In the past I’ve used lemons for juicing. I make fresh juices with kale, carrots, apples, lemons, and you can put the whole thing in the juicer, with the rind and everything. I also make lemonade. In our English lessons in Sweden, they were talking about lemonade a lot. I was maybe nine. I’d never had it, but I pictured it as being sparkly and tangy. It took 10 years before I tasted some, but it was a dream come true. No one knew how to make lemonade back home. My mom tried to squeeze some oranges one time and put sugar in it.
- Elsa Hahne
Mackintosh Braun - Made For Us
I think Mackintosh Braun is to slow-dance electronic music where Monarchy is to all-out dance floor magic. Fine lounge vibe that's good for a slow dance with a partner. Enchanted.
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Tokyo Police Club - Bambi
Try this for lyrical pop sensibilities with neat rock riffs and hooks. With a song title like that, and from an album entitled "Champs", it's hard not to be a favourite.
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Tame Impala - Lucidity
"Lucidity,come back to me, put all five senses back to where they're meant to be"
Sounds like a pretty damn tall order after listening to this amazing eargasm of a song. Maybe they were being sarcastic, but I couldn't sense it through all that fuzzed out bliss.
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Röyksopp - The Alcoholic
There's nothing to fault Röyksopp with, crafting such a brilliant instrumental song. The staccato tik-tak-tak and tik-tak, backing melody getting louder and louder. The plucking guitar strings(?), calming. Bird chirps, strange but beautiful.
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Perfume Genius - Learning (mp3)
Piano + fuzzy vocals? Doesn't sound like a good combination. But Mike Hadreas makes it work as Perfume Genius, with an intoxicating but jarring truthfulness to the lyrics.
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Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (feat. Hope Sandoval)
Just listen and enjoy. Massive Attack's masterful wielding of sounds and Hope Sandoval's enchanting and sensual voice a wonderful confluence.
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HEALTH - USA Boys
The only track on their almost-remix album to be a non remix, and a new song at that. It's got a amazing killer beat that led in the song, urgent and commanding your attention, specifically your feet. The vocals here lend a laconic vibe, unclear and prolly there for the sake of it. But it does not take the sheen off it's ripping bassline and the fact that this song would make you go crazy in a mushroom induced haze.
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Parlour Steps - Little Pieces
They call this thought rock, I'm inclined to agree. Driven by guitar solos and riffs, it's quite the tender rock number.
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Gorillaz - Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
I feel like a kid who's being coaxed to sleep by fairy tales. I'm so taken in with this, never knew Damon could sing like that. Then comes the part where I'm dreaming, about being an adult who's at a ball, dancing with this sensual faceless lady. Gliding across the floor in tandem. But it's just a dream.
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Emeralds - Candy Shoppe
Electronic with an old school vibe. Very 80s. Very delish.
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