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Listen to new albums from Hot Chip, Young Wonder, Lakker, Shamir and Roisin Murphy

Listen to new albums from Hot Chip, Young Wonder, Lakker, Shamir and Roisin Murphy

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It’s May which means that the number of albums that start to get released go beyond what one person can capably handle (or write about) so as way as recommendation, here are five albums released this week or next I recommend you listen to:

Hot Chip – Why Make Sense

The English band doing what they do best on their sixth album, delivering dance-friendly electronic pop jams with heart and a guest appearance from De La Soul.

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Hot Chip - Huarache Lights (Official Video)

Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys

For her first album in eight years, Ms. Murphy doesn’t quite return to dancefloor bangers a la Overpowered. Instead, it’s an avant-garde update that falls somewhere between her two sides – the disco diva and the Matthew Herbert-collaborating experimentalist. Murphy’s nuance and skill around melody keeps the sometimes meandering album, always pleasing.

Róisín Murphy - Exploitation

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Young Wonder – Birth

It’s hard to believe Birth is Rachel Koeman and Ian Ring’s debut album such is are the high-quality productions they’ve made together over the last few years. In album format, both shine with Koeman increasingly becoming a lead singer and Ring, who I’ve said before is one of the most talented young producers in Ireland, pulls out an evocative bag of sounds that takes in sparkling synths, big bass, twisted vocal samples and arrangements that grow tall like canyons. Birth suggests these pair are carving their own niche into the electronic landscape.

https://soundcloud.com/lakker/oktavis


Shamir – Ratchet (US only)

The Vegas androgynous singer’s debut is a glittering collection of electronic disco funk with some ballad switchups for good measure.

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Shamir - Call It Off (Official Music Video YTMAs)

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