Category: Music

Jarryd James – Overdue (feat. Trapo)

Undeniably one of Australia’s biggest talents to have emerged in recent years, Jarryd James has finally released his much anticipated second album, and with it this stunning single.

“’Overdue’ is my favourite track on the album. The city of Los Angeles can be a strange place for an introvert from Brisbane. Keeping pretty unusual hours and not really looking after myself took its toll. We slowly started to make a piece of music while I drank some gin, and we made what I think is my favourite thing I’ve ever made.”

To date, Jarryd has amassed over 480 million streams, an ARIA top 5 album and two multi platinum-selling singles in Australia. His song ‘Do You Remember’ was recently announced as the 4th most Shazamed song in Australia for the past decade.

Taken from the album ‘P.M.’ which is out now.

Jarryd James

Little Grace – F***

Naughty word aside, this is one of the best power-pop songs I’ve heard all month. It’s been on loop for the last thirty minutes non-stop because it’s just so good.

Could Little Grace be the UK’s next big name? Time will tell, but if they keep pumping tracks like this out then the answer is already a big ‘YES’.

Little Grace

New Music: dexter

Sometimes, the purest and most stripped-back approach to music-making is also the most captivating.

dexter has a sound that is just so immediately inviting and relatable that I could listen to this song all day and not get tired of it.

dexter

Finn Askew – Egotism

Track of the week. I have no doubt in my mind that Finn Askew will become a household name by the end of this year. His EP ‘Peach’ is out now, and with it comes the release of ‘Egotism’, which is just about the best pop song you’ll listen to all day. On the EP, Finn says:

“I wanted to create something that showed how creative I really am. I’m a kid from a small countryside town where there is no music scene at all but I’ve had so many musical influences, which has created my mad diverse music taste.” 

Finn Askew

New Music: Zeli

Zeli is an 18-year old London talent who creates some of the darkest, most intense pop from any newcomer that I have experienced in some time. A stunningly atmospheric sound with haunting vocals.

“‘Almost’ is about the chase, and the bruises you’re left with. It’s about desire, and your fear of it. It’s about being in love with the idea of love.”

Zeli

HYYTS – Bad Tattoo

In the space of just one year, HYYTS have firmly established themselves as one of the biggest talents to emerge from Scotland, with their trademark style of euphoric pop never failing to impress. Now they’re back with their first single for 2021, and it’s as excellent as you’d expect.

“It’s all about scars, whether they’re self-inflicted or otherwise, and the pride they should stand for from getting through a situation and having the marks to prove it. So the idea was to use tattoos as a metaphor of how something painful can leave a positive impression and how being proud of your painful experiences is a beautiful thing.” – Adam, HYYTS

HYYTS

Mimi Webb – Reasons

Mimi Webb’s rise to stardom has been pretty meteoric over the last twelve months. There’s good reason for it too; this is some of the most exquisite ballad-pop you will experience. And that immense vocal… you won’t forget in a hurry.

“For me, this song really represents the feelings of loneliness, but in the way where we are all just people made up of a bunch of different things. You only have yourself to rely on for this, but then it comes to meeting someone who has all the same broken parts as you do – which turns into a messed-up love.”

Previous singles ‘Before I Go‘ amassed over 12.2 million Spotify streams and 600k YouTube views, while more recently ‘I’ll Break My Heart Again‘ is already on 1.5 million Spotify streams and 128k views.

Mimi Webb

guccihighwaters – hold somebody

Saw you with a new guy, I’ve been on my own
You won’t hit a month, know that you won’t get along
The TV’s on, but I never seem to watch it
Thoughts in my brain running quicker than a faucet
And time stopped when you looked my way
Feelings flooded, never let them drain
It gets hard to see when it rains
Your heart’s heavy when it’s full-on pain

guccihighwaters

CHINAH – Mysterious

Danish trio CHINAH never fail to impress. This is a luxuriously textured song with a series of intricate (yet minimal) beats underlining a beautifully melodic composition.

