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Listen to this week’s edition of UNDISCOVERED, featuring our pick of the best new music from the world’s most exciting emerging musicians.
There appears to be a contemplative mood in the air as we round-up the week’s top releases from emerging artists. Anonymous London collective Tracey continue to keep us guessing, switching genres up once again with the mellow, synth-driven new track ‘Above the Clouds’, reminding us that even in our darkest moments, “the sun is still shining.”
New York’s Skullcrusher guides us through a meditation on the weight of the past with daintily reverberated vocals in her dream-pop song ‘Dragon’, released in anticipation of next month’s album, And Your Song Is Like A Circle. Welsh-Australian indie rocker Stella Donnelly similarly mulls over the need to let go as she announces her third album, Love And Fortune, with the melancholic ‘Feel It Change’; her devastating lyrics lull along to the harmonic vocalising and guitar strumming.
London-based duo NEW YORK deliver ‘alone’, a laid-back dance track packed with yearning over their signature cool electronica beats. More exciting new music comes from the big city, with Tottenham-born Reek0 and his single ‘Wonderman’ that blends hypnotic rhythms with hip-hop soul. On the other hand, Irish indie-rock band Blue Slate prevails with their hazy, angst-ridden track ‘Plastic Soul’, leaning heavily on shoegaze influences with plenty of distorted guitar.
Meanwhile, the unconventional R&B sound of Swedish artist Izza Gara excitedly combines with the bubblegum flavours of London’s Miso Extra on the bouncing track ‘3000’. All about just not caring so much, the penmanship is sharp on perhaps this week’s most exciting collaboration. Fighting for that title, Kim Petras joins forces with Frost Children for ‘RADIO’, a fervent club anthem punctuated with modern sleaze.
South London cloud rapper Zukovstheworld is feeling the fear on the haunting ‘Fright Night’ as his hypnotically droning vocals consider a party in the hills over a thumping club beat with a retro twist. On ‘worst behaviour’ by Jernade, the British-Bangladeshi takes a sensual turn in classic RnB style as he describes the required mischief required to show his love to the full extent.