Track Listings
1 : Californio
2 : Horse
3 : The Ambassador of Love
4 : Cry Baby Cry
5 : Child
6 : Way Out West
7 : Autoscooter
8 : Pool
9 : Uh Baby Baby
10 : Golden Ships

Mieke Miami's "Montecarlo Magic", the follow-up to her debut album "In the Forest", (2016, Sonar Kollektiv) may no longer darken through the forest, but there is truly no compulsion to light either. It is more of a special, positive swing that radiates inwards and outwards, a state that seems to be an inner retreat and a journey at the same time: Florida, California and Brandenburg all nestle very close together here. Perhaps there is a river rattling through the picture and surely there are magicians playing with things hidden somewhere: bessoted, dreamy and certainly easy to find. Because in this world, no one is supposed to look around for anything. "Find what you want", says Mieke.

Track Listings
1 : I Did It to Myself
2 : Blacklight
3 : We Playin Bad Games
4 : Whatcha Gonna Do About It
5 : Medicine
6 : Lord Please
7 : Blackmagic (That Power)
8 : Like That
9 : Down Slow
10 : Noise

Serving as an instant tone setter, debut album from Brooklyn, New York City band Dakota Jones, opens with the line "Stretch marks from growing pains" with Carter-Jones lamenting the woes of adjusting to adulthood on lead single Did It To Myself - her husky and commanding vocal instantly asserting its place in the spotlight. The atmosphere soon turns steamy on the flirtatious title track Blacklight, whilst fantasising over a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde love affair the funk- laden We Playin Bad Games packs a punch with its tale of free spirits entwined in a haze of late- night revelry. Elsewhere, stories of caustic heartache twist the knife into wounded blues guitar riffs on Like That and Black Magic (That Power), in which Carter-Jones stoical voice never once faulters as she mourns the memories of a previous flame. Personal prayer Lord Please recites empowered words of reassurance, and solidarity in the face of injustice erupts into a rallying cry for change on the classic sounding Noise written as a reaction to the 2016 US election. I woke up after the election feeling pure panic and fear in my body, remembers Tristan. I wanted people in a place of privilege to stand up for what I was feeling, stand up for injustice, stand up for all of the things we need to change as a country. I wanted their rage, and I wanted their noise.