MP3: Mon Insomnie - Barbed Wires

Rather than turn to boyed, cloud statues, Peepholes continue to swim deliriously towards the heart of the dying of the lo-fi light: rushing headlong into cataclysm like anti-matter hungry for return to a previous non-galaxy. ‘Lairs’ is torn from a new 12″ out through Hungry for Power, you should get it, get it here.



MP3: Peepholes - Lair

Mixing West Coast chills with the Baleares heat, London’s Hypermagic does it simple. Soft, warming and high - evocative still with the gaudiest of primary colours.



MP3: Hypermagic - Jackie Dash



MP3: Hypermagic - Pico Bilsco

The Brown Acid - ‘Bastard Kids’ (Ikonika RMX). Out the 1st of March through East Recordings. Music enhanced by the wire-bound ‘this is a promo’ lady.

Both ‘Double Rainbow’ and ‘Breaststroke’ seem to exist in a yearned-for summer haze state where everything is confusing, but everything is good. Protect-U’s former is the more agitated of the pair, rattling away and ready to burst like John Talabot jamming with Blondes jamming with Invisible Conga People jamming with Aphex Twin or just the sun caught in a giant glass marble, while Mathemagic’s is a more sedate baffling, languorous and listless and all those other words that essentially just mean ’sunshine’.

Find ‘Double Rainbow’ on the A-side of Protect-U’s debut 12″ at Discogs and the Future Times website. Thanks to Peter O’Grady for the tip.



MP3: Protect-U - Double Rainbow



MP3: Mathemagic - Breaststroke

Montreal’s d’Eon shows his worth, quells nagging doubts and answers questions like ‘Would a heart still be wet if it bled instead of wept?’ What’s here is ticklish and panging, like champagne through the eyeballs or if Ariel Pink preferred the anonymity of the wailing house diva over lost FM transmissions. You’ll drift on oblivious. Felt divinity-propelled. Time for us to burst, then.



MP3: d’Eon - Prochaine Station



MP3: d’Eon - Across the Sea

Forest Swords just drafted a mixtape to promote his forthcoming 12″, debuting this batch of reworkings in the process. Two of 2009’s best tracks submerged in the same dubby zen as last year’s incredible ‘Fjree Feather‘, they show a gauzy, sophisticated control of texture and emotion rare in any genre. Pre-order ‘Dagger Paths’ now, out through NYC’s Olde English Spelling Bee next month.



MP3: Burial / Four Tet - Moth (Forest Swords rework)



MP3: Wild Beasts - Hooting & Howling (Forest Swords rework)

Here’s one toxicology report you wouldn’t want to fuck with. Fresh and familiar with a few noted others right now, London producer Bad Autopsy takes a depth charge to garage’s high end stutter and comes up with the bends.

Tracks now due for release - stream only.



MP3: Bad Autopsy - Beam Beamer



MP3: Bad Autopsy - Psionic Terror

Ain’t nothing Lois Magic can do about the weather. CS on FLA last decade.



MP3: Lois Magic - Dead Quiet

Of blue lather and yearning girls, humid midnights and gritty palms, Psychobuildings sits on suburban kerbs waiting for his friends to find him. He is descended from the first man who ever thought to put a bulb inside a bedside globe. His name is Peter and these tracks will feature in a series of singles put out through All Hands Electric and Cass Club.

Sounds a bit like The Cure playing Nite Jewel songs for dreaming children.



MP3: Psychobuildings - Birds Of Prey



MP3: Psychobuildings - Paradise