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Petite Noir - 'Noirse'
Slowly but surely Yannick Illunga is becoming more and more assured. Having toured with Foals earlier this year, the South Africa-born Domino signing sounds bold and brash here, urging someone to " show me a good time " and asking to " have a...
Banks - 'Warm Water'
LA vocalist Banks doesn't use her Twitter because it gets in the way of "making connections". But if staying out of the limelight means spending time with producers such as TEED and creating alluring love songs like 'Warm Water' rather than...
Waxahatchee - 'Coast To Coast'
Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield is your new grunge-pop hero. 'Coast To Coast', a sun-tinged paean to a lost relationship, is the first UK single taken from the Wichita re-release of her second album 'Cerulean Salt', and fulfils every Kim...
Superfood - 'TV'
Championed by fellow Brummies Peace and Swim Deep, Superfood's new single captures the butt-end of Britpop and banality of modern life. " How am I to dream without the TV on, yeah? ", frontman Dom Ganderton squeals, like a stoned teenager batting...
Solange feat. Kendrick Lamar - 'Looks Good With...
A collaboration between these two is so hot someone should issue a health and safety warning. Compton's best does his thing over a new version of the breathiest cut from Solange's breakthrough 'True' EP. He raps, she smoulders. You'll feel 150 per...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (25/5/2013)
Miles Kane - 'You're Gonna Get It' Having lived through The Little Flames, The Rascals, The Last Shadow Puppets and a debut album (2011's 'Colour Of The Trap') that won him a dedicated fanbase, Miles Kane finds himself at the age of 27 as...
I'll Be Your Mirror
Karen O spews glitter from every extremity at will. Bouncing across the stage like an empress in a mirrorball crown, black feather wings and a sparkly sequinned suit, she stamps her foot on a monitor and a flume of ticker-tape and stardust...
Live At Leeds
Nothing challenges temperamental British springtime weather like a multi-venue festival, and putting on a festival that demands a lot of outdoor activity in May shows an admirable dedication to party vibes. Now in its seventh year, Live At Leeds...
Pure X - 'Crawling Up The Stairs'
It's rare to hear a songwriter as open as Nate Grace is on 'Crawling Up The Stairs'. Texan trio Pure X's second album doesn't so much invite you in for a chat as sit you down and stare you in the eye until things get uncomfortable. 'Written In The...
Majical Cloudz - 'Impersonator'
Montreal's Majical Cloudz sound like hookah-smoking hippies, but their second album is focused and weighty, not spaced out. Matthew Otto keeps the production spooky, surrounding Devon Welsh with minimal drones and ghostly backing vocals, which...
