Category: Listen

Meg Smith – Who Not to Love

It’s so satisfying to feature a new artist who consistently creates great pop with each release. This new one from Meg Smith shows a soft sense of vulnerability and bad love.

“Everyday was a competition. Had to prove you were the better musician.” I wrote this lyric three years ago, right after my very first heartbreak. I was 18 and felt so lost and confused. It wasn’t until a few months ago that I finally got the courage to write this song. As it turns out, that first heartbreak taught me a very important lesson: who not to love.”

Meg Smith

JUJ – I Still Cry At Parties

“I had been feeling like many do in their late teens & early twenties, very lost. I felt like I was going through so many life changes and I didn’t really know myself and that scared me. I would occasionally go to parties and venture out as an escape to how I was feeling, but I’d always end up leaving more sad. The more I’d try to forget, the more I was reminded. I was nervous feeling like I didn’t have it all figured out, but eventually I came to terms with being ok with still having a lot to learn about myself & not having it figured out and thats finally when I felt ok.”

JUJ

Nause – Be Right Back (feat. WILHELM)

With over 300 million streams globally, today sees the return of Stockholm producer Nause with a track that blends EDM and pop in a way that only the Swedes seem to be able to perfect so well. Perfect music for the weekend!

“I’m really superproud of this tune, we spent a lot of time on in the studio to perfect it and now I feel like it´s exactly as I wanted it to be.”

Nause

LOUIS III – Walk You Home

This release not only features those distinct vocals from LOUIS III but is also produced by Sky Adams (from Doja Cat, Sigma and Zak Abel). I am genuinely hyped to see what comes next from this kid – one of the brightest British talents to look out for.

“I wrote Walk You Home About regrets. It’s about that night where you stayed in instead of going out, or the night where you went out, but you should have stayed in. I wanted to write an anthem to the shoulda-woulda-couldas and all the people and nights that got away from you because you walked the other way”.

LOUIS III

Adeena x Taphia – I Ain’t Like That

Adeena consistently delights me with her style of polished Scandi dance pop, and this release is no different.

”I Ain’t Like That is a song written from a state beyond our insecurities. It invites you to feel good about yourself and to embrace your own force instead of meeting other people needs. It’s a tune for you to dance into spring and feel yourself completely.’’

Adeena

Sea Girls – Do You Really Wanna Know?

Another infectiously catchy release from one of the UK’s most promising indie pop outfits.

“Real relationships fall apart, you get hurt and you have to deal with it so you do what you have to do to get over it. I think what has saved me is music.” – Henry – Sea Girls

 The debut album ‘Open Up Your Head’ is out on August 14th via Polydor.

SEA GIRLS

Tycho Jones – Don’t Be Afraid

“Don’t Be Afraid was a song I wrote while going through a deep patch of anxiety whilst in New Zealand. After three intense days of isolation and panic attacks, it just poured out of me. Most of the song was a freestyle that was my unconscious trying to encourage myself to focus on reality and get out of my head.”

Tycho Jones