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Rita Ora: Party & Bullsh!t
JUICE doesn’t usually cover pop acts, but it takes a special kind of female pop star to get co-signed by Jay-Z, and then signed to his label Roc Nation.
Yeasayer: Fragrant World
Fragrant World is that transitory album where a band disengages the past from their future.
The xx: Coexist
The sparse melancholia of Coexist continues the sound The xx established with their first album to great effect.
The Lighthouse and The Whaler: Venician Stroll
As if they’re the brainchild of Train, Dave Matthews Band and The Beatles (that concoction sounds all kinds of wrong), The Lighthouse and the Whaler is a monstrosity that is so amazingly good that it almost seems wrong.
Mini Compo: The Past’s Future Dance Punk
LapSap’s and Twilight Actiongirl’s DJ Xu couldn’t be more different than the much less recognised Jit Woei of Nightlife Camera and The Beads fame. For one the respective genres they represent on their own are so disparate that when compared they are not just apples and oranges, they’re algae and cardboard boxes.
Petite Noir: New Wave Goth by Way of World Music
Cape Town’s Yannick Iluga, better known by his stage name Petite Noir, is the perfect candidate to subvert your myopic view of what sort of music could come out from South Africa.
VMPRMYTH: Everlasting Beat
While lacking in vowels, VMPRMYTH doesn’t in talent. He is one DJ-producer to watch out for.
Passion Pit: Gossamer
Passion Pit’s follow-up to debut Manners is the band going bigger, more self-indulgent, but this only serves frontman Michael Angelakos’ pop acumen better.
Citizens of Ice-Cream: Days of Bays
Whether intentional or not, CoIC’s childlike (and we don’t mean childish) approach to writing their music gives the instrumental band their charm. There are no pretentious efforts or need for a goreng moment to prove their skills on their respective instruments.