Glasgow’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/apachesunband/timeline?ref=page_internal">Apache Sun</a> is probably UK’s best kept secret that will have many ears out there rattling from joy. Kris Mitchell, Pete Bruce and David Noble move with remarkable ease from Tame Impala‘s hazy psychedelic pop (the fantastic The Rain That Never Came) to ’60s inspired psychedelia in the style of Allah Las (listen to the splendid Backseat Driver) and from there to the haunting Arabesque rock n’ roll perfection of Club Noir. In each of their songs you’ll find a stimulating groove, produced in a flawless albeit seemingly DIY style, leaving anticipation for when their next song will arrive. In conclusion, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/apachesunband/timeline?ref=page_internal">Apache Sun</a> are one of the best emerging acts that 2014 has offered us thus far.
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Introducing: Apache Sun

Tel Aviv based producer/singer-songwriter <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nivastmusic?ref=br_tf">Niv Ast</a> opens the door to his forthcoming album with the noir electronic pop melodies of I Don’t Care. Lushly dark yet romantic falsetto, the erotic sax sounds of a rainy Metropolis and the overwhelming groove of a heartbreaking symphony, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nivastmusic?ref=br_tf">Niv Ast</a> shows his enormous talent within these three minutes. Check out I Don’t Care below, and keep your eyes open for bigger things to come.
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New: Niv Ast – I Don’t Care

From Nantes, France comes <a href="https://facebook.com/desrosesband">Des Roses</a>, a three piece collective that sounds determined to spread thrills and shivers with The Bond. Drawing inspiration from the melancholic dream pop of the ’80s, <a href="https://facebook.com/desrosesband">Des Roses</a> give a Woman’s Hour-esque appeal that could easily be one of the highlights from the London’s quartet debut album. All in all, a strong debut that deserves repetitive listens. Check out The Bond below.
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New: Des Roses – The Bond

Killing To Be Bright has kept me company through August so far, giving the hottest month of the summer that special melancholic touch during. Brooklyn based trio <a href="https://www.facebook.com/darlingdin">Darling Din</a> give off a dynamic psyched dream pop aura in a way not too dissimilar to Wye Oak, placing this freshly surfaced indie band amongst my favourite emerging acts of the past few months.
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New: Darling Din – Killing To Be Bright

Chicago’s flourishing underground scene has spoilt us with their R&B offerings in the past few years, with the likes of  THE-DRUM and Supreme Cuts proving particular highlights; well now we can add one more name to the ever growing list: the promising act  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OpenWaterMusic">Openwater</a>. With Brandon Marx’s debut track he dives head first into a sea of late night electrified R&B ambiance and grows into an emotional pop freakout that places him amidst the ones to watch for the rest of 2014.
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New: Openwater – Walk Away

Minneapolis based artist Dee Dee Mayo fills the air with some hazy, tropical and beach flavored surf sounds that will have you on your feet in a second. It’s Not Hard is a hard to resist ’60s jangly pop maelstrom with a dark vocal twist and a soothing nostalgic ease, a perfect taster for his debut release that’s about to follow.
Dee Dee Mayo Sweats It Out  tape will drop on 19th August via <a style="color: #000000;" href="https://noproblemrecs.com/">No Problem Records</a>.
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New: Dee Dee Mayo – It’s Not Hard

You’d probably know Sam Maguire from his Flash Forest moniker but you might not know that he has another project going on, the more electronic focused Jahne. With a new track on the loose and with influences rooted in house and UK garage scene, Pain Body/Handsight is a strictly dancehall vessel that defines a unique producing style and a track just yearning to be owned on wax.

