Brother Reade – Lucifer
As dark, dense and sweet as treacle, this dubby, reverb-drenched muttering from LA hip-hop duo Brother Reade is best suited to antisocial hours – until 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the morning… (track six below)
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Damu – Ridin’ The Hype (Feat. Trim)
It’s 8am and you’re still at the party listening to some sexy, glitched-up haze rap by Manchester’s Damu. The drugs are wearing off, the vodka’s disappeared, the girl you fancied left hours or days ago and you should really go home, but there’s a world of dog-walkers, daylight and milkmen waiting out there, a world of demands and Anadin, and you dont want that, not yet, not yet..
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The Big Pink – Hit The Ground (Superman) (Forest Swords remix) (mp3)
I’m not so sold on TBP’s return-song, but hell do I love this remix by Liverpool producer Forest Swords. It sees anguished shrieks sound incongruously over a pleasant piano beat.
The Big Pink – Hit the Ground (Forest Swords Remix) by FilterMexico
Maria Minerva – Ruff Trade
A sunny, soothing, swirling song (for best results, play loud via head/earphones) about a horrid subject. The triviality makes it easier to consider the issues at stake, though, or so it seems to me.
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Nicholas Jaar – With Just One Glance (Feat. Scout Larue)
In a secret room, a woman sings slowbeat laments so piningly sorrowful that the walls themselves get teary.
Nicolas Jaar – With Just One Glance by Hunt&Track
Carey Mulligan – New York, New York
From Steve McQueen’s Shame, not only is Mulligan’s super-slow, jazz-lounge version of the Sinatra classic elegant and daring, but it helps form a revelatory scene in a generally oblique film. It’s featured in the trailer below, while the full version’s here.
