Ellie Goulding – Under the Sheets
(From Electrorash)
Hereford-born warbler's first single proper, released on Neon Gold Records (which also fosters fellow pop sparklets Marina and the Diamonds and Your Twenties). Vocals a-quiver and synths a-shiver as Goulding and producer Starsmith take three minutes to trounce the "first lady of folk-dubstep" tag we gave her in February. It's not our fault she went all innovative.
Le Corps Mince de Françoise – Something Golden
(From This Big Stereo)
Finnish trio featured on the forthcoming Kitsuné Maison 8 compilation. The beats are chopped from Timba and the fringes chopped to "intimidating" as the track ricochets between splendid (the guitar) and sickly (the cat noises) too quickly to put value on.
Del & Tame One – Before This
(From Spine Magazine)
A jazzy skip across the snare for New Jersey MC Tame One and backpack legend Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. A fairly matched combo, but check out the glorious Deltron 3030 LP for Del at his funkee-est.
LCD Soundsystem – Bye Bye Bayou
(From Lifelounge)
James Murphy and his amorphous crew return with a cover of former Suicide singer Alan Vega's hazey "NYC blues" epic. They're a natural match – personality over prowess in the vocals, charging beats and five minutes of wandering around the point before getting to it.
Little Dragon – Runabout
(From SUPR3M MGZN)
Part of a generation that is slowly, cautiously, positing that having Paul Simon's Graceland played at them wasn't such a bad thing after all. Supplementing its influence with some of The Trendy (ESG for this Gothenberg quartet, Black Flag for past NMOW-ers Fair-Ohs) can't hurt.