New: Jahne – Pain Body/Hindsight

This Oslo based outfit creates some intriguing ethereal electronic pop vibes with Sorry For I Gar. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BurningGodLittle">Burning God Little</a> gloriously stands next to names like Yumi Zouma or Air France, with their dreamy electronic pop aura surrounding Bendik‘s essential vocal harmony and a soft, disco groove cultivating an addictive rhythm that’s impossible to leave behind. Burning God Little are well and truly on your 2014 ‘Ones to Watch’ list. 
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New: Burning God Little – Sorry For I Gar (ft. Bendik)

Since the departure of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarannah.p">Sarah P.</a> from Keep Shelly In Athens was announced, many people have been eagerly anticipating her next move. Only a few months since she left KSIA, and new project Fina Fisken is already here, formed by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarannah.p">Sarah P.</a> and producer Hior Chronik. Save The Day is a sweet surprise that caught me off guard, its dancing house vibes draws its atmosphere from the same source that Factory Floor or even Max Cooper did, setting the mood for the dreamy, ethereal vocals of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarannah.p">Sarah P.</a> to kick in and elevate the whole experience to an otherworldly level. A mesmerising debut track that only promises the best and sucks the listener in to a dreamy state.
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New: Fina Fisken – Save The Day

Hailing from Quebec and with no other information at the time about who he/she is, Brome’s debut track IWLK (I Would Like To Know) serves up a fine cut of electrified R&B infused silent thunder. Loosely based on a sample from Lucy Rose’s song Place, the young producer builds brick by brick a strictly sentimental wall of sound covered with a bouncy and polished production that could easily bend the hardest of hearts. IWLK is promising only the best and hopefully Brome will deliver some more shivering tunes like this in the near future.
IWLK (I Would Like To Know) is available for free download on Brome‘s <a href="https://bromemusic.bandcamp.com/track/iwlk">bandcamp page</a>. 
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New: Brome – IWLK (I Would Like To Know)

One year and a half after the European release of ”Pieces”, Greek psychedelic pop/folk band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/babyguruband">Baby Guru</a> return with their new album Marginalia. The first introduction to their upcoming love child comes with the stunning We Need Some Space, a ’70s inspired synth pop with a Bowie-esque gentle glamorous groove diffusing in its artistic circle and flourishing the tone of a classic with its ambitious production! Sir Kosmiche, Prins Obi and King Elephant sail in the sea of the past while dissolving the echoes in the abyss with their own unique signature of this grandiose sonic palette that so gloriously create!
Marginalia LP will drop on March 24th via <a href="https://www.inner-ear.gr/gr/releases/">Inner Ear Records</a>.
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New: Baby Guru – We Need Some Space

Greek indie pop duo <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlasticFlowers">Plastic Flowers</a> just released their rather fantastic new single Summertime Pop ahead of their debut full length release which will drop on March 3. Its old fashioned, guitar driven, c-86 inspired sugary pop smells like flowers in the spring time while it carries a fragile sign of classic in the most innocent, unpretentious manner. Stream it below and stay tuned for <a href="https://www.inner-ear.gr/gr/releases/artist/70-plastic-flowers/108-evergreen/">Evergreen LP</a> set to drop via Crash Symbols and <a href="https://www.inner-ear.gr/gr/releases/artist/70-plastic-flowers/108-evergreen/">Inner Ear</a> which also includes contributions from Keep Shelly In Athens and Ed Askew. 
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New: Plastic Flowers – Summertime Pop

Remember the first time you listened to Zombie Zombie, and how all those shivering emotions flourished out of their electrifying sound? Or when you’ve first noticed the music in John Carpenter‘s films has a life of its own? Well, Greek producer Dream Weapons (you might also know him as Fantastikoi Hxoi, his other moniker) explores these kraut-disco charming paths with all the ’70s futuristic cymbals drawing the line to an imaginary motion picture seeped in darkness. What Infinite does so well is that it pulls you into a frenetic mind chase where you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and probably don’t want to either. It’s sinister vibes and howling synths will leave you breathless from the first second it hits.
Pathways EP is out now on 12” via <a href="https://www.kompakt.fm/releases/pathways_ep">Holger Records</a>.
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New: Dream Weapons – Infinite

With their debut single, Dead House, London duo The Dead Strange did something rather special for me in reminding me why I used to be so in love with ‘guitar music’. Dead House is a dirty, bluesy affair, complete with bouncing drum beat and swaggering, uncompromising guitar chords, hinting at the more muscular direction Arctic Monkeys showcased whilst under the direction of Josh Homme. Yet The Dead Strange don’t stop there, there’s touches of The Black Keys and 60’s psychedelic rock littered throughout the magical four minute course, making for the first great rock song of 2014.
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New: The Dead Strange – Dead House

