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LA’s finest fake Ivy Leaguers Princeton are back with a new record, Remembrance of Things to Come, and now they’ve delivered a second single (we’ve already heard the title track – revisit below), the typically chilly, minimalist “Florida,” for your listening pleasure.

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Though they just dropped an album of their own, The Big Pink took some time out of their schedule to bring their talent for crafting expansive pop jams to a remix of Ladyhawke’s recent jam-of-all-jams single “Black White and Blue.” We like how the guys start the whole thing off in a minor key, breaking down Pip Brown’s radio-ready vocals and grungy guitar backbeat into a goth-y, industrial, hyper-processed haze, before bringing out the big guns and busting out into a full-scale B*Witched / S Club 7 ‘90s fist-pumper. Ladyhawke’s record Anxiety is out March 27th; The Big Pink’s Future This is out now.

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Although we haven’t heard all of Sophia Knapp’s forthcoming, Bill Callahan-featuring debut full-length Into the Waves, the great Drag City says the record is reminiscent of “melodic psych pop of the 60’s, Tropicalia ballads, chilly New York dance records of the 80’s, and the seduction of Stevie Nicks or Françoise Hardy,” (i.e., everything that is awesome), and the excellent “Close to Me” manages to sort of evoke all of those things and more in one song:

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Sophia Knapp :: Close to Me

Into the Waves is out 2/28 on Drag City.

New (old) / previously unreleased track from Chaz Bundick, taken from his forthcoming June 2009 (coincidentally, the same month we first heard the man’s work) archival 7” vinyl box set, which chronicles some of the early, pre-Causers of This recordings that we were so fond of back in the day:

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Toro y Moi :: Dead Pontoon

June 2009 is out in April 2012 on Carpark.

You won’t be able to correctly guess where nascent chillwave artist Teen Daze is from based on the title of his new single, so let’s just lay out some facts right now – dude’s from Vancouver, the track’s called “Brooklyn Sunburn,” and it sounds remarkably like its title, six minutes of shimmery electro mirage that’s almost too sun-blind to handle.

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North Carolina folkies Bowerbirds will release The Clearing, their third record, soon, and now they’re unveiling single number two, “In the Yard.” It starts off typically confessional and intimate for the band before moving into complex, grand territory with big piano chords, guitar fuzz, and plenty of background horns. We’re loving those vocal harmonies and creepy, discordant key changes – and as much as Bowerbirds’ strengths lie in secretive-sounding bedroom folk, it’s the track’s more massive moments that make it worth more than a few repeat listens. The Clearing drops March 6th.

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