doubt that they’re children of the 80s (New Wave) and 90s (post-punk)

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MUSIC QUOTES: David Bowie and New York

Back in 1990, Oliver and I were lucky enough to see David Bowie during his “Sound and Vision” tour: we drove from Munich to Ulm to see him headlining an amazing line-up (Pixies among others). This is so long ago, yet I remember the concert vividly because it was… everything

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Song Picks of the Day 16.2

1. The Gloomies 2. Year of Glad 3. Cross Record 4. The Big Sun 5. Rel 6. TMPL 7. Tyto Alba

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SONG PICK: Tyto Alba - Between The Lines

Let’s end the week with the Denver, Colorado indie rock band Tyto Alba: our Song Pick of the Day Between the Lines features melodic guitar layers and and Melanie Steinway’s soaring voice. More music and a video is coming soon.

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SONG PICK: TMPL - Keep Falling

Keep Falling is one of these darker electronic songs, filled with a lot of longing, accentuated rhythms, sensual vocals and exploding with desire. Our Song Pick of the Day comes from the Canadian duo TMPL who’s about to release a new EP in the upcoming weeks. Listen to Keep

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SONG PICK: Rel - Before the Storm

Here’s something for the first (non-holiday) Friday of the Year: L.A. singer Rel with her last single Before The Storm, an up-to-date electro-pop song with a good deal of twists and turns – I like particularly the droning bass and the thundering beat beneath it. I’m looking forward

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RELEASED TODAY: Sofi Tukker - Matadora

New York dance music duo Sofi Tukker released their second track today, as crazy as the first one Drinkee. None of them is actually Brazilian, but that doesn’t keep Sophie Hawley-Weld from singing in Portuguese. Good for us here in the northern hemisphere: we can use a little summer

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SONG PICK: The Big Sun - Lonely Girl

Agh… I just have such soft spot for real life sound samples used in songs and Lonely Girl offers exactly that yet a few beats in, it gets sugar candy dreamy with a little edge – indie-pop at its best! The Big Sun, hailing from Oxford (UK), deliver one delicious upbeat

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3 Is A Band: Chain Wallet

When I listened to Shade for the very first time, a lot of different memories run through my mind, good memories, from the 80s… youthful, carefree, filled with joy. And nothing has changed. Even upon listening to Shade for the maybe 17th time, it’s still one beautiful little joyful

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SONG PICK: Cross Record - Basket

Here is Cross Record with the first new 2016 track. It is a dark, atmospheric track that can turn even sunny beach into a haunted, barren place. Believe me, I experienced it myself when I listened to Cross Record during the holiday break. The album will be out on January