“Electric Blue,” the latest dispatch from Arcade Fire’s forthcoming album Everything Now, features Régine Chassagne singing in swaggering falsetto over taut, funky drums and big sticky globs of synthesized bass. More
Grandaddy have unveiled “Evermore,” another new track off their upcoming Last Place, the Modesto, California alt-rockers first LP in 11 years.
Like its Last Place predecessor “Way We Won’t,” “Nevermore” chugs along on an ascending synth melody as frontman Jason Lytle pairs the electronic elements of the music with earthier lyrics about trees dying on the side of a freeway.
“I have no idea what the song is about,” Lytle…
Chance the Rapper turned Drake‘s “Feel No Ways” into an atmospheric slow jam during an appearance on BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Live Lounge.
While Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment captured the gooey synths and sultry piano plunks of the Views cut, they dropped the uptempo percussion and opened the song up for Chance, who delivered Drake’s love-weary lyrics in a charming croak. Towards the end of the song however, Chance began to flub the lyrics, cheekily crooning “You don’t feel no way, on purpose/ I’m messing…