Hit of the week: Foster the People “Sit Next to Me”

Since their 2011 debut, Torches, Foster the People have been putting out alternative rock tracks with catchy hooks and danceable beats. However, if the singles they’ve released so far from their third studio album, Sacred Hearts Club, are any indication, that’s all about to change. The band dropped another new song , titled “Sit Next to Me,” and it continues to paint Sacred Hearts Club in the same colors that all of their most recent releases have. It’s a bright, uplifting, and shamelessly fun dance tune that finds equal inspiration in psychedelic 60s music and the most prominent pop trends of today.

Hit of the week: Thievery Corporation ‘Voyage Libre’

The electronic music group Thievery Corporation has been slowly breaking into fame over the years with their artistic style and divine vocals that seem to transcend listeners to another dimension.

Recently the crew dropped a music video for their first new single “Voyage Libre,” as a tease into their latest EP Treasures from the Temple, which follows their 2017 chart-topping album Temple of I & I.

The video which was directed by Tina Rivera, gives viewers a taste of the band’s early roots with a collection of original recordings and remixes from their time at Geejam Studios in Port Antonio, Jamaica.

The album which is comprised of 12 set tracks also features a ream of familiar vocalists such as Mr. Lif, Sitali, Racquel Jones, Natalia Clavier, LouLou Ghelichkhani, and Notch.

Best known for incorporating different cultural sounds into their songs, the group infuses a mix of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, hip-hop, Brazilian, bossa nova, alongside their electric-synth beats of the club life that brought them together in the first place.

Hit of the week: Tom Misch “It Runs Through Me”

London-based artist Tom Misch celebrates the upcoming release of his debut album Geography with the release of “It Runs Through Me.” In the track features the legendary hip-hop group De La Soul. The song possesses a lounge-inspired sound, with each member of De La Soul riding the beat bar for bar.

Hit of the week: Simian Mobile Disco “Caught In A Wave”

Simian Mobile Disco will release their fifth album Murmurations in the spring. In order to make the album, James Ford and Jas Shaw collaborated with the Deep Throat Choir, a collective based in London. The duo also teamed up with artists Kazim Rashid of ENDLESSLOVESHOW and Carri Munden.

Simian Mobile Disco present lead single “Caught In A Wave,” which comes accompanied by a video. This is the first of three videos James Pearson-Howe and Kiani Del Valle made for Murmurations,.

Hit of the week: Eels “Today is the Day”

April 6th marks the release of The Deconstruction, the new album from EELS. Spanning 15 tracks, it follows the act’s The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett from 2014.

The LP’s title track showcased frontman/songwriter E’s (aka Mark Oliver Everett) simmering orchestral side. The second preview, titled “Today is the Day”, flaunts something else entirely. Over sunny, buoyant guitar strums, Everett offers up a positive outlook on the future. “Today is the day it starts right here,” he sings on the poppy cut, vowing to put his worries behind him and turn over a new leaf.

Hit of the week: King Tuff ‘Psycho Star’

King Tuff, the moniker of raucous shredder Kyle Thomas, returned last week with “The Other”, his first new song in four years. It was a spare, melancholic track, a marked departure from the jams on 2014’s Black Moon Spell. Now, Thomas has returned with another new song, “Psycho Star”, as well as the announcement of a new album. Called The Other, it arrives on April 13th.

Hit of the week: We Are Scientists “One In, One Out”

We Are Scientists, the New York based alternative rock act has released a new single “One In, One Out”, along with an accompanying tech-y and visually fascinating music video. Simultaneously, the band also revealed an upcoming album titled Megaplex, which is the follow up to 2016’s Helter Seltzer and is due April 27th.