Jukebox 4/3

Radiohead - Little By Little
The King of Limbs is predictably unpredictable. Like most (if not all) Radiohead albums, initial listens are a chore, requiring repeated attempts to peel back the layers of neurotic noise to reveal the juicy sonic wonders below. Little By Little though, immediately jumps to attention, leaping into your consciousness and stubbornly burying itself there with it's Dylan-on-ether guitar, come-hither lyrics (I know, I always assumed Thom Yorke was asexual, like some kind of misanthropic amoeba) and jangling percussion ripped straight from the outakes of The Eraser. While the rest of Radiohead's latest album still labours in mediocrity, waiting for the moment when everything falls into it's right place, LBL continues to shine as the diamond in the (hopefully temporary) rough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMDKg4MMN8

Four Tet - Pinnacles
Released in tandem with Snaith's latest self-reinvention (see below), Pinnacles is short on suprises at first. The first three minutes go to all the familiar places, echoey beats pound out an unobtrusive rhythm and a basic, lonesome synth pattern gleams with regularity, not ingenuity. But then the piano comes crashing in, the drums rise ecstatically and that simple country synth pattern is transformed into a dazzling cyborg bird call. Tet's clearly still got some tricks up his sleeve.
http://soundcloud.com/search?q[fulltext]=four+tet+pinnacles&q[type]=&q[duration]=

Daphni - Ye Ye
The artist formerly known as Caribou (and before that Manitoba) has taken a pretty unexpected change of direction, eschewing the crystal clear instrumental electronica that made his release Swim last year such a treat for the ears, apparently in favour of a more synthetic, industrial style. Opening with a techno-101 beat it quickly snowballs into towering Orbital-esque trance, with a healthy dose of reverberating house thumps thrown in.
http://soundcloud.com/search?q[fulltext]=four+tet+pinnacles&q[type]=&q[duration]=

Toro Y Moi - New Beat
No more chillwave I'm afraid. Chaz Bundick has moved on to sonic pastures new, tightened and streamlined, New Beat is a bouncey disco jam. But the laissez-faire production values that graced Causers of This refuse to be ironed out. The synths are far more polished and refined, but there's just enough spacey distort on the vocals to dull the otherwise squeaky-clean pop veneer. Which is definitely a good thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNcYDwo9ksA

Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers
Riding on a lurching, staggered beat, Odd Future's mostly critically revered member, Tyler The Creator anger-fucks your ears with some of the most volatile battle-raps in recent memory while he 'mocks deaf rock stars' and 'stabs Bruno Mars in his goddamn oesophagus'. You will fear him. The prophecy is fulfilled, no pop star is safe. He also crashes Hayley William's plane. Ok. I laughed at that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw