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Inhale / Exhale

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Inhale / Exhale Album ∙ Electronic ∙ 2024 RÜFÜS DU SOL After releasing their fourth album   Surrender   in 2021, RÜFÜS DU SOL declared it “the end of a chapter for us as a unit.” After years of living in their adopted hometown of LA, its members (Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George, and James Hunt) relocated to Encinitas and Miami. As the group crafted   Inhale / Exhale   over the next two years, the physical separation required them to carve out time for joint writing sessions, where they reconvened in places such as LA, Austin, and Ibiza. “We really made the most of those two-week stints,” George tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “We were in a really good creative flow. We were reconnecting and particularly reconnecting in the studio more than ever.“ When “Music Is Better,” the album’s lead single, arrived in June 2024, it marked RÜFÜS DU SOL’s triumphant return. Its joyful chorus—“Music is better when we’re together”—seems as much a love song as it is a celebration of the creative magic they

Honey

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  Honey Album ∙ Electronic ∙ 2024 Caribou More than 20 years into his career, Dan Snaith continues to shape-shift as an artist. His sixth proper album as Caribou finds the 46-year-old electronic pop polymath diving headlong into big-room dance sounds, more so than ever before: French-touch-indebted synths, city-flattening wub-wub basslines, and the type of clipped-vocal UK garage melodies that pop artists like PinkPantheress have favored as of late. Snaith is taking clear inspiration from his acclaimed full-length under his dance-floor-focused Daphni moniker, 2022’s   Cherry , as well as the recent stadium-pleasing gestures from left-of-center contemporaries Jamie xx and Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden. The result is the sound of an artist newly invigorated and truly having fun with the music they’re making. Honey   isn’t the first time that Snaith has turned his attention towards body-moving music. 2010’s   Swim   fused techno’s intensity with his career-long penchant for all things psychede

Nebula Romance: Part I

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Nebula Romance: Part I Album ∙ Electronic ∙ 2024 Perfume

Cascade

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Cascade Album ∙ Electronic ∙ 2024 Floating Points Sam Shepherd’s not-quite-techno is the 21st-century equivalent of good progressive rock or jazz fusion: sophisticated, intelligent music whose outward sense of exploration mirrors an almost psychedelic journey within. Inspired by his teenage epiphanies with techno in Manchester in the late ’90s and early 2000s,   Cascade   is easily his most immediate album: “club bangers” (“Key103”), acid bass (“Afflecks Palace”), even a little Giorgio Moroder-style Eurodisco for good historical measure (“Birth4000”). The beats are nakedly 4/4 and the surrounding ambience the kind of moody, infinitely cascading synth tapestries you might find on a psytrance mix, rendered with a grace that makes them feel paradoxically subtle. Having done complicated, Shepherd makes it simple.

GRB02

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  GRB02 Album ∙ Electronic ∙ 2024 GIRIBOY

ten days

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ten days Album ∙ Electronic ∙ 2024 Fred again.. Fred again.. hits new heights but keeps it real on a vitalizing album.

RITUAL

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RITUAL Album ∙ Electronic ∙ 2024 Jon Hopkins Hopkins’ icier, more active counterpart to Music for Psychedelic Therapy.

Ask That God

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Ask That God ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2024 Empire of the Sun Luke Steele: “This album feels like a rebirth.”

TIMELESS

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TIMELESS ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2024 KAYTRANADA The beloved Canadian producer is in what he calls his “experimental bag.”

Hyperdrama

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Hyperdrama ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2024 Justice On their fourth album, the French duo’s varied influences duke it out.

Silence Is Loud

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Silence Is Loud ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2024 Nia Archives The producer/singer expands her sound: “It’s something weird and new.”

BRAT

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BRAT ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2024 Charli XCX Hear new songs "Club classics” and “B2b" now, then pre-add the album.

Three

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Three ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2024 Four Tet After shaking up mainstream dance music, Four Tet reenters his flow state.

This Is What We Do

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This Is What We Do ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2022 Leftfield

OXYMORE

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OXYMORE ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2022 Jean-Michel Jarre

Ibiza Annual 2022 (DJ Mix)

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Ibiza Annual 2022 (DJ Mix) ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2022 Just Yaz “This mix is high energy and good vibes, so be prepared to dance.”

Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)

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Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022) ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2022 Fred again..

Fossora

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Fossora ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2022 Björk On her 10th LP, the Icelandic singer-songwriter comes back down to Earth.

Palaces

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Palaces ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2022 Flume “I had two years to just be a normal human.” Hear his third LP in Spatial.

CAPRISONGS

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  CAPRISONGS ALBUM ∙ ELECTRONIC ∙ 2022 FKA twigs The polymath’s mixtape is serpentine and exquisite. Hear it in Spatial Audio.