Single Review: Animals - Du Tonc

Du Tonc is a partnership between producer Mighty Mouse and Matt Van Schie, who founded and plays with the Australian band that took his name - Van She. Together they are releasing this new single for Eskimo Recordings, Animal. 

Having first made an impact back in 2013, Du Tonc's first single for Eskimo, Every Song, hit the top of the Hype Machine chart.  Busy at work on their debut album, which is due this year, Animals was created between San Francisco and LA, with the California experience impacting their music.

Animals packs a lovingly sun-bleached sound, and it is Eskimo at their most blissfully laid back. The influence of Van Schie (and therefore Van She) is audible in the melodic synths and vocal hooks, if not the subtle animal samples the guys snuck in there on this track!

Animals is a warm, blissful trip of a record - both Eskimo's best output for some time and an exciting preview of the Du Tonc album.

Video: Else - Niagara

Else What Else? is the forthcoming EP from Turin-based psych-pop duo Niagara, due out on Monotreme Records on 27 April. Featuring album & single track Else, along with remixes from Liars and Diego Perrone... The result is a wiggy and infectious jam and comes with a video directed by Gabriele Ottino.

The video itself is fantastic - with three distinct acts, it's an onslaught of imagery that is very hard to stop watching. And for the record, I like my girls animated.

Stream: Regret - Traces

Featuring Laura Perkins https://soundcloud.com/lauraperkins

Traces is Berkshire, England based producer and songwriter Jamie Hoddle, and Regret is his latest release. Featuring additional vocals from Laura Perkins it is an artfully constructed combination of organic sounding production and complex layered rhythms and melodies. Maudlin yet beautiful and well worth a listen.

Stream: A Different Street - Funktionslust

I've been following London duo Funktionslust for a little while and covered their track Dots last year. A Different Street comes on like some glorious industrial wonky R&B  wonder... Sage Redman's vocals slide around on a bed of clanging instrumentation creating an infectious combination of melody and mechanical rhythm.

A Different Street is lifted from their forthcoming EP of the same name, out on 27 April.

Stream: Leave Me - Peter Lyons

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Nice electronic soul influenced piece from London based artists Peter Lyons. Leave Me combines bruised falsetto vocals with smooth synths and strings. A promising track from the former member of duo Peter & Kerry.

If you like Leave Me then I would also recommend checking out Lyons' cover of Rui Da Silva's Touch Me. Classy.