Feeling romantic? Well New York rap trio Flatbush Zombies have the perfect soundtrack for that romantic stoner session with your loved one.
Thrown up online the night before Valentines, the track is FZ through and through. Eric ‘The Architect’ Elliot’s languorous treacle beat production married with some vocal accompaniment from Yasmin lays the foundation for the trio to build on with their super-smooth specialist flow of dark, dank, drug induced lyricisms. Happy Valentines.
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New: Flatbush Zombies – LiT

That loveable dishevelled rogue Mac DeMarco is soon to release his third album of hazy lazy-day rock’n’roll jams. Salad Days is out April 1st on Captured Tracks but until then the first single, an introspective sauntering stroll through the Mac’s thoughts on living life in the public eye, entitled ‘Passing Out Pieces’ will have to suffice.
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New: Mac DeMarco – Passing Out Pieces

There’s no denying that when it comes to sunshine-led garage rock there are certain names that instantly take up residence in your thinking, any band that joins the pool-party this late is going to have to get used to walking around with the likes of Best Coast, Bleached and Wavves sticking to them like chewing gum. Fortunate then, that Sherbert more than hold their own alongside the garage pop kings and queens in the kingdom of eternal summer. Acting as a vehicle for Michelle Sullivan’s creativity, each track is a brief window into hazy days filled with boys, booze and narcotics in Nashville. Set to a forever 21 vibe of fuzzed-out garage guitar and narrated by Sullivan’s charming Tennessee drawl, it’s hard not to wish you were the arsehole she was singing about.
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Introducing: Sherbert

Outside of electronic music, it can be a real struggle for new European artists to have their music heard within the UK, especially those that choose to sing in English. Excluding the obvious Icelandic exception, if you want to break out of your homeland it’s time to start brushing up on your English skills.
So after picking myself up from the floor having heard the patient sonic evolution of <a href="https://xulzolar.bandcamp.com/track/hex" target="_blank">‘Hex’</a> for the first time, I was surprised to find that Xul Zolar weren’t the young Oxford band I so readily assumed. Forgoing their native Germanic tongue for a softly spoken neutral English tone means that their labour can be loved across borders.
With very little material online, in fact, in over a year they’ve only made three tracks available digital, ‘Bedouin Man’ being the latest of these. It takes a more immediately infectious route than the slow invasion of your senses that made up their last single, but no less enveloping.
Ich liebe Xul Zolar.
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Crack in the Road

Flatbush ZombiesLiT

Mac DeMarcoPassing Out Pieces

Introducing: Sherbert

Introducing: Xul Zolar