The most celebrated release in new music this week seemed to be the anticipated album from Biffy Clyro, with two songs from Ellipsis showing up on this week’s list of what’s what in new music. Also checking in was Chevelle with ‘Young Wicked,’ and Joe Budden took a break from diss tracks about Drake on ‘Flex.’
With almost 60 new tracks to choose from, it’s best to get moving and check out every last single minute of what’s hot. Busted Wallet’s New Music Friday All Stars has got the full run down of hottest of week’s past, and this week’s full list can be found right here.
10. What It Feels Like by Feed Me, Nina Nesbitt
What the world needs now, in addition to love sweet love, according to Feed Me is a little more peace, little less greed, little perspective on how to sort itself out. Amen to that. The track is high intensity EDM, with Feed Me’s signature animated monsters vibe (and on display on the album’s artwork) in full effect. There’s nothing better when an EDM jam is full of positive vibes and you can dance your feelings off, and What It Feels Like feels just like that.
9. How Do You Do It (Jim Eno Sessions) by Empress Of
According to her bio on Spotify, Empress Of (real name Lorely Rodriguez) was majorly influenced with Bjork (read: obsessed) growing up, and it’s just that Icelandic singer’s sound that’s reminiscent on How Do You Do It, no easy feat emulating someone as unique and nuanced as Bjork. For her Spotify Sessions the track is only slightly stripped down, the volatile and driving pace still present. If you listen to the original and this version,, it’s difficult to piece together which is which. Perfect for those who are already fans and new admirers alike.
8. Um Chagga Lagga by Pixies
There’s an instantaneous level of respect reserved for Pixies any time they grace the world with a new release. The band’s been toying with Um Chagga Lagga for over a year now, releasing the single now in relation to Head Carrier, available on Sept. 30. And yes, you may need to put your feet on the air and your head on the ground to grasp what ‘Um Chagga Lagga on the side of the road’ means, and STILL not get it, but it can be filed under the brand of full hearted Pixies absurdity that’s so endearing.
7. Right Now by Jeff Beck
While Jeff Beck may not be as big or a household name as Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page, but on any given guitar solo there’s no doubt he’s just as talented. He swoops back into the spotlight with Right Now, guitar heavy, LOUD and in your face, also aptly named with the next album just around the corner, Loud Hailer out July 15th. The lyrics, sung contemptuously by Rosie Bones, throw shots at a grab and discard ruling culture: “We want it right now, right now, don’t know what it is but we want it right now.”
6. Friends by Francis and the Lights feat. Bon Iver
Every musician needs to surround themselves with a versatile group of fellow musicians from various genres, and if you’re lucky, they could be friends as well. Such is the case on Francis and the Lights alternate experimental opus, recruiting friend Bon Iver for his folky falsetto over some synths, and friend Kanye West for a head-bob-and-he’s-out appearance in the artsy video. Check it out for both its impromptu dance breaks and choreographed duos.
5. Fountains of Youth by Local Native
Local Natives next album is entitled ‘Sunlit Youth,’ which is in the exact direction the vibes are coming off of the Silver Lake band, whose members are now entering into the thirties age bracket. When lead singer Taylor Rice sings ‘I think we better listen to this kids’ there’s a distinction that he’s not talking about himself or his peers, but then the lyrics morph into a youth drenched declaration of ‘we can do whatever we want, we can say whatever we mean.’ It’s a rallying yet low-key cry, that people of all ages are likely to get behind.
4. Dope Dealer by Schoolboy, E-40
This year’s competition for best rap album is getting awfully crowded now that Schoolboy Q’s has released Blank Face LP. Dope Dealer is full discordance, in the way that Schoolboy Q’s has come to be known for. Adding to the discord is E-40’s verse, which truthfully doesn’t fit right into the off-key and minor notes that make up the track’s beat. But then again, it adds another layer to the vibe of ‘not all things fitting together right.” The highlight is most definitely the punch packing chorus, after Schoolboy commands ‘Now drop it for me for a bankroll!’
3. ILYSM by Steve Aoki
For long time fans of EDM’s cake throwing, kayak crowdsurfing, all-around wild man Steve Aoki, his most recent releases have been suuper chilled out for the pace we’re used to keeping with him. But on ILYSM he makes attempts to redeeming himself bass pumping force, with a little help from Autoerotique. Here he lifts the lyrics from Brandy’s 1994 classic, ‘I Wanna Be Down’ and gives them a Millennial revamp, correctly translating the lyrics into today’s terms of ILYSM.
2. Basic Beach by Pell
You can always count on something refreshing and unique from Mr. Pelly Pell, even when it comes to throwing shade at the most basic of beaches. Here he artfully combines the lamentation of being plenty too many fish in the sea, most of them basic, in the dating pool, with a day at the beach. The vibe is upbeat, and fast paced, and the innuendos are flying, making it the perfect track for a summer’s day out.
1. Olé by John Newman
The most buzzed-about release this week, since the gossip media outlets got wind that John Newman latest release co-written with Calvin Harris, fresh off of his breakup with Taylor Swift. And kudos to Harris for beating Taylor to the punch, no easy feat. But does the track sting with venom? Not too much, lowkey insults like “I kiss you once, than I star at the ceiling” fly, but the most likely takeaway comes from the chorus ‘You bring sunlight to my day.” However you feel about either party, the vibe is all vacation mode, and you’re not likely to be swept up on the love lost for too long either.
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