The mysticism of pop and their majestic voices.

Meet GAVRIELA and her otherworldly song “Creatures”. From within, this track is a whole universe on its own. Songwriter and singer extraordinaire Perera Elsewhere is back with a new image and mesmerizing single “Drive”. The droned-out voice and floating-dark sound-effects will give you thrills and chills.

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The royalty of emotions is represented by the excellent Empress Of. On her new song “In Dreams” she takes up a different but well tasted approach on the break-up love song. From space and back comes “Yellow”, the dazzling new song by Austrian mega-vocalist Mavi Phoenix.

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With Wyres, we are witnessing a new super band in the making. On “Spring Breaks”, they present us with their smooth and laid-back vocals, drifting along their story. A musical holiday? Let’s join Sharky on her trip to “Hawaii”. Her unusual and experimental pop style with jazz, funk and soul​ ​backdrops get you sucked in right away.

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Drummer of the band Magic!, Alexander Vincent just started a captivating new venture thanks to the track “I Won’t”. Let’s finish with the debut single called “Hole In My Heart” by American synth duo Secrecies.

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Last year, with her second album, the artist created around herself a steady repertoire of inventive, out-of-the-box pop, using quirky electronic sounds to shake the typical construction of popular songs. She has announced a new five-song EP that will be called “Drive” and it’s out May 4 via Friends of Friends. “If you drive/Through my mind/All the images you will see”, she sings, creating an entire atmosphere where vocal effects and slinky sounds shine. Let’s see what Perera Elsewhere‘s new EP will sound like, but judging from the first taste, it will be grandiose.

By her own testimony, she hasn’t always been that confident with her beat making, as lead singer of abstract dub band Jahcoozy. It seems that the success of her debut album ‘Everlast’ proved her wrong, making her comfortable enough to dive deeper in this new direction, which reaches a peak with instrumental ventures ‘Girl From Monotronica’ and ‘Runaway’; this one being maybe the dubbiest tune on the record, taking the listener back to their first THC-infused listens of Burning Spear in their college bedroom.

The two singles strike by the unusual pace of Perera‘s singing, breaking with the idle, almost lascivious breath so representative of her style as a vocalist. They both convey a feeling of urgency, of restrained energy about to break out, if only they were paid enough attention ‘Can you hear the canned laughter?’ The music videos that accompany the songs are worth watching too, working as a two-part short film mixing a mandatory visual psychedelism and a hilarious monster with transgenic apples and a purple-clothed teenage gang. If the music is a little more poppy, the artistic universe is weird as ever, echoing the first-album song ‘Bizarre’ or evoking some Yórgos Lánthimos footage.

Despite a marked sound move from her previous album, Perera Elsewhere‘s ‘All Of This’ is still nowhere near close to being in a common place.

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‘Big Heart,’ ‘All Of This’ and ‘Shoes’ all share the same dynamics, showing Perera Elsewhere‘s interest in a more futuristic, metallic sound reminiscent of Berlin more than the exotic hotchpotch of sounds present on her first record. ‘Tomorrow South,’ featuring Rudoh & Friedhi, and ‘Karam,’ a shadowy alliterative take on 50 Cent‘s ‘Candy Shop’ revel in two different kind of acid trip, either hinting at a club bravado or a sweet and solitary abandonment.

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It is only with ‘Weary’ and ‘The Other Side’ that the beat making vocalist returns to the folkish arrangements that underscored the elegant abnormality that made her so alluring as a solo artist. As glad as I am to see Perera Elsewhere experimenting in the realm of electro ambient ragga, I am all the more impatient to see her getting back to the unique sound she is able to provide with an acoustic guitar. But of course, she can’t be everywhere…

This week, let’s get hazy and dreamy with the new Deer Du Bois playlist!

Faded out looks while drifting away on lush tracks by Akurei and his “Hinterland”.

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Get honey-sweet on the loving collaboration between Fyfe & Kimbra on “Belong”.

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Rising newcomer Haux combines his angelic voice with his echoing prayers for your Touch in his perfect alt-love-ballad. Dive into the parallel universe of Perera Elsewhere‘s trip-hop on her newest track “Happened”.

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Power pop with the most intense vocals of the moment on Sophia Kennedy‘s “Build Me A House”, which has a jazzy Planningtorock feel to it. And to send you off dancing we’ve got Mr. Trevor Jackson‘s take on “Old Skool” by our sweethearts at Metronomy!

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If you want to drink a bit more until you get tipsy, you should check him on Facebook and Soundcloud, and follow his regular posts on our site.

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