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 <6000. If you’d like to be considered for a soundcast, message our Senior Editor Kavi at the contact on my page.

THIS TIME: Defiance is damning. Like, damn you for doing you. Damn the system that saw me as a non-someone. Damn your heart that’s opening all these doors for me. Damnit. Says more about the world than you that when you defy it, it damns you. Damn your little dark heart desperately trying to find light. Damn you, drown in the dour days. Damnit you weren’t allowed to see there are days with all the damn sun in the world. People dance there, godamnit. And in this STATE OF SOUND, we defy the world. Take destroyed legs and dance again on the deck of a hurricane damaged dinghy. Wait for the world to say: like, damn you for trying to deal.

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Check out the ///DISCOVER/// Links below each track. [Links open in a new tab]
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PARK ROYAL// BTSTU FT. YUNG CUB (JAI PAUL COVER) +
// THIS IS FOR THE NINETIES

Don’t fuck with me, don’t fuck with me
Since you shipped my ass off to sea
I never knew where I was goin’
I went where the water was flowin’
I know I’ve been gone a long time, but
I’m back and I want what is mine

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This is for telling no one,
Cos they don’t know how it feels
This is for ending up in places
That you didn’t want to go
This is for the fuck-ups
That never saw the light

DISCOVER// PARK ROYAL
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NEIL THOMAS// HOME
GRIMES// FLESH WITHOUT BLOOD (TOURLIFE UNCONTROLLABLE REMIX)

Spent a night by the river
Throwing stones
I laid by the water
Drifted away
Voices washin’ over, swear I heard them say
You will never be alone

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And I don’t see the light
I saw in you before, uncontrollable
You had every chance and you
Destroy everything you know

DISCOVER// NEIL THOMAS + TOURLIFE
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WDL// STARDUST (FT. ELLIPHANT)
KLING// MORNING

We made of stardust
Straight outta stone
Starjunkie’s makin love a business

DISCOVER// WDL + KLING
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XAN YOUNG// WORTHY
GIRLYBOI// ACTUAL WOMAN
FLORIO// NIGHT FALLS

It feels different in the dark
You make me feel like an actual woman
Feel like, I’m worthy

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DISCOVER// XAN YOUNG + GIRLYBOI + FLORIO
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