Can’t lie that Carly Rae Jepsen’s super pop-y songs are catchy as hell. I’d say that “Call Me Maybe” is a guilty pleasure, but I’m actually not at all guilty about loving it.
However, with Blood Orange / Dev Hyne’s and Ariel Rechtshaid’s help, CRJ now has the smooth R&B sex track “All That”.
Film/Noir (aka Tobi Fadalé) is a 19-year-old Londoner with a sound somewhere between The Weeknd and Blood Orange. A very slow, PBR&B feel – with careful, thoughtful verses that could woo BANKS.
Blood Orange‘s Dev Hynes released a new track this week – “Chamakay,” which features Caroline Polachek of Chairlift.
The epitome of cool and suave, Blood Orange mixes his vocals with his female duet partner to use his voice to give the track a soft but deep foundation of vocals that then is juxtaposed by Caroline Polachek’s breathy higher pitch.
This morning, Ghost Beach released their latest track “Tear Us Apart.”
I know that the genres are technically different, but NYC-based Ghost Beach’s Josh Ocean sings in a slightly hurt moaning way that Blood Orange (AKA: Dev Hynes) ocassionally does but with a more rock-inspired overdrive distortion to those moans. (At least that was one of my initial thoughts on my first listen.)
Other favorites of mine from Ghost Beach are “Miracle” (a song that’s really cute about having a crush) and “Too Young” (a song that’s always really confused me because it seems like it might be about getting involved with someone who’s just the typical “young and naive” but might also be about pedophilia).
P.S. You can download their latest track and a bunch of others on their site: http://www.ghostbeachmusic.com/
