The best new tracks of this week, curated and chosen by Niall.
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Lana Del Rey
White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter
You got to hand it to Lana. She’s happily married but her new song ‘White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter’ makes domestic bliss sound like a spellbound union.
Co-written with her husband Jeremy Dufrene, sister Chuck Grant and co-produced with Jack Antonoff, the song brandishes an infatuation with new love and makes the everyday – cooking and burning a dinner, riding a tractor,
It is to paraphrase the song’s lyrics “positively voodoo,” as the guitar, harp, and orchestration light foot about in eerie “Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo” spectral fashion as all of it is a fever dream.
A new album Stove is out in a few months date tbc.
Jessie Ware
Ride
From the upcoming Jessie Ware album Superbloom (April 10th on EMI), ‘Ride’ finds the English artist fully embodying the disco diva attitude that suits her so well, interpolating an ubiquitous Ennio Morricone sample from his theme for the 1966 spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly into a gleaming disco-western stomper.
Ride was the first song I wrote for this record. I made it in 2024 with my best friend Jack Peñate and Karma Kid, who feature throughout the album. It’s a song for the clubs, for the dancefloor – fun, cinematic, cheeky and powerful.
‘I Could Get Used To This’ was Ware’s first single from this record.
“Since What’s Your Pleasure? I’ve been trying out this fantasy world and escapism. I’m not the most by-the-book ‘pop star,’ but I do like to play with dress-up, glamour, and fun, While I love dance music, I wanted to dig deeper with this record; to connect with real relationships and appreciate the love I have, and the fears I have of losing it.”
Ware worked on Superbloom with producers James Ford, Barney Lister, Karma Kid, Jon Shave (Charli XCX), and Stuart Price.
1000 Rabbits
Virgin Soil
The London-based English coast Aldeburgh band 1000 Rabbits (formerly Rabbitfoot), released a debut single on Young this month, a heady and dynamic art-pop track that recalls English Teacher, Nick Drake, Dirty Projectors and Black Country, New Road in one fell swoop.
The band played Borderline last weekend in Dublin.
Avalon Emerson
Written Into Changes
Avalon Emerson dalliance with shoegaze indie dream pop is a fruitful one and a marked difference to her trademark fizzy electronic bangers for the dancefloor.
‘Written Into Changes’ is the latest song from the Avalon Emerson & the Charm band’s upcoming second album of the same name on Dead Oceans for release this month – March 20th.
The song was coproduced with English producer Bullion, following singles ‘Eden’ and ‘Jupiter and Mars’.
”Sometimes change barrels down tracks, announced by a high loud whistle. Other times it flows seasonally over sand, carving a canyon. ‘Written into Changes’ is a song about moving across the world and turning chapters in life. This song came together in London with Bullion, Hunter and Keivon.”
Modeselektor
This Track Kills Fascism
This is a simple decision for me Clive – I like the German electronic duo’s mechanical electro frequencies and I hate fascist pricks.
This track is from Modeselektor’s Classics upcoming release, which features 8 of the duo’s first two albums Hello Mom! and Happy Birthday! and made something new out of them – with the exception of ‘Edgar’ and the exceptional still-hits-hard-every-time ‘Kill Bill Vol. 4’.
Other Songs I also recommend this week:
- Sofia Kourtesis; Novalima – Los Poemas No Siempre Riman (DJ-Kicks)
- upsammy; Valentina Magaletti – Superimposed
- ELIZA – Major
- Thundercat; Mac Miller – She Knows Too Much
- Jill Scott; Tierra Whack – Norf Side (feat. Tierra Whack)
- Alela Diane – California
- Yael Naim – Wow
- Yebba – Yellow Eyes
- Zora Jones – Beef
- Stereolab – Cloud Land
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
