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Beach House
Over six albums, Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of Beach House have kept the edges of their music sufficiently blurry to keep the daydream soundscape alive. Their seventh album has been described as the “heaviest and most immersive-sounding” of their career. It has also been described as their “masterpiece”. For a band as revered as Beach House, that is no small feat.
Give it a spin if you like:
Toro Y Moi, Twin Shadow, Atlas Sound
Cocoa Sugar
Young Fathers
Cocoa Sugar is the third full-length release for the Edinburgh-based experimental rap trio, whose Mercury Prize win for their 2014 album Dead didn’t exactly catapult them into the limelight. The in-your-face, rough-around-the-edges and uncompromising sound they produce defies genres and easy description. Instead, their signature sound is all their own. Cocoa Sugar will see them garner new fans, not because they set out to, but rather because their orb is expanding, as is the number of people who want to inhabit it. An album as epic as it is elusive, as they sing, “You’ll never find your way to heaven/But you can follow me”.
Give it a spin if you like:
Shabazz Palaces, Vince Staples, N*E*R*D
Rebound
Eleanor Friedberger
In 2016, Friedberger spent a month in Greece, ending up in what she describes as an “80s goth disco” – called Rebound – where everyone did a solitary dance routine called the chicken dance. “I copied the slouchy strut,” she remembers, “swinging my arms in time to music that sounded like Joy Division but was probably a knock-off by an unknown Baltic band. It was alienating and exhilarating,” she recounted in an interview with The Guardian. Her fourth solo album finds her moving away from the guitar-led approach of 2016’s New View, and into Rebound’s Casio keyboard, electronic atmosphere and intimate vocals, and into an artist refining her skillset.
Give it a spin if you like:
The Fiery Furnaces, Kimbra, Laura Veirs
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Road to Ultra | Hong Kong 2018
Electronic music festival Road to Ultra – organised by global festival brand Ultra Worldwide – is taking place in Hong Kong for the third time in June – at AsiaWorld-Expo on Lantau Island. The lineup includes names such as David Guetta, Fedde Le Grand, Andrew Rayel, Galantis and Axwell /\ Ingrosso, amongst others. Epic performances from the world’s top DJs and producers are just part of what makes Ultra Music Festival the world’s premier Electronic Dance Music Festivals. The rest is up to you.
09 / 06 / 2018
1-11pm
AsiaWorld-Expo
