Dntel: Ashby

An empowering #PrivateJam, SBTRKT goes Higher, Metronomy's mind-bending music video and more in the songs we tweeted this week

Jimmy Tamborello—also known as Dntel—has remained relatively quiet since the runaway success of his side project The Postal Service with Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard in 2003. This week, the LA-based minimalist electronic artist released a new single from his upcoming full-length Human Voice out 23 September on Leaving Records. “Ashby” is a four-minute track that sounds and feels much larger. Tamborello builds a vast sonic …

Lo Fang: When We’re Fire (Cello Version)

An empowering #PrivateJam, SBTRKT goes Higher, Metronomy's mind-bending music video and more in the songs we tweeted this week

After garnering much acclaim while supporting Lorde on her most recent tour, Lo Fang has just announced a new mixtape and a listen reveals the work to be as impressive as his live act. This EP, Every Night, is available on 30 September 2014 and features a new cello version of his single “When We’re Fire.” There’s a majesty to his voice and the delicately …

Metronomy: Month of Sundays

An empowering #PrivateJam, SBTRKT goes Higher, Metronomy's mind-bending music video and more in the songs we tweeted this week

British artist and filmmaker Callum Cooper applied his experimental, MC Escher-like approach to Metronomy’s new song “Month of Sundays” (from their fourth album Love Letters). The result is a dizzying look at the band, as well as London’s iconic Barbican and other Brutalist buildings around town. Cooper—who used a specially made “utilitarian sculpture” that doubled as a camera mount—tells Nowness, “This architecture speaks of a …