‘All Over Now’ by Bad Indians

Lo-fi psych pop exploring familiar ’60s-girl-group tropes of love, loss and longing with a swift, punk panache. Like a slightly more maudlin take on The Shop Assistants’ I Don’t Wanna Be Friends With You.

(via The Styrofoam Drone)

‘Maybe It’s Better’ by Knightlife

Expansive mellowtronics as a four minute cool-off session. It’s almost as if he’s able to make the synthesisers breathe here. (via)

‘I Want You’ by Knightlife

Smooth Summer synth-funk from the Melbourne producer’s standout 8 track I Want You EP. So many highlights on this thing.

‘Florida (Cosmic Kids Remix)’ by Princeton

Wispy synthwork drifts over a feather-light drumbeat in this deceptively sunny ode to dissatisfaction, which in Princeton’s case involves Miami traffic and stale office life. A perfect soundtrack to your daydreams of escape. You can download the equally great original single at Stereogum.

‘Close To Me’ by Sophia Knapp

Close To Me starts off in familiar folk-songstress territory, with gentle, strumming guitar quietly ushering in a lone, wandering voice from somewhere beyond the pines. Then after about a minute or so, Knapp magically transports us to a ’70s discothèque, dropping her genial acoustics for the funk-based shimmying of ABBA and Carpenters-era disco pop. It would be completely jarring if it wasn’t for Knapp’s slinkily melodic voice, which seems to slip into either persona just as comfortably.

(via The Fader)

‘La grande bouffe (She said disco remix)’ by The Mallrats

An irresistible combination of sexy balearic groove and food-themed French rap, available on the free The Mallrats - Revisited EP. Eat it up.

‘Nowhere’ by Wild Nothing

I guess Beachspoitation season is coming around again. So glad they’ve tuned down the haze and let the sun shine through, they’re already sounding alot better. +1 for Andrea from Twin Sister on guest vox.

‘Love Will Be On Time’ by Disko Matique

Ray-Ban-ready disco funk from the Dutch duo’s debut Freshman EP, and yes I am shuddering at the cover art too.

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Mac DeMarco - Rock and Roll Night Club

For the last few years I’ve been trumpeting the work of Canadian art rock outfit Makeout Videotape (see: here, here, here) as one of the most original up-and-coming voices in indie music.  Mac’s decided to make some changes, going solo slash rebranding, signing to Captured Tracks and mellowing out his sound to sexxxxed-up androgynous hip thrusters like this. I feel like I’m watching a Jim Jarmusch film when I listen to this song - though Mac told me in self-deprecating humility, “it’s so funny to me everyone likes it so much, since I just recorded these songs as a joke album when I had tonsilitis last month haha.” Dare I say, ‘stay sick, bro!’

Look for the currently-titled Rock and Roll Night Club EP on Captured Tracks in March.

This whole song describes my night tonight (lipstick included).

‘Haunt Me’ by Furns

So good! Listen to the rest of their demos here. Haunt Me is a good example of their balearic take on Washed Out-like chillwave, Come Home For Summer is a more nocturnal, r’n’b-influenced highlight, while Love Aches aims for the heavens with it’s blissful string samples and dulcet vocal tapestries.