Tune-Yards - sketchy.

Sketchy is a nice bounceback for Tune-Yards.

Tune-Yards - I can feel you creep into my private life

Apart from a few bright spots, I can feel you creep contains Tune-Yards' most uninteresting and obnoxious material to date.

tUnE-yArDs - "Real Thing"

tUnE-yArDs drops visuals for the track "Real Thing," which features loads of imagery dealing with being "real." It's a cool concept, and executed well. The color scheme of the video is especially pleasing, and gets incredibly vibrant toward the very end. Props to Tom Jobbins on the direction here, and check out Nikki Nack if you haven't already.

tUnE-yArDs - KEXP Session

Merrill Garbus' tUnE-yArDs project just released one of the best records of the year so far in Nikki Nack. And now, to our glorious benefit, she has done a KEXP session. The video includes four of the best songs on the record, including "Water Fountain" and "Real Thing", and finds Merrill and bassist Nate Brenner accompanied by passionate backup singers and percussionists. It's a little different than the extremely loop-centric one- or two-person performances Garbus was once known for. But it's nonetheless a gleaming delight to see the group perform these weird, catchy, sunny pop songs in the KEXP studio.

Watch it above, and if you haven't listened to Nikki Nack yet, go do that, ya weirdo.

tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack

tUnE-yArDs' latest record is just the fun, eccentric, and wild shot pop music needed in 2014.

tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain"

tUnE-yArDs drop an incredibly fun, creative, and colorful video for the track "Water Fountain," which is one of many cuts that'll be featured on the band's next full-length, Nikki Nack. The album is dropping the first week of May via 4AD.

tUnE-yArDs - "Wait for a Minute"

tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus is no stranger to bombastic, twisted, cacophonous, brazen pop songs that explode out of the speakers. She is no stranger to odd flourishes that sound at first out of place and then perfectly correct. The first single from her upcoming album Nikki Nack, “Water Fountain”, fit all of those signifiers more or less on point. This second track, “Wait for a Minute” feels like a slightly different beast (there's no "WOO-HA" to be found here).

The track rides a very simple groove, and has no hugely clever tricks up its sleeve. It is a tUnE-yArDs slow-jam, guided by Garbus’ most potent instrument: her expressive voice. By constructing a song that isn’t as knotted up as usual, she gives herself ample room to show off that wonderful instrument. There are still tenets of her sound that peak through here – check those so-damn-close-to-off-beat “huh” sounds she makes in the chorus – but it all congeals to produce a soft, infectious, and still a little off-beat song. Definitely looking forward to this one.

Nikki Nack beams down to Earth on May 6 via 4AD.

Roomful of Teeth- Self-Titled

Roomful of Teeth is an intriguingly strange choral group whose debut, self-titled album adventurously expands what it means to make music in this genre.

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