The impeccable House Gospel Choir deliver another soulful house cut, returning with the vibrant ‘Blind Faith’. Produced by Toddla T, the song’s beats are driving and clean, bright tambourines and off-beat percussion loops layer beautifully with a huge, moogy synth bassline that glides between thirds. Subtle chord stabs enter in the breakdown and open up and swell between the drops. The anthemic vocals are the distinctive centre of ‘Blind Faith’. Superb, interlocking harmonies and bright, piercing leads from the fantastic vocal outfit.
Following up previous releases ‘Smiley Face’, ‘Get To Steppin’ and ‘Captain Duck’, A-Trak and Armand Van Helden, aka Duck Sauce, continue to deliver the goods with their new feel-good anthem ‘I Don’t Mind’.
Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes have shared their collaborative album, ‘What Kinda Music’.
Released via Blue Note Records – one of the most legendary music labels around, and one known for moving the needle of jazz through the decades – the 12-song project hears the duo deliver a journey spanning multiple progressive genres. Electronica, jazz and vintage hip-hop all play a part here, and any fan of either artist will no-doubt become engrossed the second the title-track opener kicks in.
James Blake has shared his brand new single, ‘You’re Too Precious’.
Marking the singer’s first release of 2020, and his first taster of new music since his fourth studio album ‘Assume Form’, ‘You’re Too Precious’ follows a string of widely-praised intimate live shows Blake has streamed under the global lockdown.
London-based Bearcubs has shared the latest track from his upcoming album ‘Early Hours’.
Titled ‘Everyplace Is Life’, the song marks the final teaser from the record ahead of its release on 15th May, and follows on from previous singles ‘Screentime’ and ‘Overthinking’, both of which received strong support across 1Xtra and BBC 6Music.
“The idea came to me when I was on a train to play Great Escape festival in Brighton a couple years back” says the Berlin-raised singer/songwriter – “I was in that summer mood when everything seems rosy and I was thinking about how life can lead you on unexpected paths and about these little moments, good and bad that happen all the time. Looking around the train I got that feeling when you suddenly become aware of other people’s lives around you, and you remember that everyone else also has all these desires, worries, habits etc, outside of your own. I imagined little vignettes of things going on around the city like drunk people shouting in the street, a couple laughing together, sirens going past, a kid dropping their ice cream etc etc, like a collage of everyday life.”
London-based OFFAIAH has shared his club-ready new single ‘That Makes Me Love You’.
Featuring an instantly-recognisable sample lifted from Sister Sledge’s iconic ‘Thinking Of You’, ‘That Makes Me Love You’ is an infectious house groover that’s destined to evoke a euphoric reaction on dancefloors across the world this summer (once they open post-lockdown, that is!).
Jessie Ware has shared the fourth song from her upcoming album, ‘What’s Your Pleasure’.
Releasing ‘Ooh La La’ alongside the track’s lyric video, the upbeat song comes ahead of the record’s release later this summer, and follows lead single ‘Spotlight’ which, alongside the rest of the tracklist, delivers a more uptempo return for Ware to her dance roots.
Catch the full lyric video below; ‘What’s Your Pleasure’ drops in June:
The 1975 have unveiled ‘If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)’ as the next release from their upcoming studio album, ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’.
Having quickly become a fan-favourite following its debut as part of the band’s tour earlier this year, ‘If You’re Too Shy’ received it’s world premiere as Annie Mac’s latest BBC Radio 1 Hottest Record, and comes ahead of the ‘Notes’ album release later this summer.
Jack Garratt has released his brand new single, ‘Better’.
Lifted off his upcoming studio album ‘Love, Death and Dancing’, which lands in June, Garratt described the cut as a “dance song for the end of the world” during a chat with BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac, who premiered the track as her latest ‘Hottest Record’.
Florence Welch has shared her soothing ballad, ‘Light of Love’.
Previously recorded yet unreleased from Florence & The Machine’s last album ‘High As Hope’, Flo speaks of the song, saying “‘Light Of Love’ never made the record but I thought it would be nice to share it with the fans at this time of uncertainty, and could be a good way to raise awareness for the Intensive Care Society COVID-19 Fund. And to show my love, respect and admiration to all those working on the front line of this crisis.
The song is about the world coming at you so fast and you feel like you won’t survive it, but in actually bearing witness to the world as it is, it’s really the only place you can be of service. I found so many ways to numb myself out, to hide from the world, and although waking up from that was painful, it’s never been more important not to look away, to keep an open heart even if it hurts, and to find ways to keep showing up for the people that need you. Even from a distance.”
Florence will be donating all her income from this song to The Intensive Care Society Covid-19 fund and welcomes fans to make a donation if they are in a position to do so.
