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Arem EP | PlayGround | Last Reviews
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Stay+

Arem EP

Artist: Stay+

Record Label: Ramp Recordings

Genre: rave, synth-pop

“Arem” is the first EP with all new material by Stay+, and it's also the one on which they most combine their rave sounds with pop, without renouncing the mystery of their early releases.

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Bloom | PlayGround | Last Reviews
Albums

Beach House

Bloom

Artist: Beach House

Record Label: Bella Union

Genre: dream-pop, shoegaze

Between luxurious psychedelics, half-awake dream-pop, and translucent shoegaze - “Bloom” gains in impact, liveliness and sensitivity with respect to its already-exultant predecessor. If the Baltimore duo’s songs were planets in “Teen Dream”, in “Bloom” they are true galaxies. Without a doubt, a masterpiece.

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Exercises | PlayGround | Last Reviews
EPs

CFCF

Exercises

Artist: CFCF

Record Label: Paper Bag Records

Genre: pop, Modern Classical

CFCF has slowed down his music and sought out a wider space. “Exercises” is his most exciting, personal work so far; based on the use of the piano and a singular approach to pop, new age and Impressionism.

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Grief Pedigree | PlayGround | Last Reviews
Albums

KA

Grief Pedigree

Artist: KA

Record Label: Iron Works Records

Genre: hip-hop, rap

New York is once again a violent, dirty, dangerous city in the raw, realistic rhymes of rapper KA. Furthermore, the beats are slow, harsh, solid rhythms that back up a lyrical trip through hell. Best hip hop album of the year? It looks to be.

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Da Mind Of Traxman | PlayGround | Last Reviews
Albums

Traxman

Da Mind Of Traxman

Artist: Traxman

Record Label: Planet Mu

Genre: house, Footwork

Cornelius Ferguson, a veteran of the Dance Mania era, releases an LP as Traxman on which juke house comes to maturity. Forget the cliché of hammering phrases and runaway beats: there's quite a bit more to it here.

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All Hell | PlayGround | Last Reviews
Albums

Daughn Gibson

All Hell

Artist: Daughn Gibson

Record Label: White Denim

Genre: ambient, folk

Daughn Gibson’s surprising first album is like a cross between Nick Drake and Burial, in the heartlands of modern America. A loop loving former truck driver who unexpectedly combines the ghosts of ambient and folk.

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Galaxy Garden | PlayGround | Last Reviews
Albums

Lone

Galaxy Garden

Artist: Lone

Record Label: R&S Records

Genre: Techno, IDM, house

A subtle, but decisive twist in Lone’s old-school language: travelling techno, nostalgia for the best days of the rave explosion, trotting pianos, baroque melodies, happiness, ecstasy. It’s not an album, it’s a future world: remote and improved.

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Keepers of the Light | PlayGround | Last Reviews
Albums

LHF

Keepers of the Light

Artist: LHF

Record Label: Keysound Recordings

Genre: dubstep

“Keepers Of The Light” is a fitting title to LHF’s debut: the collective continues to keep the genre’s original fire burning, refining their craft enough to deliver over two hours of dubstep that quite literally go everywhere and back again without ever losing sight of what it’s supposed to be.

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DJ Kicks | PlayGround | Last Reviews
Albums

Photek

DJ Kicks

Artist: Photek

Record Label: Studio !K7

Genre: Techno, dubstep

Never underestimate an old Samurai: Photek is back with a vengeance, a triumphant return to the breaks and bass underground, with a mix CD that tastes like night and smells of neon. It’s nostalgic trip to the best (party) nights of our lives.

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