Blood Orange Feat. Toro y Moi - Dark & Handsome

A: Blood Orange Feat. Toro y Moi
S: Dark & Handsome

Blood Orange has shared a new video for Dark & Handsome, from the recent mixtape Angel’s Pulse. Dev Hynes self-directed and edited the video. It includes a brief appearance from Toro y Moi, who also features on the song. Collabo below.

... prayin' for my heart to turn to stone.

When Saints Go Machine - MVL

A: When Saints Go Machine
S: MVL

When Saints Go Machine, the Danish electronic pop trio, took six years out following the release of 2013's Infinity Pool. They return in November, however, with a renewed energy and a new album titled So Deep. MVL is the first single from the record and once again shows the Copenhagen crew's ability to meld unearthly hooks with avant-garde electronic production. Welcome back below.

... we never shared the same breath.

Neil Frances - Ask Me Anything

A: Neil Frances
S: Ask Me Anything

L.A. duo Neil Frances really realize their whole vibe in this video for Ask Me Anything, from the band’s Took A While EP. The video was shot, like everything now, on Super 8 and directed by Kate Biel and Elliott Watson, who create work together under the name KEWB. Vibe along below.

... I am all this but I'm not.

VIDEOCLUB – En nuit

A: VIDEOCLUB
S: En nuit

Le jeune tandem revient avec un morceau synthpop dans la continuité de Roi et Amour plastique, sortis en 2018. En nuit arrive avec un clip qui nous fait voyager dans le temps. Réalisé par Aube Perrie, il nous emmène au cœur des années 1990, à l'époque des VHS et du téléphone à fil. Et ce qui est sûr, c'est que l'on ne s'ennuie pas.

... j'aimerais chasser ta nostalgie.

Michael Mayer & Miss Kittin - Voyage Interieur

A: Michael Mayer & Miss Kittin
S: Voyage Interieur

Je ferme les yeux, je me réveille ailleurs. Je suis avec eux, en voyage intérieur. Peu importante ou je suis, le jour, ou bien, la nuit. Je ne suis plus jamais seul. Je n'ai plus jamais peur. Je ferme les yeux, je me réveille ailleurs. Je suis avec eux, en voyage intérieur.

... je me réveille ailleurs.

Nancy Sinatra - Let Me Kiss You

A: Nancy Sinatra
S: Let Me Kiss You

Probably the best version of this song, end of discussion but your opinion is a valid as mine. Especially because Trump hating, gorgeous Nancy calling herself physically despising is so much stronger than right-winger and conspiracy theory fanboy Morrissey. Politicize music below.

... I've heard that you'd try anything twice.

Pet Shop Boys Feat. Years & Years - Dreamland

A: Pet Shop Boys Feat. Years & Years
S: Dreamland

Dreamland is the first single from Pet Shop Boys’s forthcoming fourteenth studio album, scheduled for release on January 24, 2020. The moody synth-pop track was created in collaboration with Years & Years, and was originally intended for their 2018 album Palo Santo. When it became apparent that the song didn’t fit with that album’s narrative concept, PSB continued working on it with producer Stuart Price for their own album.

... remember how to dream today.

Electric Guest - More

A: Electric Guest
S: More

This electro-pop duo called Electric Guest dropped their third album KIN last week — and with it, they shared this fun-filled music video for their single More. Comprising Matthew Compton and Asa Taccone, the duo is sure to brighten moods with their electrifyingly happy new tracks and magnetic visuals. TGIF below.

... and I'm almost drunk.

Pat Lok Feat. Tom Aspaul - Don't Think

A: Pat Lok Feat. Tom Aspaul
S: Don't Think

Pat Lok and Tom Aspaul released their single Don’t Think earlier this year and it sounds like you didn't live this summer if you only discover it now. The energetic groove cannot be described, it is so good. In addition, the vocals are marvelous too, you will love it for sure and who knows, maybe book an early winter getaway to some place on the southern hemisphere.

... it's like I'm running on a different kind of gasoline.

Pomme - Je sais pas danser

A: Pomme
S: Je sais pas danser

Pomme prépare son nouvel album et partage le premier single, je sais pas danser, dans un clip tout doux. Deux ans après son album À Peu Près, la chanteuse Pomme vient de sortir un nouveau titre. Dans je sais pas danser, Pomme parle de sa difficulté à se dévoiler. C’est d’une grâce et d’une poésie infinie, comme elle sait si bien le faire.

... si tu voulais me voir, moi je préfère le noir.

EASTER - MUSCLE

A: Easter
S: Muscle

Just when I was saying to myself and a friend last week that I thought Easter haven't done anything in quite a while, I discover there was this new track out 10 days ago and an EP in the pipe line which will be out late November. Stay tuned and get into the groove below.

