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I guess you could call this week a soft launch but a few good bits.

I ended up quite liking Celeste's Bond style theme for The Day of the Jackal. This is quite different but the pay off delivers:



A sparse banger from TATYANA for her album deluxe:



I don't know what Lonely Heat is but this is great anyway:

 
What Have You Done For Me LATELY is quite the late night slapper.
 
Looking forward to some new music tonight, it's been too long!
 
I don't know who she is but this sounds like it might find some fans here



new Olly Alexander isn't bad either

 
I like the new Olly Alexander one.

Shoving Dizzy into the middle of the album tracklisting is going to be a buzzkill though.
 
Who can resist a lovely disco nap?



Really like the new one from IDER. They've been around quite a while doing a Tegan and Sara/MUNA kind of thing. Lovely I'm On Fire-esque synths:



The last single Know How It Hurts also very good.
 
I was a bit underwhelmed by NMF this week, I was hoping it was going to come back kicking but my release radar was still quiet :(

Moopy making up for it with some lovely tips in the last few posts though :disco: in particular IDER and Drew Sycamore (thank you as ever @FetchFugly)
 
Moody pop from Banks



This sounds gorgeous and another great collab, the album is going to be good



Little Dragon sighting! Surely one of the best voices in pop today



Not sure why this wasn't on the album as it's very inkeeping with the sound, but this is nice

 
I saw there is a solo album coming from the Little Dragon lead singer.

New Yola EP this week. I'm drawn to Temporary most so far:



A sweetly sung chilled groove:

 
Not enough attention is given to lo-fi pop. I love this sound. Followed this band for a minute for that reason, this is their best in a while I think. Lovely deep moody dreamy shit.

 
Lead track for the new album from Hannah Cohen. Just lush:



The Jake Shears side project Lovequest ropes in Ultra Nate:



Synth rocker from Lord Huron with Kristen Stewart doing some mood setting spoken word:



This banger is another one with spoken word and a big hook:

 
The Biig Piig album is quite good, if somewhat fleeting. Liking 9-5 and Silhoutte both typically featherlight bops:



The closer Brighter Day changes things up a bit. It feels a bit of a nineties throwback, with organ and almost trip hoppy.

Joy Crookes - I wasn't completely sold on the first single but much more keen on soul dig Mathematics:



A typically gorgeous return from Tennis:



The lead from the Elton John/Brandi Carlile album is lodged in my head. Helpfully it is lead by Brandi with Elton down in the mix:

 
SIlhouette was my only takeaway from the Biig Piig album, and it's a cracker. And I've saved Brighter Day as a maybe to come back to. But aside from that I always feel like there's something missing from her. Nice production, nice songs... just... nice.
 
Speaking of Elton, I'm loving this blatant pastiche but of course I can't get enough of the 70s revival stuff



I don't recall liking any of his other stuff, so it must just be the 70s references I like.
 
This is unequivocally Lapsley's best song since her debut album. Instant love

 
As did this, Jasmine hasn't been on my radar for a while and this is lovely

 
This feels very post-Chappell and I really like it:



Romantic and enterprising:



Liv Dawson in a big disco direction. Featured on a new EP (previous single Space also very good):



A cover of a song I wasn't previously familiar with, this has something of an early Ladyhawke feel, with the urgency turned all the way up:

 
I love this, once it kicks in Debbii is fully back channelling ABBA again:



IDER's album is out this week, I need to give it another listen but this is the one they are pushing:



I haven't heard of him before but this from Callinsick jumped out:



Bottom of the NMF UK pile but this is a cute slice of Scandi eighties inspired electropop:

 
I'd lost track of Basia Bulat a bit since her Good Advice album, but her new one out this week has some lovely soft folky country pop with some light disco touches:



 
Some great stuff this week, not least this FRANGLAIS BANGER (call on me daddy!):



The most fun and boppy Fickle Friends have been for a while:



Dreamy electronica from Miami Horror and Telenova:



I'm not familiar with Malcolm Todd but this is very good:

 
Love this big propulsive synthy number from Sasami:



The wonderful Rachel Chinouriri has an EP coming up including this joyous track:



At the same time they are pushing All I Ever Asked again too.
 
Tom Grennan is more acceptable now he is making pop songs, rather than his earlier stuff which was all honked out in that affected faux soulful rock vocal.

Saying that, his last single was a quite shameless Cake By The Ocean rewrite.
 
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