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Claire Boucher releases her transcendent new Grimes album Visions today on 4AD (review pending). To coincide with the release, she has taken over Gorilla vs. Bear for the day and is sharing all kinds of cool shit.

What’s sticking with me the most, however, is this video song from Indiencosi, aka Raph from Braids and Blue Hawaii. Unsurprisingly, “Besnard” offers the same liquid loveliness of her other two projects, but with a more Grouper-esque approach.

Watch/listen above and then check out other Grimes picks (including a new collaboration with Majical Clouds) over at GvB.

Watch Austra cover Robyn’s Röyksopp-produced jam “None of Dem” for Australian radio network Triple J. Interesting, to say the least.

Side note, the DJs are kind of cute, no?

Different versions of this song have been floating around for a few years, and now we finally have the official video, with footage shot by Rhys Balmer and Alberto Rossini at the Silver City Prom last year. 

The release of Chromatics’ highly anticipated new album Kill For Love is nigh. Between this and the new single that leaked earlier this week, I’m thinking it will be worth the wait.

Any day now, guys.

Oh look this is still a thing.

Not sure which is creepier, the song or the Cousin Itt clone. Either way, the accompanying audiovisual album kin is said to be out on June 11, with multiple songs from it released until then. Enjoy.

Porcelain Raft’s debut Strange Weekend won me over instantly with its Atlas Sound meets Suede warmth and dreaminess. Alas, the record did not include the gorgeous “Something In Between,” which has been relegated to b-side status on the forthcoming Unless You Speak From Your Heart 7”, out next week on Secretly Canadian.

In the meantime, we have the video. Mauro Remiddi had this to say about the inspiration:

“A few months ago I filmed the billboard you see at the beginning of the video. I forgot about those images I took until a week ago, while driving back after filming the video for ‘Unless You Speak From You Heart’, we saw the same exact billboard collapsed on the BQE, very close to where I live. That structure consisted of two different billboards that don’t face each other but are connected somehow. ‘Something In Between’ feels like the right title for that.”