GORILLA VS. BEAR - Music

DJ Python – Besos Robados

DJ Python shares a slinky and enchantingly chill reggaeton gem featuring vocals from Isabella Lovestory, taken from his XL debut i was put on this earth, coming next month...

Maria Somerville announces new album Luster coming this spring on 4AD + shares new single “Garden”

Maria Somerville announces her forthcoming second full-length album Luster with stunning new single/instant 4AD classic Garden...

Smerz – A thousand lies

A thousand lies is out now on escho. Video filmed + edited by Benjamin Barron, Bror August Vestbø, Henriette Motzfeldt + Catharina Stoltenberg...

Hannah Cohen – Draggin’

Hannah Cohen's Earthstar Mountain is out March 28th on Bella Union/Congrats. Vid directed by Keenan O'Meara...

NINA – till the devil gets bored

Video by Nina + Simon Mercer...

Ruth Radelet, Nat Walker, & Adam Miller – The Wild Unknown

The former Chromatics members reunite on this dreamy track from the Lost Records: Bloom & Rage original game soundtrack...

bambinodj – Silent Dispatch

Stream bambinodj's entrancing debut album Silent Dispatch...

Panda Bear – Ends Meet

Panda Bear shares another absolute gem from his forthcoming LP Sinister Grift, coming February 28th on Domino. Check Ends Meet, featuring Maria Reis + Rivka Ravede on backing vocals, with additional noise/sounds courtesy of Avey Tare + Geologist, below...

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – The Milky Sea

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma announces his forthcoming new LP Gift Songs -- out March 21 via Mexican Summer -- with lead single The Milky Sea, the gorgeously rippling and immersive 20-minute ambient reverie that opens the album. Check the visualizer below + pre-order Gift Songs here...

Helena Deland shares Altogether Unaccompanied, Vol. V

Our favorite songwriter returns with the latest entry in her beloved Altogether Unaccompanied series...

Pink Must – Karaoke of the Bends

Brooklyn duo Mari Maurice Rubio (aka more eaze) and Lynn Avery (iceblink) announce their self-titled debut album as Pink Must -- coming this month on Copenhagen's 15 love -- with haunting new single Karaoke of the Bends...

listen to Oklou’s beautiful debut album choke enough

Oklou's softly dazzling, ethereal post-club masterpiece/album-of-the-year contender/debut LP choke enough is out now on True Panther. Listen below + buy the album on vinyl here...

Raisa K – Stay (feat. Coby Sey)

London songwriter + producer Raisa K hooks up with the inimitable Coby Sey on this glowing, tender new gem from Raisa's forthcoming debut album Affectionately, coming March 7th on Copenhagen label 15 love...

Discovery Zone – QW4NTOHMW3B

Quantum Web EXP is out March 7 via RVNG Intl. + Mansions & Millions. Video by JJ Weihl...

Wet – Coffee in the Morning

Wet's new album Two Lives is coming this spring...

Penelope Trappes – Red Dove

Taken from Penelope Trappes' forthcoming LP, A Requiem, out April 4th. Video directed by Agnes Haus...

snuggle – Marigold

Copenhagen duo snuggle drop a woozy and mercurial experimental pop gem, with a radiant, clear-eyed, softly anthemic chorus that would've absolutely killed on '90s alternative radio...

oklou x bladee – take me by the hand

Oklou's new album choke enough is out February 7th on True Panther. Video directed by Tohé Commaret...

Mk.gee – Lonely Fight

John Glacier – Ocean Steppin (feat. Sampha)

Video directed by Gabriel Moses. John Glacier's debut LP Like a Ribbon is coming next month on Young...

stream Voice Actor’s new album Lust (1)

Hypnotic new Voice Actor album just dropped, produced by Squu. Stream it below...

Darkside – S.N.C.

Jaar + Harrington return as Darkside with new single S.N.C. -- featuring the ill Duke Jupiter sample -- taken from the group's forthcoming LP Nothing, coming February 28th...

Dean Blunt releases new album lucre featuring Elias Rønnenfelt + Vegyn

i don't believe in numbers, though it is a numbers game...

Gorilla vs. Bear’s Songs of 2024

Today we follow up our immaculate favorite albums of 2024 list with the historically much less popular but still pretty sick list of our 33 favorite songs of the year...

photos: ML Buch – Live in Los Angeles

ML Buch live at the Echoplex in L.A. // iphone shots by David...

SHABAZZ PALACES – TIME KNOWS ME

An animated film by Joe Garber...

R. Missing – Knife Shook Your Hand

We've attempted to document mysterious New York synth-pop group R. Missing's steady flurry of stellar singles throughout 2024, both on our songs of 2024 playlist and on our SiriusXM radio show, and today they've done us all a favor and compiled our favorite hits (and any we might've missed) into an album/singles compilation called Knife Shook Your Hand...

Boyhood – Shells

While we were away for a minute, one of our favorites -- Caylie Runciman aka Boyhood -- quietly dropped a short but super sweet new EP, and today she shares the beautiful, dreamlike video for title track Shells...

Gorilla vs. Bear’s Albums of 2024

Presenting our favorite albums of 2024: The most subjectively correct year-end list in the world, every year since 2005...

Horsegirl – 2468

Horsegirl's Phonetics On and On is coming in February 2025 on Matador...

Lightman & Lightman – Weave your name in mine

Twin sisters Romy + Sari Lightman -- the duo formerly known as Tasseomancy -- share their gorgeous new single Weave your name in mine, which they call a love song to God through the eyes of Etty & Jeanine with the devotional sincerity of a 60s girl group...

Merely + Malibu – Essential Mixtape

Sea Lemon – Sweet Anecdote

Seattle's Sea Lemon follows up her hazy and soaring Ben Gibbard collab Crystals with another eerie, dreamlike new single...

Panda Bear announces new album Sinister Grift + shares Cindy Lee collab “Defense”

Our dream collab for roughly the past decade has finally come to pass, as Panda Bear shares a stellar new one featuring the exquisite guitar stylings of the great Cindy Lee...

Hildegard – Cruel

Helena Deland + Ouri reunite as Hildegard, as the duo announce their new album Jour 1596, coming in October...

Hildegard – Cruel

Helena Deland + Ouri reunite as Hildegard, as the duo announce their new album Jour 1596, coming in October...

Cindy Lee shares official video for “If You Hear Me Crying”

Cindy Lee shares an official video for one of the many dazzling highlights from 2024's album of the year, Diamond Jubilee...

F.G.S. – Beth’s Deth

Acclaimed multimedia visual artist and songwriter Flannery Silva, aka F.G.S., drops another warped and super compelling song + video, once again blurring the line between surreal performance art and straight-up Americana pop banger...

Men I Trust – Husk

Men I Trust drop another woozy, hypnotic soft banger, download it here.

Sea Lemon – Crystals (feat. Ben Gibbard)

Longtime Ben Gibbard superfan Sea Lemon hooks up with the Seattle legend on a haunting, anthemic duet that shimmers and soars, launching Sea Lemon's beautifully wistful and always super catchy dream-pop into a new stratosphere...