LA Priest: Lady’s In Trouble With The Law

Sam Dust—aka Sam Eastgate of the mid-2000s band Late of the Pier—moved to Wales and finally finished a debut album, Inji under the name LA Priest. The summery yet strange dance-pop single “Oino” felt like it came out of nowhere—or out of the sky like a falling meteor—and piqued curiosity in the solo project. There’s now a music video to accompany his more ballad-like (yet …

Christine and the Queens feat. Tunji Ige: No Harm is Done

Through her trouser-suit-outfitted stage persona, Christine—of Christine and the Queens—French singer-songwriter Héloïse Letissier finds the courage and freedom to sing of melancholy, anger, her scars and her desire to take back power. Her debut LP Chaleur Humaine has already become a sensation in France, and an English version is set for release this October 2015, simply titled Christine and the Queens. It will feature three …

The Japanese House: Clean

19-year-old Amber Bain, performing under the moniker The Japanese House, releases “Clean,” a downtempo electronic pop track with her lower-register, stirring voice as the driving force. It’s impossible not to compare Bain’s love for the vocoder to Imogen Heap’s harmonizing technique in “Hide and Seek,” but it’s a compliment in the best way. Bain experiments with pitch-shifting even further to create beautifully subtle textures on …