Anonymous LA duo 18+ may be all too 2011 for their own good, but they’ve created something uniquely fey with the audio/visual combo of “Forgiven.”A minimal, pulseless take on left-field rap and contemporary R&B, it adds a distinctly bitter-sweet e…
Atlanta-via-London psychedelic beat duo Mane Mane turned some heads last week with their “skinnyscreen” video for “Twnkl Sr,” a track from their debut album on AZ contributor Friendship Bracelet’s UUU tapes. This new video for “Just Called 2,” dire…
Raw Moans has an upcoming EP called 5AF3 53X, which will feature re-workings of songs by musicians who were affected by AIDS. Produced by Chill Pullman, the first taste of the EP is a spine-tinglingly cathartic re-working of an Arthur Russell track…
UK bedrooms seem to be BUSY of late– not so much with baby-making, however, but with interesting music-making. This lamenting refrain from Being There sits well with its name. Charged with a meditative air of yearning, the floating, virginal voice is …
Venice Beach collaborative electronic bedroom project Krusht announces itself with 7-track EP of serotonin-laden electro, interwoven with an eclectic ensemble of rappers and guest vocalists that keeps the ambiance in continuous shift. “Interiors” kicks…
Germany’s CAREOFSELF channels inventive, DIY production into personal, auto-tune-age bedroom-pop à la HTDW, Deptford Goth, and, to a certain extent, Autre Ne Veut. “Delphic Propaganda” fuses singer-songwriter melancholy with a sort of faded postca…
The occult imagery and atmospheric production of Brisbane’s amicably named Daterape will suggest filing under ordinary “witch house”; indeed, the Daterape font is pretty much a direct rip from Salem. But a close listen to the artist’s Machaevol and…
The productions of 19-year-old, Florida-based MC Bradley Petite-Frere make for a somewhat confusing first listen. Petite-Frere describes his Future Sound project as “an ode to the lifestyle I am living at the moment: lots of women, partying, alcohol…
London label Blackest Ever Black, which surfaced at the end of last year with two 12″s from fractured electronic minimalists Raime, is quickly becoming one of city’s most intriguing underground stables. Next up on their calendar is The Sorrow Of Two…
Here’s another pleasantly disorienting number from adventurous Atlanta beat-maker Patrick Loggins, aka Time Wharp. Built on a series of ridiculously over-the-top sawtooth waves, a stumbling drum kit, and a sonically abused jazz chord progression, “Cusp…