The Editors’ New Groove is a weekly pow-wow on the freshest new releases on THUMP’s editors and regular contributors’ radars.
David Garber: Duke Dumont’s sunshine-filled tropical vibes will pull you right out of winter and straight to paradise. I love how Duke didn’t try to get too crafty on this one; it’s just a catchy beat, some feel-good vocals and a steel drum or two. Plus, Annie Mac’s accent just makes me smile.
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David Garber: Phoenix’s last album was kind of wack. But you know what isn’t? This grooving deep house edit of “Chloroform” by Hot Creations don Jamie Jones, who gave it away to his fans to thank them for a huge year he described as “an incredible journey.” It’s pretty fitting that this track is called “Chloroform” seeing that it might put you in such a state of sedative hypnosis that you’ll wake up six hours later naked in the bathroom of Boston Market.
Vivian Host: It doesn’t get any more insider than a vinyl of Ron Morelli outtakes from the Spit album on Vatican Shadow’s bleedingly cool Hospital Productions. Break out a copy of this record in any Bushwick bar, and you’ll get at least five phone numbers; someone might even jizz on your Oak jeans. The temptation of getting a psycho-sexual HJ to this claustrophobic 9-minute version of “Crack Microbes” is great indeed. (Listen to a preview of this EP on Boomkat.)
Michelle Lhooq: Maybe this is cheating, but hot damn, I love this exotically-tinged track from London’s Nightwave so much, I have to throw it up here again. Apparently, she messes with both alternative medicine and quantum mechanics, which halfway explains its spectral weirdness. Puff some opium rings and read our interview with the cat-eyed vixen here.
Michelle Lhooq: Thinking aboutthe amount of bullshit I have to do beforethe holidays is giving me stomach ulcers. Butwhen I close my eyes, put on this super-fun-times tun from newbie producer South Seven, and imagine the glorious week where I get to eat, bone, smoke, and drink as much as I want… those ulcers start to twerk.
Max Pearl: Yesss, gurlllll—Mad Decent’s Liz sounds here like a B-side house remix of Brandy in 1996. Babe deserves everything she gets.
Joel Fowler: Axel Boman and the entire Studio Barnhus crew continue to hoard all of the good vibes in Sweden and distill them into music, leaving only a few musty scraps behind for the mainstream. This song flows effortlessly, so enjoy the journey, man.
