Black Moth Super Rainbow: SeeFu Lilac
The ever-equipped BMSR hold dearly a tool belt of muddy synths, guitar, production, and vocoder-laden vocals on this dazed yet patient approach.
Hip Hop/Electronic Rotation
Star Wars: Headspace
A fun album on which a host of notable electronic artists incorporate sound samples from Star Wars films.
P. MORRIS: LOW
LOW is the latest project from former Lawrence native and founding member of Bear Club, P. MORRIS, now based in Los Angeles.
Choir of Young Believers: Grasque
Hailing from Copenhagen, Choir of Young Believers returns with its third studio album, Grasque, out on Ghostly International.
Santigold: 99¢
99¢ is a pop album with depth, and well worth a listen for anyone who likes to ponder commercialism while they dance.
MOTHXR: Centerfold
MOTHXR's seductive debut album, Centerfold, successfully excavates the decedent basin of New Romanticism.
Sunseeker: Georgia Dust
Sunseeker introduces its take on rock-influenced chamber pop in this single debut.
Animal Collective: Painting With
Painting With is upbeat and exciting. Imagine a McDonald's play place on Mars.
Breakbot: Still Waters
Still Waters is a solid, modern funk-house album that is satisfyingly and consistently funky-fresh.
Chaz French: These Things Take Time
This mixture of up-tempo beats, offset with lyrics encompassing a confident but humble tone, create a fluent and subtle feeling of relatability.
Raymond: Good Girls, Bad News
This four-track EP combines hip-hop and electronic elements found in the work of the Vivid Zebra collective coupled with Raymond's pop and R&B presence.
Saul Williams: Martyr Loser King
A hip-hop album with world and experimental twists, boasting a well emphasized message of oppression.
Chrissy: Join Me, The Right to Dance with Somebody, Growl
Look out for a variety of beat styles, Moroder-esque synths, vintage disco samples, and deliberately cheesy vocal tracks.
Junior Boys: Big Black Coat
Big Black Coat has some cold, calculated beats, but we also see warmer techno-y synths met with more fire and desire in the lyrics.
Adrian Younge: Something About April II
Evident in every track from Something About April II is debonair live instrumentation furnishing a dimly lit sound.
John Metcalfe: The Appearance of Colour
A solid instrumental album that really exudes the Metcalfe mastery of classical, yet electronic production in an industry he has inhabited for so long.
RÜFÜS DU SOL: Bloom
Australian electronic trio RÜFÜS DU SOL’s album, Bloom, is perfect for your next classy cocktail soirée.
DJDS: Stand Up and Speak
Stand Up and Speak is a high-energy house album with pop influences.
Applesauce Tears: Alpha Drift
This album is for anyone who wants to reach a mellow headspace, or for anyone who has been catching up on “The X-Files.”
Tycho: Awake Remixes
The cast of guests featured have done Awake a great service by showcasing a taste and approach capable of taking eight tracks to another level while still turning out an inherently ‘Tycho’ record.
Archy Marshall: A New Place 2 Drown
Getting wonderfully lost in this LP is inevitable.
Pusha T: King Push — Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
Pusha T emanates a confident classiness and seasoned sound in the contemporary time capsule that is King Push — Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude.
Jabril Power: Skin
Skin is one of those rare projects that creates a lyrical narrative for this new, wavy sound vision.
GoldLink: And After That, We Didn’t Talk
GoldLink skillfully takes you through hybrid hip-hop beats and slowed R&B ventures that all work in unison in this dynamic collection of tracks.