Cairobi: Lupo

London-based psych quartet Cairobi’s woozy song “Lupo” has received an equally fun music video treatment. Artist and illustrator Sebaldo provides surreal animation—lots of two-headed and four-eyed creatures abound—to illustrate the song’s themes of “change,” “transformation,” “becoming something else”—all of which reminds us of more carefree, younger times where our world made sense in colored markers.

Warpaint: New Song

When Jenny Lee Lindberg made her solo debut last year as jennylee, and with Theresa Wayman in a side project called BOSS, we thought it was silently signaling an end to Warpaint. That said, the LA-based rock band has finally announced a follow-up to their second LP from two years ago. Heads Up releases 23 September 2016 off of Rough Trade—the band mysteriously describes it …

Charlotte Day Wilson: Find You

Though she’s relatively new as a solo artist (previously fronting Toronto-by-way-of-Halifax “transient soul group” The Wayo), Charlotte Day Wilson has the voice of an old, golden spirit (plus the chops of a classically trained pianist, along with saxophone too). “Find You” entraps us further into the carefully restrained honey trap her sultry, low-register voice has built—without any over-the-top faux forlornness. Her debut EP CDW releases …