OK it’s been a few weeks due to me being away so there’s some songs that are a few weeks old in here.
Tracks of the Week playlist
1. Ships – ‘Space Inside’
It’s their biggest track yet and one of my favourite songs of any country in the last while. It’s huge, stonking and sophisticated classic pop: squelched electro bass, radiant synths, disco production and McGrath’s classic eighties pop chorus propped by Cullen’s sage contrasting verses. It’s catchy and endlessly listenable – it’s been on my rotation constantly since last August and it’s brilliance hasn’t diminished.
2. Sylvan Esso – ‘Coffee’
‘Coffee’ is the first single from an LP from one of Mountain Man & Megafaun. It’s a bubbly twinkling beat pop song. while ‘Play It Right’, that aforementioned song is pure happy weird-pop music.
3. Juce – ‘Call You Out’
A soulful sunshine pop jam from the London girl trio.
4. Fight Like Apes – ‘Crouching Bees’
Fine return for the band on their new EP Whigfield Sextape.
5. Krystal Klear – ‘Dance 7FS’
Another dancefloor weapon from the Manchester-based producer’s own label.
6. Floating Points – ‘King Bromeliad’
A squelch-funk boogie from a new 12″ forthcoming on Eglo Records.
7. Ben Khan – ‘Youth’
Upbeat Jai-Paulesque R&B soul pop from a London producer who has got lots of recogition of late. ‘Youth’ is the first single off his 1992 EP out in May.
8. Rhodes – ‘Your Soul’
For his new track, ‘Your Soul’, Rhodes has pulled out all the stops for a big soaring track that more closely resembles the kind of elegant soul pop that London Grammar have grown huge with.
9. Dustin Tebbutt – ‘Bones’
Might be uncomfortably close to Bon Iver for many but I’m digging this.
10. Ratking featuring King Krule – ‘So Sick Stories’
XL’s NYC rappers and the raspy English kid team up on a Rawkus-sounding jam from Ratking’s new album out in a week.
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.
