Introducing: Seinabo Sey

Seinabo Sey has released her debut track Younger and is delivering perfectly quintessential Swedish Pop/R&B.  This is what I’ve been waiting for in this genre.

Brooklyn Nouveau Pop duo ASTR covers Drake

ASTR has already proven they know how to do edgy pop music, and it’s reaching all the way to pockets of cool across the pond.  Imagine, this is what hip parisians listen to when they say ‘pop’, meanwhile they’re a continuation of the revitilzation of Pop music in Brooklyn itself.  It’s so sexy; their style, their attitude, it all screams ‘this is 2013!”.  Well now they’ve gone mainstream as they record their cover of Drake’s Hold On We’re Going Home after performing it at their live shows opening for Kate Boy.  I really dig it, check it out:

Weekly Digest #12

This week’s playlist is full of amazing (mostly feminine) pop tracks.  The debut single from Vaults, Cry No More, is making its dutiful rounds about the internet, full of positive responses despite their a-typical elusive persona.  San Mei debuts an amazing pop track, Brighter, Mons Montis brings us some amazing electro-pop on Swept, and Frankie Rose continues teasing us of her promising debut with the track Street of Dreams (so looking forward to this album).  Otherwise featured is a track that’s not on Postiljonen‘s amazing album Skyer, When all the Wild Things Die, Alicia Eris’ awesome old school RnB styles are present in her second single, I Moved on, and there are some shout outs to the boys with tracks from Ghosts and Sunboy, two promising pop acts, and the dreamy RnB outfit Oceaán.  I’m super excited about this playlist, I hope it does something for you all too.

XOXO.

Montreal, Electronic Pop Hub

It’s no mystery that Montreal has been producing some amazing acts, consider Grimes and Doldrums.  Now there are two pop outfits hailing from Montreal that are currently dominating my sound bytes.  Bue Hawaii, an electro-pop duo who emerged with their 2010 release Blooming Summer, are back with their newest LP, Untogether.  Theirs is a particularly unique brand of pop music, a haunting, self-conscious sound that could be appropriate in a somewhat desolate club or in a pot den.