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Track: Friendly Fires – Silhouettes, Plus Album News
Friendly Fires have distilled the sounds of summer for new track ‘Silhouettes’ and now share details of their eagerly awaited third album. It’s been eight years since the release of their epic and glorious second album Pala and I had long ago come to terms with the fact that the band I had fallen in …
Track: Cheat Codes – I Feel Ya feat. Ina Wroldsen
Cheat Codes have teamed up with Danny Quest and Ina Wroldsen for a new track, ‘I Feel Ya’, and it comes ahead of the trio’s EP 2, which has seen them collaborate with the likes of Kim Petras, Kaskade, and Afrojack. Of the record the band say “We’ve been looking to collaborate with Ina Wroldsen for a while …
Track: BENE – Evil Spider
19-year-old Aucklander Bene has released her latest single ‘Evil Spider’. “‘Evil Spider’ is about wanting someone that’s already taken. When writing the song, I didn’t wanna make the lyrics too obviously evil, so I thought I’d turn myself into the spider, making it a lil lighter and making the song revolve around me weaving …
Track: Major Lazer – Can’t take it from me, feat. Skip Marley
Diplo’s Major Lazer project, alongside MC Walshy Fire and Trinidadian Jillionaire, is back with a new track ‘Can’t take it from me’, featuring Skip Marley. Billed as a Jamaican commando character who lost an arm (replaced by a Lazer) in the secret zombie wars, Major Lazer is principally concerned with freeing the world using music. What is …
Track: Okaywill – Pretend
South Carolina singer-songwriter Okaywill is about to release his debut EP of charm fulled bedroom pop out 14 June on Majestic Casual Records. From it he,s streaming the track Pretend. Of the track, okaywill says ‘Pretend is an alternate reality for me. It’s what could’ve happened to me but didn’t: My girlfriend had a relationship with me …
Track – Ellie Goulding: 16
On the surface, 16 is a standard pop song, but there are depths here for those with the time to find them. The cheerful, spangling melody is familiar to anyone who has been in a Top Shop on a Saturday. The video is all smoking and tattoos, the suburban rebellion of a girl from the …
Track: Madonna – Medellín
The Queen of Pop is back. On June 14, Madonna launches her 14th album, Madame X, and is trailing the first track Medellín on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and all the usual places now. The album marks another reinvention from a woman who already has more regenerations than Doctor Who. This time Madonna is …
Track: Noah Cyrus – We are…
Noah Cyrus has begun 2018 with a new track, We Are Fucked, featuring MØ and produced by Max Martin. She’s been on an upward trajectory since her debut single, last years Make Me (Cry) with Labrinth, went to #1 on Spotify’s Viral Global Chart within hours of release, and has since surpassed 420 million global …
Track: Erasure – It’s Still Not Over (rework)
In LGBT+ History month Erasure celebrate their role in the struggle with a classical reworking of ‘It’s Still Not Over.’ I don’t know when it began, but there has been an epidemic of classical versions of pop songs recently. Even so, it is very unusual to do it with an obscure album less than a …
Track: Lucy Rose – All that Fear
Off the back of her recently released track End Up Here, Lucy Rose has released another track recorded during the sessions for her recent Something’s Changing LP, out now on Communion Records / Caroline International. Called All that Fear, it’s this comfort blanket of a pop song, something you can grab onto when everything outside …