Blue Hawaii and similar artists

Sounds like: Seb WIldblood, Punkin Machine, Blue Hawaii

Welcome to The Cartoon CityA hip and evolving soul-funk track by CZ Wang and Neo Image give me immense 90's street bop vibes and I love it.There is a ...

km

Their Own Storm

Sounds like: Azure Ray, Emma Louise, Blue Hawaii

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km is an Australian artist who is relatively new to the scene. By all accounts, we're one of the first major music blogs to cover her, and I'm pretty ...

Woodes x Elkkle

Muddy

Sounds like: Blue Hawaii, Portishead, Marika Hackman

female vocalist downtempo experimental folktronica daughter

You're probably going to want to put headphones on for this because this collab is super duper interesting for its instrumentals. Melbourne-based Woo...

Braids

Taste

Sounds like: Pure Bathing Culture, Purity Ring, My Brightest Diamond

Electronic female vocalist indie pop indietronica beats

I saw Braids perform at a small BC music festival (Ponderosa!) last summer, and was pretty floored by their performance. Lyrically sophisticated melo...

Braids

Miniskirt

Sounds like: Austra, Pure Bathing Culture, Blue Hawaii

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Talk about an intricate track! Montreal-based braids lure you in with a roughly two-minute intro that seemingly leads nowhere. That is, until the tra...

Young Magic

Sparkly

Sounds like: Bear in Heaven, Porcelain Raft, Blue Hawaii

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Young Magic is a Brooklyn-based band I just came across recently. They've got a very cinematic, lush sound that is complemented by organic, eclectic p...

Blue Hawaii

Get Happy

Sounds like: Gossling, tUnE-yArDs, Wye Oak

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Major props to Blue Hawaii on the release of a new EP titled Get Happy/Get Happier. On it are two tracks (as you may have guessed), each a different r...

Sirma

Trigger Blue (Blue Hawaii Remix)

Sounds like: Lykke Li, FKA Twigs, Grimes

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Sirma is the Brooklyn-based artist hailing from Istanbul who managed to seamlessly transition from classical piano to rock to her current reincarnatio...

Jessy Lanza

Keep Moving

Sounds like: FKA Twigs, Flight Facilities, Blue Hawaii

female vocalist electro-pop synth-pop R&B electro funk

Last year, we introduced Jessy Lanza as a vocalist on Ikonika's "Beach Mode (Keep it Simple)." This year, we're showcasing Jessy's own work with the s...

Daughter

Home

Sounds like: Emma Louise, London Grammar

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Daughn Gibson

In The Beginning

Sounds like: Freddy Ruppert, Julian Lynch, Braids, Blue Hawaii

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The Guardian calls his work a "strange and beautiful affair." Pitchfork raves that there's "nothing mawkish or condescending" about his sound. To me, ...

Daughter

Medicine

Sounds like: Blue Hawaii, Lia Ices

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Okay folks, you're going to want to get your hankies out, because this one's a tear-jerker.Given that it's snowing right now in London, "Medicine" is ...

Blue Hawaii

Try To Be

Sounds like: Emma Louise, Daughter, Bjork

Electronic female vocalist experimental folk acoustic

Today was the first time I'd encountered Blue Hawaii, when their single "Try To Be" caught my attention such that I could help but listen the full way...