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Insult to Injury: Week Ending 7/11

Here's what the Noisey editors were listening to this week while comparing sweet post-July 4th tans and wishing we were still at the beach.

Hai. It's Friday which means it's time to force feed you the music that was helping us get over the fact that we had to work a full week. Welcome to Insult to Injury, it happens every week.

Rustie - "Raptor"
Though Rustie might be destined to be the second-most-famous producer to come out of Glasgow's future bass scene (that honor would go to Hudson Mohawke), it's inarguable that Rustie's one of the most dynamic forces in dance music today. His is a style that merges the pure physicality of grime, the maximalism of southern hip-hop, and the tension-and-release of the top EDM producers into something so far ahead of pretty much everybody else out there. When I interviewed Rustie years ago, he told me the main person he wanted to work with was Gucci Mane. In a world where his contemporaries Diplo and HudMo are getting calls from the top hip-hop and pop artists to inject a sense of danger and edge into their sounds (as well as the Danny Brown feature on his upcoming LP Green Language, I'd say it's not long before that dream becomes a reality.

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"A/B Machines" - Sleigh Bells
Last weekend, I broke the screen of my computer, and I've had to deal with not having a computer all week while it gets repaired. I didn't realize how much I relied on my computer to listen to music, but it turns out that despite the mobile revolution, I don't listen to many new songs on my phone unless I can add them from my computer. Anyway, I didn't listen to that much music this week, and mostly I was really annoyed by all sounds everywhere. If only I'd had a B machine in the drawer, you know?

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F*ck the Summer - Leikeli47

I've never really believed in picking only one song of the summer—I've always preferred to make a summer mix—but, if I did, this could be it. I love the casual prowess of Leikeli47's flow in this song. It gives me the same kind of shot of confidence that Nicki Minaj does at her hardest. I'm also a fan of everything about the

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-indebted aesthetic of the video. I can't imagine wearing a balaclava in the summer heat but I would definitely fuck with a PVC skirt.

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Interpol - "All The Rage Back Home"
Until this week, I kind of forgot about how much I love Interpol. There was a period when I first moved to New York in which all I listened to was Turn on the Bright Lights, over and over and over and over and over and well you fucking get it I like that record a lot. Anyway, Interpol are back with a new album called El Pintor come September, and the new song and video hit the internet earlier this week. It's called "All the Rage Back Home" and it sounds like a lost b-side from Turn on the Bright Lights. Somebody pick me up from the office and let's go drive around, smoke some weed, and stare at the New York City skyline. Summertime has never sounded so good.

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Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
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Big Deal - Sakura EP
UGH. Big Deal make my heart hurt they're so good. The Anglo-American duo started off with a debut record full of spare, stunningly honest love-angst songs, then last year they dropped June Gloom, which, despite its title showcased a perkier turn of tune, an us against them mentality, and an actual rhythm section. Now we have this new EP—out next week via Mute—the highlight of which is clearly "Always Boys," a fuzzy untintentional reimagining of Hole's "Boys on the Radio" and Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps," thanks to Alice singing "Wait they don't see you like I do," over a fuzzily warm wall of distortion.

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Gorilla Biscuits w/ Mike Judge - "New York Crew"

It's easy to get totally jaded by all these reunions because let's face it, most of them are bullshit cash grabs in the first place. But when a band you love covers a song by another band you love, it's hard not to get nostalgic and totally fucking stoked. That happened last night when Mike Judge joined Gorilla Biscuits for a cover of Judge's classic "New York Crew." Say what you want about each of their respective reunions, it's sick to see these two forces unite. Check out video above. Fred Pessaro, Noisey, Editor-in-Chief
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Majid Jordan - "A Place Like This"
According to Drew Millard, we’re banned from using the phrase “hauntingly beautiful” on Noisey, so here are some other buzz words you can use to describe Majid Jordan’s new song: ethereal, ghostly, fire flames. The Toronto duo has managed to keep things simple by not over-producing or over-singing any part of the song while still making it seem like a lot of work went into it. PS., has a rapper ever found success in the rap world before starting an experimental R&B label? Because that’s what Drake’s OVO Sound is shaping up to look like. Outside of OB O’Brien, and I guess P.Reign, the roster for the Toronto-based label makes the sort of music that you can use to soundtrack a shitty one-night stand.

Slava Pastuk, Canadian Editor
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