Sydney producer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AofficialY">aywy.</a> just dropped his Valentine’s EP to honour the day of lovers, featuring these four essential tracks of magic. EP highlight Need U is a passionate R&B jam moving with a sensual groove and impressiving with its flawless production and ever-so vulnerable sampled soulful vocals. Stream it below and get the whole EP for free <a href="https://flowfi.bandcamp.com/album/feels">over here</a>. 
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New: aywy. – Need U

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/bisonbonasusband">Bison Bonasus</a> remain shrouded in anonymity. The London based artist/band just released his/their debut single, the spell bounding If The Moon Did Not I Wouldn’t Either. With an epic intro hitting you like a shock wave that feels like a ’70s art-pop all-star jamming, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bisonbonasusband">Bison Bonasus</a> explore the big orchestrated psychedelic pop latitude with an innocence and a playful heart. A dazzlingly stylish work that recalls <a href="https://idiotglee.bandcamp.com/album/life-without-jazz">Idiot Glee</a>‘s artistic pop roots and leaves one with hopes that much greater things are upon us….
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New: Bison Bonasus – If The Moon Did Not I Wouldn’t Either

The California boy/girl duo of Chantelle Paredes returns with another shimmering sound and their first track of the year. 2 Thousand is an alluring piano driven and string whispering pop fantasia, a fragile ambient pop number that feels like a more down to earth Lana Del Rey, starring right between your eyes and forcing shivers down your spine with that one, otherworldly beautiful glare…
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New: Chantelle Paredes – 2 Thousand

Athens-based producer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Giganta.Music">Giganta</a> will release her debut EP, Force, on <a href="https://ninjatune.net/release/giganta/force">Werk Discs/Ninja Tune</a> on March 17th. ‘Is Ma Beat’ is the first tune from the aforementioned release is a track that builds on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Giganta.Music">Giganta</a>‘s dancehall philosophy with a frenzied beat and robotic vocal samples, ending up a mind-blowing, twisted R&B hybrid that will appeal to all the dancefloor lovers out there. The song weaves a pixelated magic spell and I feel privileged to groove under its influence! You can pick up Force on 12” or good old-fashioned download soon.
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New: Giganta – Is Ma Beat

Norwegian songstress Sea Change, who now lives in Berlin, is back with this pure bliss of electronic pop maelstrom. Tempting you to dance with her minimalistic but magically weightless song ,Let’s Dance is a place where PJ Harvey and Fever Ray are best friends and make you feel so cozy under this suffocatingly glorious pop sounds. It’s been awhile since pop music sounded this charmingly irresistible.
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New: Sea Change – Let’s Dance

Kristina Esfandiari‘s (former vocalist of Whirr) solo debut song, feels like a punch in the face. Bell Jar is a dark whispering tale that ends up as a screaming howl of a liberating nightmare; a pitch black shoegaze folk fusion. Take Chelsea Wolfe, Zola Jesus and Deafheaven put them in a blender and the chaotic masterpiece that will rise is Miserable….
Halloween Dream EP will drop on a limited 7” on February 18th via <a href="https://thenativesound.limitedrun.com/products/523173">Native Sound</a>.
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New: Miserable – Bell Jar

There’s something charming and essential in the claustrophobic pop tunes that London duo Black Channels record inside their magic little box. Oracles is a little dream pop masterpiece, haunting and ethereal with its ghostly electronics happily welcoming a psychedelic pop flare and a minimal, unique synth line. It’s like Broadcast meets Ela Orleans, living in hope that this two piece can help fill the empty space that Trish Keenan‘s tragic death left.
You can purchase Oracles single over at their <a href="https://blackchannels.bandcamp.com/album/oracles">bandcamp page</a>.
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New: Black Channels – Oracles

