Drab City

The duo known as Drab City used to be known individually and collectively as witch house artists oOoOO and Islamiq Grrrls.  They teamed together a couple of years ago with a weird and experimental synth pop album, and now they're back with a name change and a sound very much steeped in trip-hop.  It works like gangbusters.  Listen to the eerie "Devil Doll" and pre-order the upcoming "Good Songs for Bad People" LP here (if you're in the UK) or here (if you're in the US) via Bella Union.

oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls

Man, i had forgotten all about witch house artist oOoOO, having figured the project had just faded away with the scene from 8 or 9 years ago.  Glad to see that i was wrong.  Out this week is a collaborative album, "Faminine Mystique" with Berlin producer/songwriter Islamiq Grrrls, which the duo describe as deliberately "difficult-to-digest."  The track "Be On Through" starts normally enough, a swirl of synths around a grooving beat that eventually begins to degrade and warble into different arrays of sound.  This may be a deconstructionist kind of record and i'm digging that.  Listen below and get the album here via Nihjgt Feelings.