We kickstart a new year with a special edition of our loop; a recap of the best records dropped during our long festive break. Among all of them, two were particularly unexpected, Burial’s new three-track EP ‘Rival Dealer’, whose standout moment ‘Come Down To Us’ is the first number one in our favourite tracks chart this year and Beyoncé who also shocked the whole industry releasing by surprise an eponymous new album, which turned out to be her most solid effort to date. On the heat of a very clever and instant marketing campaign hers has become in a matter of days the eight best selling record in the States last year.
New works by St. Vincent; The War On Drugs; Damien Jurado; Broken Bells; EMA; Angel Haze and Mogwai are featured in this preview of the most interesting music about to be released.
Check it out here.
| 1-BURIAL Come Back To Us (Rival Dealer EP) (Hyperdub) |
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| 2-BEYONCÉ XO (Columbia) |
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| 3-THE WAR ON DRUGS Red Eyes (Secretly Canadian) |
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| 4-ST. VINCENT Birth In Reverse (Loma Vista) |
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| 5-ARIEL PINK & SKY FERREIRA My Molly (4AD) |
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| 6-LANA DEL REY Tropico (Universal) |
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| 7-LINDA PERHACS Freely (Ashmatic Kitty) |
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| 8-DAMIEN JURADO Silver Timothy (Secretly Canadian) |
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| 9-AXXA/ABRAXAS I Almost Fell (Captured Tracks) |
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| 10-ROCKIE FRESH & CASSIE VEGGIES Sacrifice (PUMA) |
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| 11-BLANK REALM Back To The Flood (Fire) |
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| 12-HAUSCHKA Elizabeth Bay (Temporary Residence) |
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| 13-BROKEN BELLS After The Disco (Columbia) Stream |
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| 14-DORNIK Rebound (PMR) |
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| 15-JESS WILLIAMSON Blood Song (Brutal Honest) |
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| 16-STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS Cinammon And Lesbians (Matador) |
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| 17-EMA Satellites (Matador) |
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| 18-CALLE 13 FEAT. JULIAN ASSANGE Multi Viral (Self-Released) |
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| 19-WOODSMAN Healthy Life (Fire Talk) |
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| 20-ANGEL HAZE A Tribe Called Red (Fire) |
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| 21-THE AMAZING SNAKEHEADS Flatlining (Domino) |
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| 22-SBTRKT & JESSIE WARE R u n a w a y (Self-Released) |
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| 23-ACTRESS Grey Over Blue (Ninja Tune) |
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| 24-MOGWAI The Lord Is Out Of Control (Rock Action) |
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 | 25-SPEEDY ORTIZ Everything's Bigger (Real Hair EP) (Carpark) Stream |
| 26-VAMPIRE WEEKEND FEAT. DANNY BROWN Step (Remix) (XL) |
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| 27-ARTHUR BEATRICE Midland (OAR) |
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| 28-HOSPITALITY I Miss Your Bones (Merge) |
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| 29-PHANTOGRAM Fall In Love (Republik) |
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| 30-WARPAINT Biggy (Rough Trade) |
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| 31-BUSTA RHYMES & Q-TIP FEAT. KANYE WEST & Q-TIP Thank You (The Abstract & The Dragon Mixtape) (Self-Released) |
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| 32-PY Swimming Slow (Champion) |
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| 33-JOY ORBISON & BODIKKA In Here (UNKLOFAW) (SERV) |
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| 34-STAY POSITIVE Shill (OWSLA) |
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| 35-CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Hey Joe (Because) |
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| 36-SISYPHUS Calm It Down (Ashmatic Kitty) |
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| 37-FANFARLO Myth Of Myself (A Ruse To Exploit Our Weaknesses) (Self-Released) |
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| 38-DOLDRUMS Dive Deep Pt. 1 (Self-Released) |
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| 39-PIXIES Snakes (EP2) (Self-Released) |
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| 40-SWERVEDRIVER Deep Wound (Self-Released) |