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New Metome: Turquoise

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If Dialect is one final glance back at a past quickly dissolving away, Turquoise is the first step forward into the unknown. Metome’s first release following that stunner opens with pure unnerving voices looping on “Teeth,” but that’s just scene setting for “Turquoise” itself. Metome moves closer to straight-up ambient music with this one, with only slight percussion breaking through the synthesizer pulsing shrouding the whole song. It’s about loud vs. quite, peace turned tense by sudden rises in noise, and no clear end destination. Excited to see where it goes. Get it here, or listen below.

Main Course: DJ Pigeon’s Emotion

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Keeping it simple can really pay dividends. The second release from Fruit Parlor Records comes via DJ Pigeon, a producer dabbling in what could be described as lo-fi house, if that genre works for you. However you want to see that, Emotion offers up three original tracks built around vocal samples, all of them slightly faded and set against rollicking house rhythms. The first two — the title track and “Sun Mo” — shuffle on for over seven minutes each, both making the most of repeated phrases (“Sun Mo” working in various snippets of dialogue, though all building towards one particular ear worm sentence) and subtly mutating them along the way. Yet DJ Pigeon locates the pleasure in this sparse set of tools, and all three songs turn simplicity into bliss by zoning in on the best parts. Get it here, or listen below.

New Group2: “Ceremony”

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Don’t call it a chill out. Group2 have been embracing wonkier and at times confrontational stances since releasing indie-pop gems via Ano(t)raks, but for “Ceremony” they slow everything down a notch. As a first taste of their forthcoming debut full-length, it might be a bit unrepresentative of what they’ve done up until now — it’s a little slower, more a stroll than a skip, and lacks the sudden detours that marked earlier releases. But it isn’t predictable, and it definitely isn’t Group2’s switch to neo City Pop. They might relax a little bit, but that loopy synth melody alone adds a bit of uneasiness to the song. Which is on point. Listen above.

New Nemui PJ: “Many Times We Hoped”

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The team of Noah and Kidkanevil return as Nemui PJ for a special Halloween treat. “Many Times We Hoped” came out today to celebrate the spookiest day of the year and it sounds…well, not like something you’d associate with Oct. 31 specifically. Rather, it is just a new Nemui PJ song, built around soft chimes and Noah’s voice, which eventually turns into a cascading wall of Noah’s, blanketing an already fuzzy number even further. Get it here, or listen below.

New Spangle Call Lilli Line: “Therefore”

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Plenty of bands are consistent, but Spangle Call Lilli Line manage something far more rare — being deceivingly consistent. Over their career, they’ve experimented a lot and practically changed their sonic palette every album, yet it doesn’t feel like they are constantly tinkering because they also have a strong voice that comes through in whatever they do. New song “Therefore” is as good an example of this you’ll find. It features details that only pop up sporadically in the band’s music —- loopy electronic details that give it a zoned-out feel, alternating male-female vocals, ever-shifting tempos. This all makes for a number that’s far more shifty than anything else they’ve put out in recent years, but it feels every bit them, mainly thanks to the way the vocals stroll through the song and everything feels like someone thinking things over on a long walk. Listen above.