Let this one soothe your work-weary soul.
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Listen/review: ECKOES - Human
ECKOES is currently one of the most exciting artists making music in the capital and for her the sky’s the limit now that this hardcore banger is out on the table.
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Listen/review: Aadae - River of Tears
Aadae has found a way to bring afrobeat kicking and jiving into the digital teenies.
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Listen/review: Jingo - Sirens and Vices
It relays the rock and roll baton from groups who were at the crest of the mid-noughties explosion.
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EP Review: Empathy Test - By My Side
By My Side is another indicator that with their thoughtful, thoughtful lyrics and effective production, they are ready to take their music to the next level.
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Listen/review: Futuro Pelo - Swamp
The only complaint you could hurl at it is that it’s over far too quickly, but then there’s always the ‘replay’ button…
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Listen/review: Nick Hakim - Bet She Looks Like You
On 'Bet She Looks Like You' Nick sets the stage for a strong debut album.
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Listen/review: Woes - Blood
It’s utterly apart from all the grinding Lex Luger style trap infecting the scene right now.
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Listen/review: The Womack Sisters - Darling
All the hallmarks of a classic sound are there: motown harmonies, killer hooks, perfect pop architecture…
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Listen/review: Anna Wise - Coconuts
Anna is at the absolute cusp of innovation in 2017.
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Listen/review: Jstar feat. Ranking Joe - Bad Boy Stepping
For all its futurist production values and natty arrangements, the message on this one is pretty simple: cut the crap ‘bad’ boys.
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Listen/review: Thundercat - Show You The Way
“Show You The Way” proves that aside from his otherworldly musicianship, Thundercat charms with his ever-present unpredictability.
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Listen/review: LIFE - Euromillions
Any dissent, and there’s a lot of it about, is to be embraced. It helps when delivered to a champion tune, of course.
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Listen/review: Tuxedo - Fux with the Tux
The whole EP is a mini masterpiece so I suggest you start with the opener/title track and dive in.
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Listen/review: Les Gordon - Carole
On this track the French enigma crafts something that's similar in feeling to Bonobo’s Black Sands but with shades of Debussy shining through.
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Listen/review: H. Hawkline - Last Thing On Your Mind
Seriously, if he can get an album as beautiful and meandering as this song then we’re all good. It’s all gonna be ok.
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Listen/review: Dessert - Checkmate
If MGMT are the formalist pop guys then Dessert are the post-structuralists and avant-gardists, dialling down the immediacy of their hooks and rolling up the feeling.
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Listen/review: Homeshake - Every Single Thing
A bouncing bass and some TLC style vocals make ‘Fresh Air’ a very spellbinding trance to fall into.
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Listen/review: Be Charlotte - One Drop
Be Charlotte take so many free-spirited risks in this song that it makes you wonder why so many older groups are towing the line in the UK right now.
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Listen/review: Professor Green feat. Dream McLean - Active
The sampled strings give it an air of mischievous deviancy like some eccentric contemporary British crime thriller.
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