soul/funk tracks
Track: Beau Diako releases the sweet indie / R&B of ‘Animal’
Following on from his 2019 debut, British producer, songwriter and guitarist Beau Diako has released a new track Animal, which grew out of a jam session in L.A. with South Cali native COCO providing vocals. Of the track, Beau says “Animal” was made earlier this year with some friends in LA and a new love …
Track: Nia Wyn releases Two new singles, Atlantis and Ghosted
We’ve already professed our love for Nia Wyn via these very pages, and she has followed up her single ‘Who Asked You’, with not one but two new singles – Atlantis and Ghosted. Atlantis wrings all the soul it can out of Nia as her sharply observed lyrics and edgy vocal sweep of the smooth …
Track: McHifi – ‘Bunker to Bunker’: McAlmont’s return
DAVID MCALMONT is back! He’s back! Owner of one of the most effortlessly great, yet most underappreciated British voices of the last quarter-century, David has released his first new material since limited clear-vinyl 7” “Transparent” in 2018, which he recorded in cahoots with Hifi Sean; and it’s only his second musical outing in more years …
Track: Genevieve Artardi – Living like I know I’m gonna die
Taken from the forthcoming album from. Dizzy Strange Summer, out on Friday 17th July on Brainfeeder Records, ‘Living like I know I’m gonna die’ is the new single from LA vocalist, composer and producer Genevieve Artadi. It’s her second album, but first for Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint, and her first self-produced release on any label. …
Track: Frase & SkiiTour – Too hot, too cold
Out now on Westwood Recordings is the new single from British Columbia singer, producer and mult-instrumentalist Frase and Whistler DJ/Production team SkiiTour, ‘Too Hot, Too Cold’. These gluey, hazy synths open the show on ‘Too Hot, Too Cold’, but it quickly loosens the shackles into this electro soul head nodder, the pulls in brass (synth) …
Track: Lazarus Kane – Night Walking
Lazarus Kane is weird. That’s all I can get from his press release which alleges he’s a musician, a philanthropist, a successful American businessman recently relocated to the West Country, And that his latest single ‘Night Walking’, was originally written as a Bond theme for ‘Live And Let Die’ back in 1973, however it lost out to …
Track: Leron Thomas – Corporate
Trumpet player Leron Thomas has stepped away from his Pan Amsterdam moniker and made a record of his own, in betweeen writing/producing and touring the Iggy Pop album ‘Free’. The album, ‘More Elevator Music’, is out via Lewis Recordings later this year, and from it he’s released a new single, Corporate. Let’s get this straight …
Track: Lianne La Havas – Paper Thin
Things are happening in the Lianne La Havas camp. She’s announced a new self-titled album is coming out on July 17th via Warner’s, and she’s followed up a brilliant NPR Tiny Desk Concert at home she did with a new track – Paper Thin. Steeped in (but not bound by) 90s R&B of the Destiny’s …
Track: Tom Grennan – Oh Please
Tom Grennan has released a new track, ‘Oh Please’, taken from his second album, expected later in the year. It’s Tom’s second single of the year, following on from the much lauded ‘This Is The Place’, and come on the back of Tom fighting the Coronavirus himself. On the track Tom says “When writing ‘Oh …
Track: 1010 Benja SL – Dobby
Out right now on the brilliant Young Turks label is ‘Dobby’, the new single from 1010 Benja SL. His Boofiness single announced him to the world as a man of huge talent, and this was confirmed with follow up ‘Wind Up Space’, and his ‘Two Houses’ EP. Built on this rather beautiful acoustic guitar lick …