Studio Visit: Crispin Finn

Classic ephemera screen-printed in red, white and blue by a pair of convivial creatives

The fun-loving, low maintenance duo working as London-based design studio Crispin Finn are undoubtedly passionate about red, white and blue. Their signature tricolor formula originally evolved from wanting to simplify a screen-printing process so as to reduce the cost of buying high-quality, super-concentrated ink, but it has since laid an ideal foundation for their graphic and illustration work. As accomplished bowlers, discerning burger enthusiasts, film …

Fatima: Black Dough (prod. fLako)

James Murphy's Bowie remix, Kishi Bashi, Boston Bun's "Flasher" and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

The stylish doyenne of London-based Eglo Records, Swedish songstress Fatima offers up the B-side to her forthcoming single “Family/La Neta” with the Bandcamp teaser “Black Dough.” Produced by burgeoning beatmaker fLako—a self-described “soul-documentarian”—the song reflects not only their seemingly instinctual harmony together, but their common ground as artists who are able to meld playful compositions with velvety smooth, confident deliveries. Hopefully there’s a full-length album …

Boston Bun: Flasher

James Murphy's Bowie remix, Kishi Bashi, Boston Bun's "Flasher" and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

Boston Bun is French artist Thibaud Noyer, who wooed Busy P with his gritty Chicago house-influenced demo “Housecall”—making Boston Bun the newest addition to the tight-knit Ed Banger family, and the two now share a studio together in Paris. Boston Bun’s new single “Flasher” has a similarly underground club feel with minimal synth bass lines, punctuated by women speaking with indignant rage and a voyeuristic …