Stream: Cat & Mouse - Bob Lemon feat. Co-Stanza

Cat & Mouse is the kind of robotic-funky-shit I can really get behind. Big fat funk bass lines, big crashing rhythms that feel a little Jurassic in nature, lyrics like gunfire. This is a little bit special.

Bob Lemon is apparently an ex professional equestrian... I guess that means he rode horses? Anyway, ultimately Lemon traded his horse for a tuba and the result is the kind of jazz/funk/electro feast you can experience here.

Hailing from a small town outside of Detroit, Cat & Mouse sees Lemon team up with Chicago-based singer-songwriter Co-Stanza, who provides a vocals here that bubble along beneath the surface of this track, a little like bubbles inside a beer glass. The resulting track is great - catchy as hell and so damn funky.

I can neither visually represent Bob Lemon, nor can I represent his jazz/funk/electro noise. So instead I bring you a picture of a horse. This horse is here to remind you of love. Check out Cat & Mouse below.

Stream: Space - I See Red

I See Red is an audiovisual band hailing from Sweden and their latest song Space is an epic sounding multi-textural cosmic ballad.

Space is the kind of music that exists somewhere between the mind of James Murphy, David Bowie and Björk, all of whom are name checked by I See Red, but I detect a little Flaming Lips in here too. This is what I call kitchen sink music - everything has been thrown in

The combination of slow, rich and heavy hip-hop style beats, glitchy electronic beeps and huge sweeping orchestral strings give Space an epic feel. It is an aural accompaniment to staring the abyss and coming face-to-face with our own mortality.

Check out Space below and feel the universe get just a little bit bigger:

Stream: Glass - ÅSN and Inga

Glass is a collaboration between two Norwegian, producer ÅSN and singer Inga, and it’s a snappy piece of addictively melodic pop.

With a solid beat and layered production and appropriately crystalline vocals from Inga, this is a little slice of musical determination to move through the turgid reality of your day-to-day. Glass depicts the compromises and complexity that become a reality of long term relationships and how that contrasts to the. sense of relative simplicity experienced in the early days of love.

Check out Glass below:

Stream: These Days. I Don't Know - Goss

These Days. I Don’t Know is the new single from Danish alt-pop musician Goss and it follows in the wake of previous hits I Want To Know????? and Soo Bad.

There is an interesting collision at play on this new track from Goss. The artist himself has commented on this, but it feels both urgent and lackadaisical, rapid yet laid back, introspective yet publicly so. The production work here seems to weave its way around Goss’ bruised vocal performance, a little like everything is suspended in mid-air. A moment captured and preserved. That outro is just so perfect too.

Describing the track Goss says:

"Lyrically I am inspired by this new scene of poets writing about the internet, digital currencies, software, etc. I always felt the internet was an unpoetic place but I think this new wave of poets are making the complexity of the digital world beautiful. On the production side I wanted the track to have a certain pace but at the same time have it feeling somewhat laid back. I love when a production give a feeling of both being fast and slow at the same time. Both melancholic and optimistic, complicated and simple.”

Check out These Days. I Don’t Know below:

Stream: Ultimatum - Christina CF

Christina CF is an Oakville, Ontario based musician and Ultimatum is her first public release, and is suitably packed full of vulnerability.

Ultimatum was created entirely by Christina - written, played, recorded, mixed and mastered - and it represents an impressively sophisticated sounding piece of pop music.

There is a certain courage here, both in Christina’s determination and self-motivation, and in the lyrics of the song itself. As she pleads her love to give her an ultimatum, you can sense her desire to be heard - not just by the song’s subject, but also by you as the listener. This is the sound of just telling someone you want them and only them - the purity of expressing what the heart wants.

Describing the track, Christina CF says:

“Music is such a powerful way of connecting with others," says Christina. "I just want to make sure people feel things with the songs I create – whether it be a song I write for myself or another artist. I hope the public vibes with "Ultimatum" the same way friends and family have.”

Check out Ultimatum below.