Weekly MP3

Witty "man I'm old" Americana type business.  I was tempted to post this on my birthday, next week, but I'm not that old yet!  You can find the download at Pitchfork, the online magazine that has the worst readers.

Immaculate low-key pop, from a free EP on Bandcamp.

Dayglo synthgoth! Nah, really. Grab this from Stereogum if you enjoy the vid below.  'Genesis' actually starts about a minute in.

Nice hip-hop beat that's vocal-led but lyric-free, courtesy Aussie radio station Triple J. You can listen first below.

Goddamn cheery trip-hop kinda business, from betterPropaganda.

A beautiful, moody whirl from Brisbane's Feral Media.

Seeing out my 4th year of weekly mp3s is a lovely short instrumental courtesy of Dublab's Into Infinity project - a fun project where people assembled tracks from a bunch of Creative Commons licenced snippets.  I even had a go myself.

Spectacularly hissy, ambience with plenty of low-end looping business that showed up on the Non Projects label site a couple of years back.

The thing's almost like a suite - for an ambient track it's completely bereft of reverb and jumps about in volume kind of abruptly. It's lovely though. Like Fennesz et al the harmonic content is really pretty, just heavily distorted in multiple ways.

Would've been "hypnagogic pop" in 2011, probably "post-rock" when it came out 10 years earlier. Either way, get it now from Epitonic.

"Lush" would be my one-word summary. "Lush chords with live harp playing over a hip-hop beat" would be the 10-word version. From a Prefix Mag article, but you can listen and download below.