... we are putting our babies on the battle ground.

Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings

A: Caroline Polachek
S: So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings

Caroline Polachek, who formerly headed up the perennially underrated indie-leaning pop group Chairlift, has released Pang, the first album under her own name. Here's a song from said record with a highly memorable title So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings. It’s a vibrant ’80s-indebted pop track with a sonic palette that reminds me of the 80s. Enjoy below.

... not like I'm counting the days.

Cigarettes After Sex - Falling In Love

A: Cigarettes After Sex
S: Falling In Love

Cigarettes After Sex announced Cry, their second album, with lead single Heavenly as well as the follow up single Falling In Love. The track continues to explore the lovesick, bleary terrain this project specializes in. Per singer Gonzalez, the song is a product of a long-distance relationship. Heartbreak below.

... I could always see a house by the ocean.

Katy Perry - Harleys In Hawaii

A: Katy Perry
S: Harleys In Hawaii

La Perry is here to prove Lana isn't the only singer who can ride motorbikes in music videos. Shot on location in Hawaii, the clip opens with Perry cruising down the song’s proverbial heart-shaped highway wearing a fringed motorcycle jacket emblazoned with the psychedelic yin yang logo featured in Never Really Over. Cruise along below.

... don't hit the brakes, 'cause I'm feelin' so safe.

BEA1991 - did you feel me slip away?

A: BEA1991
S: did you feel me slip away?

An intimate, moody and inviting track, Did You Feel Me Slip Away? incorporates funk, R&B and modern bedroom pop into a sound that is enveloping and sets BEA1991 apart from the crowd. The track features Dev Hynes on bass, with the tone of the composition and lyrics addressing anger as a means to move on. Follow suit below.

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Julia Jacklin - Don't Know How To Keep Loving You

A: Julia Jacklin
S: Don't Know How To Keep Loving You

Julia Jacklin entered this year with one of her biggest achievements to date – releasing Crushing, an intimate album that commented on the world around her, shamelessly exploring personal boundaries like in the defiant Head Alone. Ever since then, she’s been on a rollercoaster that’s only going up. Join the ride below.

... I want your mother to stay friends with mine.

Chromatics - You'Re No Good

A: Chromatics
S: You'Re No Good

With neon-saturated, Dario Argento-like visuals, Chromatics return with a titivating video for You’re No Good, the first visual treatment from the band's seventh studio album Closer to Grey. Referencing the giallo genre, the Johnny Jewel-directed video features the band caught in a glimmering magenta haze with the unexpected and even macabre never far away. The LP is the band’s first official complete release in seven years, and coincides with a European tour.

... but I can't stay away from you.

The National - Hey Rosey

A: The National
S: Hey Rosey

When The National released their last record, Matt Berninger was asked about the band's shift from being more masculine bent to vulnerable songs like this one more recently. Matt stated that the shift happened naturally. That everybody in the band, for obvious reasons, had gotten to know women better since they were single in their 20s and 30s in New York. Back then, Matt found himself wanting to be a Nick Cave or a Tom Waits or a Leonard Cohen. His writing was obsessively conscious of being an awkward man. And then he just became less of an awkward man.

... I was hoping you wouldn't see me like this.

Charlotte Brandi - A Sting

A: Charlotte Brandi
S: A Sting

Charlotte Brandi, the former singer, guitarist and keyboard player of the indie-duo Me And My Drummer, released her solo debut at the beginning of the year. And since we are nearing the end, this might just be start of looking back on the best and the rest of the past twelve months. If you haven't met Charlotte and The Magician yet, this is your chance to catch up.

... I need to make it even.

Norah Jones, Mavis Staples - I'll Be Gone

A: Norah Jones, Mavis Staples
S: I'll Be Gone

Norah Jones and Mavis Staples have teamed for a new bittersweet ballad, I’ll Be Gone. It's a slow and steady soul tune with a gospel edge befitting the song’s lyrics, which convey a potent mixture of grief, perseverance, struggle and absolution. Relate below.

... wish I could tell you that the sun was gonna shine.

Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey - Don’t Call Me Angel

A: Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey
S: Don’t Call Me Angel

Despite the delicate, iconic bells introducing the track, the triple pop threat track Don’t Call Me Angel packs a punch in the song - just take a look at Cyrus in this badass music video. In the accompanying visual, Grande, Cyrus and Del Rey don chic black attire with wings to match as they strut in an anti-ethereal fashion, unlike Victoria’s Secret runways. Strut along below.

