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Mary Jane Dunphe: Stage of Love
Musician, dancer, and poet Mary Jane Dunphe is a real underground legend. Previously the vocalist of Vexx—among the many most beloved punk bands of the previous decade—she additionally introduced an ecstatic physicality to the synth-pop mission CCFX, as if longing weren’t a sense however an motion. The title monitor of her solo debut explores the Lacanian adage that “Love is giving one thing you don’t must somebody who doesn’t need it,” and the emotional stakes of her vivid, visceral new wave develop extra intense from there. That the album is out by way of Pop Wig, the label run by Turnstile and Angel Du$t, solely underscores its attract. –Jenn Pelly
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Neggy Gemmy: CBD Reiki Moonbeam
Store til you drop on the authorized weed mall when you hearken to CBD Reiki Moonbeam, a woozy electro-pop beat tape soaked in tunnel-vision reverb and leaking glitter gel pen. In addition to sounding prefer it studied with Grimes after college to go Pop 2, Neggy Gemmy’s album calls up its personal slackerdelic imaginative and prescient of the Los Angeles low life, the place we’d escape a paparazzi chase (“Take a Image”) and instantly get caught in site visitors (“Beep Beep”). Name it 5G bubblegum as a result of the waves are gonna go proper via you. –Anna Gaca
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Nikki Nair / Hudson Mohawke: Set the Roof EP
Glasgow native Hudson Mohawke tapped Atlanta’s Nikki Nair for the explosive, six-song Set the Roof EP, which mashes breakbeats, scorching home, and pitched-up hip-hop. The 2 producers enlisted sole vocalist Tayla Parx for the title monitor, which thumps alongside to entice hi-hats and what appears like a toy xylophone. “Demuro” kicks right into a loop of revved-up disco, filled with auto-tuned chirps that sound squeezed from chipmunks, whereas “Wait a Minute” pulses to warped keys and a pattern of Tek Soldierz’s 2005 banger “Work This.” Play on repeat for an prolonged flashback. –Madison Bloom
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Taichu: Rawr
On her debut album, Taichu channels the liberating insolence of 2010s party-pop—smeared eyeliner and clear lip gloss in tow, in fact. “NOCHE DE SATEO” is the equal of a Tilt-A-Whirl, with careening synths pulled immediately from the playbook of LMFAO. The album swerves between neoperreo, Jersey membership, and EDM, accumulating the detritus of the web’s favourite microgenres during the last 20 years. “PAYDAY,” a collaboration with Spanish producer-singer rusowksy, is punctuated by not one however three breakdowns, virtually begging you to grind on the closest floor obtainable. By the point its chopped-and-screwed outro arrives, you’ll really feel immortal. –Isabelia Herrera
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Yunè Pinku: Babylon IX EP
In an interview with NME final 12 months, Yunè Pinku professed a childhood hatred for digital music. None of that former distaste is current, nevertheless, on her newest EP Babylon IX, a taut but delicate assortment of garage-informed electro-pop. The 20-year-old Malaysian-Irish producer creates swirls of electrified air as she channels club-floor intimacy, outfitting your mind with a brand new lining of flashing LEDs. –Peyton Toups
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