Hanging Valleys
Hanging Valleys, a UK duo, create stunning ethereal songs.
Their 3rd EP, Behind the Back of Houses, is due in February.
Drift to Greeting the Night and The Shining Mountain.
Beach Bunny
Beach Bunny, a young quartet from Chicago, debut with the album Honeymoon on Valentine’s Day.
They impressed earlier in the year with the Prom Queen EP.
Hear both Dream Boy from the forthcoming and the aforementioned Prom Queen.
Dream Boy
Prom Queen
Gabriel Black with phem
Gabriel Black, an enigmatic songwriter, teams with the sexually fluid singer phem for a song of an all-too-familiar contemporary state of being of ennui, stagnation and disenchantment.
Listen here to Dead Yet.
Dead Yet
Beabadoobee
Beabadoobee is the fabulous nom de plume of Beatrice Kristi Laus, a young Filipino-British artist.
Only 19, she has 5 Eps to her name.
Here are 2 from her latest EP Space Cadet.
Space Cadet and She Plays Bass
Space Cadet
She Plays Bass
Matt Berninger & Phoebe Bridgers
Matt Berninger, frontman of The National and songstress Phoebe Bridgers duet in the Zach Galifianakis comedy, Between Two Ferns.
Walking on a String perfectly blends these two voices.
Walking on a String
Fatboy Slim and Greta Thunberg
Fatboy Slim has mashed up his song Right Here, Right Now with climate change activist Greta Thunberg’s United Nations speech.
Truly marvelous.
Right Here, Right Now
Holly Brewer
Holly Brewer, the extraordinary singer behind HUMANWINE and The Folks Below, has recorded another stunner, this time under her own name.
Medicine of Time Travel is her own personal meditation via eclectic stylings, from a whisper to a scream.
Flesh Shapes
EACHONETEACHONE
Bat for Lashes
Bat for Lashes aka Natasha Khan once again gives us another luxurious album.
Lost Girls, her 5th, features the exquisite Kids in the Dark.
Kids in the Dark
Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval, a Norwegian singer/songwriter just released her 7th album.
The Practice of Love includes these 2 marvelous songs, Ashes to Ashes and High Alice.
Ashes to Ashes
High Alice
Cigarettes After Sex
The wonderfully named Cigarettes After Sex, is a dream-pop band based in Brooklyn via El Paso, Texas.
Listen to Heavenly, the lovely early release from their forthcoming 2nd album Cry.
Heavenly
Lower Dens
Lower Dens return after over 4 years with Competition.
With their swirling gorgeous sound they also get pointedly political as heard on Young Republicans. “Born without souls or blood or skin, we’re Young Republicans”.
Young Republicans
Demob Happy
Demob Happy hail from the northeast of England, Newcastle upon Tyne to be exact.
This trio has two albums to their credit and are deserving with the new song Autoportrait.
Autoportrait
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey continues to amaze.
2 songs that work together as California destructs.
From her forthcoming album Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Listen here to Fuck It I love You & the Greatest.
Fuck It I Love You…The Greatest
Chance the Rapper
The marvelous Chance the Rapper cleverly teams up with Death Cab for Cutie for an end of summer song.
Do You Remember from his latest The Big Day.
Do You Remember (featuring Death Cab for Cutie)