... you can't pay my price.

Maria Taylor - Spinning Wheel

A: Maria Taylor
S: Spinning Wheel

Maria Taylor has always been inspirational and with her new track Spinning Wheel dances her way into our hearts once again. Spinning Wheel is the first song off her self-titled seventh album, due out November 11. Taylor released a B-Side for Spinning Wheel, which is a Taylor Swift cover mashup of Lover/Clean Getaway. The B-side will be available for purchase alongside the single.

... your past was lurking at your front door.

FKA twigs - home with you

A: FKA twigs
S: home with you

FKA Twigs taps into the suburban experience in her video for Home with You, off of her upcoming album Magdalene, out October 25. It depicts a hazy club scene that transforms into a journey back to the English countryside. She described the song’s recording as a flow of consciousness between her and her collaborators that was done in one take. Mesmerize below.

... I wonder if your needs are even meant for me.

Texas - In Demand

A: Texas
S: In Demand

Here's one of my favorite music videos of all times, of my favorite October band. Every year I am wired like Pavlov's dog and fall down a big Texas hole for 30 days. Anyway, In Demand is pure, and it's simple. It seems like many pop songs used to be, and aren't any more. So here's to the inventor of the repeat button.

... 'cause love and loving are too different things.

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood

A: Peter Gabriel
S: Here Comes The Flood

In an interview with Peter Gabriel, the former Genesis singer states that Here Comes the Flood is the story of what happens when the entirety of the world's population becomes telepathic, and we can no longer lie to each other or keep secrets. Stunning to the last note, songs like this are hidden throughout the FX's breakthrough drama The Americans. Spy below.

... drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

Amber Mark - Love Me Right

A: Amber Mark
S: Love Me Right

As an instrument, Amber Mark’s voice seems to have near unlimited range. And on her single Love Me Right, from the New York singer’s EP Conexão, it begins light and sweet, then dips low into a deep and sassy strut as Marks grows more frustrated with her lover boy. Amber is quite the revelation, righting every wrong with today's music, especially in pop. Reconcile below.

... I give you the keys and while you gladly take 'em, you don't use 'em.

Sunni Colón - Baby I Don't Mind

A: Sunni Colón
S: Baby I Don't Mind

Fresh from his Parisian sabbatical, Sunni Colón returned last year with a laid-back single entitled Baby I Don’t Mind. The Los Angeles native serves smooth and relaxed vocals as he sings a tale of understanding and acceptance in love over a soulful track laden with a groovy bass line. His tone is soft and sultry as he lovingly sings to his lady. She may have her moments when she's not at her or treating him the best, but Sunni isn't going anywhere; he's there to stay.

... there can only be the two of us, only you.

The Big Moon - Your Light

A: The Big Moon
S: Your Light

The Big Moon announced their second album Walking Like We Do and release their newest single Your Light. After the success of their debut album, Love in the 4th Dimension, The Big Moon finally announce their next record, out 10th January. At the same time, the band dropped a second track from the album to follow the dreamy It’s Easy Then. Named Your Light, this single encapsulates everything that is amazing about this band.

... this planet never needed gravity to drag you down.

Kings Of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You

A: Kings Of Convenience
S: I'd Rather Dance With You

10 years old yet this song still says as much as it did in 2009 when it valued physical communication over verbal. Simply gorgeous and gorgeously simple, there aren't that many lyrics and lyricists that can talk this eloquently about not talking. Silence is bliss.

...  I'd rather dance than talk with you.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

A: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
S: Ghosteen

When Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son, Arthur, died in July 2015, the Bad Seeds frontman said the idea of grieving in the public eye seemed impossible. Following the traumatised chaos of 2016’s Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen is a warm cloud of ambient solace - a sonic evocation of the communion he has experienced through his newly porous relationship with his audience. He sounds buoyed, not weakened, by exposing his wounds. 

... if I could move the night I would.

The Beatles - Come Together

A: The Beatles
S: Come Together

Happy 50th Birthday, dear Abbey Road record, the eleventh, final and some say best Beatle record of them all. Just like Nobody Else was Take That's final and best yet only third record. I guess some boy band rules never change. Anyway, nostalgia below.


... he just do what he please.

Manchester Orchestra - The Silence

A: Manchester Orchestra
S: The Silence

Manchester Orchestra, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, burst onto the indie music scene in 2009 with their second album, Mean Everything to Nothing. Their first effort, I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, remains a cult classic in its own right, but it was this sophomore release that showcased Hull’s vocals, the well-written lyrics, and the artistic capacity from every member in the band. Find their 2017 hit below.

... you can go anywhere but you are where you came from.