SO. CRATES, NELSON DIALECT & ALNITAK KID HIT TOP SPOT WITH “BLACK TAPES”! IRELAND’S FONTAINES D.C. DEBUT IN THE TOP 10 WITH THE WITHERING ‘TOO REAL’ WHICH LEADS A WHOLE SWAG OF NEW ENTRIES! AND IT’S ALL KICKED OFF BY THE STUNNING “NO UNIVERSE” FROM CHRIS GARNEAU.
TOP 30 THE FULL LIST (Including Release details)
1. SO CRATES, NELSON DIALECT, ALNITAK KID (AUS) – ‘Black Tapes’ from the single Black Tapes (Bedroom Suck/Remote Control)
2. SAMANTHA GLASS (USA) – ‘The Carpenter In Us All’ from the album Nine Memories Between Impression & Imprint (Holodeck).
3. JESSICA PRATT (USA) – ‘This Time Around’ from the forthcoming album Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer) Out 2019
4. SRSQ (USA) – ‘Permission’ from the album Unreality (Dais Records).
5. CAOILFHIONN ROSE (ENG) – ‘Raindance’ from the album Awaken (Gondwana).
6. FUTURE MUSEUMS (USA) – ‘Presidio’ from the EP Rosewater Ceremony Part II (Holodeck).
7. JULIET FOX (AUS) – ‘Robotic Mode’ from the EP Robotic Mode (Octopus Black)
8. CYANIDE THORNTON (AUS) – ‘Hot Air’ from the album Cyanide Thornton (Bedroom Suck/Remote Control/Cargo/Omnian Music Group).
9. KLAUDIA GAWLAS (POL) – ‘The Siren’, from the EP The Siren (Redimension)
10. FONTAINES D.C (IRE) – ‘Too Real’ from the single Too Real (Pod/Inertia).
11. KIRSTEN LUDWIG (CAN) – ‘Something I Wanted To Know’, from the album We Get It Now (Oscar St.)
12. ELLA THOMPSON (AUS) – ‘Dare’ from the EP Hysteria (Pool Records)
13. CASS MCCOMBS (USA) – ‘Sleeping Volcanoes’, from the forthcoming album Tip Of The Sphere (Anti) Out 2019.
14. LADY BLACKTRONIKA (USA/GER) – ‘How I Learned’ from the album Wax Cylinder Only (Meda Fury).
15. SYLVAINE (NOR) – ‘Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone’ from the album Atoms Aligned, Come Undone (Season Of Mist).
16. KÁRYYN (CAN) – ‘Ever‘ from the EP QUANTA 1:11 (Mute) Re-release.*
17. ESKAPIST (GER) – ‘Loggbight’ from the EP Eskapist: Volume 1 (Figure-Music).
18. TWO MEDICINE (USA) – ‘Astrophysics’, from the album Astropsychosis (Bella Union).
19. YAN COOK (UKR) – ‘Time Bend‘, from the EP Dead Satellite (Delsin).
20. HELENA DELAND (CAN) – ‘A Stone Is A Stone’ from the EP From The Series Of Songs: Altogether Unaccompanied (Luminelle)
21. BLACK LOOPS, NIKOS HAROPOULOS (ITA/GRE) – ‘7Hills’ from the EP 7Hills (Freerange).
22. PLANNING TO ROCK (ENG) – ‘Beulah Loves Dancing’, from the album Powerhouse (DFA Records)
23. PHUNKADELICA (USA) – ‘Tec No Logico’, from the compilation Multinotes Exhibition (Multinotes)
24. CLÉA VINCENT (FRA) – ‘Nuits Sans Sommeil’, from the single Nuits Sans Sommeil (Midnight Special Records)
25. METHYL ETHEL (AUS) – Real Tight from the forthcoming album Triage (4AD). Out 2019.
26. KÆLAN MIKLA (ISL) – ‘Draumadís’, from the album Nótt eftir nótt (Last Night On Earth).
27. D-FORMATION (ESP) – ‘D18‘ from the album This Is Beatfreak (Beatfreak/Nvidia)
28. DAWN RICHARD (USA) – ‘New Breed’, from the single New Breed (Local Action)
29. OCELOT (FIN) – ‘Hämärä‘, from the single Hämärä (Soliti)
30. CHRIS GARNEAU (USA) – ‘No Universe’, from the album Yours (Creepy Crawler/Rough Trade).
*Listen to KÁRYYN’s new Double A Sided single, QUANTA II:II on Mute here.
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