Today’s chill house bop is pretty special, with some beautiful beats, driving synthesisers and production to die for. Let’s dive in. FDM Prince x DJ B&W x Yazid On The Track – Electric Griot (Remix Club Edit) FDM Prince x DJ B&W x Yazid On The Track have…
Sometimes electronic week is one track, fully realised. m0n0 jay handed her viral debut to French producer ATH for a wonderful deconstruction, and the result trades fuchsia neon for industrial trance built strictly for 3 AM basement raves. m0n0 jay – L.L.L. (ATH Remix) m0n0 jay’s L.L.L. (ATH…
Two hip hop tracks that say a lot about who these artists are. A Texas video universe built around cinematic Southern rap, and a London UK-rap track born from a year sober and choosing ambition over the bar. Ajoshd – Ballin’ Outta Control Ajoshd built a full fake…
Five rock tracks where emotion does as much work as volume. From a song written in 2001 and to a Swedish trio’s Deep Purple homage and a San Diego metal universe, rock pulls in five directions this week. Liri Dais – Counting Hours Lit Dais have crafted something…
From a Taiwanese-American songwriter’s acoustic forgiveness EP to a Saudi Arabian piano waltz, from Bradford folk-rock politics to Connecticut Southern rock about a pawn shop guitar, indie folk goes everywhere this week. KENTON – Never Born KENTON’s Never Born is the beautiful acoustic version of his Taiwanese-American forgiveness…
Four R&B tracks that lean into something specific: a White Plains industry veteran turning friction into form, a Blackpool neo-soul rising voice, a London-Ghanaian love song fusing Akan and Yoruba names, and a Louisiana Creole artist inventing her own genre. C’batch – Trapped (I’m Doing Fine) C’batch’s Trapped…
Five summer tracks that hit the brief in five different ways. From a Birmingham reggae project reimagining Robert Calvert to a cinematic Afrobeats single rooted in Nigerian folklore, this week’s picks all find a different angle on warmth. The Starfaders – Ejection The Starfaders’ Ejection reimagines Robert Calvert’s…
Pop with edges this week. From a tragic NYC noir-pop track named after Dionysus to a Nottingham dance-pop reclamation to a Dereham synthwave runway, five artists making the genre work harder than it has to. Kiki Kramer – dionysus Greek tragedy meets stunning NYC late-night noir, with Kiki…