The Heavy follow up the garage-band madness of Oh No! Not You Again! with pure vintage voodoo soul . Sixteen asks the question: how much can you learn in sixteen years? The answer is, a hell of a lot, but none of it good. The story of a girl who wants to grow up too fast, taking in dancing with the devil, nightclubbing, drinking and piping on the magic whistle.

All in all, another spine-tingling package from one of the most exciting bands in the UK just now, Sixteen is taken from The Heavys forthcoming second album, The House That Dirt Built.

“Sixteen” is out on Counter Records on 13th July and “The House That Dirt Built” on 21st September.

And the studio version produced by Jim Abbiss:

“Drop The Other,” the first e.p. from Emika – and already one of the year’s most auspicious debuts. Even before release, Emika’s already received airplay from tastemaking DJs like Zane Lowe + Mary Anne Hobbs. Listening to “Drop The Other”’s title track and its equally strong b-side “Double Edge,” it’s clear why. Eerie, near-classical piano collides into glitched-out edits and skittering drum patterns, while speaker-shattering lows rub against Emika’s own hushed, cryptic vocals, the iconoclastic blend marking her an artist that makes a habit of defying expectation. Just when you think you know what you’re hearing, Emika flips the script: the cinematic sound architecture evokes the deepest techno, but the tempo moves too slow, the beats too jagged; the sub-bass, meanwhile, could shudder the most underground dubstep club, but it’s paired with haunting, syncopated vocal hooks that suggest Aaliyah’s work with Timbaland taken to its darkest extreme.
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