High Priority Adds for this week

These are the HIGH PRIO adds for this week, chosen by our Music Directors.

You’ll find all of our adds from previous weeks on The Playlist.

Check out this week’s ADD HIGHLIGHTS playlist on our Spotify

Rachel:

We Buy Diabetic Test Strips - Armand Hammer

ELUCID and billy wood’s collaborative side project

  • Experimental hip hop with industrial influences, but also kind of chill?

  • Features include JPEGMAFIA, Pink Siifu, and Junglepussy

RIYL: billy woods, ELUCID, JPEGMAFIA, Open Mike Eagle, Earl Sweatshirt, Pink Siifu

Start With: Woke Up And Asked Siri How I’m Going To Die, Trauma Phone, The God’s Must Be Crazy

Yard - Slow Pulp

Indie rock from Wisconsin

  • Mellow, wistful music

  • Fuzzy guitars and fuzzy vocals

  • What some would call a “husky voice indie girl” album

RIYL: Alex G, Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy, Momma, Wednesday

Start With: Yard, Doubt, Cramps, Slug, Worm, Broadview

“What has gotten into you?” - Santa Chiara

Classical Italian cellist turned indie singer-songwriter (previously released music as chickpee)

  • Gentle vibes on this single. Twinkly piano, gentle vocals, lilting strings in the background (she plays most of the instruments herself!)

RIYL: Ron Gallo, Faye Webster, Courtney Marie Andrews

Caroline:

New Shadows - Jerry David DeCicca

“Kafkaesque, avant-Americana meditation, surreal and ruminative”

  • Sounds a lot like Lou Reed’s New Sensations and Laurie Anderson (the goat)

  • So new wave but its 2023

RIYL: Lou Reed, Karl Blau, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Kurt Vile, Destroyer

Start With: New Shadows, Manzanita Bay, Lost Days, Walking Stick

Carbon Dioxide + remix - Fever Ray

Fever Ray is Swedish producer (One half of the Knife!!!Woooo!!!!!)

  • Remix with Avalon Emerson

  • “Hedonistic headrush” <- a truly apt description 

RIYL: The Knife, Ladytron, Austra, Chromatics

Le Tempe Volant - Crumb & Melody’s Echo Chamber

Neo-Psychedelia/dream pop single

  • Definitely made to collab together, if you like their solo work, you will enjoy this

  • Pleasant

  • Couldn’t tell you a word she said!

RIYL: Broadcast, Foxygen, Mild High Club, Innerwave, Mid Air Thief 

Julia:

Need Your Love - Keys N Krates

New housey single featuring Taite Imogen 💃

  • First single from their new project “Need Your Love”

  • Different from their earlier sound 

  • Single features “irresistible basslines and snappy percussion”

RIYL: Ariel Zetina, Baauer, Jayda G, Eris Drew, LSDXOXO

Bury The Lede- Dessa

Rapper and singer 

  • “Hard-hitting rap verses, big, catchy pop hooks, and a couple melancholic tracks”

    • Lots of dif vibes 

  • Cool blend of rapping and singing

RIYL: Banks, King Princess, Empress Of, KFlay, Nao, Tegan and Sarah, Sudan Archives, Noname

Start With: Hurricane Party, Chopper, Decoy, Tel Me Again

Deadbeat Gospel - Barry Can’t Swim

Scottish electronic artist/producer

  • New single to introduce his full album “When Will We Land?” coming in October 

  • Upbeat and euphoric track ✨✨✨

  • Features his friend and artist, somedeadbeat

RIYL: Laurence Guy, Bicep, Elkka, TSHA, Fred again.., Jayda G