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With her new single, \u201cCold Heart,\u201d Nil\u00fcfer Yanya<\/a> sets aside her trusty fuzz-toned guitar. Amid undulating keyboard chords and programmed beats, she sings about desire, separation, resentment and heartache: \u201cI don\u2019t wanna bear this burden \u2019cause it hurts like hell,\u201d she sings. Many of her previous songs have built toward grungy catharsis, but in \u201cCold Heart,\u201d the chords keep cycling around her; she\u2019s still enmeshed.<\/p>\n Bambii, a Jamaican-Canadian D.J.<\/a> turned producer and songwriter who\u2019s based in Toronto, keeps reconfiguring a sparse, syncopated bass riff and twitchy, flickering breakbeats in \u201cMirror.\u201d Jessy Lanza sings in English and Yaeji sings and raps in English and Korean, pondering connection and identity \u2014 \u201cI look in the mirror \/ I see your eyes\u201d \u2014 as the rhythms ricochet.<\/p>\n Indigo De Souza brings unbridled enthusiasm even to situations she comes to regret. For \u201cHeartthrob,\u201d De Souza and her songwriting and producing collaborator, Elliott Kozel, kick up the tempo and pile on the guitars. The chorus is exultantly physical: \u201cI really put my back into it,\u201d she sings over two galloping chords. Meanwhile, the verses are full of lessons learned \u2014 \u201cHe really tricked me \/ I let him touch me where he wanted\u201d \u2014 that still don\u2019t prevent her from hoping to find \u201ca full cup \/ a true heartthrob.\u201d<\/p>\n Sami Galbi \u2014 a Swiss, French and Moroccan musician based in Lausanne and Casablanca \u2014 applies electronic expertise to modal, Arab-inflected North African styles like rai and chaabi. \u201cL\u2019mjmr\u201d from his new album, \u201cYlh Bye Bye,\u201d flaunts Auto-Tuned vocal harmonies, trap percussion and buzzing synthesizer lines without losing the Moroccan essence of the tune.<\/p>\n \u201cSing that lullaby to the abyss,\u201d Jack Barnett chants in \u201cA Season in Hell,\u201d neatly summing up one of the missions of his band, These New Puritans. \u201cA Season in Hell\u201d sets up a bleak industrial beat, then laces it with somber, Bach-like church-organ lines as Barnett envisions being \u201cTied to the wheel, nailed to the ground \/ Put to the sword, fed to the hounds.\u201d At the end, Caroline Polachek<\/a> adds wordless, keening near-screams to perfect the gloom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nBambii featuring Jessy Lanza and Yaeji, \u2018Mirror<\/a>\u2019<\/h2>\n
Indigo De Souza, \u2018Heartthrob<\/a>\u2019<\/h2>\n
Sami Galbi, \u2018L\u2019mjmr<\/a>\u2019<\/h2>\n