A minimal yet emotive mix of indie and pop with a beautifully melodic flow.
Korantemaa – noise cancel / denial
Swedish talent Korantemaa returns with a stunning fusion of trip hop and dark pop to create something that feels conceptual and experimental, yet timeless.
New Music: Julia Church
This is one of those mellow pop songs that immediately catches you and takes you on a journey. Julia Church has already released two EP’s (‘Take What You Want, Do As You Please’ and ‘To Have, Not Just To Hold’), and I frankly can’t get enough of this kid.
Contradash- favorite color
The LA-based singer and rapper returns with a playful-sounding track that flirts between pop and hip hop.
Empara Mi – Saving All My Love
Flawlessly executed dance-pop with a dark and cinematic essence from the ever-impressive talent that is Empara Mi.
New Music: Kiddo Dust
New Music: Liét
Track of the week. With a finessed and self-assured approach to RnB, London talent Liét has crafted a sound that feels refreshingly future-forward while still keeping some of those old-school vibes.
Kid Bloom – Hold In, Hold On
Bringing the 70’s back with a kitsch, indie twist, Kid Bloom returns with a new single that’s so damn infectious and feel-good that I can’t think of a better way to start the week with.
Elias Boussnina – Faith
New Music: Quinn Ayers
New Music: Vi.
Showcasing a perfect balance between EDM and pop, Swedish songwriter & producer duo Per Berglin and Adrian Bellan have come up with one of the catchiest tracks of the week, featuring vocals from VAALEA.
The song itself is all about accepting someone for everything that they are when you fall in love…
“If I take the best of you, I better take the rest of you. I guess that’s how it’s supposed to be.”
ISÁK – I’ll Do My Best
New Music: TARINI
Utterly mesmerising alt-RnB from a new Australian talent who’s managed to craft together a song that feels hauntingly intense yet delicate and emotive. It’s a true experience that deserves to be heard from start to end.
“It’s about the kind of romance where you long so deeply for someone and regardless of how beautiful the actual connection between you and this person is, this said person is always pulling you and the relationship into a negative space and complicating things. It’s almost a metaphor for like, can we just stop for a second and enjoy this?”
BRIDGE – Around / Across the Universe
BRIDGE returns today and in all honesty I fell in love so hard with both of these songs that I just have to share them with you.
This LA-based talent merges hip hop with RnB and alt-pop in a way that is so flawlessly executed that it’s no wonder he gets almost half a million monthly listeners on Spotify.
New Music: Rachel Shaps
An emotive approach to synth-pop, with a beautifully melodic flow. The sound feels powerful and highly charged, all the while displaying an essence of fragility and vulnerability.
“I have always had a tendency to gravitate towards people and opportunities that I know will probably only hurt me in the end but they feel so exciting in the moment that it’s hard to rein myself in before it’s too late. I actually had a psychic reading where the psychic told me I had a ‘power animal ally’ in my life at this time, and I had no idea what that meant, but she said it was a moth. After doing a little research on the significance of a moth, this idea of a ‘moth drawn to a flame’ totally resonated and stuck with me, and I instantly wrote this song.”
Layla Kardan – No Place
New Music: Elias Salbu
A fabulous fusion of Norwegian indie, dream-pop and disco all come together to create just about the happiest song you’ll hear all day. It’s a sound that feels retro and kitsch yet endearingly charming.
“Why are you constantly wasting time?” – sounded like a cliché love drama to me and I wanted to turn it into a catchy dance party.”
Diamond Pistols – Time Machine (feat. Rich Brian)
LA producer Diamond Pistols collaborates with Rich Brian on a new release that’s got a charming approach to hip hop which is just impossible not to vibe along with.
New Music: Christian Cohle
A stunningly conceptual track from an Irish talent who encompasses a raw, dark and emotive sound; crafted into a style of music that is atmospheric and sparse, yet totally bewitching.
“One central idea to ‘Drown Me Slow’, is the unwillingness to let go of something, even after it has long left you. You become fixed on it and stare at it often as one can do with a distant star. The longing for it becomes more special than the reality of it itself, because perhaps it’s not even there anymore.”
New Music: BÉE
The first thing that catches your attention when you press play on this track are those stunning vocals from Dutch singer and songwriter BÉE (pronounced Bae).
Add to that her finessed approach to RnB and engaging lyricism, and you’ve got yourselves a very promising new starlet.
“I didn’t write this song because I’m unhappy being single, but I do love the idea of possibly bumping into my ‘Mr Right’ and immediately recognising him. I certainly hope that he’ll recognise me too.”