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Songs We Love: Kadhja Bonet, 'Mother Maybe'
Thursday, March 29, 2018
The first single from Childqueen spins a technicolor groove as Kadhja Bonet's creamy soprano flutters in and out of the whistle register.
Songs We Love: Mura Masa, 'Second 2 None (Feat. Christine And The Queens)'
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Héloïse Letissier, the magnetic French pop sensation behind Christine And The Queens, sings over a masterful mix of styles and sounds inspired by London's vibrant underground.
Songs We Love: Matthew Dear, 'Modafinil Blues'
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Matthew Dear's first release since 2012's Beams is a pulsing goth-pop jewel that pulls the best elements of new wave — all the sex, melancholy and sly humor — and saunters off into the darkness.
Songs We Love: Lunice, 'Distrust (Feat. Denzel Curry, JK The Reaper & Nell)'
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
The boundary-pushing hip-hop producer's debut album is inspired by, and designed for, the stage. Denzel Curry guests on the polyrhythmic cut.
Songs We Love: ODESZA, 'Line Of Sight'
Monday, June 19, 2017
The electronic duo says its triumphant new song, with a video set in a realm of enemy robots and alien spaceships, is "about having to find your way in a scary world."
Songs We Love: Maceo Plex, 'Polygon Pulse'
Friday, May 12, 2017
The Miami-born house and techno producer is shifting gears towards more melancholic, romantic tones with modern dance-floor structures. The new direction is inspired by his 2-year-old son.
Songs We Love: Patrice Baumel, 'Engage'
Monday, May 08, 2017
The Amsterdam DJ/producer believes in the narrative power of electronic music, which he illustrates here with a transitory deep cut from his new EP.
Songs We Love: Night Things, 'Cost Of The Summer'
Friday, April 07, 2017
The Los Angeles synth-pop duo sounds like a sunny reboot of Duran Duran, and it wants to turn your dreams into songs.
Songs We Love: Phantoms, 'Just A Feeling (Feat. Vérité)'
Friday, March 24, 2017
The Los Angeles duo makes escapist, vocal-heavy dance music inspired by the city's surreal nightlife. Vérité sings on the deep and flirty new single.
Songs We Love: Colouring, 'Heathen'
Friday, March 10, 2017
The electronic band wrote the lush and romantic "Heathen" about love, but also about believing in each other, even when it feels like we've lost ourselves.
Songs We Love: Slow Dancer, 'Don't Believe'
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Simon Okely's soulful serenade to a detached lover betrays his influences in its smooth '70s sound. The accompanying video is a retro haze of mom jeans and disco balls.
Songs We Love: Lemaitre, 'Playing To Lose (Feat. Stanaj)'
Thursday, February 02, 2017
The Norwegian indie-electronic duo's song about looking for love in all the wrong places brings two strangers together in a slapstick video.
Songs We Love: Lydia Ainsworth, 'The Road'
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Ainsworth's eerie, exquisite lullaby is a journey between fantasy and reality. It comes with a video that feels like taking a medley of psychedelics and wandering through the MoMA.
Songs We Love: Shiba San, 'Up & Down'
Friday, December 09, 2016
The South Beach heat is working its way into the French producer's booty-shaking house music. "Here, it's like paradise," he says. "It's a whole new way of working."
Songs We Love: Preoccupations, 'Memory'
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Inspired by Mohammed Bouazizi's self-immolation, Vancouver director Kevan Funk visualizes the relief, recovery and rebirth of Preoccupations' droning and dissonant 12-minute epic.
Songs We Love: DIANA, 'What You Get'
Thursday, November 03, 2016
The Toronto electro-pop trio is right in your ear and right by your side in a dreamy song that confronts the trickiness of expectations.
Songs We Love: RL Grime, What So Not And Skrillex, 'Waiting'
Thursday, November 03, 2016
Two years in the making, the track nods to each producer's signature sound, with lush textures, droning horns, and, of course, Skrillex's thunderous bass drop.
Songs We Love: Empire of the Sun, 'To Her Door'
Thursday, September 29, 2016
"When you've got the undeniable, magical aura of Doctor Buckingham, things blossom." The Australian synth duo gets a lush assist from the Fleetwood Mac guitarist on its breezy new song.
Songs We Love: Glass Animals, 'Youth'
Monday, July 25, 2016
Even with Glass Animals' perky, high-pitched synths and rich R&B drums, you can't help but sense tragedy in the air — especially when the song is paired with a video about a lost boy.
Songs We Love: Roosevelt, 'Fever'
Friday, July 22, 2016
The German producer captures youth, boredom and adventure in a wistful pop song whose video follows three teenagers as they stumble aimlessly into chaos.