Shoreline Is

Tip top Dream Pop from Dortmund, the industrial heartland of Germany. Still the Cocteau Twins hailed from, by all accounts,the hellish environs of Grangemouth and they were capable of conjuring stupendous beauty.

Living Things by Shoreline Is

Grandpa Was A Lion

Drawing on the lineage of alt troubadours from Mark Linkous to Justin Vernon but enveloping his strummming in a sweet fuzz, Justin D'Onofrio aka Grandpa Was A Lion has recently released his 'Archaic' EP of which this is this the opening track.

Social Pipe

Mysterious electronica from Paris. It is almost cheesy, but then so are Phoenix and some of the best work Daft Punk have produced so maybe the french do it best with a touch of fromage.

Dice by Social Pipe

Botany

Botany is the project of Texan, Spencer Stephanson. His wonderful remix of Mauves by Tropics has just got an airing and is more propulsive than this own recent EP but equally blissful. Feeling Today, taken from said EP, sounds like early Caribou (minus the two drummers) when Dan Snaith still went under the name Manitoba. For those in doubt, this is a very good thing.

TROPICS - Mouves (Botany Remix) by Botany

Feeling Today by Botany

The Dying Seconds

Sounding like much missed morose Yorkshire glitchers Hood, this upcoming single is a stark and beautiful introduction to the band.

Imandra Lake

Estonian shoegaze of the pastoral variety, this track from their recently released EP casts them as a Baltic version of Fields. More of the same is available on last years album Seesamseesam.

Imandra Lake Arkamis aeg by electricsoundofjoy

Discopolis

The hazy electronic emoting of M83 coupled with the basslines of Cut Copy equal a recipe for electric sound of joy approval. These relative newcomers from Edinburgh have a cache of superb tunes up on soundcloud and myspace, Zenithobia being the latest.

Discopolis - Zenithobia by discopolismusic

Gardens & Villa

Like Low on a sunshine break, Gardens & Villa have have taken slowcore on a much deserved holiday. Full of the reverence which is a trademark of the best of the genre, but shot through with the sunshine of their native Santa Barbara.

Gardens and Villa - Chemtrails by electricsoundofjoy

Chet Faker

Superbly monikered, ultra prolific Australian beatsmith Chet Faker, keeps up his stellar output with this recent addition to his canon. In a word, languid.

House Atriedes by Chet Faker

Puro Instinct

Superb jangle pop circa 93 from Lush soundalikes Puro Instinct. This taken from the album 'Heabangers in Ecstacy' which is belatedly released in the UK in September.


Luv Goon by electricsoundofjoy