Wesley Joseph’s new single ‘Pluto Baby’
This is produced by AK Paul, who had a hand in his brother Jai Paul’s ‘BTSU’, and it shows: cascading synths, distorted guitars, piano chords that appear and disappear. Wesley’s bars sit above all of it with a quiet authority that makes the whole thing feel inevitable. Exceptional.
Basement’s two new singles, ‘Wired’ and ‘Broken By Design’
Two songs that couldn’t be more different, and together they make the case perfectly. ‘Wired’ is needling guitars, a slugging drumbeat, Fisher’s voice finding a hook that’ll follow you out of the venue. The band were adamant it had to land as a statement. It does.
‘Broken By Design’ is the comedown: dusky, bass-led, delicate. Still unmistakably them, still immediately catchy - just with all the urgency drained out.
As a double-header, these two tracks tell you exactly what the album is going to be.
ELIZA’s new album ‘The Darkening Green’
Nine songs about greed, devotion and the slow violence of forgetting you’re alive. The anger feels earned. So does the joy.
Co-written and produced with Finlay ‘Phairo’ Robson and Emil Larbi (Loyle Carner, Sampha), this album takes its title from a William Blake poem and sits with one idea: that our inner worlds and the natural world are doing the same thing to each other. The city trap of concrete pressing in on every last bit of softness.
Ever smooth, dulcet and sweet, but like a rose, it’s got its thorns.
Fcukers’ new single ‘if you wanna party, come over to my house’
Fcukers’ debut album ‘Ö' lands 27 Mar, and this track is the New York duo making their intentions completely clear.
Raw, feral, self-effacing, the production has a punk-adjacent DIY quality that feels genuinely abrasive in a world of overpolished dancefloor music. It doesn’t try to seduce you into the party. It just opens the door and walks off.
Lucky Iris’ deluxe edition of breakout mixtape ‘fall in love with the dj’
The Leeds hyperpop duo revisit their breakout mixtape with two new additions. ‘i dreamt of you’ is delectably crunchy, dance-pop with Maeve’s honeyed vocals. Whereas ‘better with you’ is more room, more ache, more of the yearning that sits underneath it all.