Notes on this week’s new releases:
- Mae Muller‘s new one Dependent is the week’s best new song — it sounds brilliant and has a great twist on the “treat me a like a lady” trope. Her new EP No One Else, Not Even You, is also out today. Commas in titles are generally to be avoided but this one works well. 8/10 for the comma.
- The only thing that could have made the Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks ‘collab’ any better is a “Stevie, can you handle this? Miley, can you handle this? It’s the remix, can you handle this? I don’t think you can’t handle this woo” bit over the intro.
- Georgia Twinn‘s new song is a big moment in its own right but also lands halfway between second album Lana and first album Charli, which isn’t a bad place to be is it?
- Hello and congratulations to Little Mix, whose sixth studio album is released today. As a gentleman named Jon with a private Twitter account noted earlier this week, the last British girlgroup to pull this off was Sugababes in 2008, and by that point they were on their third lineup.
- Kylie‘s disco album, cleverly titled Disco, is out today. Last Chance is arguably the album’s most on-brief song although I suppose disco means different things to different people. The extended version of the album shows up as Disco (Deluxe). Is Disco Deluxe a better album title than Disco? (Yes.)
- While we’re praising longevity Shirley Bassey, the Queen of Q4, has released 70 albums across seven decades. Still no Bruce Hornsby collaborations on the new one but she does cover I Made It Through The Rain, one of the most sensational optimistibangers of all time.
- After several years I’ve binned off one of the features of the Popjustice New Music Friday edit — the bit where I put a total stinker at the bottom of the playlist. Most weeks I’d find myself actively searching out something terrible and there’s enough negativity in the world without having to deliberately look for new Jake Bugg releases. (Or accidentally hearing them if, like a lot of people, you listen to playlists on shuffle.)