It's currently digital only, but London duo NEW YORK’s new release for Lolina’s Relaxin imprint comes separated into an A side and a B side. Though not unprecedented, it’s a fine move, and it makes me wonder why more artists don’t fuck with a similar conceptual gambit, which really isn’t that convoluted at all—it’s simply a way to organize music so that it can be in formal conversation with the decades upon decades of records and cassette tapes that preceded it.

It is a little interesting that this group is making that move, though, since the music on Rap Star* so clearly calls out to be consumed on a CD. It’s full of glitchy skips and droll electroclash-informed vocals about, to quote a press release, “inner city life and the performance of being a girl.” As they displayed during their set at Nina HQ last May, the two are impressively low-energy live. Their performance style, filled with laptop visualizers and lazy pop-locking, crosses over a threshold and becomes more exciting than if the duo were jumping up and down like SoundCloud rappers. A band you can believe in.