mehro – chance with you

Track of the week. It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I come across a song so powerful that I find myself having to hold back the tears when it plays.

This release from LA singer-songwriter mehro is a prime example of just that; it’s music at it’s purest, deepest and most meaningful.

“When I wrote ‘Chance With You’, it was an acknowledgement that I let something slip through my fingers. I let fear overpower my desires, and I won’t let that happen again.”

Taken from the debut EP ‘sky on fire’ which is due on 25th March.

mehro

Watch: Mob Rich – Everything and Nothing

“’Everything and Nothing’ makes us think about every first date we’ve ever had. In that moment the possibilities are endless. You could be sitting across the table from someone you will spend forever with, or they might just be here for drinks and maybe a one-night stand. 

Sometimes you can be so infatuated by a person that you start to imagine every possible scenario with them play out in your mind, and in that fleeting moment you feel all the emotions at once? A visceral landslide. It’s almost too much to take in. Nevertheless, we continue with 21 questions and stare at each other from across the table, feeling both everything and nothing. 

And when it does end up lasting longer than one night a whole new definition of everything and nothing starts. It becomes about the price we pay for being completely vulnerable with someone and all our ups and downs in relationships. The ability to feel on top of the world and also sometimes, unfortunately, the complete opposite.”

Mob Rich

R.A.E – Not Your Love

London-based rapper and singer-songwriter R.A.E is serving us 90’s nostalgia in all it’s glory with the release of ‘Not Your Love’.

“’Not Your Love’ is about the complications within a situationship. For those that have been in one before you’ll know sometimes its up and sometimes it’s down, but it’s all about not allowing the negatives distract you from chasing the bag and focusing own your goals – we gotta get this money sis!”

R.A.E

Watch: lilspirit – 4ever

The rise of lilspirit has been quite phenomenal over the last year. Now garnering over 300k monthly listeners on Spotify alone, the pop and RnB crooner unveils visuals for new single ‘4ever’. It’s a confident sound that shows this LA-based talent has his eyes set on global domination.

 “I just want everyone to know I’m not slowing down. I’m set on being the biggest”.

Taken from the upcoming project, ‘spiritworld’ which is due later this year.

lilspirit

ALITA – I’m Not Your Mother

Washington-native ALITA has unleashed one of the finest slices of pop-RnB that I’ve head the pleasure of listening to all week.

The track flows with a cinematic flair that gives us a sense of nostalgia, which contrasts beautifully against the refreshingly bold lyricism.

“A song about resistance and self-discovery in the face of modern romance; it explores the implicit and explicit expectations placed on women throughout history. And how empowering it feels to set yourself free from carrying someone else’s emotions on your back.” 

ALITA

Fly By Midnight – Diamond Eyes (feat. Cailin Russo)

New York based pop duo Fly By Midnight have already racked up over 30 million streams across platforms from their previous releases.

Now they’re back again with an almighty banger of a disco track that features vocals from Cailin Russo.

Taken from the all-collaborative EP ‘Plus One‘ which also features Clara Mae, Shoffy and Jake Miller.

Fly By Midnight | Cailin Russo

KOPS – If Not You Then Who (with Emelie Hollow)

This gorgeous new collaboration from Danish talent KOPS and Norwegian songstress Emelie Hollow is a truly Scandinavian affair. It was written in Stockholm, taken to Oslo for Emelie’s contribution and finally finished in Copenhagen.

“This is a song about that one person in your life who can’t be replaced. Your mom or dad, an ex, a good old drinking buddy, your math teacher in high school or the guy at the grocery store – that special someone, who eventually came into your life and changed it. If this song was a movie, I guess it’d be a proper tear jerker! Well, at least, I got emotional writing it and having Emelie singing the words with me literally made it the emotional pop anthem, I think we both hoped it would be.” – KOPS

KOPS | Emelie Hollow

Keir – Paranoid

Undoubtedly one of the most powerful musical voices emerging from the UK right now, Keir returns with a new song today that encapsulates the feelings we all have when entering into a relationship.

“I think we are searching for something real, and often that search can feel quite reckless. There are moments when you feel you can maybe give yourself deeply to someone else. And those moments are scary. It’s like a big, beautiful abyss you want to dive into.”

Keir

Aaron Taos – Loving Someone

A deeply moving release from Aaron Taos, this song is part of a special EP which he wrote for his father, who passed away earlier this year.

“This project is meant as a celebration of everything he meant to me as well as the difficult process of losing him. Although this is a release for my father, I hope others will connect with the emotion and experience of these songs.”

Aaron Taos

New Music: Jaws the Shark

A relatively new talent, Jaws the Shark was formed by Olly Bailey in the spring 2020 after escaping London and moving to the Devon countryside.

This is emerging British indie rock at it’s finest; a lo-fi audible feast that is immediately arresting with it’s sense of raw energy and vivid lyricism.

“I had this recurring dream where I’m in a big house, with a wooden spiral staircase that leads nowhere, and this demon-like thing forces me to sing at its request. It scared the sh*t out of me and I would wake in a sweat. The line: ‘Like a rudderless ship, you’re sinking, stuck inside your own head’, is a reference to the fact that with this being a dream and being asleep, you’re defenceless and at the mercy of the dream itself, it just has to play out until you wake up.”

Jaws the Shark

New Music: Jaz Beeson

A mesmerising indie-pop sound with hints of folk from 21-year old British talent Jaz Beeson.

This is a style of music that is quite rare to come by; it’s subtle and understated, yet feels warm and beautifully uplifting.

“’Wanna Know’ is about that feeling when you’re trying to figure out if the person you like, likes you. I found myself asking my friends ‘do you think they like me? I really wanna know’, and so the hook was born. I wrote this in my bedroom on a chilly December night, and never did find out if they were interested.”

Jaz Beeson

Ryan Innes – Creature

If there’s ever a genre called ‘majestic pop’, this would be it. Beautifully cinematic sounds with a refined approach to instrumentation, ‘Creature‘ is a track that transports you to a whole other world and shows how fantastically powerful and moving music can be.

Ryan Innes

Isak Danielson – If You Ever Forget That You Love Me

The 23-year-old Swedish artist continues to show a level of emotional depth in his music that really is quite phenomenal.

Now on the cusp of his third album, Isak Danielson releases a song that defines the theme of the new record – a softer sound dominated by richly-detailed, graceful, balladic pop, stitched together from a pallet of acoustic guitar and piano.

“I think that’s how life works, you grow up and you become new things, and you change all the time.”

Taken from the new album ‘Tomorrow Never Came’ which is due on 5th March.

Isak Danielson