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MUSIC: New Music From Santigold, Lana Del Ray, Azealia Banks, And More!

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Santigold’s latest single, “The Keepers,” is one of our favorite tracks from her latest album, The Master of My Make-Believe. The song owes more than a little to Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”—the beat, those synths—but it’s definitely its own excessively danceable creature. The video delivers some searing, tongue-in-cheek commentary on American life, with Santi done up in a blonde wig, her synthetically white nuclear family sitting down to a radiation-green dinner as the outside world—represented here as a drive-by shooting—attempts to force its way into their cloistered world.

 

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Lana Del Rey’s single “National Anthem,” is hands down, our favorite track from her debut album. It’s one of the sexiest songs we’ve heard all summer—an icy hip-hop-laced torch song that’s been our personal anthem for since we first heard it months ago. The recently released video is another Instagram-flavored clip, similar in its look to Del Rey’s last clip, “Carmen.” This probably qualifies the “National Anthem” video for a eyeroll, but the concept is interesting—fusing the Camelot mythos with Obama-era imagery by casting ASAP as the JFK to Del Rey’s Jackie/Marilyn hybrid.

 

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Since her debut song, “212,” blew up this spring Azealia Banks has been dropping tracks all over the Interwebs. There was “Jumanji” and most recently “Aquababe.” But honestly, neither of those songs really felt like a worthy follow-up. “Liquorice,” on the other hand, is the track we’ve been waiting for. The video finds the hip-hop wunderkind channeling a cross between Clint Eastwood and Aaliyah in Queen of the Damned. The song itself, from Banks’ debut EP, 1991, has a kind of retro ’90s house beat. It’s a perfect party track!

 

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British singer Victoria Hesketh, a.k.a. Little Boots , has that regrettable Kylie syndrome where she’s just utterly underappreciated in the U.S. Except by us gay boys, that is. In the video for her new single, “Headphones,” Hesketh is giving us serious Debbie Harry vibes with a disco-meets-electro-pop sound that turns the seemingly uptight folks in the video into dancing machines! Something tells us it’ll have the same effect on everyone else.

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