This is a beautiful pairing of audio and visuals to ease you into the new week.

and if i may just take your breath away, i don’t mind if there’s not much to say

♫ The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather

• Who: Not the guys in The Neighborhood.
• What: Adult indie pop, like Gotye, Lana Del Rey, Princeton
• Where: Los Angeles + Facebook
• When: EP I’m Sorry… is free now.
• Why: The Neighbourhood spell their name Imperial style with a “u” which is worth noting because the band I saw play with Caught A Ghost last week are very much this The Neighborhood. (Their drummer may have been confused by a lot of the things I said.) I have now figured out the difference and am here to pass along my favorite jam off The (Imperial) Neighbourhood’s debut EP. ”Sweater Weather” bubbles and grooves with an effortless rhythm and slight hip-hop flavor that dives right under your skin. The rest of the EP doesn’t feel as strong and I heard their set at The Hudson Block Party today wasn’t very good so I’m unsure they will live up to the hype. Although, I’m happy to jam out to “Sweater Weather” until we find out.

why don’t you try to sleep alone

♫ Acollective – Girls

I just realized that after my post-Israel obsess-fest over “Stolen Goods” (below) I never gave a proper album review of Acollective’s Onwards LP. Well, this won’t be it. Consider it more of a friendly reminder to pour yourself a stiff drink and dive into the rollicking gypsy folk rock of these live-show beasts.

♫ Acollective – Stolen Goods

don’t play the game that i can’t win

• Who: ABX and STV SLV
• What: Indie/rap mashups, like Bearbot, Invisiboy, It’s Overture
• Where: Chicago, IL + Facebook
• When: Sweet mashups served weekly.
• Why: The Hood Internet are the gold standard in indie/rap mashups but the Burning Ear hasn’t featured a new jam of theirs since Christmas 2010. I was beginning to think they done fell off.

♫ The Hood Internet – Beastie Boys x Santigold x Weird Tapes – Don’t Play No Trash

Then they dropped Volume Six of their mixtape series and all worry was washed away by the most seamless collection of genius mashup choices this year. Just scroll through the tracklist here to see what I mean. From the unexpected (Wiz + Phantogram, Mayer Hawthorne + M83, Tyga + Neon Indian) to the predictably balanced (Whitney + Chromeo, Ma$e + Notorious B.I.G. + Penguin Prison) The Hood Internet live up to that album art of deftly concocting dance party magic.

♫ The Hood Internet – Tyga x Neon Indian – Polish City

I highly recommend you do not start a party this year without this mix on hand. Stream the whole thing below and download it free here.

♫ The Hood Internet – Whitney Houston x Chromeo – When The Night Knows

the sky lit up the stars, we were miles apart

♫ Theophilius London – Love Is Real (Fred Falke remix)

I’ll never understand how indie crossover rapper Theophilius London got tied in with 2nd tier search engine Bing but if the result is a remix album with heavy hitters like Fred Falke, Bloody Beatroots, Crookers, and more, then I’m OK with it. I guess. While you decide whether it’s OK with you or not kick back to this pumped up dance version of Timez highlight “Love Is Real.” Then stream the whole thing here.

and we’ll keep on pushing

♫ St Lucia – Closer Than This (Viceroy Remix)

Alright! Ok, I’ve heard enough buzz (and remixes!) about New York’s St. Lucia that I will have to finally check out his original material. Just let me finish this Viceroy remix. And this cocktail. And splashing the waves like a child after a heavily syruped snowcone un a summer day.

i don’t believe in you, you don’t believe in me, so how could you make me cry

♫ Twin Shadow – Five Seconds

Gone are the days of meekly drumming in some creepy basement! Twin Shadow has a badass leather jacket, a badass haircut, and a badass new single that makes me want to put a surfboard ON a motocycle IN a convertible and ride that beast all day. I’m seriously digging this back-alley rumble of a jam and the implications it has for the upcoming Twin Shadow album Confess being the disc of the summer. Catch him on tour!

we all make mistakes, i wanna walk beside you, i’ve gotta keep the faith

♫ Little Boots – Every Night I Say A Prayer

I used to love Little Boots. Then her album Hands came out. And now I guess Little Boots wants to be Madonna. It’s in that album art. It’s in the club anthem lyrics. It’s in the uninspired gay-pandering video (except this part). And it’s in the polished-edge vibe of everything about her these days. But I’m not mad at it. I’ll definitely take a tiny English version of Mads over the real thing.

pardon me for asking, pardon me for thinking, all of me is asking, all of me is thinking

♫ Tanlines – All of Me

Tanlines once had promise. They have now delivered big time with a solid, textured album & even better 2-piece (!) live show. Hello summer.

[Quickies are mini-reviews that can fit into a 140 character tweet. They are of albums that people already know of but perhaps are curious about our take on it. What did you think of the disc?]

i’ve been trying to get in but all i can say is they’ve got a million different ways to make you pay

♫ Tiny Victories – Mr Bones

Remember when Tiny Victories gave us “Lost Weekend” and we fell in love with it’s big propulsive beat and sweet vocal hooks?  Remember when we bought the EP with real money and were so stoked to find out that all 5 of the songs work perfectly with the repeat setting? Remember when we fell in love with “Mr Bones” and its sunrise synth stomp grooves? Remember when we say that Tiny Victories played a Brooklyn show with Black Light Dinner Party and we were bummed we couldn’t be there? Remember when we read the post on The Burning Ear that said Those Of Us Still Alive was one of the best EPs of the year so far and that Brandon has had it on loop for weeks?