ROSALÍA’s new single ‘Berghain’, feat. Björk & Yves Tumor
Who has the audacity to drop their first single post-reggaeton album with a full orchestra, sung in German, opera-style, and featuring Björk and Yves Tumor? Rosalía does. It’s bold, melodramatic and utterly sensational.
Swank Mami’s new single ‘MC69’
Oslo’s Swank Mami slaps a melody into your brain with effortless grace. From her new EP ‘Worldstar’, ‘MC69’ is featherlight R&B, pendulous club rhythms and futuristic hyperpop polish.
EsDeeKid’s new single ‘Century’
Solid enough to pre-empt nostalgia for this era of EsDeeKid and UK rap in general, ‘Century’ is Fifteenth Century fantasy swag, or - as YouTuber @hell_zen put it - “the plug’s from Mordor but he chill”.
On his sold-out Rebel tour, EsDeeKid’s been wearing armoured gloves and a cloak-like hoodie, which might explain the harpsichord tucked inside the track. It bristles with soured horns and his sharp scouse accent, the sound of a breakout star deep in a run that already feels mythic.
Florence + the Machine’s new album ‘Everybody Scream’
Written after an ectopic pregnancy that nearly killed her, this album turns a painful experience into an artistic triumph. Where her past work searched for release, this one finds clarity in the wreckage. It’s still full of the soaring, bloodletting choruses she’s known for, but what lingers is the defiant resilience beneath them.
Chy Cartier & Lil Yachty’s new single ‘Here We Go Again’
Sonically, they’re chalk and cheese, but this collab works. North London’s Chy Cartier and Lil Yachty had been hanging out since NYFW in May and it shows. With horror-movie synths and gargled bass, ‘Here We Go Again’ lands perfectly in late-October territory: weird, menacing and infectious.