Tag: art pop
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This one is so good my jaw dropped the first time I listened to it. I’ve now listened to it three times in a row and I’m still in awe of how superb it is. Which shouldn’t surprise me because Todd Terry and Armand Van Helden have been two of my favorite remixers since back…
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If the tremendously talented Banks made grandiose dance pop songs, they would sound an awful lot like the music of Charlotte OC, who has a similar flair for haunting melodies and insightful lyrics. “If my house was burning / Would you run or stay?” she asks during the lead track “If My House Was Burning,”…
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Janine and The Mixtape, otherwise known as Janine Foster, started off playing open mic nights in her native Auckland when she was just 14 years old. It wasn’t long before she’d concocted her own unique blend of pop, soul and R&B. She released Dark Mind on her own label, Little Mixtapes Records, back in 2013,…
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A slightly new, more accessible sound for Janelle Monáe, featuring slick and propulsive hip-hop beats. Very, very nice. Jidenna, one of the artists on Monáe’s Wondaland label, guests on the track, delivering some fine rap toward the end.
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One of the many things I love about Florence is her ability to sound both melancholic and hopeful at the same time. With most artists, they just fall into a gray area if they attempt to capture both ends of the happiness/depression scale at the same time. But Florence doesn’t fall into that grey area.…
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This one is a relatively chill number that you can either dance or come down to. Either way, it’s a wonderful song. Kaleem Taylor’s voice has such a wonderful texture, a bit grainy, rough around the edges, and yet still quite smooth; it’s just perfect for this sort of song. And Snakehips beats and the…
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“I no longer need to hide,” sings Yael Naim on “Dream In My Head,” the lead single from her fantastic new album, Older, which is released today. Her music is the sort of artsy pop you’re either really good at or you fall flat on your face.
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I am grieving the loss of my pet turtle of 30 years right now, but this one brightened my day a tiny bit… I’ve always loved Lenka, though. To my ears, she’s like a cross between Natalie Imbruglia, Lily Allen and Kylie Minogue — all very talented women who I also love.
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As you can read below, “REALiTi” is a lost Grimes track that’s no longer going to be on her new album. I assume it was recorded when she was making a more mainstream pop record before her single “Go” wasn’t received nearly as well as she’d hoped and she decided to go back to the…
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If you live in the UK then you probably already have an opinion about Clare Maguire. He debut album, Light After Dark, received very mixed reviews when it came out in 2011. Critics seemed to love it or hate it. And, of course, there were some who were wishy washy, publishing reviews that felt as…
