Notes on this week’s new releases:
- Look, I generally try to keep the New Music Friday playlist pretty short each week because we’re all busy people so it is with deep dismay that I must report this week’s playlist contains 34 decent songs.
- Griff‘s one of the better new popstars, isn’t she? Say It Again’s her best release to date.
- It’s a semi-busy week for Babeheaven who release what we used to call a double a‑side single featuring new songs Cassette Beat and Human Nature, both of which are very enjoyable.
- Ava Max has released an Ace Of Base-inspired single, while modern pop’s premiere Ace Of Base apologists Clean Bandit have released an unexpected and, frankly, unrequested mashup of Real Love and DARIO G‘S SUNCHYME. (I first noticed the mashup in one of the band’s live lockdown DJ sets, has it been part of the Bandit ‘oeuvre’ for a while?)
- Amy Allen, whose songwriting you’ve already been enjoying via artists like Harry Styles and Halsey, has an acceptably 90s-sounding single out today.
- Bastille‘s excellent new one is Song 4 on the playlist and when you hear it you may well agree that’s two spots too low.
- Curtis Waters isn’t messing around is he?
- Brighton-based singer of song Oz has a really impressive EP on its way and the first glimpse of that is out today: its called Money.
- The new Vamps single is good, mind you that was pretty inevitable considering it was produced by Lostboy.
- Seriously there are so many decent songs out this week.
- (Please make some time to listen to the great E^ST album.)
- Yorke released her debut EP in March and it seems she’s been using her lockdown wisely: Gravity is a huge leap forward and sounds like Ellie Goulding doing 1989-era Taylor Swift, ie totally ideal.
- SO MANY DECENT SONGS.