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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/