Rachel Chinouriri and Cat Burns - 'Even'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRzsDjp7MA
It’s been a little while coming, but the collaboration between two of indie-pop’s brightest new lights feels every bit as bittersweet as we predicted. Taking measured aim at the double-standards that exist for...
Nearly four decades ago, Janet Jackson burst out of boomboxes and into global consciousness as she belted out the lyric, "I ain't your baby, I'm Janet—Miss Jackson if you're nasty." Over synth-laden R&B and New Jack Swing, she cemented...
Lambrini Girls – ‘Company Culture’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kz_CrB0Vf0
Lambrini Girls are back with another track about the patriarchy and its ceaseless means of making womxn feel undermined and undervalued in all aspects of life – especially the workplace. Tapping into archaic stereotypes that...
FKA twigs – ‘Eusexua’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcW9s7CuhJ0&pp=ygURZmthIHR3aWdzIGV1c2V4dWE%3D
“What is eusexua to you?” FKA twigs asked her fans ahead of her highly-anticipated comeback. To the star, the term refers to a feeling of “momentary transcendence” and the title track from her upcoming third album...
Megan Thee Stallion and RM - 'Neva Play'
https://youtu.be/TpYTyAaTRts?si=TqeijmZm3iR4FRZi
After her ‘Butter’ remix caused such a storm in 2021, it was only a matter of time before Megan Thee Stallion teamed up with BTS for another heater. This time she’s only...
The sentiments on Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth album are 'Short n’ Sweet' like the title, this flirtatious play on the singer’s height setting the tone for a record that refuses to sink into earnestness. With old-style glamour and an uncannily...
The Blessed Madonna x Kylie – ‘Edge of Saturday Night’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTp23KDSBBI
Encapsulating the ethos of stories you’ve been told about people having a wild week in Ibiza; Kylie sounds like she’s having her BRAT summer as she sings of a night...
It is a cliché to say that bedroom pop artists must entirely mature out of this phase, lighten their touch and step into somewhere more muted and adult beyond their four walls. Since her homemade 2017 hit ‘Pretty Girl’,...
Soccer Mommy - 'M'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbS2shn50MY
You can always rely on Soccer Mommy to craft songs of understated beauty, but with the first slice of her forthcoming album ‘Evergreen’, she breaks new emotional ground, paying tribute to her belated mother and the...
Jade – ‘Angel of My Dreams’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDm_bXB_Gac
Even during her time in Little Mix, Jade has seemed like a wild card. As the final of the trio to launch her solo career, there’s no doubt been a lot of pressure and...