Jamie Lidell: Pink Light

The ever-charming Jamie Lidell has just unveiled “Pink Light“—a soulful and synth-heavy stand-alone track. While Lidell hasn’t announced a follow-up record to his self-titled LP from 2013, we can only hope this appears on an album full of equally lush and dreamy songs from the talented British artist.

Sam Van Aken’s Magical Tree Bears 40 Types of Fruit

Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, has Frankenstein-ed together a tree that bears 40 different types of fruit, including peaches, plums, apricots and almonds. The “Tree of 40 Fruit” is the product of chip grafting—which works by splicing small branches of fruit varietals onto a main tree—and years of patience. Aside from producing loads of fruit, Aken has also configured the …

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A nine-minute love song from City and Colour, Gwilym Gold soundtracks ambiguous cartoon sex and more in this week's picks

Thundercat: Them Changes From Thundercat’s mini-album The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam (his first solo album since 2013’s Apocalypse, though he’s kept busy working on Kendrick Lamar’s last release and more) comes “Them Changes“—a track that blends an effortless groove with melancholy. While the story told through vocals is one of heartbreak, the squelching electric bass line and dark music video (which features a …