STATE OF SOUND is a Sights and Sounds feature where I select new electronically focused bands of stratospheric level quality that’ve been hanging around the periphery of the blogopshere’s vision (just waiting to be discovered). I select only on quality, but try to shoot for Soundcloud/Facebook followers of <3000. If you’d like to be considered for a soundcast, message our Senior Editor Kavi at the contact on my page. This time we also have an entry by the S + S ‘s own Brendon Goldwasser as well.

It’s been a big week for trans issues in the US + UK; so this time STATE OF SOUND honors my trans brothers and sisters with a gender/genre bending list. The music takes us to all the messy ways our identities smack up against the world. They swirl through the heart, ultimately landing nowhere except a sense of purpose–of who I am. It’s an issue dear to me and every time I walk out my door.

If you like these, follow the artists on their Soundclouds. Discover Links below each track.
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PORSCHES// HORSES (LUKE MILLION REMIX)
CHAHINE//SAD BOY

You’re not living
You’ve got a lot of money
From all of you’re divorces
If you take my hand babe I would not force it
If you were a map girl I would explore it

DISCOVER PORSCHES // DISCOVER CHAHINE
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LUXLEY//SPIRIT (PAPERWHITE REMIX)

“Come on, out with your secrets”
This time I come undone
I never thought I would say this,
“You’re the spirit.”
We found ourselves lying there
With my fingers through your hair
It’s hard to say what I mean
(In this shakedown)
When you keep pulling at the seams

DISCOVER LUXLEY

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TARO KAWAHARA// ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID (T.A.T.U. COVER)

And I’m all mixed up, feeling cornered and rushed
They say it’s my fault but I want her so much
Wanna fly her away where the sun and rain
Come in over my face, wash away all the shame
When they stop and stare – don’t worry me
‘Cause I’m feeling for her what she’s feeling for me
I can try to pretend, I can try to forget
But it’s driving me mad, going out of my head

WALES//LOSE MY MIND

I’ll run, if you try
And won’t look back
Won’t last, don’t ruin
Your own advice. I’ll just try
To lose my mind
If you want, I can give you mine

DISCOVER TARO KAWAKHARA // DISCOVER WALES
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ON PLANETS// SPECTACLE

I’ll be straigtening my feet first
Let’s stop. Can’t stop. Can’t give it up.
You’re a spectacle
I won’t lose you
Got to keep you
In this midnight gaze

DISCOVER ON PLANETS

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