New Music Fridays 2023

[Funky]

I think we've covered Bess before (well I know I have) - can't remember if it was @BoysForSeles or @FetchFugly but either way I imagine both would be fans, and I can see @Padam S liking her as well.

New one is more of the same, i.e. VERY GOOD

 

[dUb]

Have you listened yet @dUb ?



The production on this album is on point. I found some of their really early stuff quite cheap, but they're clearly working with some good producers on this record. This is polished and retro in all the right ways. Early favourites are Up 2 You, Good As Gold, Kiss N Tell, Last Night Was Good For My Soul, and Love You Inside Out

YES! Love it! Good As Gold is my current numba one

 

[FetchFugly]

I think we've covered Bess before (well I know I have) - can't remember if it was @BoysForSeles or @FetchFugly but either way I imagine both would be fans, and I can see @Padam S liking her as well.

New one is more of the same, i.e. VERY GOOD

Wasn't me, but I like the sound of that.

 

[Funky]

Love Jordan Rakei, hope this is a new album incoming, not sure about the new one yet, sounds like an inferior version of "Family" (one of his best) but I'll stick with it



Not familar with Revers Gagnant, but follow Nic Hanson on Spotify. Liking this lo-fi funk track @KindaCool

 

[KindaCool]

It's probably closer to Lounge House than Lofi, but beautifully produced regardless.

 

[FetchFugly]

Sigrid's EP is three-quarter's a winner. Never mind the so-so ballad Borderline is especially good:



I haven't listened to all the album but this is wonderful:



I'm hearing everything I want

 

[Funky]

Sigrid is such a good songwriter. I wasn't sure about Ghost at first because it's quite slight but it has REALLY grown on me. She grabs the same way Birdy does, there's something about her delivery.

 

[FetchFugly]

Hyped band take on the big ballad rather successfully. I would have chosen to swap the extended outro for a final bombastic chorus but otherwise I really like:



This is the best part of a month old but it is slim pickings this week:

 

[FetchFugly]

The new AURORA is really good:



But I, I REFUSE TO DIE

 

[FetchFugly]

Love Daya's new feature with a big ol chorus:



Slightly woozy sounding new one from LÉON but between this and Pretty Boy it feels like more of a poppy direction for her:

 

[Funky]

So Alison is bringing us even more great music with a deluxe version of her solo album incoming. The new Richard X collab is fabulous!

 

[Funky]

And I think that's Léon's best song since the album before last, @FetchFugly

 

[Funky]

Didn't think much of her EP in the end, but this Shygirl-sounding track is very good

 

[FetchFugly]

A very good chorus. I've given some of her other stuff a quick listen but this definitely has the most indie pop fizz:



Swirl was already sweet and lovely, now with a little extra synthy stardust:



Love this from the wonderfully named Thelma Plum:



A bit of a retro slightly left of the middle to this one:

 

[Jark]

Swirl was already sweet and lovely, now with a little extra synthy stardust:

I don't know the og but Roosevelt's remixes never fail and this is gorge

 

[Funky]

There’s something slightly Saint Etienne about Thelma Plum @FetchFugly

 

[FetchFugly]

Love the artwork too.

 

[FetchFugly]

Ekkah popping up again is very welcome:



I swear they used to be capitalised but in any case the track is a tune.

 

[FetchFugly]

If I didn't know otherwise I could honestly believe that the new Florrie release was a (mid to lower tier) Aly and AJ song:

 

[RJN]

Love the artwork too.

I always forget they exist but I like this. And it made me remember Slow Song, which I loved for a week and then never listened to again

 

[FetchFugly]

I always forget they exist but I like this. And it made me remember Slow Song, which I loved for a week and then never listened to again

Slow Song is ridiculously good. They were teasing a whole heap of unreleased Dragonette collaborations a while back.

 

[Funky]

The Usher comeback has not exactly been world beating but I am quietly loving this duet. When Usher does retro soul, he does it VERY well. And HER is just always top shelf.

 

[Funky]

So prolific, so consistent