Colourful pop production though stripped back and simple in essence, meets with a confident and rhythmically distinct rap outpouring, as Marcus Porter releases the aptly joyful new minimalist party anthem Celebration.
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Diary-like lyrical vulnerability meets with a poetic metaphorical overtone and edgy pop production – songwriter and artist klaud explores the depths of isolation and loneliness, with mad king.
The creative return of 旋林Rowens this month brings a soulful jazz-pop single of trembling vocal realism, retro keys and bossa nova rhythms. The melodically nostalgic Old Photo presents a catchy yet calming progression, and relays a lyrical poem exploring the impermanence of love.
Something different – that word we’re always searching for without really knowing what will satisfy it. Enter TK 390, with an intoxicatingly fast-paced classical piano piece, which proves as brief as it is striking and memorable in impact.
The blissfully positive and focused story-telling and soulful embrace of Echo Park Lake injects a much-needed sense of humanity and heart into modern hip hop, and speaks volumes on behalf of the talent and integrity of both artists.
Nostalgic by nature but also impressively original in everything from tone to production, genre fusion to poetic depth, HURRICANE recaptures the appeal of immersive electronic music, with a thoughtful lyrical backbone, uniquely playful instrumental choices, and divinely gentle yet impassioned vocals.
Celebrating the power of collaboration, Ryan Mills Presents joins forces with the mighty Project Parallels, Qwill, Wordsworth, & REKS, for the trip-hop and hip hop-fusion beauty of Illuminate.
Offering both uncertainty and longing, satisfaction in the progression and particularly the drop to the hook’s repeat, Emotions is a song that feels perfectly capable of making its way up through the rankings this season.
Freely bridging the gaps between hip hop and dance, between comedy and artistic identity, Mr. Riopelle crafts a floor-filler with lashings of personality, for the sexually provocative and undeniably catchy new single Top Era.
Freshly released from the brand new EP Jaded, Afro-soul-fusion artist Na’Jaii delivers an ambient and evocative conceptualisation of numbing the pain of existence.
This idea of you and I both having scars is strangely comforting, and the warmth and simplicity of the music reinforces that comfort. But elsewhere, the lyrics present a sense of having lost our way, and of there being no tomorrow – no second chances.
Summer strikes early this year, as Myles Thomas brings the tribal groove, classic good-vibes piano and rising EDM intensity, for Dance Like You Don’t Care.