These Words

Basel, Switzerland-based quintet Mantocliff's debut single "These Words" is stunning. Lyrically focused with an emotionally charged orchestral electronic arrangement and Nives Onori's impassioned vocals, it's absolutely one you have to hear.

The video's an art piece done to perfection, breaking out of her skin tight cage as the song climaxes and holding out for someone strong enough, it's done so tragically well you can really only watch it on repeat and fall a little bit deeper each time.

Culminating in the eloquently put, "sometimes these words just need to be dark", it's a love song about the difficulty of loving someone while still hating your own mind while a demonstrative instrumentation sweeps over it all and brings powerful verses to a heart-wrenching rawness that deserves to be heard.

If you're going to openly cry to one moving song and video this week, make it Mantocliff's beyond gorgeous track and more articulate video for debut single "These Words" and look for the group to release their debut album, Umbilical, tomorrow.

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Andromeda

Elephant Stone's off-brand style of psychedelic rock is so inherently refreshing it's redundant to call attention to the fact, and their new single "Andromeda" plays out like a really good high that gives you insight into the absolute beauty and impossible intricacy of really good music without getting too carried away.

It's just dreamy enough to have you hooked with a careful reverb and swirling riffs that lead to airy synths and trilling keyboards and news bytes in a hazy perfection we've got on repeat.

Check out Elephant Stone's "Adromeda" below and head to all those links for more.

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Get Out The Way

If there's one album we haven't been able to get enough of this year it's Glint's Inverter and we're stoked to be sharing their latest single with you.

"Get Out The Way" is a fresh, real relationship song that plays out more like an anthemic reminder for yourself to not stand in your own way and with such intelligent and unabashed honesty falling into a lush production and a huge chorus meant to be played at full volume, it's one you need to hear.

The beautifully twisted and oddly smooth way in which dark nostalgia gives way to hopeful outlooks and desperate optimism is buried beneath raw understandings is a good precursor to the album, so check out the single now and look for Inverter to be released March 11 via Votiv.

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Daggers & Knives

Woodes' "Daggers & Knives" is cold, calculated, and remarkably catchy.

The first single from the Australian artist/producer's forthcoming EP, the track moves from hypnotic and detached to real and emotional, driven by a clever production and addictive chorus. A track worth falling for, it would be dreamy were it not so wonderfully heavy and intricate.

Says Woodes of the new single, "this track started as something that could have relished in a dark place, but as it unraveled I could feel it transition. In my head I envisioned myself as someone else: powerful and in control". Check it out below and look for her debut solo EP to be released mid 2016.

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