Pick a Piper - Pick a Piper (2013)

Overseen, produced, and recorded by Caribou’s Brad Weber, Pick a Piper is his collaboration with Clint Scrivener, Angus Fraser, Dan Roberts, and others. Over the course of two EPs and a forthcoming album, the project has combined dance-music structures, a palette evocative of the natural world, and an increasingly heavy focus on electronics and production technique to create a sound poised between the organic and the synthetic.

Pick a Piper - All Her Colours

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Helado Negro - Invisible Life (2013)

Roberto Carlos Lange hizo crecer sus raíces ecuatorianas y las convirtió en frondosos árboles, hasta el punto de hacerlos transnacionales y policulturales: con la música como epicentro, se dedicó a expresar en audio, vídeo y performances todo aquello que removía sus entrañas, siempre inclinado al paso, entregado a la pausa y el despliegue rítmico en perjuicio del trote cuadrado.

En sus casas de Florida, Georgia y Brooklyn siempre sonó la música, especialmente la generada por el espíritu inquieto de un creador que se sirve de la electrónica y la ensoñación para facturar piezas impactantes. Su última creación editada es Invisible Life, un racimo de canciones con trazo grueso y elegante, que parecen flotar a diez centímetros del suelo y sortear los árboles de un bosque tropical para envolverlos en tejido ignífugo. Música que sana sin pretenderlo.

Helado Negro - Dance Ghost

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Still Corners - Strange Pleasures 2013

Riding that insatiable kinesis over the last two years has resulted in Hughes, along with singing accomplice Tessa Murray, fashioning a devastating sophomore album, Strange Pleasures, which is surely destined to usher Still Corners to a deserved place at cerebral dream-pop’s high table. Where its predecessor soared on sugared layers of shoegazing-infused retro-futurism, Strange Pleasures proffers a leaner, more acute extrapolation of ’80s-suffused song and studio craft, navigating a sinuous trajectory between velveteen Angelo Badalamenti noir-pop torch song sophistication and ethereal Cocteau Twins beauty, with exquisite meanders through the glacial but mellifluous territory first mapped by Modern English, The Cure and The Passions, with nods along the way to cool, graceful detachment a la ’80s Euro avant-poppers such as Berntholer and Virna Lindt.

Still Corners - The Trip

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Still Corners - Creatures of an Hour (2011)

Still Corners is the musical project of songwriter/producer Greg Hughes and vocalist Tessa Murray. The London-based duo signed with record label Sub Pop in 2011 and issued their first full-length debut, Creatures of an Hour.

Still Corners - Cuckoo

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