“‘Mysterious’ was made by crudely putting together some odd elements and somehow making them fit. We try to capture the weird beauty that can arise from combining things that weren’t initially meant to be together.” – Simon Andersson, CHINAH

CHINAH

Sage Ray – She’s Worth It

Sage Ray’s follow up to December’s ‘Goodbye Stage‘ is exactly as beautiful and melodic as I’d hoped. Minimal yet intense; deeply emotive yet relatable.

“While she was healing from her past, I was giving my guts loving her the best I knew how. Our dynamic caused lots of disconnect and bad communication and I think most people would’ve given up. In fact, lots of people told me I should. But I learned that real love is laying my life down for others. Loving even harder when things get tough. Committing and persisting through something many in my world said was hopeless was one of the most beautiful, vulnerable experiences I ever had, and I’d never trade it.”

Sage Ray

New Music: Almost Barely

Fantastic Californian indie-pop from a talent who only discovered music-making during quarantine, with no prior experience.

That said, Almost Barely’s debut is brimming with charm and character, and carries an emotive undertone that pines for the days before we all went into lockdown.

“This is a song I made after reminiscing on a night pre-covid out on the town with my girl. We spent the night bar hopping in San Francisco and went to a concert at our favourite venue and I just really miss that. This song is about that night and to the many nights like that in the future when we can out again! “

Almost Barely

New Music: LHEO

Brace yourselves for the unexpected with this track. A uniquely individualistic approach to lo-fi pop from this Bristol talent, who’s unafraid of merging genres like hip hop and soft rock together to create a sound that is refreshingly authentic.

“I’ve always had a very addictive personality, and music is the first thing that has satisfied this craving in a positive and productive way.”

LHEO

New Music: SZNS

LA-based quartet SZNS are probably my favourite emerging girl group at the moment. Their sound is unapologetically bold; this is punchy 90’s throwback-inspired pop, fused with hints of EDM, RnB, and latin.

“‘Behave’ is for every girl who’s been told to act like a lady: to sit up straight, be polite, to let the grown ups talk. Our entire lives we’ve been told that we’re ‘doing too much’ or acting ‘too intense’ – Behave is about being unapologetic, and taking up the space you deserve, despite what anyone else might say. If being demure and soft-spoken is good behaviour, then I guess we never learned how to behave”.

SZNS

New Music: Cherry Lena

Hailing from Montreal comes this fresh new RnB-pop talent with one mighty distinctive vocal. You will fall in love with this sound as soon as you press play. You’ve been warned!

“‘Mellow Happy’ is a serene state of mind. It’s the feeling that despite not knowing what the future holds, you will flourish into exactly what you were meant to be. It’s accepting that time is running, and that everything will fade one day. This feeling of peace comes with the illusion that the world is yours, freeing you from your usual fears and worries. If only you could stay this calm forever. But of course you won’t. And somehow, Right now, that’s okay with you.”

Cherry Lena

Layla Kardan – Loyalty

The ultra-gifted music artist, activist and fashion muse that is Layla Kardan is back today with another sultry and intensely captivating slice of dark pop.

“The song is about taking a stance before entering a new relationship by laying your cards out instead of re-enacting the same toxic patterns, because Loyalty doesn’t come easy.”

Taken from the upcoming EP ‘Abscission’, set for release on 26th February 2021.

Layla Kardan

New Music: Andreww

After a stint in the fashion industry walking and working for the likes of Louis Vuitton, Dior, Versace and Valentino, British talent Andreww took his love for music in a more serious direction, releasing his debut single ‘Talking To Myself‘ late last year.

Today he returns with ‘Medusa‘, another showstopper of an anthem that immediately commands your attention. His style of music-making bravely blends the boundaries of several genres together to form a sound that is truly quite unique, and an experience of it’s own. Andreww could be one of the most exciting talents to emerge from the UK this year.

“As much as people didn’t want to look at Medusa they still did. It’s the same with toxic relationships. No matter how bad they are for you, you can’t help but stay in them. ‘Medusa’ is about these toxic relationships and all the two-faced feelings that come with them. The inner conflict also reflects in the music; clashing trap, grunge and pop against each other kind of shows that things that sometimes aren’t meant to together, still end up staying together.”

Andreww