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FKA twigs - LP1

Rustie - Attak (feat. Danny Brown) [video=youtube;_mO2VcJAkOw]

Spoon - They Want My Soul

DOOM and Bishop Nehru Release New Track "Om", Detail NehruvianDOOM Album DOOM and Bishop Nehru's collaborative album under the name NehruvianDOOM is finally coming out. It will be called NehruvianDOOM, and it's due out September 22 in the UK and September 23 in the U.S. via Lex/Noizy Cricket!! [video=youtube;PkWMpDdLe6s] http://pitchfork.com/news/56032-doom-and-bishop-nehru-release-new-track-om-detail-nehruviandoom-album/

Jessie Ware - Share It All [video=youtube;LIYNdtiVPVM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIYNdtiVPVM

Hudson Mohawke - Chimes [video=youtube;k_MWuP2Qj7U]

SBTRKT Announces New Album, Wonder Where We Land; Listen to 'New Dorp New York', Featuring Ezra Koenig Aaron Jerome teams with the Vampire Weekend frontman for his new single. SBTRKT will follow-up his 2011 self-titled debut with Wonder Where We Land. While details are scarce, the album will be proceeded by new single ‘New Dorp New York’. An electro-funk track that wouldn’t be out of place on DFA, ‘New Dorp New York’ features Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and pays homage to Sweet’s ‘Ballroom Blitz’ (which was famously sampled on the Beastie Boys’ ‘Hey Ladies’). [video=youtube;t5_qsgzGDhs] http://www.factmag.com/2014/07/22/sbtrkt-announces-new-album-wonder-where-we-land-listen-to-new-dorp-new-york-featuring-ezra-koenig/

Flying Lotus Announces New Album, You're Dead!, and Tour Flying Lotus has announced the follow-up to Until the Quiet Comes, which he's been teasing for a few months now. It's called You're Dead! and it's out October 7 in the U.S. and October 6 in the UK via Warp. http://pitchfork.com/news/55978-flying-lotus-announces-new-album-youre-dead-and-tour/

Spoon - Inside Out [video=youtube;IpT5SBg1Mmk]

Kanye West Reveals Next Album Could Drop in September, Single in Two Weeks It’s been a year since Yeezus, and Kanye West appears to have its followup almost ready. In an interview with GQ, West stated, when asked about how far away the next record was, that it could come as early as September, which is just over a month away. “I think most likely September,” he stated, noting that while he goes “back and forth,” he should have one of the songs out “in the next couple of weeks.” He says initially he wanted the album to drop in June (to “kill it for the summer”) but has to “work on Adidas and be with my child.” On the new single, entitled ‘All Day’, West claims that it’s “a song that can be in the club like ‘Don’t Like’ or ‘*****s in Paris,’” so we’re hoping it’s actually going to show up in a couple of weeks as planned. There’s always the threat that he could scrap it all and go back to the drawing board, as he says in the interview “when Beyoncé was working on her last album, she took a while.” http://www.factmag.com/2014/07/21/kanye-west-reveals-next-album-could-drop-in-september-single-in-two-weeks/

While there haven't been many great albums so far, there have been some really great songs. My top 10 songs so far (in alphabetical order): Caribou - Can't Do Without You FKA twigs - Two Weeks Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You) Jamie xx - Girl Jay Electronica - Better in Tune With the Infinite (ft. LaTonya Givens) Percussions - Ascii Bot Rustie - Raptor Spoon - Do You Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite Vic Mensa - Down on My Luck Entirely possible that this list changes down the line.

My top 10 albums so far (in alphabetical order): Actress - Ghettoville Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata Joey Anderson - After Forever Marissa Nadler - July Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty Sun Kil Moon - Benji Swans - To Be Kind Todd Terje - It's Album Time Untold - Black Light Spiral The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream Entirely possible that this list changes down the line. Has been an incredibly bland year for music so far. Very disappointing. :( There's still 5 months left in the year... hopefully it starts picking up real soon.

Jessie Ware Announces Album Title, Tough Love, Shares Art Jessie Ware's recent single "Tough Love" is actually the title track to her upcoming album, as she confirmed today. For the follow-up to 2012's Devotion, Ware worked primarily with executive producers BenZel, aka London post-bass producer Two Inch Punch and mega-producer Benny Blanco (Rihanna, Katy Perry). Along with Devotion co-conspirators Dave Okumu, Julio Bashmore, and Kid Harpoon, she also enlisted Miguel, Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford, Toronto’s Nineteen85 (who co-produced Drake’s “Hold On We’re Going Home”), and Ed Sheeran, who’s helped write singles for Taylor Swift and One Direction in addition to being a solo artist. http://pitchfork.com/news/55938-jessie-ware-announces-album-title-tough-love-shares-art/

Kanye Reportedly DJ’d 20 New Songs In London Last Night The fabled, mysterious new Kanye West album might be coming sooner than we knew. Last night, Kanye performed at London’s Wireless festival. After the show, he and longtime consigliere Virgil Abloh took over the DJ booth at a London club, as Complex reports. And according to various eyewitness Twitter accounts, the two played about 20 new songs, which one twitterer described as “’Dark’, ’hellish’ and ’groundshaking!’” Promising! This could mean that the new album is loaded up and ready to go, possibly for a Beyoncé-style surprise release, or it could mean that Kanye is still tinkering with it and that he wanted to see how these songs would sound over club speakers. Either way, this continues to be our most anticipated album of the year, and we continue to know basically nothing about it. http://www.stereogum.com/1690768/kanye-reportedly-djd-20-new-songs-in-london-last-night/news/

Ryn Weaver - OctaHate [video=youtube;KUvwNR8-NQc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvwNR8-NQc

Spoon - Do You [video=youtube;bZNyg6Qc_os]

Freddie Gibbs/Young Thug/A$AP Ferg - Old English [video=youtube;34LyiriE6eo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LyiriE6eo

Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

Grimes - Go [video=youtube;vIi57zhDl78]

FKA twigs - Two Weeks [video=youtube;3yDP9MKVhZc]

Jamie xx - All Under One Roof Raving [video=youtube;wk28cgCG3Ho]

Rustie - Raptor [video=youtube;iA24gVGnIxQ]

Head High - Megatrap

Rustie Details New Album Green Language After unveiling the new track "Raptor" last Friday, Scottish producer Rustie has detailed his hotly anticipated follow-up LP to 2011's Glass Swords. Green Language is out August 26 via Warp. It features Danny Brown, D Double E, Redinho, and Gorgeous Children. The press release explains that the album's title comes from "medieval literature, Renaissance magic, and ancient mythology". Rustie explains, “It’s a language that’s non-dualistic, that speaks to you directly to your emotions without the mind interfering with the message. And music is like that for me.” [video=youtube;VfCxBIa8Ix0] http://pitchfork.com/news/55665-rustie-details-new-album-green-language/

Special mention(s) for 2013: Arca - &&&&& Burial – Rival Dealer Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap FKA twigs - EP2 Galcher Lustwerk - 100% Galcher Jai Paul – Jai Paul Kelela - Cut 4 Me Mssingno - Mssingno