French dance monsters encore! unleashed a new track to the world. The piano loops on Palace are from out of space! Surreal! Weekend music – right here!

So, Total Warr are easily one of the most exciting bands in the world – IN THE WORLD! When you find your inbox flooded with new music every day, only a few bands remain whose new releases will really tickle your plumage. But Kiki and Guigui of french drum-pop ensemble Total Warr cause severe excitement everytime they drop a new track. And do you know when people are playing the hot and cold game with you? Like, not answering to calls or texts? Total Warr are a bit like that. Their music is irresistible, so they can get away with that behaviour. They do emphasize though that we can “hate their band” and “hate their music” and that they don’t even need our friendship. Offensive! Yet, makes you want (to listen to) them even more.

Their new EP Corbay will be out in time for summer. Download their new single xxx HATE xxx through Stereogum.

Total Warr – xxx HATE xxx

Canada’s fantastic Bravestation announced the release of their debut album Giants & Dreamers for July 10th – insanely pumped for it. Here is the next single Tides of the Summit – out today, free for download. Grab their first single Signs of the Civilized on Poule d’Or 9 (look left).

Fantastic little indie pop stuffed EP by Montreal’s Arbor Glades. 15 minutes of bliss. Don’t sleep on it, Coming Home is out now on bandcamp and it’s exactly that kind of rare greatness that’ll give you that hard to earn street credibility. You’re welcome. The Poule’s favorite title Choose Words is available now on Poule d’Or 9 (look left).

Arbor Glades – Choose Words

Brooklyn’s adorable Silver Ripples shared a track for the third Poule d’Or compilation back in May 2010 – then two years went by without hearing much from them. Until NOW! They are back with a new EP, up for free on bandcamp. This is the title track The Break – in its summer version.

Silver Ripples – The Break

The brilliant, the one and only, the über-amazing Crystal Fighters released a new song – celebrating their US album release. Words aren’t really enough to describe the Poule’s love for Crystal Fighters. Their music is just the best. They are the most EPIC live shit I have ever seen. Easily my favorite gig at SXSW this year. SO good. They are currently touring the States with – hope you are sitting down – IS TROPICAL. That’s the line-up dreams are made of.

Crystal Fighters - Earth Island | download for free

Some fresh pop tunes coming our way from Norway. Riot Break is Hanne Kolstø’s debut solo album and has been out in Norway for over half a year. Now it’s finally trickling down its way into mainland Europe. Its 10 songs are not just your average Scandinavian pop sound with a hint of electronic beats, although there is a lot of that and it does sound mad fresh – see for instance the attached single below. But Hanne also throws in some more quiet and more introspective tunes like Hide & Seek or Black Hand. Norwegian daily Morgenbladet quite precisely wrote “Riot Break is the record, which Björk would have never been able to make, although she had promised it to us already 15 years ago.” Now, I’m not too familiar with Björk’s work other than that she likes wearing swans, but Riot Break is quite a brilliant collection of melodic pop songs.

It is out this Friday on Karmakosmetix Records. Her first single Don’t Want To Be Happy In The Moment, I Want It To Last can be downloaded for free over at our friends of Nordic By Nature.

Hanne Kolstø - Don’t Want To Be Happy In The Moment, I Want It To Last | buy Riot Break.

TGIFFFF – and THIS. Perfect match. Hard imagining a better Friday. Our friends Swim Deep are swoonworthy by themselves already – but topped with a vintage touch by the fine lads at IS TROPICAL, it’s pure bliss. All over this. Ugh. Why – oh WHY does soundcloud not come with a repeat function. I hate you (I don’t).

Ka-pow! Finland’s kindergarten club Satellite Stories are actually quite enjoyable – happy people indie pop. All over it! Kind of surprising coming from Finland, land of dark metal music. SO into it. Best thing is (if you’re in Germany/Switzerland), they are touring selected cities RIGHT NOW. Find the dates on their facebook page. They’re playing Hamburg on Thursday, then Dortmund, Berlin, etc. Hope your city has been selected.

Not sure how and where this is coming from – but it’s pretty fantastic. 4 song EP out now on bandcamp.