An impressive debut release by Manhattan based electronic soul artist <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattheumusic">Mattheu</a>.
In Sanguine, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattheumusic">Mattheu</a> moves with grace and beauty following the same paths as Disclosure, Rhye and James Blake. With an undoubtedly souful tone and sensual R&B-esque production, Sanguine proves that the N.Y vocalist/producer knows the game of seduction.
Mattheu’s debut EP, Virgin, is expected to drop soon
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Introducing: Mattheu – Sanguine

Little is known about YOYCE aside from that: A) they hail from Perth, Australia. B) we’re probably talking about a duo and C) they make some of the freshest dance pop tunes out there. Patrick Miller sounds like a breath of fresh air with its tropical disco grooves landing somewhere between Cut Copy and Holy Ghost, holding tight a ’90s house vibe full of sparkling vintage synths and an air of beach flavoured pop. YOYCE nail irresistible summer washed tones, just crying out for the hot months to be upon us. Trust me, it would be a sin not to press play and enjoy this little diamond right now.
YOYCE‘s Exclusive Preview One two track EP is available now for free download <a href="https://yoyce.bandcamp.com/">over here</a>.
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New: YOYCE – Patrick Miller

German duo <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mentalbend">Mental Bend</a> blends a disarming dream pop sensitivity inside its fragile electronic world. Sissip‘s stunningly velvet vocals co-exist in perfect harmony with Hendrik‘s digital orchestration, managing to sound somewhere between a luminous XX and a Dionysian Jessie Ware. Take My Hand is here to enslave your senses with its soulful, late night groove and minimal simplicity that proves to be so rich and colourful like fireworks in the sky. 2014 looks great so far….
Download Mental Bend‘s debut EP <a href="https://mentalbend.bandcamp.com/album/mental-bend-ep-prelistening">over here</a>
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New: Mental Bend – Take My Hand

Although they’ve been writing music together since 2011, the Athens-based boy/girl duo of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/feverkids">Fever Kids</a> are only just set to release their debut 7”. The first glimpse comes with the wonderful Holding Grass, a track where a pulsing disco beat drives the ethereal, dream pop vocals of lead singer, Σtella.
It’s like Blondie‘s sparkling moments polished for the demands of today’s audience. This song will haunt your speakers for the weeks ahead and prove that pop music is a die hard motherfucker.
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New: Fever Kids – Holding Grass

In my opinion Feathers is probably one of the best albums of 2013 that you probably haven’t heard and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/KU/482243831787766">KU</a> is a new pop revelation that you probably haven’t noticed. Born and raised in Greece but with a musical mind travelling further than any continent, his obscure pop visions take shape in exciting forms.
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A futuristic art pop ensemble so grandiose you can almost feel its long, protective arms wrapping around you.
Feathers LP is out now via Inner Ear Records.

Introducing: KU

Splitting her time between the creative processes of music making and art, California based wonder <a href="https://www.facebook.com/simonerubimusic">Simone Rubi</a> recently graced us with When I’m Down, a glimpse to the hopefully sun washed forthcoming debut album, Hearts & Sciences, which will drop in 2014. A criminally overlooked artist in her own right, although her bands Rubies and Call and Response have gained more critical recognition, this track deserves it’s plaudits. Arty danceable folk and dream pop melodies surrounded by a ’60s flavored jazzy pop groove that will bend every cold heart, her vagrant voice is the vehicle that leads this evaporated, glorious groove back in time, a time when masterpieces were born out of spontaneity.
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Introducing: Simone Rubi

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/waeldersound">Wælder</a> is an experimental electronic project from Vienna, Austria. Their debut EP Firn has just been released, and from the opening melody of the title track you’ll feel that something pretty strange and beautiful is going on here. The duo of Jan Preivler and Moritz Nahold create ambient pop lullabies crushing into an electronic railway of industrial sounds – think Antony Hegarty‘s androgynous voice immersed in the chaotic electronic universe of Haxan Cloak. An adventurous listen, and well worth getting lost in.
Firn EP is available for purchase in limited edition 10” vinyl and digital on their <a href="https://waelder.bandcamp.com/">bandcamp page</a>.
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New: Wælder – Firn

