The 1975 – “fallingforyou”

We recently shared with you Manchester’s The 1975 and their shimmering R&B toned track “Haunt // Bed”. They have just unveiled the closing track from their forthcoming “IV” EP called “fallingforyou”. A slow-burner awash in a gorgeous shoegaze reverb. The driving synths take us down a road of beautiful melancholia that we will not soon forget. With every new track from The 1975, we fall more in love with their unique brand of brooding indie-pop. “IV” EP is set to release later this summer via Dirty Hit Records.

Mirage – “Let’s Kiss” [After Dark 2]

After months of painful delays, the second instalment of neo-disco label Italians Do It Better‘s After Dark series will finally be released this Friday, May 17. This is the second track on the album, a glorious piece by Mirage called “Let’s Kiss”. It’s a 9-minute vocoder jam that has us dancing in our chairs. SO stoked for Friday. Listen and download it below. Complete After Dark 2 tracklist below as well.

After Dark 2:

1. Glass Candy “Warm in the Winter”
2. Mirage “Let’s Kiss”
3. Desire “The Nightshift”
4. Appaloosa “Fill the Blanks”
5. Glass Candy “Pain Relief is Fun”
6. Chromatics “House of Models”
7. Symmetry “Heart of Darkness”
8. Twisted Wires “Half Lives”
9. Glass Candy “The Possessed”
10. Desire “Tears From Heaven”
11. Chromatics “Johanna”
12. Farah “Into Eternity”
13. Mirage “Lucifer”
14. Glass Candy “Soft Celebration”
15. Chromatics “Looking For Love”
16. Glass Candy “The Price”

London Grammar – “Wasting My Young Years” [official video]

London trio London Grammar have created something of pure beauty. The fog that swept us away when we first posted “Wasting My Young Years” is back 10 fold with this absolutely gorgeous black and white video. An emotional and passionate affair that features the band and some corpses floating around in various haunting positions.

Say Lou Lou – “Julian” [official video]

We continue to absolutely fall in love with everything Swedish twin sisters Say Lou Lou touch, and that tradition certainly continues with the video for “Julian”. Teaming up with Philippe Tempelman again, the sisters star in the video about a beautifully creepy party. But what proper party isn’t a bit creepy…

We previously shared with you the equally beautiful b-side “Fool of Me”.

Phoria – “Red” [official video]

Easily one of our favorite tracks of the year so far, “Red” by London 5-piece Phoria gets an absolutely gorgeous video treatment. The swelling seas and crashing waves drenched in flickering nostalgia along with the “tearing” away and re-layering of the walls that separate us (love, hurt, grief, indulgence) are the perfect visuals for this beautiful, delicately layered track. Like we said before, “Red” bores in to your very soul, and the video does the same. Amazing.

Daft Punk – “Random Access Memories” full album stream

Stream Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories, in full, ahead of its May 21st release via Columbia. The 13-track effort is streaming on iTunes for free. And god bless it’s good.

Stream it here. (be sure to click on the View In iTunes button)

Young Galaxy – “Fall For You” [official video]

Young Galaxy release trippy, 80s 3D graphics-inspired, video for one of our favorite tunes of the year so far “Fall For You” off their incredible new LP Ultramarine. If you haven’t picked up this album yet, do yourself an enormous favor…

Thumpers – “Unkinder” (A Tougher Love)” [official video]

London dup Thumpers are back with “Unkinder (A Tougher Love)”, yet another infectious as hell indie-pop jam. We recently shared with you the equally addictive, “Dancing’s Done“. There is just something about this band’s rhythmic sound that is undeniably uplifting.

Thumpers’ debut EP Unkinder will be released as a limited 12” vinyl on 3rd June through Transgressive Records.

Maps – “A.M.A.”

Maps, aka James Chapman, shares with us “A.M.A”, the first single off of his new album Vicissitude out on July 9th via Mute Records. The single “A.M.A.” will be released on June 25th on limited edition hand stamped 12” vinyl & download and will include exclusive remixes.

We were immediately drawn in by the dark/pulsing beats and beautifully soaring/shimmering melodies. “A.M.A” seems to straddle the line between light and dark, and we absolutely love it.

AELIUS – “Echoes”

London based AELIUS is the musical combination of Martin Roberts and Lee Tyler. Their new single “Echoes” is a beautifully organic track that builds slowly to a monumental crescendo only to come back down to a gentle whisper, then does it all over again building to the mind-blowing finale. We are told to expect an EP later this year, and from what we have heard we are more than stoked.