Here are the best new songs we’ve heard in the past week, tried, tested and ready for your ears.
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1.
Child Of The Parish
Make It Better
Child of the Parish is a new name for us, the work of English brothers Ben and Tom Vella that explores the melding of disco and psychedelia. ‘Make It Better’ is a straight up polychromatic banger. The whole project is made in collaboration with Lithuanian artist Pius Bak who is providing the artwork for an accompanying graphic novel.
2.
Keep Dancing Inc
Start Up Nation
Occupying a similar indie-disco vibe to Child Of The Parish and the likes of Friendly Fires, Paris trio Keep Dancing Inc’s ‘Start Up Nation’ is a fitting upbeat track that sings of going your own way, a suitable song for a time when all our jobs are under threat. Yay. Party.
3.
Berwyn
Glory
“Lately I’ve been dreaming a lot … I’m trying go to from making sandwiches in Subway for all the doctors / to actually becoming the next Dr. Dre. “
Berwyn is an East London musician who recently featured on the Everything Is Recorded LP, who makes an immediate impact on his own with this beautiful slow-burning piano ballad that vacillates between spoken word and a brittle croon. The duality between hopeful sentiment and worry gives the song its weight.
4.
Perfume Genius
On The Floor
A highlight from Perfume Genius’ brilliant new album Set Me On Fire Immediately, as reviewed on this week’s podcast. I love the vocal breakdown in this.
5.
Charli xcx
Anthems
“I’m so bored / All my friends are invisible / Twenty-four seven, miss ’em all / I might cry like a waterfall.”
Also reviewed on the pod this week, the electro-pop track ‘Anthems’ finds Charli XCX lethargic in quaranatine, yearning for a release, which this song offers in its big fizzy sonics.
6.
SENU x Caoi De Barra
Thought I Saw You
Dublin-based producer Sam Killeen AKA SENU teams up with Wyvern Lingo’s Caoi De Barra on this brooding bass-assisted beaut.
7.
Hanni El Khatib
Alive
Innovative Leisure’s Hanni El Khatib came through with a superb fifth album Flight this month and ‘Alive’, with its eclectic mix of hip-hop style, psychedelia and pop. File next to LA Priest and Yves Tumor.
8.
Park Hye Jin
Like This
Korean producer 박혜진 Park Hye Jin is releasing a new six-track EP on Ninja Tune on June 26th and ‘Like This’ is indicative of the delicate club sounds she’s capable of.
9.
Robag Wruhme
Calma Calma
Gentle euphoric uplifting dance music on Kompakt from the German producer. ‘Calma Calma’ has a real late night “hands in the air” feel.
10.
Julianna Barwick
Inspirit
Julianna Barwick is to release her first album in four years, Healing Is A Miracle, on Nina Tune on July 10th and it’s good to hear those choral tones she’s known for intact, and as the album press says it’s “a distinctive meditation on sound, reverb and the voice”.
The record is largely improvised and features collaborations with Jónsi (Sigur Rós), Nosaj Thing and Mary Lattimore. The video for ‘Inspirit’ was shot with drones in Iceland.
