This edition of LITM Pop Picks explores brings you tunes from Lily Galin, Maddox Jones, Chloé French, and more, all exploring immersive soundscapes.
1. Lily Galin – Tell me What’s your story
Tell me What’s your story earns your attention with the evident raw pain in Lily Galin’s voice. The track’s production gives it an almost lofi feel – embracing intimacy and simplicity, its echoing vocals, meditative repetition, and relaxed tempo are almost trance-like. It’s polished and put-together without becoming too much, lending a certain crispness to the listening experience, accentuating the song’s message: vulnerability can feel like you’re falling, but sticking your ground through the worst of it is the only thing that’ll make you stronger. Here, Galin croons out a confession backed by minimalist piano and relaxed percussion, and it’s worth listening to.
2. Maddox Jones – Pineapple Salsa
Pineapple Salsa is exactly what it sounds like – it’s fresh, tingly, and undeniably unafraid to have fun! Jones has filled the track to the brim with infectious rhythm, trumpets, a just-there acoustic guitar, and a Latin percussion sequence that makes you want to drop everything for a beach cocktail dance party in the middle of the day. The music video takes everything a step further, overloading all your senses with a cooking show spoof recipe for… You guessed it, pineapple salsa, complete with sombreros, Pineapple Salsa aprons, freeze frames, a laugh track, and- wait, was that a mask of a duck? Trust me, you could “never get bored / of that sugar and spice!”
3. Chloé French – Messy (but French)
A reimagining of Lola Young’s viral hit Messy, Messy (but French) is cinematic and almost shiny. Where Young’s version felt like a direct confessional, French’s track feels… well, French. Its elegance and exuberance make this more than a translation or cover. It is an homage, yes, but it’s also its own track: Messy (but French) sounds like Chloé French dropped Messy through a sieve of Parisian audacity. Her vocals are confident and ready to walk the runway, and in conjunction with the touches of French disco and synth, the song wraps itself around you, a vision of Paris’ nightlife through the ages.
4. Codemachia – We are the glitch
We are the glitch sounds like the opening to a fantastical game you’ll never want to close. A sweeping, orchestral, cinematic track, its anger bubbles just beneath the surface of its ethereal lead vocals. That anger weaves through broken rhythms and electronic waves before eventually bursting forward like a rebel war cry with a growling scream. It leaves you floating in weightless suspension until the drop comes crashing down, taking you with it. With this track, Codemachia makes a statement that being human means being fractured. We are the glitch drives its point home: imperfection is the truth. If you’ve ever wanted to feel like the protagonist of your own epic, be sure to keep this one on loop.
5. Cody Piper – Leaking Me
Piper’s voice frays at the edges when he sings “Lately it feels like things have been leaking me”. All of Leaking Me feels like the final confessions in a diary, written in the dead of night: it’s raw, tired, and aching. The track lands like a soft blow, a long exhale at the end of a tumultuous breakdown. The string sections (Piper’s first in a song!) are placed and layered just right – they’re not overwhelming, just there in the background adding depth and shine to the piercing vocals, elevating them from plain gloom to real heartbreak at the realisation that life is slipping away from you.
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