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This remix cuts out a bit of what was awesome about the original — the slow syrup of Matthew Dear’s vocal samples. But Bear In Heaven add other vocals to puzzle over, and while their version has a lot more energy, there are a couple times where it also felt like it was drifting out of time or melting away, much like Dear’s original. And it sounds like a lot of the layers on this remix are Dear’s vocals, sliced into half-syllables. Have a listen:

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This year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize, awarded annually by a panel of industry insiders to the UK and Ireland’s most excellent LP (or Roni Size/Reprazent’s New Forms), goes this year to the xx for their makeout masterpiece xx, and someone owes me a case of Dos Equis. Romy, Oliver, and Jamie will take home £20,000 for denying Mumford & Sons and Corinne Bailey Rae the honor, a pot to which I too would contribute on those grounds. (Others the xx kept at bay with this win include Wild Beasts, Dizzee Rascal, Foals, Villagers, and Paul Weller.) Congrats kids, if you’re looking for a night not to wear the pangs of young love and existential burden on your faces, this might just be it. You did it!

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“The Hair Song” features one of the best Stephen McBean and Amber Webber duets on the album. They’re in this clip, along with the rest of Black Mountain and a small cast of fresh-faced fans. The video was directed by Zoe Bower and Simon Chan.

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Here it is, the latest installment from Girl Crisis, an all-female concept troupe operating on a specifically detailed concept. The idea behind it was to a) name themselves as a joke on Boy Crisis and b) exist only in web-video form featuring c) an essentially revolving cast of indie Brooklyn sirens that d) have nothing for sale and will not play live shows but e) are a “long-term” project that records covers of classic songs, learned and arranged just before performing, in a Greenpoint living room on Super 8mm camera. All of this came to be two years ago, conceived by Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek, Class Actress’s Elizabeth Harper (whose apartment hosts the proceedings), and This Frontier Needs Heroes‘ Jessica Lauretti and (sometimes Stereogum photographer) Bek Andersen, both of whom handle capturing the pieces visually while Polachek records audio via room mics. Of course, there is more. Concept!

Songs are committed to tape seasonally, the girls — who are all friends in bands that don’t get to harmonize with ladies otherwise — choosing a classic song to cover by a male singer every winter, and a female for their summer pick. (Past choices have included Nirvana’s “Come As You Are,” Sade’s “Smooth Operator,” and Chris Isaacs’ “Wicked Game.”) For this summer’s selection the lineup’s expanded considerably, the tag-set swelling to include (in addition to the aforementioned founders): Erika Spring-Forster (Au Revoir Simone), Ilirjana Alushaj (Apache Beat), Molly Shea (Acrylics), Leah Carey (Amazing Baby), Jane Herships (Spider), and Sophia Knapp and Linnea Vedder (Lights).

The song of choice this time is Taylor Dayne’s “Tell It To My Heart.” You remember the original — here it is stripped down and less confrontational — both visually and vocally — from a group of friends in the 11222 in a piece that’s a little more sultry, with a lot less hairspray.

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School of Seven Bells are no strangers to unplugging their instruments. Yesterday they stopped by KCRW for a live studio performance of stripped down, shimmery selections from their latest album Disconnect From Desire. Check out the podcast to discover the inspiration behind the title of the album. If you catch them on tour, you may hear the ethereal cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Kiss Them For Me” they played during soundcheck.

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