Cut Copy - Counting Down

Tell you all my fears
Losing loves and fading years
But I'm still sitting on my tears
They wouldn't go to waste

No matter what you do to turn it down
Know that I want you too to have the sound
All your clocks are slowly counting down
Love will save, love will save us

Whichever weekend of ACL we choose to attend, there's always a couple bands exclusive to the other we'll have to miss. Last year it was Wombats and Atlas Genius, this year it's Mutemath, Joseph, and Cut Copy. CC's new album, Haiku from Zero, just came out last week and it's goood so even though Keith posted an early release back in July, we're doing 'em again. I'm going to hang out on the rooftop of our building and see if I can hear their set...

RIYL: Chromeo, Miami Horror, YACHT, Toro y Moi

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Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine

Charlotte Gainsbourg is probably better known as an actress than a singer, but she's got a string of albums and some hits under her belt, the most notable of which is her cover of "Hey Joe". With her latest single, the provocative "Deadly Valentine" she brings some seriously funky beats with wedding vows delivered in a rhythmic chant that flows over the top as it rises and falls. Can't wait to hear the remixes for this one. Her new album, Rest, is out soon. Check the fun video below.

RIYL: Lykke Li, Chairlift, Fever Ray, Bat For Lashes

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Robert DeLong - Happy

You come here you don't need an occasion
Just an ill-advised itching for the conversation
Got a good sub going, got a good vibration
Getting mixed results from mixing strong libation
 

A Seattle child like us, DeLong moved on to L.A. to ply his trade and hone his sound of singer/songwriter meets electronica. His version of "experimental dance" didn't hit my ears until his third album released in 2015, and specifically the track "Don't Wait Up". For today's MIS, I mined back to his debut album. I love the echoing vocals, the slow, methodic wall of sound that crashes in on you, the almost whistling keys, the trailing piano. "Happy" is definitely a repeatable track and good for building a mood. Let's build up a happy mood for this week, shall we?

RIYL: Big Data, Joywave, Max Frost, Miike Snow

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Petit Biscuit - Sunset Lover

You know how far I'm prepared to go
I will be a boat and row
Your beauty to the moon
If that's okay with you

I hadn't come across anything by Frenchman Petit Biscuit (aka Mehdi Benjelloun) in quite a while, til last month when new single "Gravitation" came out. But rather than posting that to the playlist, I feel like celebrating his brake-out hit: the wonderful, dreamy, happy "Sunset Lover" produced alone in his room at age 16. I think it's perfect for a warm, sunny autumn Sunday.

RIYL: filous, Flume, Nick Murphy, Tep No, RAC

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Helado Negro - Come Be Me

You and me can make it forever
I can call you up
And you can say my name
Cuz I been talking about you to everyone
So they know
You're fine

Helado Negro is one of the many monikers for Roberto Carlos Lange, a tropical-electronic producer out of Brooklyn (via south Florida, from Ecuadorian parents), and more of a collaborative effort for the label Asthmatic Kitty. Digging around his discography doesn't disappoint - a lot of mellow grooves, some more energetic, all fairly interesting, some quite moving and speaking to his experience as a POC in the US. I love this latest single for it's end-of-summer dreaminess. 

RIYL: El Guincho, Cineplexx, CLUBZ

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