Black Marble's "A Great Design".
Another Brooklyn duo with another stellar track. 2012 seemed to be reeking of them. This is one of my favorites.
This is my sister.
Hilary
London DJ and producer Gold Panda is killing it. His last LP Lucky Shiner continues to challenge and satisfy it's listeners, while key track "You" could be regarded as a modern electronic classic.
A few months ago he released a remix of Lykke Li's "Sadness Is A Blessing", taking a gorgeous track and making it into something otherworldly. It's on another level.
Catch him play The Independent on October 25.
Me: They're kinda my jam. R: I wouldn't be going around calling it your jam. Me: Shit, it's happened enough you could call it my greatest hits collection.
God dammit. I'm obsessed with this song. A synthy slice of sophisticated pop, "All Eyes On You" is a ballad to think about your girl to. (YES, I DO.)
St. Lucia, a one-man show currently out of Brooklyn by way the UK and South Africa, crafts one catchy tune - with rousing piano and a sax solo(!) to soundtrack those sentimental moments.
(Don't hate, cuz you liked it when Bon Iver got all 80s-era Steve Winwood on your ass with "Beth/Rest.")
"I never had the chance to write about the rooftop in Brooklyn. It was perfect in that after a whole day of sufficiently getting wasted, John's rooftop seemed like the best place to be of all time. This was the New York I'd been imagining for eons; with the M train's hum echoing along its elevated tracks and the Manhattan skyline hanging brightly in the western sky. I called my sister and left a drunkenly laughable, yet sincere voicemail. I had fallen in love, I said - with these people, with this place. With my youth.
I hung up and stood quietly - the moment was wholly mine. I'm nostalgic for that night more than any other in my entire life."