Futurist R&B and black widow romance relieved by fresh dirt and crushed blacks – bleak, lo-fi visuals for the beautifully written and sung ‘Shotgun’. Fragile verses and a pumping hook, Torontorian producer KLSH seems to have a thing for curious build-and-drops. A skeletal bed of digital cool sits under Jordan‘s vocal, carried home by her deft neo-classicist 90s/early 00s songwriting. Where he brings the rhythm, she really brings the blues, and this has to be an album highlight for capturing melodic stylism and pairing it with a post-Timbo prog’ness, albeit the simplest, most seductive elements.

Lifted from one of the best underground R&B LPs of the year, download that here.

Glory glory Nintendo, this sweet, twisty AlunaGeorge track and video directed by Feel Good Lost seem intent on flooding back memories from a 16-bit youth. Aluna cooing her cutest with George at his wonkiest, it searches for the soul in that toy box. The song is taken from a new Annie Mac compilation out October 8th.

Illusive LA artist Young & Sick dropped a few quiet gems like ‘Room 48′ last year that sounded like demos of something curious bubbling in the online-underground R&B world. He’s advancing forward, or perhaps even backwards in time now with ‘House of Spirits’. Alright, don’t call it post-dubstepped quiet storm, but you might hear where clicks and warped vox meet the vintage Maxwell caress and it’s all cooked up yummy. Sensualist sentiments dogged with former flame guilt trips and break-up sex vibes have this song well and truly smokin’. File alongside Inc. maybe, and do as you will.

Near perfect execution and a return to the monochromatics for this self-directed Weeknd clip. It follows up last November’s Mikael Colombu space epic ‘The Knowing’. And if all the people have wanted for 18 months is to sit down properly with Abel Tesfaye and see him utter direct to camera, their wish is his command. Appearing thoughtful with an almost childlike sincerity, behind the man, a mystery figure gradually takes her place amongst the inevitably faded. ‘Rolling Stone’ itself, was definitely one of the most absorbing numbers from the middle installment of the Balloons trilogy, the Thursday tape.

The entire suite which also includes House of Balloons and Echoes of Silence has been remastered, re-packaged with a new cover and is out officially via Universal/Republic on November 13th with three brand new tracks.

Wearing heart on sleeve, cheekbones on fabulous and vulnerable at the mercy of some voyeuristic 7D lens, 20 year old Sky Ferreiera‘s pro-trashy exhibitionist foray comes looking a hot mess. Backing up the DIY flagrance with Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) on the boards, crafting throwback pop of the catchiest kind with hints of Madonna and Janet, it’s been impossible not to get caught up in this jam recently. Sky’s The Ghost EP was released on Monday.

Nesting in that chilly bass space between the rave and the night-bus, London club regular Roses Gabor‘s debut solo single ‘Stars’ hits with both power to amp and sedate. Recently debuted on Annie Mac’s show, the half-stepping 4/4 switcher produced by Redlight is out on Toddla T’s new label Girls Music soon. Sounds like the start of some promising new material from offbeat singer/songwriter.

A stunning debut EP dropped from Toronto producer Zodiac on Jacques Greene‘s label Vase last week. It sees the man behind game changers ‘What You Need’ ‘Loft Music’ and ‘The Morning’ overseen for The Weeknd, pull out these giant instrumentals needing serious new pipes to hold them down. Jesse Boykins III feature on ‘Come’ has already been an exquisite certifier for both, and may only be the beginning.

The producer, real name Jeremy Rose, recently signed to do some work under Paul Epworth‘s new label Wolf Tone. Now I’m just wondering what it’ll be like mixing the high class pop of one of the biggest super-producers this 21st century, with Zodiac’s mysterious R&B, shapeshifting hip-hop and aerial-scapes from the next…

NPR are now exclusively streaming the entire Flying Lotus third album ‘Until The Quiet Comes’. After releasing two classic LPs of modern electronica, leftfield soul and future beats with Los Angeles and Cosmogramma, how does Until The Quiet Comes fair? Find out, run forth and back it’s entire eighteen track glory here and watch the genius unravel itself. Released 1st October (UK) & 2nd October (USA) 2012 on Warp Records.

Archie Marshall… voice of the future. A heavy weight to put any young artist’s shoulder as they’re developing, but then, all the elements that comprise this piece of music are incredible. So too, is the un radical libre mind-state behind it. With early gems and his EP leading up, a dozen artists and stylistic references could be made of it’s parts, but ‘Octopus’ as King Krule’s latest sum is singular and arresting. How do you define his sound between the growl and the melange? If it takes you a minute to think about that, he’s doing it right.

Listen to the A-Side ‘Rock Bottom’ here as both that and ‘Octopus’ drop on Rinse’s label today.

“Unreleased Jai Paul Beats. Have a quick listen as gonna b taken down by our manager in the morning.” – Two Inch Punch. And, modern internet folklore continues with this re-surfacing of a snippet Jai had on his MySpace a few years back. Ahead of his time even then, it features a familiar Feist inspiration source more recently popularised in 2010 by James Blake. Here it’s organic, punching Dilla’esque funk and hypnotic alarms all lightly dusted and taking you up, up, into the clouds. One can only imagine where this goes past the cruel 53 second cut-off. With ‘Jasmine’ already being a favourite of the year, how much longer the wait for new material Mr. Paul? Obsessed. Repeat x 100,000.

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