Label: 444 RecordsRelease: Exposed
Artist: Liz Primo
Genre: Dance
Ms. Primo is the newest Pop Dance diva on the scene, and she arrives with major fanfare! Armed with a stable of producers supplying her electrifying beats (responsible for hits by chart-topping artists like Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls and Eminem), Liz is poised to break through on a high-profile multinational platform. Her newest EP Exposed features six new tracks brimming with sexuality, sass and a celebration of partying that have already caught the imagination of the LGBT community, where Liz's strongest support lies. Uptempo club vibes abound on tracks like the title jam with its "What happens here/ Stays here" refrain or "Wind Me Up" with its buzzing synth melodies and sub-bass thump. Look out for Liz Primo - as she sings on "Wasted Love": "I'm not your ordinary broad/ I get whatever I want/ Whether you like it or not."
Label: krankyRelease: A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Artist: A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Genre: Alternative
Shifting gears from pumping dance-club pop to ambient neoclassical drone is this new project from Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and modern classical composer Dustin O'Halloran. Lush pieces for piano, guitar plus effects and string quartet, recorded in West Berlin's famed Grunewald Church using a nine-foot Boesendorfer piano - sought after for its extreme sonic low end - achieve a drifting mellowness that is soothing, engaging and starkly beautiful. Gorgeous harmonic structures emerge like glaciers out of the sea of reverb & slowly decaying sound, occasionally reaching emotional peaks among the deep acoustic valleys. Incredible on headphones...
Label: Voltaire RecordsRelease: Split Infinitive EP
Artist: Tussle/Publicist
Genre: Electronic
Leaving the drone behind and moving to the indie disco dancefloor sees upstart San Francisco imprint Voltaire Records unleash their finest release to date - a split EP featuring two fantastic modern talents. First up, SF's own Tussle, having previously released two albums on respected Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound (with a forthcoming third produced by JD Twitch of unstoppable leftfield DJ duo Optimo), who contribute "Dusty Roads", a quirky funk monster whose strange groove comes from all manner of percussion and Tomo Yasuda's loping basslines. The other half of the equation here is Publicist, aka Sebastian Thomson of Trans Am, who drops the cosmic "Do You Know Who I Am", all spooky synths, robot vocals and wonderfully Italian melodies, sounding like a mixture of John Carpenter film soundtracks and Giorgio Moroder discoscapes. Each artist remixes the other to round out the EP to fantastic effect, finishing off its rock-meets-dance vibe perfectly. Voltaire - one to watch!
