BAT EYES - BELLY : an Belgian indie quartet delivers the best track out of this new flow of new single's (love their sound and tempo) and share's the best single of this week with Pip Blom - can you hear me: a poppy and very happy song with a beaituful voice and a clear spring feeling! we love it!
TESSA DIXSON - HOW HIGH (JOHN NOSEDA REMIX)
During lockdown Brussels based singer Tessa Dixson reached out to an eclectic group of fellow artists to have them sink their teeth in tracks from her debut album Genesis. Released just before corona put drew a noose around live events the Genesis album campaign was abruptly cut short. To make sure these songs, all of which are very close to Tessa’s heart, would get the love they deserve, being creative with them seemed like to only way to get though the pandemic. Likeminded artists as The Subs, Glauque, Yellowstraps, Compact Disc Dummies (operating under their Silver Sisters moniker), NightFunk, KRANKk, DJ Licious, Rheinzand, Borokov, Borokov and many more put their own unique stamp on Tessa’s impressive collection of songs. Dizzying electro, lush summery downbeats, hard hitting tech house and electrifying rave-pop, it’s all here and it’s the perfect soundtrack to dance into a hopeful summer! Belgium nightlife expert and organizer John Noseda’s remix of How High is the perfect appetizer for this reimagined and expanded edition of Genesis. Transforming the strings heavy pop single into a mouthwatering Italo-disco banger, this track oozes sweat & good vibes!
25/06 new album 'Genesis Expanded' via [PIAS] Recordings
BAT EYES - BELLY (EMBARGO - 24/06)
Belgian indie quartet Bat Eyes return today with a perfect slap of summery reverb and distortion pop. Belly is 1.21 gigawatts of the most glorious guitarheavy powerpop sending you straight back to the nineties. “I had the verse of the song laying around for quite a while, but it was just a loop”, singer Koen Wijnant explains, “I felt like it needed something more before we could tackle it on rehearsal. I wrote this Pixies/Bone Machine kind of chorus, just to have some variation, and it instantly gelled nicely. After we recorded the ascending outro, it turned out to be one of our favourites.”Belly deals with the aftermath of a breakup, walking away from a certain situation. Part of you feels confident, while another part feels empty and keeps questioning things. Up to the point where you realize all this overthinking is just slowing you down. Tons of reverb, shimmering guitartones and a healthy dose of heartbreak, what’s not to like?
MYKKI BLANCO - IT'S NOT MY CHOICE (FT. BLOOD ORANGE)
Friday June 18th 2021, Mykki Blanco dropped their highly anticipated mini-album, Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep via Transgressive Records. The new single, It’s Not My Choice (feat. Blood Orange) is a soft mid-tempo soul jam that narrates the tug of war that is a dysfunctional relationship. The track sees Mykki Blanco navigating the painful realities of a potential breakup, reflecting then pleading to save their romance and keep the love alive. With production from executive producer FaltyDL, It’s Not My Choice finds Blood Orange’s Devonteé Hynes crooning melancholically over a lush synth and saxophone laden baseline.
new album 'Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep' out now via Transgressive Records
JORDAN RAKEI - FAMILY
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter Jordan Rakei is back with his fourth studio album, What We Call Life, released via Ninja Tune on Friday 17th September 2021. What We Call Life is Jordan Rakei’s most vulnerable and intimate album to date. Its lyrics concern the lessons that the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised, and London-based artist learned about himself during therapy. This manifests on songs like lead single, Family, which Rakei says is “the most personal” he’s ever been with his lyrics. “I wanted to hit my vulnerability barrier and be really honest. It’s about my parents’ divorce in my mid-teens but still having love for them no matter what,” he explains.
17/09 new album 'What We Call Life' via Ninja Tune
PIP BLOM - KEEP IT TOGETHER
Here’s a quote from Pip about the track: “A very important thing of all the tracks is the dynamic between Tender’s and my vocals. I feel like we really compliment each other's tones. Maybe it’s because we’re siblings, but whatever it is, I love it. In the chorus of Keep It Together we sing two completely different bits, but it works really well. Tender did a lot of singing for this record, mainly for the choruses and bridges. I really like how with this bridge you’ve got this whole choir of the two of us singing in different keys. It gives it a very dreamy vibe that is nice after the powerful chorus”.
08/10 new album 'Welcome Break' via Heavenly
KID FRANCESCOLI - YOU, LOVE
After the huge success of Kid Francescoli and his hit Moon in 2021 (gold certified, multi-syncs, first french artist to go viral on TIK TOK in 2020, 40M views on Youtube!) and a live session Cercle in a dream setting in Mexico, the unmissable French producer is back with an exclusive track: You, Love. This new music unveil a solar side with the singer iOni, her vocal blend perfectly with the organic arrangements of Kid. A new massive hit is on the way!
LIARS - BIG APPETITE
LIARS share Big Appetite, the latest track from the forthcoming album, The Apple Drop, out on Mute on 6 August 2021. The new album finds Angus Andrew working with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike, multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell and lyricist Mary Pearson Andrew. “For the first time I embraced collaboration from an early stage, allowing the work of others to influence the work of my own.”
06/08 new album 'The Apple Drop' via Mute
MAPLE GLIDER - FRIEND
Maple Glider is Naarm/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch. On debut album To Enjoy Is the Only Thing, Zietsch's vocals melt into layers of plucked acoustic guitar and lulling piano, drawing on the sombre styles of folk contemporaries with a stark tenderness and introspection that assumes the listener is inside her bedroom as she plays for herself. Striking emotionality is at the centre of this performance, leaning into an intimacy that is achieved by way of deeply personal reflections and velvety melodic compositions.
25/06 debut album 'To Enjoy Is The Only Thing'
GEESE - DISCO
Geese is a band that begins and ends in Brooklyn, as a project between friends to build a home studio out of a basement. Their songs are born from the same ambition: make music by any means necessary. They began recording together with sneakers as mic stands and blankets draped over the amps, all within the afternoon following a school day, up until they ran the risk of noise complaints. Curiously alien, yet strangely familiar, the band’s debut single is a product of five teenagers whose love of music touches every part of their lives: their restless anxiety about their futures, and their pent-up frustration with their present - a perspective all too familiar in today’s uncertain world.
