The Serpent
New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
Notes on this week's new releases:
- There are three songs of the week this week. The first is Royal & The Serpent's Choke which despite being too short manages to pack Really Quite A Lot into 137 seconds. Royal & The Serpent's Get A Grip EP is out today — it includes previous (v good) song Overwhelmed along with a slightly Dragonette-esque new track called Warn You. It's one of two excellent breathing-related songs this week because next up is…
- …Demi Lovato's Commander In Chief. This had better be getting a full remix package.
- The third song of the week is a fairly old one — The Weeknd's In Your Eyes — which reappeared a few months back in a 10/10 Doja Cat-featuring fashion, and comes back again today with KENNY G chucked on top. Whenever an artist releases more than one remix of the same song there's always a glimmer of hope that further remixes might continue to appear every month or two until the end of human civilisation (currently pencilled in for May 8 2022). After an impressive start Lil Nas X dropped the ball with Old Town Road but could The Weeknd pull it off with In Your Eyes? Four words: Mariah. Version. For. Christmas.
- Annie's new album is out today and it is TERRIFIC.
- Spa is Icona Pop's best one in a while. They work rather well with Sofi Tukker, maybe they should just form a band and be done with it. There are too many bands as it is so a merger could make things a lot easier for all of us.
- The Kelly Rowland single is perky!
- Ava Max released a Christmas song this week and it is absolutely not on this week's playlist. I know people get away with all sorts at Christmas but come on.
New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
Notes on this week's new releases:
- Baby Queen continues to be one of the pop sphere's best things: new developments this week involve Pretty Girl Lie having a brilliant middle eight and some Matty Healy dancing in the video. A lot of artists have had a go at this song's subject matter but "I get more likes when I don't look like me" kind of nails it, right?
- The artwork for Shaylen's new release depicts the singer being attacked by butterflies. (The song's great.)
- Bree Runway, whose Damn Daniel would, I think, have won last night's Twenty Quid Music Prize if Dua Lipa's Physical hadn't destroyed everything in its path, releases the Easyfun-produced Little Nokia. All things considered Bree should be approx four times bigger than she is right now but things feel like they are heading in the right direction and in These Uncertain Times that's something to hold onto.
- There's a perky F9 remix of Annie's The Streets Where I Belong, a Being Boring-esque song about Annie's return to her hometown. Being Bergen, IF YOU WILL. The remix is amazing, the original's amazing, the album the original's on is amazing, everything's generally amazing in Annie world.
- Remember Jens, of Any Other Way almost-fame? Tough Love is his new song.
- No new Kygo atrocities this week although I did get a press release containing the words "Tomorrow, Friday 25th, film star Vin Diesel will be releasing his debut dance music song 'Feel Like I Do' on Kygo's Palm Tree Records" and I was too scared to click any of the links in the email so I have no idea if it was a joke or not.
(For some reason the shitting embed hasn't updated with the new playlist and if it hasn't sorted itself out by the time you see this you can click here to open Spotify.)
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