PLUG GODS: May 2013

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Gorgeous Children - Liberace Gems

Face Vega and Gila Monsta make up Gorgeous Children. They are signed to Jacques Greene's Vase Records which will release their first EP. This writeup featured on Stereogum says some interesting things:

There is so much to consider with Gorgeous Children’s “Liberace Gems” that I have spent way too much time trying to suss out some kind of epic thesis statement to introduce these beasts to you... I could wax eternally about the customs and culture of regional rap and how because of guys like them the Internet is one unto itself. There’s also a mess of blogspace that Denver-based producer and one half of GC Gila Monsta’s totally masterful SoundCloud deserves. But more important than a treatise on the ever-evolving rapscape or how Gila’s steely and quivering remix of “Make The Trap Say Aye” is this track. It’s maudlin, yet ethereal. Syrupy horns roll over a wavy bass and a cold shroud looms atop it. Other half of Gorgeous Children, rapper Face Vega of Seattle, maws across the dark space, but his delivery swells with bravado despite its pace. It will make you want to punch someone, but in slow motion. They’ll make their New York debut this weekend at 285 Kent this Saturday, opening for Evian Christ. I’ll be there, lighting the already-destroyed couches on fire when they play this cut.

Bipolar Sunshine - Fire

Very old, but I missed it when it came out. The Manchester-based artist has his new Aesthetics EP dropping June 17th with the summer-pop single, Rivers, getting the video treatment. See the video for Rivers after the jump.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Monday, May 13, 2013

Andrea - Cruising EP

New EP from the Parisian.

LORDE - Royals (Video)

LORDE is 17... with bars n pipes n beats n things. She's from New Zealand and she boutta blow up. She's a little bit on her pop shit... but the video gases:

DIRECTED BY JOEL KEFALI. This is her first music video. Peep her EP (The Love Club) too:

Banks - Warm Water (Prod. by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs)

It feels like just yesterday I was getting broken off in a squat house basement in Berlin to a jungle set by TEED. The producer shows us some versatility today with this minimal down tempo beat for Los Angeles singer/songwriter Banks.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Porter Ray - BLK GLD (Mixtape)

People been waitin for P to release some music for like five years. If you ask any head in Seattle they'll tell u he's been next. I used to watch him freestyle when I was 14, wide eyed and wishin I had put bars together the way he had while he was blacked out, with the blunt in his mouth. Everyone's heard some bootleg, unmastered version of his shit off someone's phone. Everyone knows Porter has it. It's unfathomably surreal to see his music on soundcloud now. It just doesn't seem real. Now we got our first project: BLK GLD. This man IS Seattle Spits. I'll add that he has another project in the fire with my best friend and co-founder of the blog Tele Fresco... and it's fuckin crazy.