For the week of Valentine's Day, there are quite a few singles being released. Coincidence?

Fever Ray - "If I Had A Heart"
7" single (Mute)

Fever Ray is the solo project of The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson. "If I Had A Heart" is the first single from her forthcoming self-titled full-length, set to be released on March 24th. The ominous opening chords and multi-tracked vocal/vocoder overlays hardly break from The Knife's original recipe, but the results are still effective at stirring some deep-seeded secrets out from their resting place. The b-side is a Fuck Buttons remix, who lay down a hefty techno kick and some pixie-dust shimmer over this dark gem.

MSTRKRFT - "Bounce"
12" single (Dim Mak/Downtown)
Oh MSTRKRFT, I hardly missed you. Nearly three years after Al-P and and Jesse Keeler gave us The Looks, the Toronto electro-S&M-house duo get back to hardcore partying with "Bounce," as if blow was going out of style. "Bounce" is the first single off their forthcoming sophomore release, Fist of God, out March 17th, and features the vocal contributions of N.O.R.E. If you're into getting punched in the head by repetition, unwanted ass-grinds on the dance-floor, or really violent sex you'll regret tomorrow, "Bounce" is your new theme song. And I feel sorry for you.

Woolfy - "Oh Missy - Whatever Whatever Mixes"
12" single (Rong/DFA)

Los Angeles-based, UK ex-pat Woolfy knows what's good for you on his new single, "Oh Missy." Nostalgia, and lot's of it. "Oh Missy," off Woolfy's forthcoming full-length, If You Know What's Good For You, takes us back to the underground dance clubs of the mid-80s, when acid house was just taking off. And on this, the second "Oh Missy" remix 12", Justin Strauss, who goes by the name Whatever Whatever, reworks the songs like a total retro futurist.

Grouper/City Center
split 7" single (self-released)

This extremely limited split 7" with City Center was only previously available on Grouper's recent European tour. Here, the ambient, Cocteau Twins-obsessed Portland musician Liz Harris drenches us in her lucid, warm washes on some cool murky grey water wax. Buy it now, before it's too late.

Oh yeah, and some full length records are being released today too: Lily Allen, Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique Deluxe 20th Anniversary 2xCD/2xLP, another Madlib release in the Beat Konducta series, The Black Key's frontman Dan Auerbach's first solo record, guitar master Nels Cline's Coward, and an LP from Olympia doom ambient black metal masters Wolves in The Thrones Room.