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New Video: Introducing the Gender Bending Visuals of Mysterious Parisian Pop Artist Boy Bamboo

Boy Bamboo is a mysterious, up-and-coming Paris-based singer/songwriter and electro pop artist, and his latest single “Lola” finds the Parisian pop artist pairing his sultry and yearning falsetto with a stark and modern production centered around shimmering guitar chords, thumping beats and arpeggiated synths. It’s sleek and incredibly contemporary — and in a way that recalls Steven A. Clark‘s Fornication Under Consent of the King, Blood Orange and others.

The recently released video for “Lola” is arguably one of the most unique videos I’ve seen this year as it stars the Parisian artist, bending and blurring gender roles as he’s dressed in white and touching his body — but as the video progresses, something is disastrously wrong. It ends suggesting that the video’s protagonist has just had a miscarriage. 

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

Elijah Hook is a Berlin-based soul/pop artist, whose sound meshes elements of old-school soul, contemporary electronic production and R&B as you’ll hear on his latest Sugaboy-produced single “Lights 47” which pairs Hook’s ethereal crooning and Drake-like flow with hyper modern and atmospheric production featuring stuttering drum programming and malevolently swirling electronics in a song that reminds me quite a bit of Steven A. Clark‘s Fornication Under Consent of the King complete with a self-assured swagger.

 

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

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Brent Faiyaz is a 20 year-old up-and-coming Maryland-born, Los Angeles, CA-based singer/songwriter,  who has captured the attention of the blogosphere with the release of “Poison” and “Invite Me” off his soon-to-be released EP A.M. Paradox. Produced by Ben Free, “Poison” pairs of a warm, neo-soul-leaning production featuring stuttering drum programming, twinkling organs and swirling electronics with Faiyaz’s tender crooning, which express vulnerability, self-doubt, a swaggering cockiness and an urgent, carnal need within the turn of a phrase. Interestingly enough, “Poison” reminds me quite a bit of a personal favorite of mine — Steven A. Clark‘s Fornication Under Consent of the King as the single possesses an honest and profound ache underneath the sleek hyper modern production.

 

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if you’ve been frequenting JOVM for some time now, you know that there are a number of artists you will hear about repeatedly over some time, which shouldn’t be terribly surprising over the course of […]

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Currently, little is known about electronic music producer and artist, novellus, as he’s part of a trend among some electronic artists to be extraordinarily reclusive and mysterious. Indeed, eschewing the notions of packaging the artist […]

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Comprised of singer/songwriter Jen Hirsh, producer/songwriter Scott Smith, along with touring members drummer Nate Lotz and bassist/synth player Thomas Drayton ,electro pop act Monogem have been gaining attention across the blogosphere for a sound that […]

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The Portland, OR-based Vocalist Randa Leigh and producer/multi-instrumentalist Brian Vincent comprise the electro pop act SOS. And in interviews, the duo have publicly claimed  the xx, Aaliyah, D’Angelo and Kanye West as influences. Although, lyrically the duo’s work explores the feelings, emotional impulses […]

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The Chicago-based emcee Jason Maek has quickly developed a reputation for lyrics that are thoughtful, thought-provoking and at times polarizing. “Fix It,” the latest single off Maek’s collaboration with Zaena, Maek Pandamonium describes a man’s battle to […]

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Comprised of vocalist Randa Leigh and producer/multi-instrumentalist Brian Vincent, the Portland, OR-based electro pop act SOS have publicly claimed the xx, Aaliyah, D’Angelo and Kanye West as influences although  lyrically, the duo’s work explores the […]

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There are quite a few people who will complain that contemporary hip-hop is dead; however, what many of those people shamefully have missed is that hip-hop has quietly gone through a revolution similar to the […]

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Maya Vik has received quite a bit of attention for her take on electronic pop/funk. As a member of Montee, she won a Norwegian Grammy, but as a solo artist she’s received quite a bit of attention […]

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Beacon’s debut For Now EP was a hauntingly ominous album that manages to burrow into the dark places of regret, temptation and obsession with an extremely minimalist form of modern R&B and electronica — it’s an anxious, […]

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Beacon’s For Now EP was a hauntingly ominous album that manages to burrow into the dark places of regret, temptation and obsession — it’s an anxious, fever dream of an album. As a result, For Now landed at number […]

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a Q&A with Steven A. Clark

Ranking fourth on this site’s Best of 2012 list, behind the co-number ones, Cody ChesnuTT’s certain classic, Landing on a Hundred and Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Orb’s trippy, mind-bending The ORBSERVER in the star […]