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Lomelda – Hannah Sun

Hannah Sun is one of three tracks on the new Lomelda album – also titled Hannah – that are named after their creator, Hannah Reid. “It felt important to call it Hannah because it attached me and my person and my responsibility to the music” she said in a recent interview. Even without this exposition, there could be little doubt that these are deeply personal. intimate songs, and Hannah Sun drifts and shimmers like the last sunbeams of the day gently breaking through a canopy of softly shifting leaves.

https://lomelda.bandcamp.com/album/hannah

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All We Are – Beauty In Loss

A little peek behind the curtain of The Predatory Wasp: I have had a pretty testing week to say the least, for a variety of reasons – some of them heat-based, some of them not. So to wake up to a new album from one of my very favourite bands was a very welcome way to usher in the weekend. I’ve seen All We Are live a few times now and they are amongst the most compelling, energetic bands out there. Like a lot of their music, Beauty In Loss is strikes a brilliant balance between being poignant and funky as fuck, and I can’t wait to get back in a club/basement/field with them.

https://www.thisisallweare.co.uk

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Wye Oak – No Place

I really love Wye Oak, and posting about No Place – which is taken from their latest EP, No Horizon – also gives me a valid reason to talk about one of my favourite songs of the last few years, It Was Not Natural: if you haven’t heard this, go and do it right now. It’s one of the most passionate delivered, inspiring records I’ve ever heard and makes me so happy every time I hear it.

Anyway, back to the present: No Horizon was recorded with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus contributing to every track, which lends the entire EP a spectral, quietly disorienting quality especially when paired with the rolling polyrhythms on No Place.

https://wyeoak.bandcamp.com

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Jadu Heart – Walk The Line

Jadu Heart are a UK duo who I first came across via last year’s excellent Melt Away LP, with Zorah Come Home making an especially lasting impression, sitting somewhere between Jai Paul and Little Dragon. Walk The Line is one of a series of singles they’ve been releasing this year, and which seem to be moving further from their electronic roots towards more fully-fledged songs and lush production. It’s a really catchy, haunting record, and a proper duet – which I really think we could use more of in modern music.

https://www.jaduheart.com

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Haim – Gasoline

After being fairly obsessed with Haim for a few years after they released their first EP, and seeing them perform at what feels like every Glastonbury I’ve ever been to, I honestly can’t remember anything about their previous album, 2017’s Something To Tell You, except that it exists and I definitely listened to it at least once. Gasoline is taken from their new LP Women In Music Part.III, which a lot of critics are losing their shit about. For me the first half kind drifts past – pleasant but unremarkable – before a much stronger second half, kicked off by Gasoline which is unequivocally brilliant.

http://haimtheband.com

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Westerman – Big Nothing Glow

Sitting somewhere between bedroom pop and folky electronica, Big Nothing Glow is taken from Westerman’s new album Your Hero Is Not Dead. It’s a gentle, hauntingly affecting song that calls to mind various other artists with whom I’m more familiar: Autre Ne Veut, Her, Toro Y Moi amongst them. I haven’t properly got stuck into the album yet, but on the basis of this it’s something I’m going to be spending a lot of time with.

Also, remember Just Jack? Westerman looks so much like him I had to check several times that they’re not the same person. So there’s that.

https://www.westerman.world/

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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Temple

I’m not sure if I’m just paying more attention than usual at the moment, but the amount of amazing music cropping up in the last couple of months by artists I’ve never heard of before is really quite incredible. Another case in point: Temple by the wonderfully named Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, which – with its shifting rhythms and infectious, wandering bassline – is making me keener than ever to go and see some live music, like right now please.

https://www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com/