Wallice – ‘disappear’
https://youtu.be/iV8eHVNdo8Y
Wallice’s new single ‘disappear’ begins as a whisper, the California singer-songwriter lamenting all the things she tried hard to achieve but didn’t get in an almost-mumble. When the chorus hits, though, her frustration erupts, exploding the song...
CMAT – 'Have Fun!'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux_RYOHc4oM
Having made her name as “everyone’s favourite global pop star™”, Irish sensation CMAT is back with a fresh slice of gleeful alt-pop, careening her way around funky fiddles on the streets of gay Paree. There’s a...
A trail of rhinestone cowboy hats leads the way from Seven Sisters station to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, corner shops are pumping Beyoncé's back catalogue and a stampede of fans adorned with tassels and sequins march towards the show of...
ARLO PARKS – ‘DEVOTION’
The final single from her second album ‘My Soft Machine’ (out today) and one of Arlo Parks’ favourite songs she’s ever made, ‘Devotion’ is about “feeling so in love it’s almost like being ripped apart, there’s...
Anne Marie feat Shania Twain – 'UNHEALTHY'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrSQ2P4fep8
“My father says I should run away/but he don’t know that I just don’t know how,” Anne Marie sings in the opening moments of the song which talks about a love that everyone...
On her debut album, Arlo Parks showcased a style of lyricism that felt to many like a wise and kindly friend. Released in the uncertainty of the pandemic, 'Collapsed In Sunbeams' was a talisman to the kind of young...
Taylor Swift might be standing on stage in the middle of a sold-out American football stadium, but, for the briefest moment, she sounds like any typical girl-next-door – sunny, warm and unassuming. Although the songs on tonight’s (May 12)...
The week's best new releases
Bethany Cosentino - 'It’s Fine'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOGz8Hkevg&t=51s
After 14 years as one-half of beach-rock heroes Best Coast, Bethany Cosentino has finally backed herself to go it alone, and she’s feeling kinda reflective. “I am evolved/you’ve stayed the same” she states in the...
Arlo Parks – 'Blades'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwkkBVQB_3U&t=143s
Arlo Parks is the kind of artist that normally hits you in the feels, and leaves you feeling wistful. On the third single from her forthcoming second album ‘My Soft Machine’ – which features nu-disco loops,...