Editorial

Music Alliance Pact | July 2013

The Music Alliance Pact features local tracks from across the globe, as handpicked by 29 music blogs. This month we

Rotterdam's finest 'wok and wolling' synth-pop weirdo Harry Merry returns to Melkweg, Amsterdam for the screening of 'Hier Is Harry'

Another Ariel Pink collaboration! Hot on the heels of his duet with SoKo, the psych-pop weirdo teams up with Jorge

Having gritted their teeth on EKKO and a South American tour, Sacred Bones space rockers Psychic Ills touch down at

Jackson Scott kicks the bedroom pop of earlier Melbourne cuts "That Awful Sound" and "Sandy" into overdrive with reverb-drenched "Together Forever".

Toronto weirdos Phédre have given us a taste of their forthcoming album with the track 'Sunday Someday', which sounds as

The debut album from these local kids is out in September, but until then feast your ears on this. Track

The Mac DeMarco crew just keeps on giving. This time around it's a two-headed imposter posing as Makeout Videotape bandmate

Witnessing Widowspeak live back in April already had us convinced, but with Molly's soothing vocals on the first cut of

Influential yet relatively unknown, Sean Nicholas Savage has crept out of the limelight with an album whose conceptual brilliance is

Gauntlet Hair's forthcoming Dead Oceans effort Stills and Fuck Buttons' latest, Slow Focus, are streaming over at PitchforkAdvance. Feast your ears!

A move away from melancholy and towards danceability on their second album sees Austra's Olympia surpass its predecessor. By Carly Blair