Greek born and raised producer/songwriter <a href="https://www.facebook.com/babisbozoglou">Dozen Draft</a> moves like a chameleon between the sparkling vintage sounds of the past. His musical quest sounds like it’s taking place in the Amazon rainforest while the wide open range in his music taste feels like natural growth throughout his songs Psych pop, tropical, world sounds, Balkan horns, dusty production and scratchy needle tunes are hugging his debut EP, Hands, where somewhere in the end you’ll find the liberating salvation in the mind melting psychedelic pop of Ebony Grief waiting to be heard.
Hands EP is out now on his <a href="https://dozendraft.bandcamp.com/">bandcamp page</a>.
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Introducing: Dozen Draft

One of those times where you’re so blurred with excitement and want to write so much about the song and the artist in question but the only thing that comes up is… well…nothing. This is what happened to me with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GOOFYFOOTSD">Goofy Foot</a>‘s Isis. A Californian producer and vocalist that blends the old and new with an ease that quite frankly leaves you speechless. Isis is bluesy in vocals, ingenious in sampling, soulful in heart, groovy in vibes, explosive in its core and so grandiose in its production that it awoke all the senses in the same way that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jungle4eva">Jungle</a>‘s Platoon. So, if you’re looking for something to burst into 2014 that might be Spencer Jarrad‘s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GOOFYFOOTSD">Goofy Foot</a>.
Goofy Foot EP is available for free download at his <a href="https://goofyfoot.bandcamp.com/">bandcamp page</a>.
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New: Goofy Foot – Isis

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/BattleGroundGrammar">Battle Ground Grammar</a> is Seattle musician, producer and songwriter Andrew Gospe. Back in October, he quietly dropped his debut EP BGG, a collection of tracks that moved with ease between groovy UK/garage vibes and soulful down-tempo serenades. The real surprise, though, came with the vagabond boogie anthem ‘Knew Back Then’, a wicked R&B sampledelia of pitched down vocals and tribal percussion that nurtures an unexpected dance floor sensitivity inside its crazy rhythm.
BGG is available for free download <a href="https://battlegroundgrammar.bandcamp.com/">over here</a>.
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New: Battle Ground Grammar – Knew Back Then

Ian Allan Johnston‘s moniker <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shakysnakess">Shaky Snakes</a> appears in the front line once again with stunning new track Blue Seven. The Portland based producer draws an experimental late night disco groovin’ line, merged with a kraut-inspired balearic experience and a beat to kill for. Balancing somewhere between the ’70s kosmische futurism and Lindstrom‘s galloping vibes, with Blue Seven, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shakysnakess">Shaky Snakes</a> establishes himself as a name to keep an eye out for in 2014.
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New: Shaky Snakes – Blue Seven

Sheffield based band Abe just dropped their debut EP, the mysteriously titled Heave-Ho and the aforementioned single is the perfect introduction to their sonic universe. The first thing you’ll notice is Clubbs Coldron‘s deep, alluring voice in heart aching electro-pop single Wink Wink. An ’80s inspired synth-pop ballad expertly toying with modern production techniques yet gushing with all the warm emotions of a misunderstood past. Wink Wink will have you craving more; tame this hunger is by streaming/purchasing their Heave-Ho EP at their <a href="https://abesmusic.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> page.
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Crack in the Road

Introducing: Apache Sun

Niv AstI Don’t Care

Des RosesThe Bond

Darling DinKilling To Be Bright

OpenwaterWalk Away

Dee Dee MayoIt’s Not Hard

JahnePain Body/Hindsight

Burning God LittleSorry For I Gar (ft. Bendik)

Fina FiskenSave The Day

BromeIWLK (I Would Like To Know)

Baby GuruWe Need Some Space

Plastic FlowersSummertime Pop

Dream WeaponsInfinite

The Dead StrangeDead House

aywy.Need U

Bison BonasusIf The Moon Did Not I Wouldn’t Either

Chantelle Paredes2 Thousand

GigantaIs Ma Beat

Sea ChangeLet’s Dance

MiserableBell Jar

Black ChannelsOracles

Introducing: MattheuSanguine

YOYCEPatrick Miller

Mental BendTake My Hand

Fever KidsHolding Grass

Introducing: KU

Introducing: Simone Rubi

WælderFirn

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