7 new songs you need to hear right now
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1.
Talos -‘Odyssey’
Cork man Eoin French aka Talos has popped up over the last couple of years with a series of fine singles that pitched his music as beautiful electronic ballads.
‘Odyssey’ is the new single, from his forthcoming debut album Wild Alee, out on April 21st. It’s a beautiful and brittle modern electronic ballad, produced by Talos and Ross Dowling.
2.
Jafaris – ‘Love Dies’
Percy Chamburuka aka Jafaris is a rapper and singer with ambition, and is part of the burgeoning new generation of hip-hop artists in Ireland. Formerly known as Profound, Jafaris is one of the most promising of the lot. He also played a bit part in the feel-good movie of 2016 – Sing Street.
He’s dropped his new single ‘Love Dies’ last week, vocal-lead cut of hazy R&B. It’s mightily impressive.
3.
Little Dragon – ‘High’
As indicated earlier this year, via some re-emerging activity, the Swedish band Little Dragon are due to release a new album this year and have an extensive U.S. tour with Glass Animals and Goldlink lined up along with Coachella.
They debuted the chill and billowy song ‘High’ accompanied by an exotic video by Ossian Melin.
4.
Half Waif – ‘Frost Burn’
Nadi Rose Plunkett has a new EP form/a out this week on Cascine and it’s cool collection of synth-pop that reminds me of St. Vincent in vocal tone set to an electronic backing. The EP is influenced by her background – the daughter of an Indian refugee and an American father of Irish/Swiss descent. “somewhere in me is this innate story of searching for a home,” she says. “As a result, I have many – a collection of places that I latch onto, that inspire me, that fuse themselves to me. I’m sentimental, nostalgic – yet constantly seeking what’s next, excavating the sound of my past and coloring it to make the sound of my future. I’m a child of divorce, fiercely loved but forced into independence at a young age; I rocket into relationships with the desire to find roots, commonality, to create stillness in the midst of public noise. In this way, my songs are like the notes of a large scavenger hunt, clues pinned to trees I have known, or tucked under rocks on my path, urging the listener to keep looking a little deeper, because maybe they will find something special in the end.”
5.
Aldous Harding – ‘Horizon’
One of those new songs that stops you in your tracks, the New Zealand singer and musician Aldous Harding’s ‘Horizon’ makes an impact with very little – a confident vocal and piano chords. It’s her first song on new label 4AD and like her press shot above, it’s dramatic and memorable.
6.
Lydia Ainsworth – ‘Afterglow’
Heady gospel electronica from the Toronto musician. It’s built on a languid sloth-like groove but reaches big heights in vocal layers, subtle synth notes and percussive hits. Nice video too. It’s from her forthcoming album ‘Darling Of The Afterglow’ out March 31st.
7.
Erica Cody – ‘Addicted’
Erica Cody is a Dublin singer/songwriter and producer who has been writing songs since she was seven-years-old.
Now 20 and studying at BIMM Dublin, Cody is emerging as one of the new generation of soulful R&B singers coming up in the Irish scene, as seen at Hard Working Class Heroes last year.
‘Addicted’ is Cody’s debut single proper, a R&B pop song which has the same DNA as some of last week’s ’90s R&B playlist (SWV, Boys II Men ) but ‘Addicted’ is a modern electronic-production assisted take on that sound.
https://soundcloud.com/ericacody/erica-cody-addicted/s-LTJ8t
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